Re: Bug#964111: dpkg-source: False positive 'points outside source root'
Hi Holger,
On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 2:29 AM Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org> wrote:
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> sigh. so IMNSHO now lintian *and* dpkg are buggy. Or point me to policy
> which prohibits files pointing to /dev/null. This worked for years.
The restriction applies only to source packages and not to
installation packages. Is it such a burden to create the file in
d/rules, or elsewhere? It should be one line, at most.
The logic is a little bit similar to device nodes, or other special files.
Kind regards
Felix Lechner
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