Charles Plessy <ple...@debian.org> writes: > Le Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 04:17:33PM -0800, Russ Allbery a écrit :
>> In addition, Lintian also warns if a control file is empty or if it's not >> one of the known set of control files, which at present is: >> >> clilibs config control conffiles md5sums postinst preinst postrm >> prerm shlibs symbols templates triggers > Many of the above files are not listed in the chapter 5 of the Policy, which > defines the control files. In this chapter, they are all in the Debian email > header-like format. Maybe to avoid confusion either the chapter 5 could be > clarified, or the above group of files could be named differently ? Yes, there's an unfortunate reuse of the same term for two different purposes: files in the Debian control file format, and files in the control.tar.gz portion of a binary package. I'm not sure what we'll be able to do about this, since both uses of the term are well-established, but we should probably try.... -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
