Bug#528367: check for dangling OCaml cmx/cmxa files
Package: lintian
Version: 2.2.9
Severity: wishlist
Hello,
It would be nice to emit a Lintian error in the following circumstances:
* a .cmxa file exists, but no .a (in the same directory, with the
same basename) exists;
* a .cmx file exists, but neither the matching .o exists, nor any .a
file in the same directory containing the .o file exist.
This would prevent bugs such as #524017 and #527816.
It is trivial to implement in a shell script (using "dpkg -x", "find",
"test -f" and "ar t"), but I am really not familiar with Lintian
architecture and source code (any hints/pointers to similar checks are
welcome).
Cheers,
--
Stéphane
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.19.1-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii diffstat 1.46-1 produces graph of changes introduc
ii dpkg-dev 1.14.26 Debian package development tools
ii file 5.00-1 Determines file type using "magic"
ii gettext 0.17-6 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii libipc-run-perl 0.82-1 Perl module for running processes
ii libparse-debianchangel 1.1.1-2 parse Debian changelogs and output
ii libtimedate-perl 1.1600-9 Time and date functions for Perl
ii liburi-perl 1.37+dfsg-1 Manipulates and accesses URI strin
ii man-db 2.5.5-1 on-line manual pager
ii perl [libdigest-sha-pe 5.10.0-19 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
lintian recommends no packages.
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn binutils-multiarch <none> (no description available)
pn libtext-template-perl <none> (no description available)
ii man-db 2.5.5-1 on-line manual pager
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