On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 08:10:58AM +0100, Chris Lamb wrote:
> Bill,
>
> > However it seems to flags files named *.rda even when they are completly
> > unrelated to R
>
> For example? We could fix that false-positive, rather than change the
> "certainty" level.. :)
The package gap-small-groups includes a file
/usr/share/gap/small/id5/id1728.rda.gz
and is unrelated to R, yet trigger this warning when
present in a source package.
By the way this seems to be the corresponding source code:
# Ensure we have a README.source for R data files
if ( $basename =~ m,\.(?:rda|Rda|rdata|Rdata|RData)$,
&& $entry->is_file
&& !$info->index_resolved_path('debian/README.source')) {
tag 'r-data-without-readme-source', $name;
}
Clearly it will flag any files named '*.rda' indepently of its content
or purpose.
> Either way, is anyone really putting any relevance into the certain/
> possible/etc classifications?
Yes: it gives an hint whether the lintian maintainers expect the test to
have false positives (and one need to add a lintian exception).
Cheers,
--
Bill. <ballo...@debian.org>
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