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1149203: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1149203
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Package: lintian
Version: 2.122.0
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
Hi,
the rust-derivre 0.3.12-1 package declares
Section: FIXME-(packages."(name)".section)
which somehow made it into the archive. Lintian does not complain about
this package.
Can we get a regex check /[a-z0-9-]+/ or /[a-z0-9]+(-[a-z0-9]+)*/ for
this field, ideally with "error" severity?
Simon
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 13.7
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APT policy: (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 6.12.107+deb13-amd64 (SMP w/20 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE
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:
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pn libdigest-sha-perl <none>
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pn libencode-perl <none>
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lintian recommends no packages.
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
ii binutils-multiarch 2.44-3
pn libtext-template-perl <none>
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--- Begin Message ---
On 30/09/26 8:58 am, Simon Richter wrote:
> I would indeed expect at least an "unknown-section" warning like you are
> getting, but I also think a section name that uses uppercase characters,
> quotation marks or parentheses warrants an error.
>
> No idea why you are seeing a warning when I'm not,
That is because you are running lintian on the `.dsc`. The section check runs
on the `.deb`. Try doing a build+lintian run on `.deb` and you will be able to
see it.
> but if lintian.d.o
> doesn't see it either, I'm at least not alone.
After some discussion on IRC, here is what happened - 0.3.12-1 was uploaded to
NEW with usual sources+binaries and now 2 things happened
a) the package FTBFS after being accepted due to some dependencies having
different
versions than expected
b) the uploaded binaries were thrown away as a result of throw-away-binaries.
A -3 upload was done recently to fix all of this.
So I suppose lintian in the UDD never actually ran on the `.deb` and hence
there is no entry shown.
I happen to think that there is nothing here that is needed in lintian since it
was flagging
what it was supposed to flag. I am closing this bug report.
Feel free to re-open or file new bug reports if you think this should be
addressed differently.
Best,
Nilesh
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