Hi Jelmer, Am Sat, Feb 21, 2026 at 02:32:24PM +0000 schrieb Jelmer Vernooij: > If you have specific examples, that would be very helpful.
Any Debian Med package might do. I usually take the first one in alphabet as example. $ gbp clone salsa:med-team/abacas $ lintian-brush $ git show commit 146d07f6f06ca25401b09cf2cf81a541ee3b5535 (HEAD -> master) Author: Andreas Tille <[email protected]> Date: Sat Feb 21 17:36:31 2026 +0100 Remove duplicate values for fields Entry, Entry, Name in debian/upstream/metadata. Changes-By: lintian-brush Fixes: lintian: upstream-metadata-yaml-invalid See-also: https://lintian.debian.org/tags/upstream-metadata-yaml-invalid.html diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index e9f6ea5..5c17215 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ abacas (1.3.1-10) UNRELEASED; urgency=low * Use secure URI in Homepage field. * Update standards version to 4.6.2, no changes needed. * Set upstream metadata fields: Archive. + * Remove duplicate values for fields Entry, Entry, Name in + debian/upstream/metadata. -- Andreas Tille <[email protected]> Sat, 21 Feb 2026 16:36:28 +0000 diff --git a/debian/upstream/metadata b/debian/upstream/metadata index 53f9b60..0cb408c 100644 --- a/debian/upstream/metadata +++ b/debian/upstream/metadata @@ -1,23 +1,20 @@ Archive: SourceForge Reference: - Author: > - Samuel Assefa and Thomas M. Keane and Thomas D. Otto and Chris - Newbold and Matthew Berriman - Title: "ABACAS: algorithm-based automatic contiguation of assembled sequences" - Journal: Bioinformatics - Year: 2009 - Volume: 25 - Number: 15 - Pages: 1968-1969 - DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btp347 - PMID: 19497936 - URL: http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/content/25/15/1968 - eprint: "http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/content/\ - 25/15/1968.full.pdf+html" + Author: > + Samuel Assefa and Thomas M. Keane and Thomas D. Otto and Chris: + Newbold and Matthew Berriman: + Title: ABACAS: algorithm-based automatic contiguation of assembled sequences + Journal: Bioinformatics + Year: 2009 + Volume: 25 + Number: 15 + Pages: 1968-1969 + DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btp347 + PMID: 19497936 + URL: http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/content/25/15/1968 + eprint: http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/content/\ + 25/15/1968.full.pdf+html Registry: - - Name: bio.tools - Entry: NA - - Name: OMICtools - Entry: OMICS_06933 - - Name: SciCrunch - Entry: NA +- Name: bio.tools +Entry: NA +Name: OMICtools Both changes (Reference and Registry) are broken. > 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. Thank you anyway for all your work - specifically for the quick response Andreas. > 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 > -- https://fam-tille.de
