Bug#555977: debian-policy: Constraints on binary package control files
Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> writes:
> Le Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 04:17:33PM -0800, Russ Allbery a écrit :
>> In addition, Lintian also warns if a control file is empty or if it's not
>> one of the known set of control files, which at present is:
>>
>> clilibs config control conffiles md5sums postinst preinst postrm
>> prerm shlibs symbols templates triggers
> Many of the above files are not listed in the chapter 5 of the Policy, which
> defines the control files. In this chapter, they are all in the Debian email
> header-like format. Maybe to avoid confusion either the chapter 5 could be
> clarified, or the above group of files could be named differently ?
Yes, there's an unfortunate reuse of the same term for two different
purposes: files in the Debian control file format, and files in the
control.tar.gz portion of a binary package.
I'm not sure what we'll be able to do about this, since both uses of the
term are well-established, but we should probably try....
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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