Bug#648777: lintian: Generalize distribution check

2011-12-14 Thread Daniel Dehennin
Daniel Dehennin writes: Hello, A new version of the patch rebased on top of master HEAD[1], two branches 1. A standalone branch which requires the patch from #652114 git pull git://git.baby-gnu.net/lintian dad/rebased-on-ddad0c6/bad-vendor-distribution-in-changes-file 2. A combined branch

Bug#648777: lintian: Generalize distribution check

2011-12-03 Thread Daniel Dehennin
Hello, Here is an improvement of the patch: git pull git://git.baby-gnu.org/lintian dad/bad-vendor-distribution-in-changes-file The changes from the previous patch are: - Keep the ubuntu specific tag "bad-ubuntu-distribution-in-changes-file" for backward compatibility - Add the new "bad-ven

Bug#648777: lintian: Generalize distribution check

2011-11-14 Thread Daniel Dehennin
Package: lintian Version: 2.5.3 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, I propose a patch to generalize the distribution check, permitting to easily configure the list of allowed distributions. The idea here is to add a file under 'data/changelog-file/' with a name ending in '-dists'. This file con