Steve Langasek <vor...@debian.org> writes: > On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 01:15:57AM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote:
>>> E: ftp-master: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid >>> Policy 9.2 does /not/ prohibit shipping files with owners outside these >>> ranges; it prohibits relying on user or group IDs outside these ranges being >>> static, but there doesn't appear to be anything in Policy that prohibits >>> creating the user in the package preinst and then unpacking the package such >>> that ownership is applied by /name/. (Unless I'm mistaken, this is >>> precisely what dpkg does.) >>> So false-positives are possible with this lintian check, and it should be >>> overrideable. >> We currently only have 1 package in the whole archive triggering >> this. Thats why it is listed. >> Fine, moved to nonfatal. > Yes, and that package is not a false-positive - it is genuinely broken and > should be fixed. Still, the check itself is unreliable. I must say, that's a pretty high level of reliability, certainly enough to keep using "certain" as the certainty in Lintian. But yes, I suppose it makes sense to let people override it in the rare case they want to do this. > Absent a basis in Policy, "nothing uses it" is not really a reason to > reject new packages that might start using it. AFAICS, this is > basically an unreviewed lintian error. Correct, I don't believe it's ever triggered. I suspect it doesn't matter one way or the other what we do with it for that reason. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
