On 18 January 2017 at 13:05, Sandro Tosi <[email protected]> wrote:

> control: severity -1 minor
>
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 7:13 AM, David Stapleton
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Package: diamond
> > Version: 4.0.515-2
> > Severity: serious
>
> this is NOT a serious issue, lintian is not part of the official build
> process and if the tool you use add lintian at the end and mark the
> build as failed, it;s up to you to differentiate between a real FTBFS
> and a succesfull build with lintian generating an error
>
Sorry, I should have double-checked the meaning of that before submitting.
I've only very recently started to submit reports to Debian, I'll be more
careful
next time.

>
> > Justification: fails to build from source (but built successfully in the
> past)
> >
> > Dear Maintainer,
> >
> > I'm attempting to build diamond from source, however the build fails at
> lintian
> > check time:
>
> why were you doing that? does the package not work for you?
>
At work, we build all packages from source that don't have binary releases
(and
diamond is not available in Jessie).

>
> > "diamond: init.d-script-needs-depends-on-lsb-base etc/init.d/diamond
> (line 42)
> >
> > The given init script sources the /lib/lsb/init-functions utility
> > functions without declaring the corresponding dependency on lsb-base (>=
> > 3.0-6).
>
> the right solution is to remove the init file, and just use the
> systemd unit provided
>
I'm not too confident that the diamond project will accept that.

>
> >
> > Severity: important, Certainty: possible
> >
> > Check: init.d, Type: binary"
> >
> > Thanks,
> > David
> >
> > -- System Information:
> > Debian Release: 8.6
> >   APT prefers stable-updates
> >   APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
> > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> > Foreign Architectures: i386
> >
> > Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
> > Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> > Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
>
>
>
> --
> Sandro "morph" Tosi
> My website: http://sandrotosi.me/
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>

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