Russ Allbery wrote: > Raphael Geissert writes: > >> Attached patch implements the first part of the test, by only looking >> for mentions of /var or /usr in the init script. I'll later finish the >> second part of the check, which relies on the list of /bin and /sbin >> binaries in the archive. > > I looked at this today, but I'm nervous about false positives since the > init script checks currently don't have any of the logic that the scripts > check has to avoid heredocs, conditionals, and so forth. I'm afraid we'll > trigger on printed output for the user. > > I'm going to go ahead and apply this, but mark the new tags as > experimental so that we can run it for a while and see what the results > look like and if there are a lot of false positives. >
I'm fine with marking it as experimental, although I ran it against all the packages providing init script and didn't find any false positive in those scripts I verified. A similar check is being run daily (see http://lintian.d.o/~pere/) and it has helped file many bug reports without any FP as far as I'm aware of, so far. Cheers, -- Raphael Geissert - Debian Developer www.debian.org - get.debian.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
