On Wednesday 21 November 2007 04:08:44 am Josselin Mouette wrote: > Hi, > > Le mercredi 21 novembre 2007 à 05:20 +0100, Michael Biebl a écrit : > > Imho adding a lintian check for empty /usr/bin, /usr/sbin, /usr/lib and > > /usr/include directories (as created by dh-make) would be a good start. > > Maybe we could check for empty directories except for a number of common > false positives (like the python-support directories or /var/games), and > for the rest, grep in the maintainer scripts.
Some of the common false positives are /var/lib/<pkg> or /etc/<pkg>, or subdirectories under one of those. Since <pkg> often doesn't match the binary package name exactly, I don't see any easy way to detect these cases. -- Daniel Schepler
