I was more thinking about usage on a developer's machine. But your probably right about that this approach won't work for checking the completely archive on master.
But then again, maybe an approach similar to Contents or Packages might be feasible. Each package would then be required to contain a file with info needed for lintian checks. Upon installment in the distributino this file could be extracted from the package and installed via 'update-lintian'. I don't know whether dpkg can be told to extract only a certain file, but lintian is probably important enough for dpkg to be adapted. Thanks, Ardo Sean 'Shaleh' Perry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Lintian is currently run over the entire debian archive on master. I can not > assume a package or its depends are installed. > > I had considered the equiv of shlibs files, but it only works in the case you > describe. -- Ardo van Rangelrooij home email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] home page: http://www.debian.org/~ardo PGP fp: 3B 1F 21 72 00 5C 3A 73 7F 72 DF D9 90 78 47 F9
