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

[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 package:

http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/p/plotmm/plotmm_0.1.2-1.dsc
http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2008/11/msg00014.html

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

[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 files
> in .debs should be discouraged. Please also warn on empty files
> in /usr/share/doc.

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?

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

[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 also warn on empty files
in /usr/share/doc.

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pabs

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