Bug#469924: lintian: suggestion: check for dynamic UIDs or GIDs in file ownership

Package: lintian Version: 1.23.46 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Perhaps it could be useful to have a check in Lintian that examines the UID and GID of the owner of files in binary packages. Though the policy doesn't seem to explicitly forbid it, sections 9.2 and 10.9 at least indicates that

Bug#469926: lintian: test suite fails when invoked with umask != 0022

Package: lintian Version: 1.23.46 Severity: minor Tags: patch It seems that in many of the test packages in the test suite the debian/rules script creates files without specifying the permissions explicitly. If the test suite is run with a non-standard umask, this causes Lintian to produce a lot

Bug#469925: lintian: doesn't allow root directory to be specified with a relative path

Package: lintian Version: 1.23.46 Severity: minor Lintian doesn't seem to support that its root directory is specified using a relative path. For example, the following command works fine: $ lintian --root /usr/share/lintian/ ~/lintian_1.23.46_all.deb However, these commands fail: $ cd

Bug#469924: lintian: suggestion: check for dynamic UIDs or GIDs in file ownership

Hello. I just discovered a slight flaw in an if test in the patch I submitted. The test is just for internal consistency, so it's almost not worth to mention, but here's a simple patch against SVN trunk: Index: checks/files === ---