Bug#916023: lintian: package-contains-no-arch-dependent-files should use file type (was: "Re: Bug#916023: lintian: Please check if architecture could be "all" instead of "any"")

[Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>]

retitle 916023 lintian: package-contains-no-arch-dependent-files should use file type
severity 916023 wishlist
thanks

Hi Dmitry,

>    This check is only about file names. According to this logic,
>    anything outsite of /usr/share is arch-dependent.

Ah yes I see; you ship a Python script at /usr/bin/src. Indeed, we
should check the file type more carefully.

Note that since:

  https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/commit/6f4bd2fee21770baa7dda96ce281b70560e4c560

… we don't actually know the type of text files beyond "data" so this
may have to be reverted and a whitelist of "ASCII text" or similar
introduced.

Thanks for investigating.


Regards,

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