Package: lintian Version: 2.5.59 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
In lintian's tag file-contains-trailing-whitespace, the maintainer is told that they can remove the offending whitespace with: sed -i -e 's@[ ]*$@@g' path/to/filename However, that only removes trailing spaces, while trailing tabs will also trigger the warning. The following sed would do better: sed -i -e 's@[[:space:]]*$@@g' path/to/filename (it's also not obvious to me that the maintainer should be encouraged to edit old changelog entries in this fashion) cheers Stuart
