Shachar Shemesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Package: lintian > Version: 1.23.25 > Severity: normal
> Rsyncrypto is a package that performs rsync friendly encryption. The > package comes bundled with a "tests" directory, that gets installed into > /usr/share/doc/rsyncrypto/examples/tests. This directory contains known > plain texts, cipher texts and keys so that regression testing and > comparisons can be run. > Some of the files in said directory are records of when the internal > decision function decided to perform an IV reset. For some of the > regression testing files (reg1 and reg2), this file is empty. > When running version 0.18-1 (the version that introduced the tests > direcotry under examples) through lintian, I get the complaint: > O: rsyncrypto: zero-byte-file-in-doc-directory > usr/share/doc/rsyncrypto/examples/tests/reg1.rot > O: rsyncrypto: zero-byte-file-in-doc-directory > usr/share/doc/rsyncrypto/examples/tests/reg2.rot > (as you can see, I did an override). I believe that the override is > unnecessary, and the files under /usr/share/doc/*/examples should not be > checked for non-emptyness. I'm tentatively happy for this to be something that you override, as it would surprise me if there are many cases of this in the archive where a zero-byte file is a legitimate example. The purpose of this warning is primarily to catch packaging mistakes where someone installs upstream files that are actually empty, a very common mistake and one that does also happen in the examples directory (although far less common than installing a zero-length README file or the like). -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
