Bug#904420: lintian: Warn about empty fields in source package control files
Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org> writes:
> tags 904420 + moreinfo
> thanks
>
> Hi David,
>
>> Vcs-Browser: has only whitespace, and Vcs-Git: is empty
>
> Unless I'm missing something, this should already be warned by "debian-
> control-has-empty-field" as well as "file-contains-trailing-whitespace".
>
> (These are all pedantic tags; are you perhaps not running at that
> level?)
>
I am not running at pedantic level. For me these errors deserve at least
a warning. Are there legit reasons for empty source package fields, and
specifically for empty Vcs-* fields?
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