Bug#785662: lintian: Should warn about included oui.txt or iab.txt, and recommend to use those from ieee-data instead

[Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>]

Hi again,

Axel Beckert wrote:
> python3-netaddr: /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/netaddr/eui/oui.idx
> python3-netaddr: /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/netaddr/eui/oui.txt
> python-netaddr: /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/netaddr/eui/oui.idx
> python-netaddr: /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/netaddr/eui/oui.txt
> ruby-packetfu: /usr/share/doc/ruby-packetfu/examples/oui.txt.gz
[...]
> Luciano (as well as Gürkan years earlier) seem to have filed bug reports
> for embedded copies of oui.txt already against arpalert, arp-scan,
> btscanner, ipv6toolkit (fixed in experimental, yay!), ntop-data,
> ocsinventory-reports, but the python and ruby packages listed above have
> no such bug report.

Actually the two python packages don't need a bug report. Those
oui.txt files listed above are actually symlinks to ieee-data's
oui.txt. Great!

So I need to amend my plan as follows:

> I imagine a check which warns if
> 
> * a binary or source package contains a file whose name  matches
>   /\b(oui|iab).(txt|idx|db)\b/ (This should also match compressed
>   variants)

... and is not a symlink. :-)

I should probably also drop the .idx suffix.

		Regards, Axel
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