On Fri, 2005-09-30 at 23:34 -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > The lintian warning source-contains-CVS-dir is bogus. It is not.
> I agree that upstream should not put CVS in their tarballs. But > sometimes they do. Unfortunately. > When they do, it is a violation of Debian standards to remove it from > the orig.tar.gz file. So there is no question of doing that. Where do you read that? May be true, but can't remember any place ATM. > If you remove the CVS files from your unpacked build directory, that's > well and good, but dpkg-source refuses to honor this, printing helpful > messages like > dpkg-source: warning: ignoring deletion of directory stylesheet/CVS That's correct. You should remove it from .orig.tar.gz . > So, it's a bogus warning. It should be removed from lintian. Changing the .orig.tar.gz is not forbidden. So the lintian warning can stay IMHO. The same with .svn/ dirs, don't forget them if CVS/ is on topic. Regards, Laszlo/GCS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
