Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > This could be done along with the contents scan, it would take a bit of > coding to do as you would have to also implement caching and probably a > custom tar reader..
Note that Lintian uses the output of tar -tv directly. The only problem is that you have to undo tar's filename mangling, which Lintian doesn't bother to do. Overall it works fine. Richard Braakman