Re: New bali-phy version 3.6.0 and some lintian questions
Hi Benjamin,
thanks for the explanation. I do not see any reason to deal explicitly
with the empty directory and thus I uploaded.
Thanks a lot for your work
Andreas.
On Sat, Feb 06, 2021 at 07:12:26PM -0800, Benjamin Redelings wrote:
> Hi Andreas,
>
> Thanks for the feedback! I pushed my changes to salsa, and I think I have
> incorporated all of your feedback except about the empty directory.
>
> > > I: bali-phy: package-contains-empty-directory
> > > usr/share/doc/bali-phy/examples/models/regresssion/
> > Well, is this really intended to have an empty directory here? WHat
> > is the purpose?
>
> So models/regression is a symlink, and it looks like meson doesn't install
> it. This is an installation bug that I never noticed before. Meson creates
> the directory that the symlink points to, but does not put anything inside
> it. Meson will soon stop following symlinks during installation, so fixing
> this behavior in meson is probably not worth it.
>
> In practice, the missing directory doesn't matter. I am probably going to
> delete the symlink in the next major upstream version. I don't want to make
> an upstream point release to fix this, since it is not really broken.
>
> However, I looked at two things to make the warning message go away:
>
> - I tried to remove the symlink with quilt, but quilt won't handle deleting
> a symlink
>
> - The lintian docs suggest adding `find path/to/base/dir -type d -empty
> -delete` to debian/rules, but its not clear that there is always a
> hard-coded path/to/base/dir.
>
> I could add a lintian override, also. What do you prefer?
>
> -BenRI
>
>
>
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