Bug#504264: lintian: warn on empty files passed to dh_installdocs or in .deb

2008-11-02 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, 2008-11-02 at 21:22 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > lintian already warns about empty files in the package in general, which > would seem to cover this. Do you have a specific example that we can look > at where this didn't work? Ah. I was reviewing an RFS, but only ran lintian on the sourc

Bug#504264: lintian: warn on empty files passed to dh_installdocs or in .deb

2008-11-02 Thread Russ Allbery
Paul Wise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Package: lintian > Version: 2.0.0 > Severity: wishlist > > Please warn about empty or whitespace-only files being listed in > debian/*docs when dh_installdocs is being used, or on the command-line > to the dh_installdocs command in debian/rules. Shipping use

Bug#504264: lintian: warn on empty files passed to dh_installdocs or in .deb

2008-11-02 Thread Paul Wise
Package: lintian Version: 2.0.0 Severity: wishlist Please warn about empty or whitespace-only files being listed in debian/*docs when dh_installdocs is being used, or on the command-line to the dh_installdocs command in debian/rules. Shipping useless files in .debs should be discouraged. Please al