Hi Andreas, If you have specific examples, that would be very helpful.
I'm about to switch to a better parser for YAML files, so hopefully that will fix the issues you are seeing. But it would be good to have some test cases to verify that the new parser works correctly. Cheers, Jelmer On Sat, Feb 21, 2026 at 12:30:52PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
Package: lintian-brush Version: 0.167 Severity: normal Hi Jelmer, I'm using lintian-brush nearly before any upload of my packages. Recently I realised that it messes up Publication and Registry entries a lot to make them either unusable (JSON sytnax becomes broken) or is loosing a lot of information. I would be happy if we could switch back to some more conservative handling of these fields or rather do not touch these. I could assemble some specific examples if this might be helpful, thought Thank you for lintian-brush anyway Andreas. -- System Information: Debian Release: forky/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (50, 'buildd-unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 6.18.12+deb14-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.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-brush depends on: ii devscripts 2.26.5 ii libc6 2.42-13 ii libgcc-s1 15.2.0-13 ii libgmp10 2:6.3.0+dfsg-5+b1 ii libhogweed6t64 3.10.2-1 ii liblzma5 5.8.2-2 ii libnettle8t64 3.10.2-1 ii libpython3.13 3.13.12-1 ii libssl3t64 3.5.5-1 ii python3-breezy 3.3.21-1 Versions of packages lintian-brush recommends: ii debhelper 13.30 ii decopy 0.2.4.9-0.1 ii dos2unix 7.5.2-1 ii gpg 2.4.8-5 ii lintian 2.129.0 Versions of packages lintian-brush suggests: ii brz-debian 2.8.80 ii git-buildpackage 0.9.39 ii po-debconf 1.0.22 ii postgresql-common 289 -- no debconf information
