Lintian Reports

W package-contains-vcs-control-file

All reports of package-contains-vcs-control-file for the archive. The extended description of this tag is:

The package contains a VCS control file such as .(cvs|git|hg)ignore. Files such as these are used by revision control systems to, for example, specify untracked files it should ignore or inventory files. This file is generally useless in an installed package and was probably installed by accident.

Severity: normal, Certainty: certain

Check: files, Type: binary, udeb

Evolution of the package-contains-vcs-control-file Lintian tag over the past 366 days:

The beforementioned graph for the package-contains-vcs-control-file tag

Emitted (non-overridden): 41, overridden: 16, total: 57

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boinc-server-maker 7.12.0+dfsg-1exp2 (binary)

camlp5 7.01-1+b1 (binary)

castle-game-engine-src 6.4+dfsg1-2 (binary)

criu 3.10-1 (binary)

criu 3.8.1-1 (binary)

elinks-data 0.12~pre6-13 (binary)

gitlab 10.7.5+dfsg-2 (binary) overridden

gitlab 10.6.5+dfsg-2 (binary) overridden

golang-1.10-src 1.10.3-1 (binary)

golang-1.9-src 1.9.4-1 (binary)

golang-github-dvsekhvalnov-jose2go-dev 1.3-1 (binary)

golang-github-glacjay-goini-dev 0.0~git20150730-2 (binary)

golang-github-gogo-protobuf-dev 1.0.0+git20180330.1ef32a8b-1 (binary)

golang-github-grpc-ecosystem-grpc-gateway-dev 1.3.0-1 (binary)

golang-gopkg-libgit2-git2go.v26-dev 0.26+git20170903.0.eb0bf21-1 (binary)

node-iconv-lite 0.4.13-2 (binary)

open-infrastructure-system-images 20161101-lts2-2 (binary) overridden

open-infrastructure-system-images 20161115-1 (binary) overridden

openms-doc 2.0.0-4 (binary)

openms-doc 2.3-20180419-git-a0b7f650-1 (binary)

phamm 0.6.5-1 (binary)

php-horde-mongo 1.1.0-3 (binary)

php-horde-wicked 2.0.8-3 (binary)

python-pyramid-jinja2-doc 2.7+dfsg-1 (binary)

python-webdav 0.9.11~git20180601.5d7d16a-5 (binary)

python3-webdav 0.9.11~git20180601.5d7d16a-5 (binary)

staticsite 0.4-1 (binary)

tt-rss 17.4+git20180312+dfsg-1 (binary)

turing 0.11~beta-1 (binary)

wireguard-tools 0.0.20180708-1 (binary) overridden

yade 2018.02b-4 (binary)

zplug 2.4.2-1 (binary)