Bug#825222: lintian: please allow debian/source/timestamps in unknown-file-in-debian-source

2023-03-14 Thread Peter B
On Sat, 18 Feb 2023 11:45:05 +0100 Abou Al Montacir wrote: > > > > Just affecting two packages is IMHO a valid case for lintian > > overrides. > > I may agree, but I failed to find the right syntax to override this error. Hi Abou, the syntax is just to have the error string, and nothing

Bug#825222: lintian: please allow debian/source/timestamps in unknown-file-in-debian-source

2023-02-18 Thread Abou Al Montacir
Hi Alex, On Sun, 15 Jan 2023 20:21:49 +0100 Axel Beckert wrote: > Control: tag -1 wontfix > > Hi, > > Abou Al Montacir wrote: > > I recently was interested in solving Lintian errors on FPC and > > friends and got pointed to this ticket. > > I just checked >

Bug#825222: lintian: please allow debian/source/timestamps in unknown-file-in-debian-source

2023-01-15 Thread Axel Beckert
Control: tag -1 wontfix Hi, Abou Al Montacir wrote: > I recently was interested in solving Lintian errors on FPC and > friends and got pointed to this ticket. I just checked https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=2022+path%3Adebian%2Fsource%2Ftimestamps=1 and it seems that exactly 2 source

Bug#825222: lintian: please allow debian/source/timestamps in unknown-file-in-debian-source

2023-01-07 Thread Abou Al Montacir
Control: reopen -1 Hi Dear Lintian maintainer, I recently was interested in solving Lintian errors on FPC and friends and got pointed to this ticket. I tend to agree with Paul that the timestamps file is better located in debian/source folder and would lobby for that. Can you please reassess

Bug#825222: lintian: please allow debian/source/timestamps in unknown-file-in-debian-source

2017-10-21 Thread Chris Lamb
tags 825222 + wontfix thanks Hi Paul, > Because there are already so many files in debian/ and I liked the idea > because it manipulates the source (like a patch). Whilst I understand what you mean, I'm not completely convinced :) I mean, almost everything under debian/ "manipulates the source"

Bug#825222: lintian: please allow debian/source/timestamps in unknown-file-in-debian-source

2017-10-21 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi On 21-10-17 03:55, Chris Lamb wrote: >> Consider [.ppu foles] sort of binary header files. […] I intend to >> store those timestamps in debian/source/timestamps. > > Why not debian/timestamps? In a de facto sense, it seems like debian/source > is "reserved" for the dpkg source format.

Bug#825222: lintian: please allow debian/source/timestamps in unknown-file-in-debian-source

2017-10-20 Thread Chris Lamb
tags 825222 + moreinfo thanks Hi Paul, > Consider [.ppu foles] sort of binary header files. […] I intend to > store those timestamps in debian/source/timestamps. Why not debian/timestamps? In a de facto sense, it seems like debian/source is "reserved" for the dpkg source format. Regards, --

Bug#825222: lintian: please allow debian/source/timestamps in unknown-file-in-debian-source

2016-05-24 Thread Paul Gevers
Package: lintian Version: 2.5.44 Severity: normal -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 In the Free Pascal stack, it is common to have .ppu files. Consider them sort of binary header files. Unfortunately, these files contain the timestamp of the source file. This is undesirable because