Bug#482869: lintian: no-md5sums-control-file false positive on package containing only conffiles
Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.49
Severity: minor
I have a package that contains only conffiles and directories. (It works
with another package that can, among other things, be used as a network
server, by providing scripts and a directory hierarchy to make that easy.)
$ dpkg-deb --contents monotone-server_0.40-3_all.deb
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2008-05-25 12:03 ./
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2008-05-25 12:03 ./var/
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2008-05-25 12:03 ./var/lib/
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2008-05-25 12:03 ./var/lib/monotone/
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2008-05-25 12:03 ./var/lib/monotone/keys/
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2008-05-25 12:03 ./var/log/
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2008-05-25 12:03 ./var/log/monotone/
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2008-05-25 12:03 ./var/run/
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2008-05-25 12:03 ./var/run/monotone/
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2008-05-25 12:03 ./etc/
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2008-05-25 12:03 ./etc/monotone/
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2008-05-25 12:03 ./etc/default/
-rw-r--r-- root/root 394 2008-02-25 10:35 ./etc/default/monotone
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2008-05-25 12:03 ./etc/init.d/
-rwxr-xr-x root/root 2182 2008-02-25 10:35 ./etc/init.d/monotone
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2008-05-25 12:03 ./usr/
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2008-05-25 12:03 ./usr/share/
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2008-05-25 12:03 ./usr/share/doc/
lrwxrwxrwx root/root 0 2008-05-25 12:03 ./usr/share/doc/monotone-server -> monotone
Naturally enough, dh_md5sums does not produce a checksums file for this
package, which makes lintian object:
$ lintian -I monotone_0.40-3_amd64.changes
I: monotone-server: no-md5sums-control-file
Please consider having this check verify that there are regular files in
the package that are not conffiles.
(Note that version 0.40-3 of this package is not yet in the archive, and the
versions that are currently available do contain some regular files.)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.18.1~cvs20080103-6 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii diffstat 1.45-2 produces graph of changes introduc
ii dpkg-dev 1.14.19 package building tools for Debian
ii file 4.24-2 Determines file type using "magic"
ii gettext 0.17-2 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii libparse-debianchan 1.1.1-2 parse Debian changelogs and output
ii liburi-perl 1.35.dfsg.1-1 Manipulates and accesses URI strin
ii man-db 2.5.2-1 on-line manual pager
ii perl [libdigest-sha 5.10.0-10 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
lintian recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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