On Wed, 31 Mar 2010, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > Jonas Smedegaard <[email protected]> writes: > > Perhaps file a bug against lintian to watch this kind of pattern? > > Could lintian warn if packages include files in /usr/(lib|share)/perl5 > and the package name does not adhere to the Debian Perl Policy [1]? > To further avoid false positives it should be enough to warn only for > packages named "*-perl" (but not "lib*-perl") or "perl-*".
This isn't exactly right; a package which has perl language bindings will ship things in /usr/*/perl5 but it doesn't need to conform to the perl naming policy. In general, if something is distributed in /usr/bin (certainly if it's not actually written in perl), it doesn't need to conform to the perl naming policy. There are probably other exceptions as well, and it would probably be ok to ignore packages which (while named differently) Provides: the appropriate lib*-perl name. Don Armstrong -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
