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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On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 01:57:12AM +0200, Enrico Zini wrote:
> 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.

You should be able to emulate this behaviour by only running
dpkg-source -b and then calling lintian on the resulting source
package.

Interesting idea, though. Let's see what we can do :)

Gruesse,
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Frank Lichtenheld <[email protected]>
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