Zack Weinberg <[email protected]> writes: > Raphael Geissert <[email protected]> wrote:
>> and lintian can't tell whether a file is installed or not. > Is it not the case that a file found in a souce package is installed if > and only if it appears in one of the binary packages built from that > source package? lintian sees both, at least if run on a .changes file. Lintian sees both only at a very high level. None of the checking code knows that. In the long run, I think we need to change that, but it's a fairly basic assumption in Lintian at the moment that source packages and binary packages are checked entirely independently. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
