Bug#513650: lintian: pedantic: check for fonts in non-font package
Raphael Geissert <atomo64+debian@gmail.com> writes:
> At the beginning I considered downloading the .deb files to calculate
> the checksums of the files, based on the analysis of Contents, but when
> Paul replied to my questions I was thinking about using the file he
> mentioned. I decided to implement the check using none of those methods
> because I didn't see much gain, as it would consume more time to
> calculate the checksums.
>
> If it is really desired, the current script in private/ could take some
> more bits from the debhelper one which already downloads .deb files, and
> checks/files be adapted.
>
> The list of fonts files is a bit large actually, so I though not using
> checksums to be a good compromise between accuracy (or rather number of
> false negatives) and speed.
Oh, I have no problem at all with what you did, and I don't think the
additional work is worth it for the additional level of certainty unless
people start complaining. I just wanted to acknowledge in the certainty
that with a pure file name match, there are plausible cases where we'll
get the tag wrong.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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