On Tuesday 28 August 2007 09:36, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: > You wrote: > > But most people simply don't know that their rules file corrupts > > tapes. First thing would be to detect these packages. This could > > be done in the autobuild procedure done on the debian hosts, e.g. > > by setting $TAPE to point to some kind of "watchdog file". > > It should also be possible to detect with with lintian, I would think. > Simply checking for a tar invocation without -f option should do the > trick.
I'm not sure if such a check would be easy to implement reliably in lintian. This really sounds like a check that could be implemented using Mole. That is (or will be) very well suited to test the entire archive e.g. with such a "strange" build environment, in the way Harald suggests. Thijs
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