On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 04:17:33PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Lintian has several checks for the control files included in a binary > package, but so far as I can tell, there is no general discussion in > Policy right now about these files or any restrictions on them. This > seems like something that should be discussed in Policy. The Lintian > tags which are used for rejects by ftpmaster are: > Tag: not-allowed-control-file > Severity: serious > Certainty: certain > Info: The package contains a control file that is not allowed in this > type of package. Some control files are only allowed in either .deb > or .udeb packages and must not be included in packages of the other > type. You should probably just remove the file. > (This triggers on inclusion of an insinstallable or menutest control file > in a non-udeb package.) > Tag: control-file-has-bad-permissions > Severity: serious > Certainty: certain > Info: The <tt>config</tt>, <tt>postinst</tt>, <tt>postrm</tt>, > <tt>preinst</tt>, and <tt>prerm</tt> control files should use mode 0755; > all other control files should use 0644. > Tag: control-file-has-bad-owner > Severity: serious > Certainty: certain > Info: All control files should be owned by root/root. I agree that these should be covered by policy, and will be happy to second language that spells this out. > 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 I think it's appropriate for lintian to warn about unknown files since this may point to a misspelling or other error, but I don't think there's anything about this that belongs in Policy except where individual control files will have their syntax and/or usage defined there. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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