Package: lintian Version: 2.4.3 Severity: minor When checking a "3.0 (native)" source package which contains a .git directory, lintian explains:
W: hobbit-plugins source: diff-contains-git-control-dir .git N: N: The Debian diff or native package contains files in a .git directory. N: These are usually artifacts of the revision control system used by the N: Debian maintainer and not useful in a diff or native package. Passing -i N: to dpkg-buildpackage or the equivalent will automatically exclude them. N: N: Severity: normal, Certainty: certain N: Passing -i to dpkg-source (!) does not help in case of a native package as in that case -I must be used to exclude the .git directory. Additionally, the explanation should mention dpkg-source instead of dpkg-buildpackage (or maybe both) because in the end, -i (and -I) is an dpkg-source option passed to it by dpkg-buildpackage if it is called with that option. -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (600, 'testing'), (400, 'stable'), (110, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-xen-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-15, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO-8859-15 (charmap=ISO-8859-15) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.20.1-15 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii diffstat 1.54-1 produces graph of changes introduc ii dpkg-dev 1.15.8.7 Debian package development tools ii file 5.04-5 Determines file type using "magic" ii gettext 0.18.1.1-3 GNU Internationalization utilities ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.24+b1 Perl interface to libapt-pkg ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1 Perl module that automatically gen ii libdigest-sha-perl 5.50-1 Perl extension for SHA-1/224/256/3 ii libipc-run-perl 0.89-1 Perl module for running processes ii libparse-debianchangel 1.1.1-2.1 parse Debian changelogs and output ii libtimedate-perl 1.2000-1 collection of modules to manipulat ii liburi-perl 1.56-1 module to manipulate and access UR ii locales-all [locales] 2.11.2-7 Embedded GNU C Library: Precompile ii man-db 2.5.7-8 on-line manual pager ii perl [libdigest-sha-pe 5.10.1-16 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction lintian recommends no packages. Versions of packages lintian suggests: ii binutils-multiarch 2.20.1-15 Binary utilities that support mult ii libtext-template-perl 1.45-1 Text::Template perl module ii man-db 2.5.7-8 on-line manual pager -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-lint-maint-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87bp3t22gf....@kiva6.ethz.ch