Bug#586984: closed by Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (Bug#586984: fixed in lintian 2.4.2)
Raphael Geissert wrote:
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> preinst diverts the following files:
> /usr/lib/$file
...
> Since lintian doesn't know what $file actually means, it replaces it with a
> wildcard (represented by '*' in the output.)
> So, when it goes and looks for a file shipped by the package matching
> /usr/lib/* it does find some (any file in /usr/lib counts as a valid match [1].)
>
> There's no bug in lintian then.
OK, thanks for explaining. The preinst is now too clever for lintian :-)
Andreas
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