#713879 lintian: file-in-unusual-dir has 10k overrides out of 51k

Package:
lintian
Source:
lintian
Submitter:
Niels Thykier
Date:
2013-08-01 10:27:04 UTC
Severity:
minor
#713879#5
Date:
2013-06-23 13:33:14 UTC
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On lintian.d.o, it appears that file-in-unusual-dir is the source of
10k out of 51k overrides.  Generally we are looking at:

  usr/<some-arch-specificifier>/{bin,lib/ldscripts}/*
  var/{cache,spool,log}/*

Where the usr/<arch>/ appears to cause the majority of these (at first
glance, at least).

~Niels
#713879#10
Date:
2013-07-29 10:33:38 UTC
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According to multiarch specs:
- usr/i686-w64-mingw32/include/ => usr/include/i686-w64-mingw32/
- usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/lib/ => usr/lib/x86_64-w64-mingw32/

May be a new check is worth it, checking gnu triplet and suggesting something more appropriate.

Bastien
#713879#13
Date:
2013-08-01 10:24:02 UTC
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* bastien ROUCARIES <roucaries.bastien@gmail.com>, 2013-07-29, 12:33:

Last time cross-compiler paths were discussed there was no consensus
that switching to multi-arch paths is the right thing to do:
http://lists.debian.org/20110422230459.6820d853@sk2.org