Re: [RFC] Checking for empty packages

2010-02-10 Thread Luca Falavigna
Il giorno Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:01:32 -0800 Russ Allbery ha scritto: > > A package is declared empty if all of this conditions are met: > > * package does not ship files outside of /usr/share/doc/$pkg > > * package does not have subdirectories in its /usr/share/doc dir > > * package does not have fi

Re: [RFC] Checking for empty packages

2010-02-08 Thread Russ Allbery
Luca Falavigna writes: > I recently conducted a quick analysis to spot empty packages in the > archive [1], some of these packages were fixed or will be in a short > time frame, so I'm happy it helped maintainers to fix grave bugs. > I was suggested to implement a lintian check for this issue [2

[RFC] Checking for empty packages

2010-02-08 Thread Luca Falavigna
Hello Lintian hackers! I recently conducted a quick analysis to spot empty packages in the archive [1], some of these packages were fixed or will be in a short time frame, so I'm happy it helped maintainers to fix grave bugs. I was suggested to implement a lintian check for this issue [2], so I'm