/usr/share/lintian/checks/conffiles.desc is in lintian 2.5.10.4.
This file is owned by root:root, with mode 0o644.
The actual contents of the file can be viewed below.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 | Check-Script: conffiles
Author: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
Abbrev: cnf
Type: binary
Needs-Info: bin-pkg-control, index
Info: This script checks if the conffiles control file of a binary
package is correct.
Tag: file-in-usr-marked-as-conffile
Severity: serious
Certainty: certain
Ref: policy 10.7.2
Info: All configuration files must reside in <tt>/etc</tt>. Files below
<tt>/usr</tt> may not be marked as conffiles since <tt>/usr</tt> might be
mounted read-only. The local system administrator would therefore not
have a chance to modify this configuration file.
Tag: non-etc-file-marked-as-conffile
Severity: serious
Certainty: possible
Info: A file installed in some other directory than <tt>/etc</tt>
is marked as conffile. A conffile typically implies a configuration
file, and Policy mandates such files to be in <tt>/etc</tt>.
Ref: policy 10.7.2
Tag: relative-conffile
Severity: important
Certainty: certain
Ref: policy E.1
Info: All entries in the <tt>debian/conffiles</tt> control file should
have an absolute path specification.
Tag: duplicate-conffile
Severity: important
Certainty: certain
Info: The file is listed more than once in your <tt>debian/conffiles</tt> file.
Usually, this is because debhelper (dh_installdeb, compat level 3 or higher)
will add any files in your package located in /etc automatically to the list
of conffiles, so if you do that manually too, you'll get duplicates.
Tag: file-in-etc-not-marked-as-conffile
Severity: serious
Certainty: certain
Ref: policy 10.7
Info: Files in <tt>/etc</tt> must be marked conffiles if they are included
in a package. Otherwise they should be created by maintainer scripts.
|