Bug#423223: lintian: Please add directory name sanity check for orig.tar.gz
Package: lintian
Severity: wishlist
Hi Lintian maintainers,
Would it be possible to add a severity "warning" check on the
orig.tar.gz or tar.gz to make sure that the directory inside the tarball
has a sane name? Specifically it should be named with one of the forms
<sourcepkg>-<upstream_version>
<sourcepkg>-<upstream_version>.orig
[latter is probably not OK for Debian-specific tar.gz]
where <upstream_version> is the version given in the most recent
debian/changelog entry, with the epoch and Debian release stripped.
The convention is documented as a "should" in Developers' Reference 6.7.8.
This check would have saved me from #416008 ;-)
best regards,
--
Kevin B. McCarty <kmccarty@princeton.edu> Physics Department
WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/ Princeton University
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