* Thomas Bushnell BSG ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > The lintian warning source-contains-CVS-dir is bogus. > > I agree that upstream should not put CVS in their tarballs. But > sometimes they do. > > 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.
If you want to maintain a package using cvs-buildpackage, you *have* to remove those files from the orig.tar.gz. > 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 > > Of course dpkg-source ignores these because the packaging manual says > that the .diff.gz can't specify deletions. (Never mind that patch is > perfectly capable of handling deletions.) > > So, it's a bogus warning. It should be removed from lintian. -- Eric Dorland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ: #61138586, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1024D/16D970C6 097C 4861 9934 27A0 8E1C 2B0A 61E9 8ECF 16D9 70C6 -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCS d- s++: a-- C+++ UL+++ P++ L++ E++ W++ N+ o K- w+ O? M++ V-- PS+ PE Y+ PGP++ t++ 5++ X+ R tv++ b+++ DI+ D+ G e h! r- y+ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
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