Bug#262783: Add a modality to check for a package dir _before_ doing the build
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 <djpig@debian.org>
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