Bug#409096: lintian: Check non existing directories listed in debian/dirs
Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.27
Severity: wishlist
Suppose following:
[debian/dirs]:
usr/bin
usr/sbin
[dpkg --contents *.deb]
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2007-01-21 01:30 ./
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2007-01-21 01:30 ./usr/
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2007-01-21 01:30 ./usr/bin/
-rwxr-xr-x root/root 39088 2007-01-21 01:30 ./usr/bin/foo
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2007-01-21 01:30 ./usr/sbin/
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2007-01-21 01:30 ./usr/share/
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2007-01-21 01:30 ./usr/share/doc/
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2007-01-21 01:30 ./usr/share/doc/foo/
-rw-r--r-- root/root 1199 2007-01-21 01:29 ./usr/share/doc/foo/copyright
-rw-r--r-- root/root 164 2007-01-21 01:29 ./usr/share/doc/foo/changelog.Debian.gz
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2007-01-21 01:30 ./usr/share/man/
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2007-01-21 01:30 ./usr/share/man/man1/
-rw-r--r-- root/root 810 2007-01-21 01:30 ./usr/share/man/man1/foo.1.gz
Errors:
/usr/sbin/ contains no files, but is was put into *.deb
SUGGESTION
Lintian should warn (possibly raise error), for all directories listed in
debian/dirs that own no files in the generated *.deb
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-686
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 2.17-3 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii diffstat 1.43-2 produces graph of changes introduc
ii dpkg-dev 1.13.25 package building tools for Debian
ii file 4.19-1 Determines file type using "magic"
ii gettext 0.16.1-1 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii libparse-debianchangel 1.0-1 parse Debian changelogs and output
ii man-db 2.4.3-5 The on-line manual pager
ii perl [libdigest-md5-pe 5.8.8-7 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
lintian recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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