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View the commit online: https://git.dpkg.org/cgit/dpkg/dpkg.git/commit/?id=7658b575d978b9c6655854cd6dc1c2de031fdca5 commit 7658b575d978b9c6655854cd6dc1c2de031fdca5 Author: Guillem Jover <guil...@debian.org> AuthorDate: Wed Mar 20 06:26:45 2019 +0100 debian: Add a lintian dpkg profile to supress Debian specific tags This makes it possible to disable tags that are Debian specific, such as the controversial tag emitted for vendor-specific patch series files. --- Makefile.am | 1 + debian/changelog | 3 +++ debian/dpkg.install | 1 + debian/dpkg.lintian-profile | 7 +++++++ debian/rules | 5 +++++ man/dpkg-source.man | 5 +++++ 6 files changed, 22 insertions(+) diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am index f9bfee9ba..231ab999d 100644 --- a/Makefile.am +++ b/Makefile.am @@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ EXTRA_DIST = \ debian/dpkg.postrm \ debian/dpkg.logrotate \ debian/dpkg.lintian-overrides \ + debian/dpkg.lintian-profile \ debian/dselect.cfg \ debian/dselect.docs \ debian/dselect.install \ diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index a5aee75bc..7d7b1e800 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -3,6 +3,9 @@ dpkg (1.19.6) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium [ Guillem Jover ] * Packaging: - Update usertags. + - Install a lintian profile for dpkg based on the debian profile, so that + we can supress Debian-specific tags, such as the controversial one on + vendor-specific patch series files. [ Updated scripts translations ] * German (Helge Kreutzmann). diff --git a/debian/dpkg.install b/debian/dpkg.install index 3f51aaaa7..108ca54ef 100644 --- a/debian/dpkg.install +++ b/debian/dpkg.install @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ usr/bin/dpkg-statoverride usr/bin/dpkg-trigger usr/bin/update-alternatives usr/share/dpkg/*table +usr/share/lintian/profiles usr/share/locale/*/LC_MESSAGES/dpkg.mo usr/share/polkit-1/actions var/lib/dpkg/alternatives diff --git a/debian/dpkg.lintian-profile b/debian/dpkg.lintian-profile new file mode 100644 index 000000000..44f2614c0 --- /dev/null +++ b/debian/dpkg.lintian-profile @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +# This is the dpkg pseudo-vendor profile. +Profile: dpkg/main +# It has all the checks and settings from the "debian" profile. +Extends: debian/main +# Except the ones that are bogus for the non-Debian distributions. +Disable-Tags: + package-uses-vendor-specific-patch-series, diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules index 65e6006d1..a542193fc 100755 --- a/debian/rules +++ b/debian/rules @@ -96,6 +96,11 @@ install: check cd build-tree && $(MAKE) DESTDIR=$(D) install + # Special-case the lintian profile, as dh cannot rename on install. + mkdir -p $(D)/usr/share/lintian/profiles/dpkg + cp debian/dpkg.lintian-profile \ + $(D)/usr/share/lintian/profiles/dpkg/main.profile + define dpkg-installmanl10n for f in `sed -e 's:\*:*/*:' debian/$(1).manpages`; do \ test -e $$f && \ diff --git a/man/dpkg-source.man b/man/dpkg-source.man index 49a162914..502c67311 100644 --- a/man/dpkg-source.man +++ b/man/dpkg-source.man @@ -506,6 +506,11 @@ options and always expect patches that can be applied with the \fB\-p1\fP option of \fBpatch\fP. It will thus emit a warning when it encounters such options, and the build is likely to fail. .PP +Note that \fBlintian\fP(1) will emit unconditional warnings when using +vendor series due to a controversial Debian specific ruling, which should +not affect any external usage; to silence these, the dpkg lintian profile +can be used by passing «\fB--profile dpkg\fP» to \fBlintian\fP(1). +.PP The timestamp of all patched files is reset to the extraction time of the source package (this avoids timestamp skews leading to problems when autogenerated files are patched). -- Dpkg.Org's dpkg
