Debian Bug report logs - #262783
lintian: Add an optional to check for a package dir before performing a build

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Package: lintian; Maintainer for lintian is Debian Lintian Maintainers <[email protected]>; Source for lintian is src:lintian (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: Enrico Zini <[email protected]>

Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 00:03:03 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Merged with 461490

Found in versions 1.23.2, lintian/1.23.41

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Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.2
Severity: wishlist

Hello,

It would be nice to be able to run lintian on a package directory before
running debuild, to be able to catch various trivial things such as CVS
or .svn directories left around, debian versions when no matching
.orig.tar.gz is present in the upper directory and so on.

A possibility of spotting them before the build would be very valuable
to avoid spending long time waiting for the build to discover that a
.svn dir has left around or that I forgot to generate the .orig.tar.gz
and restart the build again.

Bye,

Enrico

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.7-1-686-smp
Locale: LANG=it_IT@euro, LC_CTYPE=it_IT@euro

Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii  binutils                      2.15-1     The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii  diffstat                      1.34-1     produces graph of changes introduc
ii  file                          4.10-3     Determines file type using "magic"
ii  gettext                       0.14.1-5   GNU Internationalization utilities
ii  man-db                        2.4.2-19   The on-line manual pager
ii  perl [libdigest-md5-perl]     5.8.4-2    Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

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