Bug#268688: lintian: please detect inproper fiddling with device files

[Jeroen van Wolffelaar <jeroen@wolffelaar.nl>]

Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.2
Severity: wishlist

The current saoimage version, 1.35.1-1.2, unconditionally removes device files
in postrm, and creates them with mknod in postinst. This is not according to
policy 10.6, and something lintian could and should check for.

--Jeroen

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.3
Locale: LANG=nl_NL.UTF-8@euro, LC_CTYPE=nl_NL.UTF-8@euro

Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii  binutils                   2.14.90.0.7-8 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii  diffstat                   1.34-1        produces graph of changes introduc
ii  file                       4.09-1        Determines file type using "magic"
ii  gettext                    0.14.1-5      GNU Internationalization utilities
ii  man-db                     2.4.2-19      The on-line manual pager
ii  perl [libdigest-md5-perl]  5.8.4-2       Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

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Jeroen van Wolffelaar
jeroen@wolffelaar.nl
http://jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl