Package: lintian Version: 2.5.3 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch
package-installs-packlist suggests to use "find ... | xargs rm -f" pipe to delete files. However, "find ... -delete" should be both faster and more robust.
-- Jakub Wilk
diff --git a/checks/files.desc b/checks/files.desc --- a/checks/files.desc +++ b/checks/files.desc @@ -628,21 +628,21 @@ Tag: package-installs-packlist Severity: important Certainty: certain Info: Packages built using the perl MakeMaker package will have a file named .packlist in them. Those files are useless, and (in some cases) have the additional problem of creating an architecture-specific directory name in an architecture-independent package. . They can be suppressed by adding the following to <tt>debian/rules</tt>: . - find debian/<i>pkg</i> -type f -name .packlist | xargs rm -f + find debian/<i>pkg</i> -type f -name .packlist -delete . or by telling MakeMaker to use vendor install dirs; consult a recent version of Perl policy. Perl 5.6.0-12 or higher supports this. Ref: perl-policy 4.1 Tag: zero-byte-file-in-doc-directory Severity: normal Certainty: possible Info: The documentation directory for this package contains an empty file. This is often due to installing an upstream NEWS or README file
