Package: lintian
Version: 2.4.3
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
Hi,
Files under /etc/cron.d must conform to the same filename specs as those in
the cron.{hourly,daily,weekly} dirs, so it would be nice to check those for
dots aswell.
Attached patch accomplishes that.
One could perhaps consider to make the test inclusive rather than to check
just for the dot (check that files consist solely of upper- and lower-case
letters, digits, underscores, and hyphens), but as that would change the
original test I've not implemented that just now.
Cheers,
Thijs
--- checks/files.orig 2011-02-25 13:52:03.981454219 +0100
+++ checks/files 2011-02-25 13:47:51.338568241 +0100
@@ -285,7 +285,7 @@
tag "package-uses-obsolete-file", "$file";
}
# ---------------- /etc/cron.daily, etc.
- elsif ($file =~ m,^etc/cron\.(?:daily|hourly|monthly|weekly)/[^\.].*\.,
) {
+ elsif ($file =~
m,^etc/cron\.(?:daily|hourly|monthly|weekly|d)/[^\.].*\., ) {
tag "run-parts-cron-filename-contains-full-stop", "$file";
}
# ---------------- /etc/cron.d
