[EMAIL PROTECTED] (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Marcelo_E=2E_Magall=F3n?) wrote on 08.04.98 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Could lintian check for files installed outside standard directories > (those the FHS specifies). I accidentally made a .deb file that installed > files in /home/mmagallo/blah/blas/debian/tmp/usr/X11R6/bin/. I realized > this after running lintian on the package and then installing it. Oh yes, and also check for all the packages installing stuff into /var/packagename, for example. Except for specific case, that's not allowed! Oh, and one other thing. I just noticed a bug in one of my packages resulting in a file (or was it a directory?) containing a shell wildcard. At the very least, any strange character in filenames should get a warning. Very few of those are actually intentional. I'd say anything outside [-a-zA-Z0-9._+:] is suspect. grep tells me that less than 0.1% of the filenames in my /var/lib/dpkg/*.list use any other characters. MfG Kai -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
