Håkon Stordahl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Some time ago I attempted a search for packages in the archive with
files of suspicious ownership, but not many packages turned out to have
such files. Admittedly, fakeroot, dh_fixperms or similar commands seem
to catch almost all potential problems.
Hello. I just discovered a slight flaw in an if test in the patch I
submitted. The test is just for internal consistency, so it's almost
not worth to mention, but here's a simple patch against SVN trunk:
Index: checks/files
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Håkon Stordahl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hello. I just discovered a slight flaw in an if test in the patch I
submitted. The test is just for internal consistency, so it's almost
not worth to mention, but here's a simple patch against SVN trunk:
Index: checks/files
Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.46
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
Perhaps it could be useful to have a check in Lintian that examines
the UID and GID of the owner of files in binary packages. Though the
policy doesn't seem to explicitly forbid it, sections 9.2 and 10.9 at
least indicates that
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