Bug#464837: should warn about merciurial files

2009-01-11 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Sonntag, 11. Januar 2009, Russ Allbery wrote: I didn't see a reply to the above comment (although there was some other further discussion about restructuring these patterns in Lintian). In the absence of further information on this, I'm going to assume that Lintian's current behavior

Bug#464837: should warn about merciurial files

2009-01-11 Thread Chris Lamb
Holger Levsen wrote: If you have any more information about what these files are for and are sure that they should be omitted, please feel free to reopen. Sadly I don't know mercurial at all, so I cannot give you that information. File Purpose Should

Bug#464837: should warn about merciurial files

2009-01-11 Thread Russ Allbery
reopen 464837 retitle 464837 [checks/cruft] warn about Mercurial files thanks Chris Lamb la...@debian.org writes: Holger Levsen wrote: Sadly I don't know mercurial at all, so I cannot give you that information. File Purpose Should Lintian warn?

Bug#464837: should warn about merciurial files

2008-02-10 Thread Chris Lamb
Hi, A fix for .hgignore was commited by Frank Lichtenheld: r1201 | djpig | 2008-02-09 19:03:58 + (Sat, 09 Feb 2008) | 5 lines Merge all the tags for vcs ignore files and vcs control dirs. Since the explanations don't actually differ, different tags make no sense. While at it, add

Bug#464837: should warn about merciurial files

2008-02-10 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 11:11:16AM +, Chris Lamb wrote: A fix for .hgignore was commited by Frank Lichtenheld: Note that the bug was about source packages. So my fix didn't directly addressed this bug. OTOH the bug as such for source packages is probably wontfix, since we stopped to issue

Bug#464837: should warn about merciurial files

2008-02-10 Thread Russ Allbery
Chris Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What this patch doesn't do is apply the same cleanup to the diff-contains- FOO-control-{file,dir} tags. Is this wanted? Currently, we provide some extra advice in that case, such as how to generate a tree without those files. Whether that advice is

Bug#464837: should warn about merciurial files

2008-02-10 Thread Russ Allbery
Holger Levsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: package: lintian version: 1.23.44 Hi, lintian doesnt warn about left over mercurial files in the source package, like it does with svn or cvs files. The following files remained unnoticed in my source package: .hg_archival.txt

Bug#464837: should warn about merciurial files

2008-02-09 Thread Holger Levsen
package: lintian version: 1.23.44 Hi, lintian doesnt warn about left over mercurial files in the source package, like it does with svn or cvs files. The following files remained unnoticed in my source package: .hg_archival.txt |2 .hgignore

Bug#464837: should warn about merciurial files

2008-02-09 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 10:54:12AM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: lintian doesnt warn about left over mercurial files in the source package, like it does with svn or cvs files. The following files remained unnoticed in my source package: .hg_archival.txt |2

Bug#464837: should warn about merciurial files

2008-02-09 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Frank, On Saturday 09 February 2008 17:24, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: .hg_archival.txt |2 Out of curiosity, what is this one for? I dont really know. $ cat .hg_archival.txt repo: 7efd15ce4dab28ef21588ffef8ca00550290bd1d node: