Re: Packages with empty directories

[Daniel Schepler <schepler@math.unipd.it>]

On Tuesday 20 November 2007 11:20:17 pm Michael Biebl wrote:
> Imho adding a lintian check for empty /usr/bin, /usr/sbin, /usr/lib and
> /usr/include directories (as created by dh-make) would be a good start.

I wrote a lintian check implementing the conservative approach, and submitted 
a patch as bug #452316.  It lists empty directories matching directories from 
base-files, as well as any empty subdirectories of
/usr/include, /usr/share/man, and some others where they clearly make no 
sense.
-- 
Daniel Schepler