Bug#513996: [checks/binaries] detect binaries from other architectures
Raphael Geissert <atomo64@gmail.com> writes:
> While working on the check for prebuilt binaries in source tarballs I
> was thinking about making it severity: minor as having prebuilt binaries
> around may cause make to believe it doesn't have to anything on them.
> Those cases are usually alleviated thanks to the call to debian/rules
> clean, but just to make sure prebuilt binaries are not accidentally
> shipped, I think it would be a good idea to check for binaries belonging
> to another architecture other than the one specified in the binary
> control file. Of course binaries in multi arch directories should be
> ignored, but I can't think about any good reason to for example ship an
> i386 binary in an armel package.
One does that sort of thing for cross-compilation support packages, but
they normally use recognizable special directories. Sure, that sounds
like a good check; it's no more prone to false positives than the existing
check for binaries in arch: all packages (which has the same problems).
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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