On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 08:16:59PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
>
> On 19-Jun-2001 Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 06:24:52PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> >> And how am I to tell a package that is empty on purpose from one created by
> >> accident? What constitutes empty?
> >
> > Maybe have a lintian warning about an empty package, but no error
> > messages.
> >
>
> while not opposed to this, it is definately non-trivial to implement, sorry
> all.
Somewhere around line 1100 of /usr/bin/lintian (not sure exactly
where), you could essentially have the following code:
{
local $/;
open FILELIST, "$base/index";
my $filelist = <FILELIST>;
if ($filelist eq "./\n") {
print "W: no files in binary package $pkg\n";
next PACKAGE;
}
}
Julian
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