Bug#364472: lintian: [Feture request] *.deb is missing /usr/bin programs
Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.17
Severity: wishlist
When dh_make'ing a "single binary" package, the lintian does not seem to notice
if the package's Makefile does not install the binaries to /usr/bin hierarchy.
An exmaple, after checking the contant of generated *.deb:
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2006-04-23 20:23:38 ./
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2006-04-23 20:23:35 ./usr/
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2006-04-23 20:23:33 ./usr/bin/
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2006-04-23 20:23:33 ./usr/sbin/
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2006-04-23 20:23:35 ./usr/share/
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2006-04-23 20:23:35 ./usr/share/doc/
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2006-04-23 20:23:37 ./usr/share/doc/miwm/
-rw-r--r-- root/root 2640 2003-06-23 17:47:23 ./usr/share/doc/miwm/notes.txt
-rw-r--r-- root/root 1058 2006-04-23 20:20:56 ./usr/share/doc/miwm/copyright
-rw-r--r-- root/root 187 2006-04-23 20:18:16 ./usr/share/doc/miwm/changelog.Debia
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FEATURE REQUEST
If package is labelled binary and not library and it contains a
/usr/bin hierarhy, lintian could issue a warning that "/usr/bin is
empty"
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-1-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US)
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.16.1cvs20060413-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii diffstat 1.41-1 produces graph of changes introduc
ii dpkg-dev 1.13.18 package building tools for Debian
ii file 4.17-1 Determines file type using "magic"
ii gettext 0.14.5-2 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii intltool-debian 0.34.2+20060415 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii libparse-debianchang 1.0-1 parse Debian changelogs and output
ii man-db 2.4.3-3 The on-line manual pager
ii perl [libdigest-md5- 5.8.8-4 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
lintian recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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