Bug#706308: lintian: possible false positive statically-linked-binary

[jari <jari.aalto@cante.net>]

On 2013-04-28 14:21, Jakub Wilk wrote:
| >   $ git clone http://cante.net/~jaalto/vc/i810switch.git i810switch.git
| >   $ cd i810switch
| 
| Did you mean "cd i810switch.git" here?

Yes.

| >$ lintian --display-info --show-overrides --display-experimental --pedantic ../i810switch_0.6.5-7.1_i386.deb
| >warning: the authors of lintian do not recommend running it with root privileges!
| 
| Why do you run Lintian as root?

It's one of those VMs I don't much care about having separate user
accounts for development.

| But anyway, I can reproduce[0] the bug if (and only if) Lintian is
| run with (fake)root privileges. Thanks.
|
| >   O: i810switch: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/bin/i810switch 0/141
| 
| This looks very wrong. What is this override for? 

It's the maintainer's override with comment:

     "# SetUID required to rotate the video output"

| FWIW, here I get:
| I: i810switch: unused-override wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/bin/i810switch 0/141
|
| [0] $ fakeroot lintian -T statically-linked-binary i810switch_0.6.5-7_i386.deb

Thanks,
Jari