Bug#844105: lintian: Incorrect claim of empty directory

["Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>]

On Sat, 2016-11-12 at 15:47 +0100, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> https://lintian.debian.org/full/debian@helgefjell.de.html (running
> this version of lintian, according to the bottom of the page) says:
>      * I package-contains-empty-directory
>           * usr/share/man/de/man1/
> 
> However, this directory in the package is *not* empty, it 
> contains the man page as expected:
> linuxinfo.1.gz

Yes... and no.

lintian.d.o checks both i386 and amd64. Checking manually gives:

$ dpkg-deb -c /srv/mirrors/debian/pool/main/l/linuxinfo/linuxinfo_2.4.2-3-1_amd64.deb  | grep de/man1
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2016-10-30 09:47 ./usr/share/man/de/man1/
-rw-r--r-- root/root       665 2016-10-30 09:47 ./usr/share/man/de/man1/linuxinfo.1.gz

but

$ dpkg-deb -c /srv/mirrors/debian/pool/main/l/linuxinfo/linuxinfo_2.4.2-3-1_i386.deb  | grep de/man1
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2016-10-30 09:47 ./usr/share/man/de/man1/

i.e. the directory *is* empty on i386. In fact, it appears to be empty
on every architecture except amd64, so I'd assume this is an issue in
the linuxinfo package.

Regards,

Adam