Bug#612583: [new check] check for package being built as user root

[Martin Zobel-Helas <zobel@debian.org>]

Package: lintian
Version: 2.4.3
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

yesterday i stumbled about a .changes file having a Changed-By: root@$domain.
This might idicate that the package was not built in a sane environment. From
my understanding neither debian/changelog should container root@$domain nor a
package should be build as user root. An ftp-master autoreject based on this
lintian check might be good idea.

Cheers,
Martin 

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii  binutils               2.20.1-15         The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii  diffstat               1.54-1            produces graph of changes introduc
ii  dpkg-dev               1.15.8.8          Debian package development tools
ii  file                   5.04-5            Determines file type using "magic"
ii  gettext                0.18.1.1-3        GNU Internationalization utilities
ii  intltool-debian        0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii  libapt-pkg-perl        0.1.24+b1         Perl interface to libapt-pkg
ii  libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1            Perl module that automatically gen
ii  libipc-run-perl        0.89-1            Perl module for running processes
ii  libparse-debianchangel 1.1.1-2.1         parse Debian changelogs and output
ii  libtimedate-perl       1.2000-1          collection of modules to manipulat
ii  liburi-perl            1.56-1            module to manipulate and access UR
ii  locales                2.11.2-8          Embedded GNU C Library: National L
ii  locales-all [locales]  2.11.2-8          Embedded GNU C Library: Precompile
ii  man-db                 2.5.7-8           on-line manual pager
ii  perl [libdigest-sha-pe 5.10.1-17         Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

lintian recommends no packages.

Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn  binutils-multiarch            <none>     (no description available)
ii  libtext-template-perl         1.45-2     Text::Template perl module
ii  man-db                        2.5.7-8    on-line manual pager

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