Hi, On 14/12/25 at 13:42 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > Package: qa.debian.org > Severity: normal > X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected] > User: [email protected] > Usertags: udd > > Hi, > > if a package produces a udeb and the udeb package itself triggers a > lintian warning/error, it appears that udd does not properly parse that. > > See [1] as an example. > > $ lintian libisns-udeb_0.101-1_amd64.udeb > E: libisns-udeb udeb: aliased-location [lib/] > E: libisns-udeb udeb: aliased-location [lib/libisns.so.0] > > lintian prepends the string "udeb: " which results in udd having > "udeb:" as the tag name and the actual tag is listed under "information". > > I wonder, whether udd should simply strip off the "udeb: " prefix or if > the tagname should be something like "udeb: aliased-location" (assuming > those characters are allowed in tag names. > > I've also CCed the lintian maintainers mailing list for their input.
This was fixed in UDD > One important aspect here is that udd is used by the testing migration > software and aliased-location is a lintian error that will block testing > migration for regular debian packages. > I've done a MBF to get all udeb producing packages updated to use > non-aliased locations [1]. This is basically done, with one notable > exception: src:linux, i.e. [2]. > Please deploy any fixes to udd only after src:linux has been fixed. ...and I failed to read this message before deploying the fix, which means that src:linux might require an exception from the release team to migrate to testing. Sorry about that. Lucas
