Bug#515137: lintian: source-contains-prebuilt-binary false positive on files in test suite

2009-02-13 Thread Zack Weinberg
Package: lintian Version: 2.2.5 Severity: minor Playing around with the new pedantic diagnostics, I noticed this one: P: source-contains-prebuilt-binary tests/diff_a_binary_file/binary This file is in the upstream testsuite; it's not a complete executable, although it does have a valid ELF

Bug#515137: lintian: source-contains-prebuilt-binary false positive on files in test suite

2009-02-13 Thread Raphael Geissert
Zack Weinberg wrote: [...] P: source-contains-prebuilt-binary tests/diff_a_binary_file/binary This file is in the upstream testsuite; it's not a complete executable, although it does have a valid ELF header (it appears to be the first 1024 bytes of some random program one of the developers

Bug#515137: lintian: source-contains-prebuilt-binary false positive on files in test suite

2009-02-13 Thread Russ Allbery
Raphael Geissert atomo64+deb...@gmail.com writes: Zack Weinberg wrote: P: source-contains-prebuilt-binary tests/diff_a_binary_file/binary This file is in the upstream testsuite; it's not a complete executable, although it does have a valid ELF header (it appears to be the first 1024 bytes

Bug#515137: lintian: source-contains-prebuilt-binary false positive on files in test suite

2009-02-13 Thread Zack Weinberg
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

Bug#515137: lintian: source-contains-prebuilt-binary false positive on files in test suite

2009-02-13 Thread Russ Allbery
Zack Weinberg za...@panix.com writes: Raphael Geissert atomo64+deb...@gmail.com wrote: 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