Re: Bug#250099: /etc/dhelp not listed

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 11:22:53AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> Package: dhelp
> Version: 0.5.17
> Severity: minor
> 
> $ dpkg -S /etc/dhelp
> dpkg: /etc/dhelp not found.
> $ ls /etc/dhelp
> www-browser-console  www-browser-x
> 
> It seems dhelp should list them, so dpkg -S can find them.
> Maybe lintian should/could detect cases like this.

It's not a bug. dpkg -S only lists files actually in the .deb, not files
created by maintainer scripts. lintian is a *policy checker*, not a
random-stuff checker.

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]