merge 236534 513996 tag 513996 patch thanks On Tuesday 03 February 2009 02:15:15 Russ Allbery wrote: > 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). Patches in attached mbox should do it. Ran it against my box's /var/cache/apt/archives plus some others. Cheers, -- Raphael Geissert - Debian Maintainer www.debian.org - get.debian.net
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