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 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 > > 'testsuite-general-1.0/debian/tests/self1' points outside source root > > > > One of the affected test packages is attached to this message. > > > > When issuing the false positive, dpkg-source also exits with status > > 25. Everything goes away when the patch is applied, but in the > > meantime this bug breaks the Lintian testsuite. > > > > Accordingly, I upgraded the severity to prevent migration until the > > bug is fixed. 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 to print a matching error message, and I'm thus lowering the severity to match too. Thanks, Guillem
