Bug#513544: lintian: pedantic 'no-upstream-changelog' should check if upsteam changelog is not empty

2012-09-13 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Francesco Poli invernom...@paranoici.org, 2012-09-11, 22:07: Apparently upstream authors do not care about writing a changelog Sadly, this is often the case. and the upstream archive just includes an empty (zero length) file named ChangeLog (probably because GNU autotools create a number

Bug#513544: lintian: pedantic 'no-upstream-changelog' should check if upsteam changelog is not empty

2012-09-13 Thread Francesco Poli
On Thu, 13 Sep 2012 19:00:55 +0200 Jakub Wilk wrote: * Francesco Poli invernom...@paranoici.org, 2012-09-11, 22:07: [...] Do you disagree that this is a false positive for the lintian check? Why? To me, the tag servers two purposes: 1) In the rare cases where the changelog exists, but I

Bug#513544: lintian: pedantic 'no-upstream-changelog' should check if upsteam changelog is not empty

2012-09-11 Thread Francesco Poli
On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 01:34:35 +0100 Sandro Tosi wrote: On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 01:31, Russ Allbery r...@debian.org wrote: Sandro Tosi mo...@debian.org writes: Hello, since dh_installchangelog skips empty upsteam changelog files, so the pedantic tag should be not shown in that situation.

Bug#513544: lintian: pedantic 'no-upstream-changelog' should check if upsteam changelog is not empty

2012-09-11 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Francesco Poli invernom...@paranoici.org, 2012-09-11, 19:51: since dh_installchangelog skips empty upsteam changelog files, so the pedantic tag should be not shown in that situation. Hello, I've just been hit by this bug. I was running lintian on a package where the upstream changelog is

Bug#513544: lintian: pedantic 'no-upstream-changelog' should check if upsteam changelog is not empty

2012-09-11 Thread Francesco Poli
On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 20:32:43 +0200 Jakub Wilk wrote: * Francesco Poli invernom...@paranoici.org, 2012-09-11, 19:51: since dh_installchangelog skips empty upsteam changelog files, so the pedantic tag should be not shown in that situation. Hello, I've just been hit by this bug. I was

Bug#513544: lintian: pedantic 'no-upstream-changelog' should check if upsteam changelog is not empty

2009-01-29 Thread Sandro Tosi
Package: lintian Version: 2.2.0 Severity: minor Hello, since dh_installchangelog skips empty upsteam changelog files, so the pedantic tag should be not shown in that situation. Thanks, Sandro -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1,

Bug#513544: lintian: pedantic 'no-upstream-changelog' should check if upsteam changelog is not empty

2009-01-29 Thread Russ Allbery
Sandro Tosi mo...@debian.org writes: Hello, since dh_installchangelog skips empty upsteam changelog files, so the pedantic tag should be not shown in that situation. I don't see any good way for Lintian to do that. It's checking the binary package to see if an upstream changelog was

Bug#513544: lintian: pedantic 'no-upstream-changelog' should check if upsteam changelog is not empty

2009-01-29 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 01:31, Russ Allbery r...@debian.org wrote: Sandro Tosi mo...@debian.org writes: Hello, since dh_installchangelog skips empty upsteam changelog files, so the pedantic tag should be not shown in that situation. I don't see any good way for Lintian to do that. It's