Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.19
Severity: wishlist

Please add a pedantic level warning about git related files or the
compressed versions of these that are not useful in binary packages.
This is the current list of packages containing these useless files:

pabs@chianamo ~ $ apt-file -x search '\.git(_?ignore|modules|attributes)'
boo: /usr/share/doc/boo/examples/BuildingLanguages/UsingCSharp/.gitignore
gccxml: /usr/share/gccxml-0.9/GCC/.gitattributes
gnulib: /usr/share/gnulib/modules/.gitattributes
intercal: /usr/share/doc/intercal/examples/PaxHeaders.9599/.gitignore
libjs-twitter-bootstrap-docs: 
/usr/share/doc/libjs-twitter-bootstrap-docs/html/build/node_modules/hogan.js/.git_ignore
libjs-twitter-bootstrap-docs: 
/usr/share/doc/libjs-twitter-bootstrap-docs/html/build/node_modules/hogan.js/.gitmodules
linux-doc-3.11: /usr/share/doc/linux-doc-3.11/Documentation/.gitignore.gz
linux-doc-3.11: 
/usr/share/doc/linux-doc-3.11/Documentation/accounting/.gitignore.gz
linux-doc-3.11: 
/usr/share/doc/linux-doc-3.11/Documentation/auxdisplay/.gitignore.gz
linux-doc-3.11: 
/usr/share/doc/linux-doc-3.11/Documentation/connector/.gitignore.gz
linux-doc-3.11: /usr/share/doc/linux-doc-3.11/Documentation/ia64/.gitignore.gz
linux-doc-3.11: 
/usr/share/doc/linux-doc-3.11/Documentation/misc-devices/mei/.gitignore.gz
linux-doc-3.11: 
/usr/share/doc/linux-doc-3.11/Documentation/networking/.gitignore.gz
linux-doc-3.11: 
/usr/share/doc/linux-doc-3.11/Documentation/networking/timestamping/.gitignore.gz
linux-doc-3.11: /usr/share/doc/linux-doc-3.11/Documentation/pcmcia/.gitignore.gz
linux-doc-3.11: /usr/share/doc/linux-doc-3.11/Documentation/spi/.gitignore.gz
linux-doc-3.11: 
/usr/share/doc/linux-doc-3.11/Documentation/video4linux/.gitignore.gz
linux-doc-3.11: /usr/share/doc/linux-doc-3.11/Documentation/vm/.gitignore.gz
linux-doc-3.11: 
/usr/share/doc/linux-doc-3.11/Documentation/watchdog/src/.gitignore.gz
linux-doc-3.12: /usr/share/doc/linux-doc-3.12/Documentation/.gitignore.gz
linux-doc-3.12: 
/usr/share/doc/linux-doc-3.12/Documentation/accounting/.gitignore.gz
linux-doc-3.12: 
/usr/share/doc/linux-doc-3.12/Documentation/auxdisplay/.gitignore.gz
linux-doc-3.12: 
/usr/share/doc/linux-doc-3.12/Documentation/connector/.gitignore.gz
linux-doc-3.12: /usr/share/doc/linux-doc-3.12/Documentation/ia64/.gitignore.gz
linux-doc-3.12: 
/usr/share/doc/linux-doc-3.12/Documentation/misc-devices/mei/.gitignore.gz
linux-doc-3.12: 
/usr/share/doc/linux-doc-3.12/Documentation/networking/.gitignore.gz
linux-doc-3.12: 
/usr/share/doc/linux-doc-3.12/Documentation/networking/timestamping/.gitignore.gz
linux-doc-3.12: /usr/share/doc/linux-doc-3.12/Documentation/pcmcia/.gitignore.gz
linux-doc-3.12: /usr/share/doc/linux-doc-3.12/Documentation/spi/.gitignore.gz
linux-doc-3.12: 
/usr/share/doc/linux-doc-3.12/Documentation/video4linux/.gitignore.gz
linux-doc-3.12: /usr/share/doc/linux-doc-3.12/Documentation/vm/.gitignore.gz
linux-doc-3.12: 
/usr/share/doc/linux-doc-3.12/Documentation/watchdog/src/.gitignore.gz
live-image-gnome-desktop: /usr/share/live/images/gnome-desktop/.gitignore
live-image-kde-desktop: /usr/share/live/images/kde-desktop/.gitignore
live-image-lxde-desktop: /usr/share/live/images/lxde-desktop/.gitignore
live-image-rescue: /usr/share/live/images/rescue/.gitignore
live-image-standard: /usr/share/live/images/standard/.gitignore
live-image-xfce-desktop: /usr/share/live/images/xfce-desktop/.gitignore
lxde-icon-theme: /usr/share/icons/nuoveXT2/72x72/filesystems/.gitignore
lxde-icon-theme: /usr/share/icons/nuoveXT2/96x96/filesystems/.gitignore
slony1-2-doc: /usr/share/doc/slony1-2-doc/adminguide/.gitignore.gz
sugar-pippy-activity: /usr/share/sugar/activities/Pippy.activity/.gitmodules
wesnoth-1.10-data: /usr/share/doc/wesnoth-1.10-data/images/.gitignore
wesnoth-1.11-data: /usr/share/doc/wesnoth-1.11-data/images/.gitignore

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable'), (700, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.11-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii  binutils                       2.23.90.20131017-1
ii  bzip2                          1.0.6-5
ii  diffstat                       1.57-1
ii  file                           1:5.14-2
ii  gettext                        0.18.3.1-2
ii  hardening-includes             2.4
ii  intltool-debian                0.35.0+20060710.1
ii  libapt-pkg-perl                0.1.29+b1
ii  libarchive-zip-perl            1.30-7
ii  libclass-accessor-perl         0.34-1
ii  libclone-perl                  0.35-1
ii  libdpkg-perl                   1.16.12
ii  libemail-valid-perl            1.192-1
ii  libfile-basedir-perl           0.03-1
ii  libipc-run-perl                0.92-1
ii  liblist-moreutils-perl         0.33-1+b2
ii  libparse-debianchangelog-perl  1.2.0-1
ii  libtext-levenshtein-perl       0.06~01-2
ii  libtimedate-perl               2.3000-1
ii  liburi-perl                    1.60-1
ii  man-db                         2.6.5-2
ii  patchutils                     0.3.2-3
ii  perl [libdigest-sha-perl]      5.18.1-5
ii  t1utils                        1.37-2

Versions of packages lintian recommends:
ii  libautodie-perl                 2.21-1
ii  libperlio-gzip-perl             0.18-1+b3
ii  perl-modules [libautodie-perl]  5.18.1-5

Versions of packages lintian suggests:
ii  binutils-multiarch     2.23.90.20131017-1
ii  dpkg-dev               1.16.12
ii  libhtml-parser-perl    3.71-1+b1
ii  libtext-template-perl  1.46-1
ii  xz-utils               5.1.1alpha+20120614-2

-- 
bye,
pabs

http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

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