Package: lintian Severity: wishlist Lintian should warn about trailing whitespace in at least the Debian files part of packages, as per Bug#177523:
>>>>> "J" == Justin Pryzby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: J> These are all (except codecs.conf.gz) Debian files, and it would be appropriate J> for lintian to check for them. However, when you submitted a bug against J> lintian, it was apparently to "check program source code to make sure that it J> doesn't create any syslog entries with trailing whitespace". J> These are two separate issues, both of which might warrent bug reports. The J> "logfiles" bug, however, should be submitted against the individual packages, J> since there is no conceivable way for lintian (or such) to check for it, J> whereas the "Debian files" bug might reasonably be implemented in such a tool. OK, hereby submitting the latter item. pcregrep '\s$' is right regexp to catch it. or perl -nlwe 'print if /\s$/' to avoid depending on pcregrep. Add warning message with file name and line number. Maybe also lintian could warn of blank lines at end of files too... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
