Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.10.2
Severity: serious

A sysvinit upload has been rejected by the archive because of the tag
maintainer-script-removes-device-files (see below).  This lintian check is
in error; the maintainer script removes /dev/shm, which is not a device
file.  Furthermore, the code already exists in the version of sysvinit
that's currently in testing and unstable, so something has changed in how
this autoreject is being applied at package upload time.

Since this is treated as a non-overrideable lintian reject by the ftp
archive, I'm marking this bug serious because it's blocking valid packages
from being uploaded; false positives in non-overridable archive rejects are
a serious problem.  If you think this should be fixed in the archive's tag
set instead of in lintian, feel free to reassign to ftp.debian.org.

In the meantime I will be hacking the maintainer script code to trick
lintian so the upload can proceed.

----- Forwarded message from Debian FTP Masters 
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Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 12:47:30 +0000
From: Debian FTP Masters <[email protected]>
To: Debian sysvinit maintainers <[email protected]>,
        Steve Langasek <[email protected]>
Subject: sysvinit_2.88dsf-33_i386.changes REJECTED



initscripts: lintian output: 'maintainer-script-removes-device-files 
postinst:364', automatically rejected package.
initscripts: lintian output: 'maintainer-script-removes-device-files 
postinst:382', automatically rejected package.
initscripts: lintian output: 'maintainer-script-removes-device-files 
postinst:398', automatically rejected package.
initscripts: lintian output: 'maintainer-script-removes-device-files 
postinst:418', automatically rejected package.

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Please feel free to respond to this email if you don't understand why
your files were rejected, or if you upload new files which address our
concerns.


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