Bug#706308: lintian: possible false positive statically-linked-binary

[Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>]

Control: retitle -1 lintian: false-positive statically-linked-binary when run with root privs
Control: severity -1 minor

* Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>, 2013-04-28, 14:06:
>    $ git clone http://cante.net/~jaalto/vc/i810switch.git i810switch.git
>    $ cd i810switch

Did you mean "cd i810switch.git" here?

> $ lintian --display-info --show-overrides --display-experimental --pedantic ../i810switch_0.6.5-7.1_i386.deb
> warning: the authors of lintian do not recommend running it with root privileges!

Why do you run Lintian as root?

But anyway, I can reproduce[0] the bug if (and only if) Lintian is run with 
(fake)root privileges. Thanks.

>    O: i810switch: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/bin/i810switch 0/141

This looks very wrong. What is this override for? FWIW, here I get:
I: i810switch: unused-override wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/bin/i810switch 0/141



[0] $ fakeroot lintian -T statically-linked-binary i810switch_0.6.5-7_i386.deb
warning: the authors of lintian do not recommend running it with root privileges!
E: i810switch: statically-linked-binary usr/bin/i810switch

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Jakub Wilk