Package: lintian Version: 2.5.11 Severity: wishlist dpkg-source is not able (#645157) to properly handle source packages with relative/absolute symlinks that point outside of the package. It would be good if lintian could detect this situation and give an error. lintian should check both the orig.tar and the debian.tar. Since Debian source packages need to be self-contained, this should be an autoreject that cannot be overridden. If you need an example package, there is one at the URLs below. I discovered it during my work on the Debian derivatives census. http://packages.bosslinux.in/boss/pool/savir/main/e/exe/exe_1.04.1.3602-boss1.dsc http://people.debian.org/~pabs/tmp/exe_1.04.1.3602-boss1.dsc -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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