Bug#231770: lintian: Add checks for prompting in maintainerscripts

Russ Allbery wrote: Luk Claes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: tags 231770 +patch thanks Hi Easy patch included for consideration. My concern about the simple approach to this (which I never sent to the bug; my bad) is that the other major use of read besides prompting is for parsing

Bug#418217: lintian: Please check for identical, non-linked binaries.

Russ Allbery wrote: Josh Triplett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Package: lintian Version: 1.23.28 Severity: wishlist lintian could check for identical binaries without the use of a symlink or hard link. For examples of what this should catch, see bugs 382724, 382728, and 382730. It's not

Bug#418217: lintian: Please check for identical, non-linked binaries.

Josh Triplett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, as with other fixes in Debian packages, the fix could go upstream. The idea seems generally useful: if you want to install two identical binaries, install all but one using ln. Hm. Do you think this is something Policy should say something about,