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Re: Discarding uploaded binary packages



On Thu, 18 Oct 2012, Arno Töll wrote:
> On 18.10.2012 04:29, Paul Wise wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Russell Coker wrote:
> >> We could have a lintian warning for any occurance of the string "/home" in a
> >> packaged file and have error conditions for "/build" and the current value of
> >> $HOME for the account running lintian.
> > 
> > Based on a quick grep of /usr/bin on my laptop, this is going to have
> > a fair number of false positives; commented out paths, paths in POD
> > documentation, URLs, paths outside of /home that include /home in
> > their name somewhere.
> 
> Moreover, I bet there is a fair number of DDs building their stuff in
> /srv, /some/random/non-fhs/directory and whatever else one could
> imagine, possibly including /tmp. Scanning for a particular directory
> or, list of directories, does not really help.

It does on buildds.  If it is broken on the buildd, it is broken
everywhere...

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