Bug#576581: lintian: empty-binary-package should skip udebs
Package: lintian
Version: 2.3.4~bpo50+1
Severity: normal
the new lintian check empty-binary-packge should skip udebs, as it is not
uncommon for a udeb to only contain a postinst script and dependencies, and it
would seem silly to flag them all as metapackages.
thanks!
live well,
vagrant
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.4
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (103, 'testing'), (102, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-3-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.18.1~cvs20080103-7 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii diffstat 1.45-2 produces graph of changes introduc
ii dpkg-dev 1.14.29 Debian package development tools
ii file 4.26-1 Determines file type using "magic"
ii gettext 0.17-4 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.22+b1 Perl interface to libapt-pkg
ii libclass-accessor-p 0.31-2 Automated accessor generator
ii libipc-run-perl 0.80-2 Perl module for running processes
ii libparse-debianchan 1.1.1-2 parse Debian changelogs and output
ii libtimedate-perl 1.1600-9 Time and date functions for Perl
ii liburi-perl 1.35.dfsg.1-1 Manipulates and accesses URI strin
ii locales 2.7-18lenny2 GNU C Library: National Language (
ii man-db 2.5.2-4 on-line manual pager
ii perl [libdigest-sha 5.10.0-19lenny2 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
lintian recommends no packages.
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn binutils-multiarch <none> (no description available)
pn libtext-template-perl <none> (no description available)
ii man-db 2.5.2-4 on-line manual pager
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