Package: lintian Version: 2.5.51 Severity: normal lintian emits the source-contains-prebuilt-ms-help-file tag on putty 0.70-1. I believe this is a false positive. It's built using free software (halibut, which is in Debian), and given that, it's reasonable for upstream to provide pre-built versions of this sort of file in source tarballs for the same reasons that it's reasonable for them to provide e.g. pre-built configure scripts.
I'd like two things: * Lintian currently says that "There is Linux software to read them and an incomplete FreePascal related project to create them", but Halibut >= 1.2 can create them, so the implication that there is no complete free software to create them should be corrected. * The cruft check should exclude files generated by such free software. As a first pass I'd suggest excluding files that contain the string "Halibut,". Thanks, -- Colin Watson [[email protected]]
