On Mon, 29 Jun 2026 15:21:42 +0700 Arnaud Rebillout <[email protected]> wrote: > Package: lintian > Version: 2.137.1 > Severity: normal > User: [email protected] > Usertags: origin-kali > > Dear Maintainer, > > For as long as I've been a Kali Linux maintainer (so that's 5 years > now), I've been used to see (and to ignore) these Lintian warnings: > > ``` > I: base-files source: adopted-extended-field (in section for source) XS-Debian-Vcs-Browser [debian/control:12] > I: base-files source: adopted-extended-field (in section for source) XS-Debian-Vcs-Git [debian/control:11] > I: base-files source: adopted-extended-field (in section for source) XSBC-Original-Maintainer [debian/control:4] > ``` > > For background, these fields are commonly used in Debian derivatives, we > use it to keep track of the original values. You might want to refer to > Lintian commits: > * aeea7148d5f3ea18f449cbb05bde8d982e6698ff > * 754d945fb87feea18b6d12c47e2ce280597dd9ac > > I never understood why Lintian thinks those fields have been adopted > though. If I try to rename it to drop the XS- and XSBC- prefixes, then > it's dpkg-source that complains: > > ``` > dpkg-source: warning: unknown information field 'Original-Maintainer' in input data in source package stanza of template control file > dpkg-source: warning: unknown information field 'Debian-Vcs-Git' in input data in source package stanza of template control file > dpkg-source: warning: unknown information field 'Debian-Vcs-Browser' in input data in source package stanza of template control file > ``` > > I've seen this issue for so long, I wonder why nobody filed a bug report > yet, so maybe I'm missing something.
The same problem can be seen on Ubuntu: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lintian/+bug/2158908 -- Benjamin Drung Debian & Ubuntu Developer
