On Mon, 21 Nov 2016 04:33:05 -0800 Josh Triplett <[email protected]> wrote: > Package: lintian > Version: 2.5.49 > Severity: wishlist > > I'm currently working on tools and automation to package Rust packages > (called "crates"). The current plan for doing so involves packaging the > upstream crate source in a subdirectory of /usr/share/cargo/registry/. > This results in a couple of lintian issues, and I'd like to address > those in lintian rather than adding overrides to a large number of > packages. > > Can you please exclude files under /usr/share/cargo/registry/ from the > following lintian checks? > > - extra-license-file (the upstream crate source includes licenses). > - package-contains-vcs-control-file (some crates include .gitignore or > .gitattributes files, and I've seen package build systems that read > .gitignore at build time).
Please also exclude files under /usr/share/cargo/registry/ from: - script-not-executable (sometimes the upstream source contains sample scripts, which don't need the executable bit set). Thanks, Josh Triplett
