[Bug 903146] [NEW] please add support for globbing

[Timo Aaltonen]

Public bug reported:

Lintian should support shell globbing when specifying file paths,
especially now that multiarch is being deployed which means that library
paths are different between archs.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: lintian 2.5.3ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-13.22-generic 3.0.6
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-13-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Dec 12 13:09:55 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/zsh
SourcePackage: lintian
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-07-05 (160 days ago)

** Affects: lintian (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug oneiric running-unity

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Title:
  please add support for globbing

Status in “lintian” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Lintian should support shell globbing when specifying file paths,
  especially now that multiarch is being deployed which means that
  library paths are different between archs.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: lintian 2.5.3ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-13.22-generic 3.0.6
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-13-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Mon Dec 12 13:09:55 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/zsh
  SourcePackage: lintian
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-07-05 (160 days ago)

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