Justin Pryzby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I have often wondered if it would be useful to have a check (say, in
> lintian ...) grepping the binary package contents for the build
> directory ... assuming that the build directory is a sufficiently long
> string, perhaps larger binary packages will need longer build paths, but
> this doesn't seem like a real problem; /buildd/ itself is long enough to
> make a random occurance in an enourmous package beyond unlikely.

> I suspect the only think preventing this from being implemented is that
> too many things would be affected ..

All debugging information, for instance, I believe embeds the name of the
build directory.

-- 
Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED])               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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