-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 2011-01-04 19:07, Russ Allbery wrote: > Niels Thykier <ni...@thykier.net> writes: > >> Excluding all binaries and known scripts might be a good idea, but I >> have not deployed that change. Perhaps some of the other Lintian >> maintainers can comment on that idea. > > Yeah, that seems like a reasonable idea to me. If the license file is a > script or binary (or, really, even if it's just executable, since we > already diagnose executable text files elsewhere), there's something weird > enough going on that Lintian can't really warn. >
Okay, I have made Lintian ignore all executable files now. I took the opportunity to simplify the check, since we no longer have to check for bin-directories and usr/games (since files there must be executable and we have a separate check for that). ~Niels -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJNJC6SAAoJEAVLu599gGRCFnEP/jlaxFmnmwJaCih66Y3xJvub GpFqZi+pX95Tdlwfjk5heuYpevMTwiDWDESixounLGUKxpfu7Y0zFACoUzbX07Z4 9w+tl7ePenJHO2634fruaEafGGgpncsPxBPDqjDk4E8Sg3h0/nKG/2Ff9ZijHkOF am2sTnLtDUBHrlpBiYImC1gEmUMCn7/zUXS6s8GNPeNfNpljNvRQ1ESBuKUZOTaJ HzZ+OzFNr3sQ59GvQ+OPdGfNFsfEkj+ilITDLNWMBUdbqiNMKJ29suYnoXPXPPfn HVgjXjTz4vFw/hURvXC1KQiyVguwOtpT6K6sBIWI1+JVc5eE4myXENOiQA5bf4me k8U1NY973bi4hXEh8NpCmn74ccSgH2NFY74BDP4ImCbtQ9qDpZVsKX4lAEJLGczm JXTdXjLz3nOA8tk2nHDDnJNiHAQs5DPAdfgL0SlYvi9OW+2uFO41ywjFeVf5JsRo wyBopGtgn7HzzYVomFUUPuJZ1odxHe6Eg9+vhtWG70ThSVmyDOYNgOTX675e0fyA UhKqtHg4cfp8SNVt2ENfWeEsFUe2E6o+XoR3drUrxKlqUGG0bsrxj369xedHmS5Q CmdBzvobbI3EScnC6tdKGyw6ZUyNh6GqNJ4Tb+Llo2VNNltxwVHYJngZipsQE0wZ S3VxIeHWWMhK1hSqIUYO =duhP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
