[SCM] Debian package checker branch, master, updated. 2.2.17-34-g5649639

["Russ Allbery" <rra@debian.org>]

The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit 68ca6c34aa39a4ea9f0064cbd4b16d7a2b07ddb0
Author: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Date:   Thu Nov 12 15:47:08 2009 -0800

    Ask for a bug if wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid is a false positive
    
    * checks/files.desc:
      + [RA] Add a note to wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid that it's possible to
        construct a Policy-compliant package that triggers this tag by
        creating users in preinst, and asking package maintainers to file a
        bug against Lintian if they encounter a case where this appears to
        be necessary.

diff --git a/checks/files.desc b/checks/files.desc
index ac4e6d1..6de36d5 100644
--- a/checks/files.desc
+++ b/checks/files.desc
@@ -870,6 +870,12 @@ Info: The user or group ID of the owner of the file is invalid. The
  for varying purposes on different systems, or are reserved. The set
  of the allowed, globally allocated IDs consists of the ranges 0-99,
  64000-64999 and 65534.
+ .
+ It's possible for a Policy-compliant package to trigger this bug if the
+ user is created in the preinst maintainer script, but this is a very rare
+ case and doesn't appear to be necessary.  If you found yourself needing
+ to create a package that works this way, please file a bug against
+ Lintian to let the maintainers know.
 Ref: policy 9.2
 
 Tag: embedded-javascript-library
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index c810a23..f3d61e1 100755
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -53,6 +53,12 @@ lintian (2.2.18) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
       and doc packages.  Patch from Stéphane Glondu.  (Closes: #548210)
     + [FL] Allow source formats 3.0 (quilt) and 3.0 (native).
       (Closes: #552707)
+  * checks/files.desc:
+    + [RA] Add a note to wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid that it's possible to
+      construct a Policy-compliant package that triggers this tag by
+      creating users in preinst, and asking package maintainers to file a
+      bug against Lintian if they encounter a case where this appears to
+      be necessary.
   * checks/lintian.desc:
     + [CW] Add lucid as an allowable distribution for Ubuntu, and remove
       gutsy.

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