Bug#504264: lintian: warn on empty files passed to dh_installdocs or in .deb

2008-11-02 Thread Paul Wise
Package: lintian Version: 2.0.0 Severity: wishlist Please warn about empty or whitespace-only files being listed in debian/*docs when dh_installdocs is being used, or on the command-line to the dh_installdocs command in debian/rules. Shipping useless files in .debs should be discouraged. Please

Bug#504264: lintian: warn on empty files passed to dh_installdocs or in .deb

2008-11-02 Thread Russ Allbery
Paul Wise [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Package: lintian Version: 2.0.0 Severity: wishlist Please warn about empty or whitespace-only files being listed in debian/*docs when dh_installdocs is being used, or on the command-line to the dh_installdocs command in debian/rules. Shipping useless

Bug#504264: lintian: warn on empty files passed to dh_installdocs or in .deb

2008-11-02 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, 2008-11-02 at 21:22 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: lintian already warns about empty files in the package in general, which would seem to cover this. Do you have a specific example that we can look at where this didn't work? Ah. I was reviewing an RFS, but only ran lintian on the source