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LintianPolicy: initial commit

Paul Geversrequested to merge
prevent-usrmerge-breakage into master

Now that the /usr-merge cleanup has been done for trixie, packages with files in the aliased location should be prevented in the archive. Lintian has checks, which ideally should be run before acceptance into the archive. However, the checks need to run on the binary files, so it can only be checked after the build. Hence, let's at least prevent packages with this issue from migrating to testing.

udd runs lintian and provides us with an interface. Let's use that for now. Alternative sources are of course possible.

For now, lets treat all tags we're interested in equally, in the future this could be extended to:

  • enable hints per package per tag
  • check for regressions if we want to check for tags that exist in testing

Bug 1109680 has some more discussion/future ideas.

Closes: #1109680

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