On 2011-08-18 13:50, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Niels Thykier dixit: > >> Package: lintian > > Hm, don’t find it, did you Cc submit@b.d.o? > (I usually file against Source for changes like this one…) >
Hi, I did (BCC it), the bug is #638278. I took the liberty of marking you as the submitter. >> Severity: normal > > Would set it to minor or wishlist, even though it’s > an improvement and “probably” correct. > Personally I do not care if it is minor or normal. I tend to view wishlist as requests for new tags/features and I think this one is about possibly correct a false-positive. >> Not a 100% sure here, but I have submitted this as a bug against Lintian > > Mh, I contacted you first about the opinion because I didn’t > want to impose this as bug to you if you disagreed. > Emails in my inbox has a way of disappearing even if I tag them TODO etc, so when I can I file bugs if I cannot handle them immediately. Plus I am hoping a co-maintainer can step in and elaborate on this. The sun might be up outside, but it isn't on the inside. :P >> now. As I recall, we tend to use user and group names rather than >> numerical values in the code, so this smells like work. :P > > Yes, probably. But you could just map 0 to root for both > uid and gid (everything else is not standardised anyway). > If you want I can have a look at the code (no guarantees, > I don’t really speak Perl). > > bye, > //mirabilos That could solve a lot it, if done in the method reading the tar index. Brilliant! ~Niels -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-lint-maint-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e4d0401.8060...@thykier.net