Package: lintian Version: 2.2.12 Severity: wishlist When packaging games, one needs to give the '--datadir=/usr/share/games' option to configure. This makes it quite easy to also install *.desktop, *-mime.xml, and icons in the wrong directory (e.g. /usr/share/games/applications instead of /usr/share/applications).
So it would be nice if lintian could check for such files installed in the wrong directory. It could also suggest using $(datarootdir) rather than $(datadir) in Makefile.am. Here's an example of error: drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2008-12-22 21:50 ./usr/share/games/applications/ -rw-r--r-- root/root 616 2008-12-22 21:50 ./usr/share/games/applications/freedink-dfarc.desktop drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2008-12-22 21:50 ./usr/share/games/mime/ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2008-12-22 21:50 ./usr/share/games/mime/packages/ -rw-r--r-- root/root 453 2008-12-22 21:50 ./usr/share/games/mime/packages/freedink-mime.xml drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2008-12-22 21:50 ./usr/share/games/icons/ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2008-12-22 21:50 ./usr/share/games/icons/hicolor/ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2008-12-22 21:50 ./usr/share/games/icons/hicolor/32x32/ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2008-12-22 21:50 ./usr/share/games/icons/hicolor/32x32/mimetypes/ -rw-r--r-- root/root 617 2008-12-22 21:50 ./usr/share/games/icons/hicolor/32x32/mimetypes/application-x-dmod.png drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2008-12-22 21:50 ./usr/share/games/pixmaps/ -rw-r--r-- root/root 617 2008-12-22 21:50 ./usr/share/games/pixmaps/dfarc.png and when fixed: drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2009-06-24 19:01 ./usr/share/applications/ -rw-r--r-- root/root 616 2009-06-24 19:01 ./usr/share/applications/freedink-dfarc.desktop drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2009-06-24 19:01 ./usr/share/icons/ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2009-06-24 19:01 ./usr/share/icons/hicolor/ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2009-06-24 19:01 ./usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2009-06-24 19:01 ./usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/mimetypes/ -rw-r--r-- root/root 617 2009-06-24 19:01 ./usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/mimetypes/application-x-dmod.png drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2009-06-24 19:01 ./usr/share/mime/ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2009-06-24 19:01 ./usr/share/mime/packages/ -rw-r--r-- root/root 453 2009-06-24 19:01 ./usr/share/mime/packages/freedink-mime.xml drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2009-06-24 19:01 ./usr/share/pixmaps/ -rw-r--r-- root/root 617 2009-06-24 19:01 ./usr/share/pixmaps/dfarc.png -rw-r--r-- root/root 1326 2009-06-24 18:54 ./usr/share/pixmaps/dfarc.xpm -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (300, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-vserver-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.19.1-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii diffstat 1.47-1 produces graph of changes introduc ii dpkg-dev 1.15.2 Debian package development tools ii file 5.03-1 Determines file type using "magic" ii gettext 0.17-6 GNU Internationalization utilities ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.23 Perl interface to libapt-pkg ii libipc-run-perl 0.82-1 Perl module for running processes ii libparse-debianchangel 1.1.1-2 parse Debian changelogs and output ii libtimedate-perl 1.1600-9 Time and date functions for Perl ii liburi-perl 1.37+dfsg-1 Manipulates and accesses URI strin ii man-db 2.5.5-2 on-line manual pager ii perl [libdigest-sha-pe 5.10.0-23 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction lintian recommends no packages. Versions of packages lintian suggests: pn binutils-multiarch <none> (no description available) pn libtext-template-perl <none> (no description available) ii man-db 2.5.5-2 on-line manual pager -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
