On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Raphael Geissert
<atomo64+deb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> May I suggest that this diagnostic be suppressed for files which are
>> *both* not installed
>
> Hmm, that wouldn't make much sense

why not?  If the binary is not installed, it's much less important
whether or not it's built from source.

> and lintian can't tell whether a file is installed or not.

Is it not the case that a file found in a souce package is installed
if and only if it appears in one of the binary packages built from
that source package?  lintian sees both, at least if run on a .changes
file.

zw



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