Bug#860419: lintian: Please detect symlinks to /build, /tmp, etc.

[Chris West <solo-debianbugs@goeswhere.com>]

Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.50
Priority: wishlist
X-Debugs-CC: reproducible-bugs@lists.alioth.debian.org

There are packages which contain symlinks to places that exit only on
the build machine. I am guessing that this will almost certainly be a
bug.

For example, sugar-memorize-activity's binary package contains a symlink
(#860418) to the temporary directory in which the package was built, in
/build.

/build feels like it would always be wrong. I suspect /tmp, /home,
/var/tmp, /dev/shm, and possibly other paths, would be wrong too.

Please make Lintian check that absolute symlinks do not target any of
these directories?

Cheers.