On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 08:17:03AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> > 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;
> > }
> > }
> >
>
> correct. The hard part is not outputting any other errors because of it.
> Avoiding the no copyright, no docs, etc would not be as easy.
That's what the "next PACKAGE;" achieves.
Alternatively, in such a case, set a variable $empty_package = 1 and
then test the value of this variable around the checks block (lines
1127--1221). There may be some other things which should be blocked
out, but this does not seem intrinsically difficult.
Julian
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