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Re: possible mass bug filing for packages shipping stuff in /var/run, /var/lock, /run?



On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 11:35:53PM +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> * Andreas Beckmann <debian@abeckmann.de>, 2012-10-05, 23:16:
> >I haven't made a detailed analysis, yet, and cannot say how many
> >packages would be affected. Right now I have about 100 candidate
> >piuparts logs that should cover /var/run and /var/lock, but I
> >haven't sorted them in "buggy", "depends on buggy", "other
> >problem". I expect the buggy category to be around a dozen.
> 
> Lintian should be able to spot all the buggy ones, shouldn't it?
> 
> http://lintian.debian.org/tags/dir-or-file-in-run.html
> http://lintian.debian.org/tags/dir-or-file-in-var-run.html
> http://lintian.debian.org/tags/dir-or-file-in-var-lock.html
[...]

Seems like these should be added to ftp-master autorejects.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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                                                              - Albert Camus


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