Re: deblint, anyone?
On Wed, 29 Jan 1997, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
liw >The package building tools do some checking on the package that
liw >they build, but they miss many errors. I think a separate tool
liw >to check packages for common errors would be a good idea, and
liw >should be pretty simple to write.
Most of the proposed checks are already in debmake. I can add some
functionality for those things that are missing. The code is there it just
needs to be extracted from the "debstd" tool and made work on a binary
package I guess.
liw >I envision a tool, provisionally called deblint, that would,
liw >for example, do the following:
liw >
liw > - check that files have sensible permissions (no files owned
liw > by dynamically allocated uids, for example)
Checking all the owners/groups against the /etc/passwd and /etc/group
in base-passwd right?
liw > - check that files are in sensible locations (no files in
liw > /usr/local, for example)
Debmake does not check that condition but it could be done easily.
liw > - check that there are manual pages, and that they are compressed
Some functionality like that is there.
liw > - check that there is a /usr/doc/<package> directory, with
liw > the required files
Done by debmake.
>
liw >deblint should be a separate tool from the normal package
liw >building tools (dpkg-dev and debmake), so that we can check
liw >existing packages, not just new packages.
If no one else volunteers then I can add the functionality you want to
debstd and then make a separate deblint shell script that does just the
checks on a binary package.
liw >(Or do we have this already? We have so much stuff now, that I
liw >have trouble finding anything.)
Andreas might have done something like that.
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