On Fri, 13 Feb 1998, Christian Schwarz wrote: > > With the new lintian check I discovered that some packages install a `du' > control file (contains the output of the du command). > > Does someone know which program is using these files?? > > If there is no good reason for these files, should we consider this a bug? > (IMO, yes.)
They are created by the debhelper program dh_du. They're useful for figuring out how much space on each of your filesystems a package is taking up, especially useful if one filesystem is getting cramped. Like the md5sums file, I wouldn't judge their presence either way. -- Scott K. Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.gate.net/~storm/
