Package: lintian Version: 2.3.1 Severity: normal Hi,
I am working on a package in the new source format "3.0 (quilt)" and I am making use of its multiple-tarball feature, i.e. I have a foo_1.0.orig.tar.gz and a foo_1.0.orig-bar.tar.gz. The second tarball "foo_1.0.orig-bar.tar.gz" contains a patch "bar.patch" that I'd like to apply before building the package. Since I don't want to copy this patch over into the debian/patches directory, I create a symlink there pointing to "../../bar/bar.patch" and add its filename to debian/patches/series (as recommended in #562155). The patch gets applied and the package builds fine, however lintian complains with the "quilt-series-references-non-existent-patch". Feel free to try out yourself: <http://debian.greffrath.com/unstable/xv_3.10a-0fab1.dsc> (lintian error overridden in this package). Cheers, Fabian -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (550, 'unstable'), (400, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.20-4 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii diffstat 1.47-1 produces graph of changes introduc ii dpkg-dev 1.15.5.5 Debian package development tools ii file 5.03-5 Determines file type using "magic" ii gettext 0.17-8 GNU Internationalization utilities ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.24 Perl interface to libapt-pkg ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1 Perl module that automatically gen ii libdigest-sha-perl 5.47-1 Perl extension for SHA-1/224/256/3 ii libipc-run-perl 0.84-1 Perl module for running processes ii libparse-debianchangel 1.1.1-2 parse Debian changelogs and output ii libtimedate-perl 1.1900-1 Time and date functions for Perl ii liburi-perl 1.50-1 module to manipulate and access UR ii man-db 2.5.6-5 on-line manual pager ii perl [libdigest-sha-pe 5.10.1-8 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction lintian recommends no packages. Versions of packages lintian suggests: pn binutils-multiarch <none> (no description available) pn libtext-template-perl <none> (no description available) ii man-db 2.5.6-5 on-line manual pager -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
