Package: lintian Version: 2.3.4~bpo50+1 Severity: normal the new lintian check empty-binary-packge should skip udebs, as it is not uncommon for a udeb to only contain a postinst script and dependencies, and it would seem silly to flag them all as metapackages.
thanks! live well, vagrant -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.4 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (103, 'testing'), (102, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-3-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.18.1~cvs20080103-7 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii diffstat 1.45-2 produces graph of changes introduc ii dpkg-dev 1.14.29 Debian package development tools ii file 4.26-1 Determines file type using "magic" ii gettext 0.17-4 GNU Internationalization utilities ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.22+b1 Perl interface to libapt-pkg ii libclass-accessor-p 0.31-2 Automated accessor generator ii libipc-run-perl 0.80-2 Perl module for running processes ii libparse-debianchan 1.1.1-2 parse Debian changelogs and output ii libtimedate-perl 1.1600-9 Time and date functions for Perl ii liburi-perl 1.35.dfsg.1-1 Manipulates and accesses URI strin ii locales 2.7-18lenny2 GNU C Library: National Language ( ii man-db 2.5.2-4 on-line manual pager ii perl [libdigest-sha 5.10.0-19lenny2 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction lintian recommends no packages. Versions of packages lintian suggests: pn binutils-multiarch <none> (no description available) pn libtext-template-perl <none> (no description available) ii man-db 2.5.2-4 on-line manual pager -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
