Bug#257898: lintian: [checks/binaries] false positive for arch-independent-package-contains-binary-or-object
Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.1~beta-r304 (but bug is older)
Severity: minor
djpig@djpig:/tmp$ lintian doc-linux-ja-text_2004.06.15-2_all.deb
E: doc-linux-ja-text: arch-independent-package-contains-binary-or-object ./usr/share/doc/HOWTO/ja-txt/archive/ELF-HOWTO.txt.gz
djpig@djpig:/tmp/test/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/ja-txt/archive$ file ELF-HOWTO.txt.gz
ELF-HOWTO.txt.gz: gzip compressed data, deflated, original filename, `ELF-HOWTO.txt', last modified: Fri Nov 29 23:18:38 2002, max compression, os: Unix
Check:
# binary or object file?
next unless ($info =~ m/\bELF\b/) or ($info =~ m/\bcurrent ar archive\b/);
Since I can't think of any "clean" solution right now, I file it as bug.
It affects only this package AFAICS (-> minor)
Gruesse,
Frank Lichtenheld
-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux djpig 2.4.18-1-k7 #1 Wed Apr 14 19:20:42 UTC 2004 i686
Locale: LANG=de_DE, LC_CTYPE=de_DE
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.12.90.0.1-4 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii diffstat 1.28-1 produces graph of changes introduc
ii file 3.37-3.1.woody.1 Determines file type using "magic"
ii gettext 0.10.40-5 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii libdigest-md5-perl 2.13-2 MD5 Message Digest for Perl
ii man-db 2.3.20-18.woody.4 The on-line manual pager
ii perl 5.6.1-8.7 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
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