Bug#444355: lintian: Bogus diagnostics for hard-linked files
Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.34
Severity: normal
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
The ion3-doc package contains two files with two names (hard-links)
each:
/usr/share/doc/ion3-doc/ionconf/{ionconf,index}.html
/usr/share/doc/ion3-doc/ionconf/{ionnotes,index}.html
In a tarball, the second and subsequent names for a file are
represented by reference to the first, rather like symbolic links.
lintian doesn't process these references properly, and so produces the
diagnostics:
E: doc-base-file-references-missing-file
W: zero-byte-file-in-doc-directory
There may well be other checks that have the same problem.
- -- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (100, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-2-686
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.18-1 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 4.17-5etch2 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 2.4.3-6 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
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux)
iD8DBQFG/Dyr79ZNCRIGYgcRAp+BAJ9GIWknwO1hOF2gxKzyLmCrg6RrhwCg1t7K
tvis3RX41A3erIy1UpJ/Ick=
=nRUO
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Reply to: