Bug#638278: Bits from the Lintian maintainers
On 2011-08-18 13:50, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> Niels Thykier dixit:
>
>> Package: lintian
>
> Hm, don’t find it, did you Cc submit@b.d.o?
> (I usually file against Source for changes like this one…)
>
Hi,
I did (BCC it), the bug is #638278. I took the liberty of marking you
as the submitter.
>> Severity: normal
>
> Would set it to minor or wishlist, even though it’s
> an improvement and “probably” correct.
>
Personally I do not care if it is minor or normal. I tend to view
wishlist as requests for new tags/features and I think this one is about
possibly correct a false-positive.
>> Not a 100% sure here, but I have submitted this as a bug against Lintian
>
> Mh, I contacted you first about the opinion because I didn’t
> want to impose this as bug to you if you disagreed.
>
Emails in my inbox has a way of disappearing even if I tag them TODO
etc, so when I can I file bugs if I cannot handle them immediately.
Plus I am hoping a co-maintainer can step in and elaborate on this.
The sun might be up outside, but it isn't on the inside. :P
>> now. As I recall, we tend to use user and group names rather than
>> numerical values in the code, so this smells like work. :P
>
> Yes, probably. But you could just map 0 to root for both
> uid and gid (everything else is not standardised anyway).
> If you want I can have a look at the code (no guarantees,
> I don’t really speak Perl).
>
> bye,
> //mirabilos
That could solve a lot it, if done in the method reading the tar index.
Brilliant!
~Niels
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