Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.19
Severity: wishlist
Hello,
GNU find 4.5.11 and later do not support the -perm +x option anymore
(due to being "unspecified behavior" in POSIX).
It would be nice to search for invalid find-invocations before a find
version with this feature ends up in unstable.
What is needed is essentially
Tag: findpermplus
Severity: important
Certainty: wild-guess
Info: The package probably invokes find with the -perm +X option. This
option is deprecated and not supported in 4.5.11 and later. Please use
-perm /X instead.
Where findpermplus does a
find -path debian/changelog -or \( -type f -exec grep -l -- '-perm +' {} + \)
i.e. a grep for a literal '-perm +'. The check should not only look
at debian but the complete source.
An enhanced check would additionally match on 'find.*-perm +' with
Certainty: possible.
Thanks for considering,
cu Andreas
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