Bug#971707: lintian: breakout-link has lots of false positives, in particular for non-FHS trees below /usr/lib

2020-10-05 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Oct 05, 2020 at 04:22:17PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > Package: lintian > Version: 2.97.0 > Severity: normal > > The new breakout-link tag (warning about symlinks escaping from /usr/lib) > seems to have a lot of false positives. > > In particular, the pattern I'm interested in for this

Bug#971707: lintian: breakout-link has lots of false positives, in particular for non-FHS trees below /usr/lib

2020-10-05 Thread Simon McVittie
Package: lintian Version: 2.97.0 Severity: normal The new breakout-link tag (warning about symlinks escaping from /usr/lib) seems to have a lot of false positives. In particular, the pattern I'm interested in for this bug report is that some upstream packages expect to be installed in a non-FHS l