On Sun, Sep 18, 2022 at 12:14:07AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > Package: lintian > Version: 2.115.3 > Severity: normal > > Lintian issues these errors for putty 0.77-1: > > E: putty source: source-is-missing [doc/html/AppendixA.html] > E: putty source: source-is-missing [doc/html/AppendixB.html] > E: putty source: source-is-missing [doc/html/AppendixE.html] > E: putty source: source-is-missing [doc/html/Chapter10.html] > E: putty source: source-is-missing [doc/html/Chapter2.html] > E: putty source: source-is-missing [doc/html/Chapter3.html] > E: putty source: source-is-missing [doc/html/Chapter4.html] > E: putty source: source-is-missing [doc/html/Chapter5.html] > E: putty source: source-is-missing [doc/html/Chapter7.html] > E: putty source: source-is-missing [doc/html/Chapter8.html] > E: putty source: source-is-missing [doc/html/Chapter9.html] > E: putty source: source-is-missing [doc/html/IndexPage.html] > > This is pretty oversensitive. Firstly, it's HTML, which is still often > enough written by hand anyway. As it happens, these particular HTML > files are generated from halibut input that's also provided in the > source package, though I can't see how Lintian could possibly expect to > know that.
Dear Lintian maintainers, This test is causing hundreds of false positive and should be disabled as soon as possible. This is a huge waste of time for everybody. If you need help with that, please tell me, I have worked on lintian in the past. Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here.
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