On Sun, 2009-02-01 at 11:52 +0100, Giuseppe Iuculano wrote: > with lintian 2.2.1 I have this error (and false warnings):
The warnings are a result of the perl errors - the pattern matching fails, so lintian thinks various pieces of information are missing. > # lintian -iIvE --pedantic \ > # /var/cache/pbuilder/result/unstable/gsmartcontrol_0.8.3-1_i386.changes [...] > N: Processing binary package gsmartcontrol (version 0.8.3-1) ... > W: gsmartcontrol: copyright-refers-to-versionless-license-file > usr/share/common-licenses/GPL [...] > Use of uninitialized value $_ in pattern match (m//) at > /usr/share/lintian/checks/copyright-file line 165. > Use of uninitialized value $_ in pattern match (m//) at > /usr/share/lintian/checks/copyright-file line 170. It took me a while to figure out what was going on here (particularly as it only manifests itself with -i and only in circumstances that most of the check scripts won't hit), but the fix turned out to be very simple. I've committed the fix to our repository; thanks for the report. Regards, Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org