Check-Script: control-files
Author: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
Abbrev: ctl
Type: binary, udeb
Info: Check for unknown control files in the binary package.
Needs-info: bin-pkg-control

Tag: unknown-control-file
Severity: normal
Certainty: possible
Ref: policy B.2
Info: The package contains an unknown control file.  Policy says that
 putting additional files in the package control area is not generally a
 good idea.

Tag: not-allowed-control-file
Severity: serious
Certainty: certain
Info: The package contains a control file that is not allowed in this
 type of package. Some control files are only allowed in either .deb
 or .udeb packages and must not be included in packages of the other
 type. You should probably just remove the file.

Tag: control-file-is-empty
Severity: normal
Certainty: possible
Info: The package contains an empty control file, which is most probably
 an error.

Tag: control-file-has-bad-permissions
Severity: serious
Certainty: certain
Ref: policy 10.9
Info: The <tt>config</tt>, <tt>postinst</tt>, <tt>postrm</tt>,
 <tt>preinst</tt>, and <tt>prerm</tt> control files should use mode 0755;
 all other control files should use 0644.

Tag: control-file-has-bad-owner
Severity: serious
Certainty: certain
Ref: policy 10.9
Info: All control files should be owned by root/root.

Tag: control-file-is-not-a-file
Severity: serious
Certainty: certain
Info: The package contains a control file that is not a regular file.