Package: lintian-brush Version: 0.179 Severity: normal Hi,
aide has a transitional package. Every time I run lintian-brush, the Priority: optional field gets added and removed immediately later again: [107/5038]mh@swivel:~/packages/aide/aide (wip/lintian) $ git --no-pager show HEAD commit 9870933d4167b446bf2046d063e1b92a106fed2e (HEAD -> wip/lintian) Author: Marc Haber <[email protected]> Date: Wed Jun 3 15:44:34 2026 +0100 Remove redundant Priority: optional from binary stanza aide-dynamic. Changes-By: lintian-brush Fixes: lintian: aide-dynamic binary: redundant-priority-optional-field See-also: https://lintian.debian.org/tags/redundant-priority-optional-field.html diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control index af611b85..f51d545a 100644 --- a/debian/control +++ b/debian/control @@ -65,7 +65,6 @@ Description: Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment - Common files Package: aide-dynamic Architecture: any -Priority: optional Depends: aide (>= 0.17.3-5~), ${misc:Depends} Recommends: aide-common (= ${source:Version}) Section: oldlibs [108/5039]mh@swivel:~/packages/aide/aide (wip/lintian) $ git --no-pager show HEAD^ commit 1a0ce11091453064323ca96cfb450430c37905a9 Author: Marc Haber <[email protected]> Date: Wed Jun 3 15:44:34 2026 +0100 Move transitional package aide-dynamic to oldlibs/optional per policy 4.0.1. Changes-By: lintian-brush Fixes: lintian: aide-dynamic binary: transitional-package-not-oldlibs-optional oldlibs/optional See-also: https://lintian.debian.org/tags/transitional-package-not-oldlibs-optional.html diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control index f51d545a..af611b85 100644 --- a/debian/control +++ b/debian/control @@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ Description: Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment - Common files Package: aide-dynamic Architecture: any +Priority: optional Depends: aide (>= 0.17.3-5~), ${misc:Depends} Recommends: aide-common (= ${source:Version}) Section: oldlibs [109/5040]mh@swivel:~/packages/aide/aide (wip/lintian) $ I don't think that is particularly helpful. Greetings Marc -- System Information: Debian Release: forky/sid APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'oldstable-security'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 7.0.10+deb14-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en 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 2.26.9 ii libc6 2.42-16 ii libgcc-s1 16.1.0-1 ii libgmp10 2:6.3.0+dfsg-5+b2 ii libhogweed6t64 3.10.2-1+b1 ii libnettle8t64 3.10.2-1+b1 ii libpython3.13 3.13.12-1 ii python3-breezy 3.3.22-1 Versions of packages lintian-brush recommends: ii debhelper 13.31 pn decopy <none> pn dos2unix <none> ii gpg 2.4.9-4 ii lintian 2.136.2 Versions of packages lintian-brush suggests: pn brz-debian <none> ii debian-codemods 0.179 ii git-buildpackage 0.9.43 ii po-debconf 1.0.22 pn postgresql-common <none> -- no debconf information

