Package: lintian Version: 1.23.25 Severity: normal Rsyncrypto is a package that performs rsync friendly encryption. The package comes bundled with a "tests" directory, that gets installed into /usr/share/doc/rsyncrypto/examples/tests. This directory contains known plain texts, cipher texts and keys so that regression testing and comparisons can be run.
Some of the files in said directory are records of when the internal decision function decided to perform an IV reset. For some of the regression testing files (reg1 and reg2), this file is empty. When running version 0.18-1 (the version that introduced the tests direcotry under examples) through lintian, I get the complaint: O: rsyncrypto: zero-byte-file-in-doc-directory usr/share/doc/rsyncrypto/examples/tests/reg1.rot O: rsyncrypto: zero-byte-file-in-doc-directory usr/share/doc/rsyncrypto/examples/tests/reg2.rot (as you can see, I did an override). I believe that the override is unnecessary, and the files under /usr/share/doc/*/examples should not be checked for non-emptyness. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-2-686 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=he_IL (charmap=ISO-8859-8) Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.17-3 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii diffstat 1.43-2 produces graph of changes introduc ii dpkg-dev 1.13.22 package building tools for Debian ii file 4.17-4 Determines file type using "magic" ii gettext 0.14.6-1 GNU Internationalization utilities ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf ii libparse-debianchangel 1.0-1 parse Debian changelogs and output ii man-db 2.4.3-3 The on-line manual pager ii perl [libdigest-md5-pe 5.8.8-6.1 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction lintian recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]