Package: lintian Version: 1.23.49 Severity: minor I have a package that contains only conffiles and directories. (It works with another package that can, among other things, be used as a network server, by providing scripts and a directory hierarchy to make that easy.)
$ dpkg-deb --contents monotone-server_0.40-3_all.deb drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2008-05-25 12:03 ./ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2008-05-25 12:03 ./var/ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2008-05-25 12:03 ./var/lib/ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2008-05-25 12:03 ./var/lib/monotone/ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2008-05-25 12:03 ./var/lib/monotone/keys/ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2008-05-25 12:03 ./var/log/ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2008-05-25 12:03 ./var/log/monotone/ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2008-05-25 12:03 ./var/run/ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2008-05-25 12:03 ./var/run/monotone/ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2008-05-25 12:03 ./etc/ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2008-05-25 12:03 ./etc/monotone/ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2008-05-25 12:03 ./etc/default/ -rw-r--r-- root/root 394 2008-02-25 10:35 ./etc/default/monotone drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2008-05-25 12:03 ./etc/init.d/ -rwxr-xr-x root/root 2182 2008-02-25 10:35 ./etc/init.d/monotone drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2008-05-25 12:03 ./usr/ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2008-05-25 12:03 ./usr/share/ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2008-05-25 12:03 ./usr/share/doc/ lrwxrwxrwx root/root 0 2008-05-25 12:03 ./usr/share/doc/monotone-server -> monotone Naturally enough, dh_md5sums does not produce a checksums file for this package, which makes lintian object: $ lintian -I monotone_0.40-3_amd64.changes I: monotone-server: no-md5sums-control-file Please consider having this check verify that there are regular files in the package that are not conffiles. (Note that version 0.40-3 of this package is not yet in the archive, and the versions that are currently available do contain some regular files.) -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.18.1~cvs20080103-6 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii diffstat 1.45-2 produces graph of changes introduc ii dpkg-dev 1.14.19 package building tools for Debian ii file 4.24-2 Determines file type using "magic" ii gettext 0.17-2 GNU Internationalization utilities ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf ii libparse-debianchan 1.1.1-2 parse Debian changelogs and output ii liburi-perl 1.35.dfsg.1-1 Manipulates and accesses URI strin ii man-db 2.5.2-1 on-line manual pager ii perl [libdigest-sha 5.10.0-10 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction lintian recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
