Received: (at submit) by bugs.debian.org; 20 Mar 2000 17:42:13 +0000 Received: (qmail 10109 invoked from network); 20 Mar 2000 17:42:13 -0000 Received: from moebius.student.cwru.edu (129.22.238.211) by master.debian.org with SMTP; 20 Mar 2000 17:42:13 -0000 Received: from pimlottc by moebius.student.cwru.edu with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 12X6Ba-0000SL-00; Mon, 20 Mar 2000 12:41:50 -0500 From: Chris Pimlott Subject: lintian: Check packages contents database for possible file conflicts To: submit@bugs.debian.org X-Mailer: bug 3.2.10 Message-Id: Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 12:41:50 -0500 Package: lintian Version: 1.11.2 Severity: wishlist The bot apt on openprojects.net IRC #debian has a handy database of the contents of all Debian packages. A nice optional feature for lintian would be to check whether any of the files in the package are owned by any other packages using a similar database, avoiding possible conflicts. -- System Information Debian Release: 2.2 Kernel Version: Linux moebius.student.cwru.edu 2.2.14 #5 Fri Feb 4 20:16:02 EST 2000 i686 unknown Versions of the packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.9.5.0.22-5 The GNU assembler, linker and binary utiliti ii diffstat 1.27-1 produces graph of changes introduced by a di ii file 3.28-1 Determines file type using "magic" numbers perl Not installed or no info ii perl-5.005 5.005.03-6 Larry Wall's Practical Extracting and Report ^^^ (Provides virtual package perl5)