Bug#650665: lintian: false-positive gzip-file-is-not-multi-arch-same-safe
Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.4
Severity: normal
$ lintian -T gzip-file-is-not-multi-arch-same-safe openjdk-6-jre-headless_6b23~pre11-1_i386.deb
E: openjdk-6-jre-headless: gzip-file-is-not-multi-arch-same-safe usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk-i386/jre/man/ja_JP.eucJP/man1/java.1.gz
E: openjdk-6-jre-headless: gzip-file-is-not-multi-arch-same-safe usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk-i386/jre/man/ja_JP.eucJP/man1/keytool.1.gz
E: openjdk-6-jre-headless: gzip-file-is-not-multi-arch-same-safe usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk-i386/jre/man/ja_JP.eucJP/man1/orbd.1.gz
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This is false positive, because the directory differs across
architectures, e.g. it's /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk-amd64/... on amd64.
At the very least we should reduce certainty of this tag to something
less than "certain".
--
Jakub Wilk
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