Hi Holger, On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 2:29 AM Holger Levsen <hol...@layer-acht.org> wrote: > > sigh. so IMNSHO now lintian *and* dpkg are buggy. Or point me to policy > which prohibits files pointing to /dev/null. This worked for years.
The restriction applies only to source packages and not to installation packages. Is it such a burden to create the file in d/rules, or elsewhere? It should be one line, at most. The logic is a little bit similar to device nodes, or other special files. Kind regards Felix Lechner
