On 9 Apr 1998, Kai Henningsen wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Marcelo_E=2E_Magall=F3n?) wrote on
> 08.04.98 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > Could lintian check for files installed outside standard directories
> > (those the FHS specifies). I accidentally made a .deb file that installed
> > files in /home/mmagallo/blah/blas/debian/tmp/usr/X11R6/bin/. I realized
> > this after running lintian on the package and then installing it.
>
> Oh yes, and also check for all the packages installing stuff into
> /var/packagename, for example. Except for specific case, that's not
> allowed!
We are already working on such a check. We'll start coding FSSTND checks
now, and transform this into a FHS check as soon as we've decided to
switch policy.
> Oh, and one other thing. I just noticed a bug in one of my packages
> resulting in a file (or was it a directory?) containing a shell wildcard.
> At the very least, any strange character in filenames should get a
> warning. Very few of those are actually intentional.
>
> I'd say anything outside [-a-zA-Z0-9._+:] is suspect. grep tells me that
> less than 0.1% of the filenames in my /var/lib/dpkg/*.list use any other
> characters.
That's another good idea for the check! I'll implement this and we'll see,
how many exceptions we have... :-)
Thanks,
Chris
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