Bug#856312: lintian.debian.org should also check -dbgsym packages

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

On Mon, 27 Feb 2017 18:03:40 +0200 Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org> wrote:
> Package: lintian
> Version: 2.5.50.1
> Severity: normal
> 
> lintian.debian.org should also check -dbgsym packages.
> 
> Example:
> 
> https://lintian.debian.org/maintainer/packages@qa.debian.org.html#vbrfix
> 
> This misses:
> W: vbrfix-dbgsym: debug-file-with-no-debug-symbols usr/lib/debug/.build-id/76/438ccdc4d5078085e273992db0049ba600d48b.debug
> 
> 

Hi,

I have started a branch for this:

https://anonscm.debian.org/git/lintian/lintian.git/log/?h=reporting-rewrite-config-and-archive-handling

Not really tested at this point, but I think I will give it a spin on
lintian.d.o later this week.

Thanks,
~Niels