Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.14.23 Severity: minor I ran into this when devising pathological test cases for Lintian. Not particularly important (no one does this in practice), but in case you want to increase robustness in a few places.
The warnings are: Use of uninitialized value in sprintf at /usr/bin/dpkg-gencontrol line 338. dpkg-genchanges: warning: duplicate files list entry for file empty_1_.deb (line 3) Use of uninitialized value $b in string eq at /usr/share/perl5/Dpkg/Arch.pm line 295. Use of uninitialized value $_ in pattern match (m//) at /usr/share/perl5/Dpkg/Arch.pm line 244. Use of uninitialized value $arch in hash element at /usr/share/perl5/Dpkg/Arch.pm line 251. Use of uninitialized value $a in split at /usr/bin/dpkg-genchanges line 292. dpkg-genchanges: failure: cannot fstat file ../empty_1_.deb: No such file or directory Attached is the package (as a *.tar.gz file) and the full build log, although I'm sure you could replicate the latter yourself. The test case was an attempt to create the most minimal package that dpkg-buildpackage would deign to build, in order to stress Lintian's handling of missing files and fields that "every" package has. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages dpkg-dev depends on: ii binutils 2.18.1~cvs20080103-7 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii bzip2 1.0.5-1 high-quality block-sorting file co ii cpio 2.9-13 GNU cpio -- a program to manage ar ii dpkg 1.14.23 Debian package management system ii libtimedate-perl 1.1600-9 Time and date functions for Perl ii lzma 4.43-14 Compression method of 7z format in ii make 3.81-5 The GNU version of the "make" util ii patch 2.5.9-5 Apply a diff file to an original ii perl [perl5] 5.10.0-18 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii perl-modules 5.10.0-18 Core Perl modules Versions of packages dpkg-dev recommends: ii build-essential 11.4 Informational list of build-essent ii gcc [c-compiler] 4:4.3.2-2 The GNU C compiler ii gcc-4.1 [c-compiler] 4.1.2-23 The GNU C compiler ii gcc-4.2 [c-compiler] 4.2.4-4 The GNU C compiler ii gcc-4.3 [c-compiler] 4.3.2-1 The GNU C compiler Versions of packages dpkg-dev suggests: ii debian-keyring 2008.07.22 GnuPG (and obsolete PGP) keys of D ii gnupg 1.4.9-3 GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep -- no debconf information
dpkg-buildpackage: set CFLAGS to default value: -g -O2 dpkg-buildpackage: set CPPFLAGS to default value: dpkg-buildpackage: set LDFLAGS to default value: dpkg-buildpackage: set FFLAGS to default value: -g -O2 dpkg-buildpackage: set CXXFLAGS to default value: -g -O2 parsechangelog/debian: warning: debian/changelog(l2): found trailer where expected start of change data LINE: -- a <> Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:34:02 -0800 dpkg-buildpackage: source package empty dpkg-buildpackage: source version 1 dpkg-buildpackage: source changed by a <> dpkg-buildpackage: host architecture i386 fakeroot debian/rules clean rm -rf debian/empty dpkg-source -b empty parsechangelog/debian: warning: empty/debian/changelog(l2): found trailer where expected start of change data LINE: -- a <> Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:34:02 -0800 dpkg-source: info: using source format `1.0' dpkg-source: warning: source directory 'empty' is not <sourcepackage>-<upstreamversion> 'empty-1' dpkg-source: info: building empty in empty_1.tar.gz dpkg-source: info: building empty in empty_1.dsc dpkg-source: warning: missing information for output field Architecture dpkg-source: warning: missing information for output field Standards-Version debian/rules build make: Nothing to be done for `build'. fakeroot debian/rules binary install -d debian/empty debian/empty/DEBIAN dpkg-gencontrol -pempty -Pdebian/empty parsechangelog/debian: warning: debian/changelog(l2): found trailer where expected start of change data LINE: -- a <> Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:34:02 -0800 dpkg-gencontrol: warning: missing information for output field Description dpkg-gencontrol: warning: missing information for output field Architecture Use of uninitialized value in sprintf at /usr/bin/dpkg-gencontrol line 338. dpkg --build debian/empty .. warning, in file `debian/empty/DEBIAN/control' near line 5 package `empty': missing description warning, in file `debian/empty/DEBIAN/control' near line 5 package `empty': missing architecture dpkg-deb: building package `empty' in `../empty_1.deb'. dpkg-deb: ignoring 2 warnings about the control file(s) signfile empty_1.dsc gpg: skipped "a <>": secret key not available gpg: [stdin]: clearsign failed: secret key not available dpkg-genchanges >../empty_1_i386.changes parsechangelog/debian: warning: debian/changelog(l2): found trailer where expected start of change data LINE: -- a <> Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:34:02 -0800 parsechangelog/debian: warning: debian/changelog(l2): found trailer where expected start of change data LINE: -- a <> Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:34:02 -0800 dpkg-genchanges: warning: duplicate files list entry for file empty_1_.deb (line 2) dpkg-genchanges: warning: duplicate files list entry for file empty_1_.deb (line 3) Use of uninitialized value $b in string eq at /usr/share/perl5/Dpkg/Arch.pm line 295. Use of uninitialized value $_ in pattern match (m//) at /usr/share/perl5/Dpkg/Arch.pm line 244. Use of uninitialized value $arch in hash element at /usr/share/perl5/Dpkg/Arch.pm line 251. Use of uninitialized value $a in split at /usr/bin/dpkg-genchanges line 292. dpkg-genchanges: warning: missing Section for source files dpkg-genchanges: warning: missing Priority for source files dpkg-genchanges: including full source code in upload dpkg-genchanges: failure: cannot fstat file ../empty_1_.deb: No such file or directory dpkg-buildpackage: failure: dpkg-genchanges gave error exit status 2
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