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+# files/empty-directories -- lintian check script -*- perl -*-
+
+# Copyright (C) 1998 Christian Schwarz and Richard Braakman
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program.  If not, you can find it on the World Wide
+# Web at https://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html, or write to the Free
+# Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston,
+# MA 02110-1301, USA.
+
+package Lintian::Check::Files::EmptyDirectories;
+
+use v5.20;
+use warnings;
+use utf8;
+
+use Moo;
+use namespace::clean;
+
+with 'Lintian::Check';
+
+sub visit_installed_files {
+    my ($self, $item) = @_;
+
+    return
+      unless $item->is_dir;
+
+    # skip base-files, which is a very special case.
+    return
+      if $self->processable->name eq 'base-files';
+
+    # ignore /var, which may hold dynamic data packages create, and /etc,
+    # which may hold configuration files generated by maintainer scripts
+    return
+      if $item->name =~ m{^var/} || $item->name =~ m{^etc/};
+
+    # Empty Perl directories are an ExtUtils::MakeMaker artifact that
+    # will be fixed in Perl 5.10, and people can cause more problems
+    # by trying to fix it, so just ignore them.
+    return
+      if $item->name =~ m{^usr/lib/(?:[^/]+/)?perl5/$}
+      || $item->name eq 'usr/share/perl5/';
+
+    # warn about empty directories
+    $self->pointed_hint('package-contains-empty-directory', $item->pointer)
+      if scalar $item->children == 0;
+
+    return;
+}
+
+1;
+
+# Local Variables:
+# indent-tabs-mode: nil
+# cperl-indent-level: 4
+# End:
+# vim: syntax=perl sw=4 sts=4 sr et