Bug#515137: lintian: source-contains-prebuilt-binary false positive on files in test suite
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Raphael Geissert
<atomo64+debian@gmail.com> wrote:
>> May I suggest that this diagnostic be suppressed for files which are
>> *both* not installed
>
> Hmm, that wouldn't make much sense
why not? If the binary is not installed, it's much less important
whether or not it's built from source.
> and lintian can't tell whether a file is installed or not.
Is it not the case that a file found in a souce package is installed
if and only if it appears in one of the binary packages built from
that source package? lintian sees both, at least if run on a .changes
file.
zw
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