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and subject line Bug#983539: fixed in lintian 2.130.0
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Package: lintian
Version: 2.104.0
Severity: normal
I'm working on a yet-to-be-released package, binutils-sh-elf, which is
a native package. I've attached the source for your examination.
This package uses Debhelper. What I think causes the false positive is
that, instead of using a pattern rule like
%:
dh $@
I use the .DEFAULT special target and also call mkdir prior, like:
.DEFAULT:
mkdir -p $(unpacked_dir)
dh $@ -D$(unpacked_dir) -Bbuild
The .DEFAULT special target, unlike pattern rules, is specified by
POSIX, and as Lintian indicates this is an error, I'd very much
appreciate if this could be fixed.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (2, 'unstable'), (1, 'testing-debug'),
(1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_USER, TAINT_WARN, TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.35.1-7
ii bzip2 1.0.8-4
ii diffstat 1.64-1
ii dpkg 1.20.7.1
ii dpkg-dev 1.20.7.1
ii file 1:5.39-3
ii gettext 0.21-4
ii gpg 2.2.27-1
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.5
ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.39
ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.68-1
ii libcapture-tiny-perl 0.48-1
ii libclass-xsaccessor-perl 1.19-3+b7
ii libclone-perl 0.45-1+b1
ii libconfig-tiny-perl 2.24-1
ii libcpanel-json-xs-perl 4.25-1+b1
ii libdata-dpath-perl 0.58-1
ii libdata-validate-domain-perl 0.10-1.1
ii libdevel-size-perl 0.83-1+b2
ii libdpkg-perl 1.20.7.1
ii libemail-address-xs-perl 1.04-1+b3
ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.08-1
ii libfile-find-rule-perl 0.34-1
ii libfont-ttf-perl 1.06-1.1
ii libhtml-html5-entities-perl 0.004-1.1
ii libipc-run3-perl 0.048-2
ii libjson-maybexs-perl 1.004003-1
ii liblist-compare-perl 0.55-1
ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.430-2
ii liblist-utilsby-perl 0.11-1
ii libmoo-perl 2.004004-1
ii libmoox-aliases-perl 0.001006-1.1
ii libnamespace-clean-perl 0.27-1
ii libpath-tiny-perl 0.118-1
ii libperlio-gzip-perl 0.19-1+b7
ii libproc-processtable-perl 0.59-2+b1
ii libsereal-decoder-perl 4.018+ds-1+b1
ii libsereal-encoder-perl 4.018+ds-1+b1
ii libtext-glob-perl 0.11-1
ii libtext-levenshteinxs-perl 0.03-4+b8
ii libtext-markdown-discount-perl 0.12-1+b1
ii libtext-xslate-perl 3.5.8-1+b1
ii libtime-duration-perl 1.21-1
ii libtime-moment-perl 0.44-1+b3
ii libtimedate-perl 2.3300-1
ii libtry-tiny-perl 0.30-1
ii libtype-tiny-perl 1.012001-1
ii libunicode-utf8-perl 0.62-1+b2
ii liburi-perl 5.07-1
ii libxml-libxml-perl 2.0134+dfsg-2+b1
ii libyaml-libyaml-perl 0.82+repack-1+b1
ii lzip 1.22-3
ii lzop 1.04-2
ii man-db 2.9.4-1
ii patchutils 0.4.2-1
ii perl [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.32.1-2
ii t1utils 1.41-4
ii unzip 6.0-26
ii xz-utils 5.2.5-1.0
lintian recommends no packages.
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
ii binutils-multiarch 2.35.1-7
ii libtext-template-perl 1.59-1
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Source: lintian
Source-Version: 2.130.0
Done: Louis-Philippe Véronneau <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
lintian, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Louis-Philippe Véronneau <[email protected]> (supplier of updated lintian
package)
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Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2026 14:15:01 -0500
Source: lintian
Architecture: source
Version: 2.130.0
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Lintian Maintainers <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Louis-Philippe Véronneau <[email protected]>
Closes: 983539 1091166 1125329 1126934 1127003 1128262
Changes:
lintian (2.130.0) unstable; urgency=medium
.
[ Louis-Philippe Véronneau ]
* Rename tag package-does-not-use-debhelper-or-cdbs to
package-does-not-use-debhelper (Closes: #1125329)
* d/salsa-ci: remove backports, as they are broken for Trixie and thus not
useful
.
[ Christian Göttsche ]
* obsolete-packages: add libselinux1-dev
.
[ Nilesh Patra ]
* Drop lintian-git test from d/salsa-ci.yml (Closes: #1127003)
* Add tests to detect buildsystem with cdbs along with/without debhelper
* Add check to flag !nocheck in Build-Profiles with error (Closes: #1126934)
* Reword a few lines varies-content-with-nocheck.tag
* Check double quotes as well for appstream metadata check
* Add additional d/ch entry in changelog-file-invalid-date as a workaround
for #1128372
* Do not raise lintian error for missing targets when .DEFAULT is specified
(Closes: #983539)
* Stop loading appstream yaml and rely on regex to check if validation
passed (Closes: #1128262)
.
[ Maytham Alsudany ]
* Check for obsolete packages in debian/tests/control (Closes: #1091166)
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