Bug#964111: dpkg-source: False positive 'points outside source root'

2020-07-07 Thread Holger Levsen
On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 03:52:08PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > Holger, as I mentioned some days ago, I consider this case a > regression which I was planning on fixing. This fix was already > included earlier today in the dpkg 1.20.4 upload. :) yup, I've seen this today. Thank you! --

Bug#964111: dpkg-source: False positive 'points outside source root'

2020-07-07 Thread Guillem Jover
On Tue, 2020-07-07 at 09:29:44 +, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Mon, Jul 06, 2020 at 09:08:43PM -0700, Felix Lechner wrote: > > > not sure if this is the same bug or just a similar one: > > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 user user 9 Jul 3 16:07 debian/munin.service -> /dev/null > > As for Holger's package,

Bug#964111: dpkg-source: False positive 'points outside source root'

2020-07-07 Thread Felix Lechner
Hi Holger, On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 2:29 AM Holger Levsen wrote: > > sigh. so IMNSHO now lintian *and* dpkg are buggy. Or point me to policy > which prohibits files pointing to /dev/null. This worked for years. The restriction applies only to source packages and not to installation packages. Is

Bug#964111: dpkg-source: False positive 'points outside source root'

2020-07-07 Thread Holger Levsen
On Mon, Jul 06, 2020 at 09:08:43PM -0700, Felix Lechner wrote: > > not sure if this is the same bug or just a similar one: > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 user user 9 Jul 3 16:07 debian/munin.service -> /dev/null > As for Holger's package, Lintian also flags that condition. Source > packages can be unpacked

Bug#964111: dpkg-source: False positive 'points outside source root'

2020-07-06 Thread Felix Lechner
Hi Guillem, On Fri, Jul 3, 2020 at 9:54 PM Guillem Jover wrote: > > As long as the autopkgtests show regressions for the involved packages >From Lintian's perspective, this bug is now resolved. After some changes on our side, Lintian builds in unstable (without a new upload of dpkg). I would

Bug#964111: dpkg-source: False positive 'points outside source root'

2020-07-03 Thread Guillem Jover
On Fri, 2020-07-03 at 05:27:46 -0700, Felix Lechner wrote: > Why did you lower the severity instead of releasing a fix? As explained, because the severity seemed off. Also because there are still other regressions being dealt with… > If version 1.20.3 progresses to testing, Lintian loses its

Bug#964111: dpkg-source: False positive 'points outside source root'

2020-07-03 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Fri, 2020-07-03 at 14:12:10 +, Holger Levsen wrote: > not sure if this is the same bug or just a similar one: Yeah, related, but not entirely the same. > [...] > dpkg-source: info: extracting munin in munin-2.0.63 > dpkg-source: info: unpacking munin_2.0.63.orig.tar.gz > dpkg-source:

Bug#964111: dpkg-source: False positive 'points outside source root'

2020-07-03 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, not sure if this is the same bug or just a similar one: [...] dpkg-source: info: extracting munin in munin-2.0.63 dpkg-source: info: unpacking munin_2.0.63.orig.tar.gz dpkg-source: info: unpacking munin_2.0.63-1.debian.tar.xz dpkg-source: error: pathname 'munin-2.0.63/debian/munin.service'

Bug#964111: dpkg-source: False positive 'points outside source root'

2020-07-03 Thread Felix Lechner
Hi, On Thu, Jul 2, 2020 at 10:11 PM Guillem Jover wrote: > > The affected pathnames contain symlink loops, which I'd consider to be > erroneous constructs, and I don't see why we'd want to allow these. In > this case this seem just like an incorrect error message. I've updated > this locally now

Bug#964111: dpkg-source: False positive 'points outside source root'

2020-07-02 Thread Guillem Jover
Control: severity -1 minor On Fri, 2020-07-03 at 01:54:11 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > Control: reassign -1 dpkg-dev > On Mi, 01 iul 20, 15:47:53, Felix Lechner wrote: > > Control: retitle -1 dpkg-source: False positive 'points outside source root' > > Control: severity -1 serious > > The

Bug#964111: dpkg-source: False positive 'points outside source root'

2020-07-02 Thread Andrei POPESCU
Control: reassign -1 dpkg-dev On Mi, 01 iul 20, 15:47:53, Felix Lechner wrote: > Control: retitle -1 dpkg-source: False positive 'points outside source root' > Control: severity -1 serious > > Hi, > > The initial filing said the three packages contained link targets > outside of the package

Bug#964111: dpkg-source: False positive 'points outside source root'

2020-07-01 Thread Felix Lechner
Control: retitle -1 dpkg-source: False positive 'points outside source root' Control: severity -1 serious Hi, The initial filing said the three packages contained link targets outside of the package root, but that is not so. This is not right: dpkg-source: error: pathname