Hi, Could you review the new lintian tags ?
As usual it is a patch file because it is easier to generate. Bastien diff --git a/checks/apache2.desc b/checks/apache2.desc index 265ceda..1279fd8 100644 --- a/checks/apache2.desc +++ b/checks/apache2.desc @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Author: Arno Töll <[email protected]> Abbrev: apache2 Type: binary Info: Checks various build mistakes in Apache2 reverse dependencies -Needs-Info: bin-pkg-control, index, scripts, unpacked +Needs-Info: bin-pkg-control, scripts, unpacked Tag: non-standard-apache2-module-package-name Severity: normal diff --git a/checks/automake.desc b/checks/automake.desc index 7b445c2..0582c06 100644 --- a/checks/automake.desc +++ b/checks/automake.desc @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Check-Script: automake Author: Gautier Minster <[email protected]> Abbrev: autom Type: source -Needs-Info: index +Needs-Info: unpacked Info: Checks for erroneous, missing or deprecated automake files Tag: deprecated-configure-filename diff --git a/checks/binaries.desc b/checks/binaries.desc index d172c92..280aee4 100644 --- a/checks/binaries.desc +++ b/checks/binaries.desc @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Check-Script: binaries Author: Christian Schwarz <[email protected]> Abbrev: bin Type: binary, udeb -Needs-Info: hardening-info, objdump-info, file-info, strings, index +Needs-Info: hardening-info, objdump-info, file-info, strings, unpacked Info: This script checks binaries and object files for bugs. Tag: arch-independent-package-contains-binary-or-object @@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ Tag: missing-dependency-on-perlapi Severity: serious Certainty: certain Ref: perl-policy 4.4.2 -Info: This package includes a *.so file in <tt>/usr/lib/perl5</tt>, +Info: This package includes a *.so file in <tt>/usr/lib/.../perl5</tt>, normally indicating that it includes a binary Perl module. Binary Perl modules must depend on perlapi-$Config{version} (from the Config module). If the package is using debhelper, this problem is usually due to a diff --git a/checks/changelog-file.desc b/checks/changelog-file.desc index 283e150..7da3476 100644 --- a/checks/changelog-file.desc +++ b/checks/changelog-file.desc @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Check-Script: changelog-file Author: Christian Schwarz <[email protected]> Abbrev: chg Type: binary -Needs-Info: file-info, changelog-file, index +Needs-Info: file-info, changelog-file, unpacked Info: This script checks if a binary package conforms to policy with regards to changelog files. . diff --git a/checks/changes-file.desc b/checks/changes-file.desc index 402c338..5db7939 100644 --- a/checks/changes-file.desc +++ b/checks/changes-file.desc @@ -122,3 +122,20 @@ Certainty: certain Info: The Changed-By address includes localhost(.localdomain), which is an invalid e-mail address. Ref: policy 5.6.2 + +Tag: backports-changes-missing +Severity: serious +# if there are no false positives, this could possibly be increased +Certainty: possible +Info: The changes file only has changelog entries from a single version. For + backports, all changes since (old)stable or the previous backport should be + listed (usually by adding the '-v' option to the build). +Ref: http://backports.debian.org/Contribute/ + +Tag: backports-upload-has-incorrect-version-number +Severity: serious +Certainty: certain +Info: The version number doesn't comply with the standard backport version + rules. It should end in ~bpoXX+N, where XX refers to the version number of + the base distribution. +Ref: http://backports.debian.org/Contribute/ diff --git a/checks/conffiles.desc b/checks/conffiles.desc index deef49b..5871770 100644 --- a/checks/conffiles.desc +++ b/checks/conffiles.desc @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Check-Script: conffiles Author: Christian Schwarz <[email protected]> Abbrev: cnf Type: binary -Needs-Info: bin-pkg-control, index +Needs-Info: bin-pkg-control, unpacked Info: This script checks if the conffiles control file of a binary package is correct. diff --git a/checks/copyright-file.desc b/checks/copyright-file.desc index bac4c7d..9a136ba 100644 --- a/checks/copyright-file.desc +++ b/checks/copyright-file.desc @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Check-Script: copyright-file Author: Christian Schwarz <[email protected]> Abbrev: cpy Type: binary -Needs-Info: copyright-file, index +Needs-Info: copyright-file, unpacked Info: This script checks if a binary package conforms to policy with regard to copyright files. . @@ -283,25 +283,6 @@ Info: The copyright file contains the incomplete Debian packaging to court. If you provide a notice, you may as well provide one that's legally recognized in a broader range of countries. -Tag: copyright-refers-to-bad-php-license -Severity: serious -Certainty: possible -Info: This package appears to be covered by version 2.x of the PHP license, - which is not appropriate for anything other than the PHP interpreter - itself. - . - Note that PEAR modules are not a part of the PHP interpreter and cannot - use this license. -Ref: https://ftp-master.debian.org/REJECT-FAQ.html, #616436 - -Tag: copyright-refers-to-problematic-php-license -Severity: serious -Certainty: wild-guess -Info: This package appears to be covered by version 3.0 (exactly) of the - PHP license. This license is not applicable to anything that is not PHP - and has no contributions from the PHP Group. -Ref: https://ftp-master.debian.org/REJECT-FAQ.html - Tag: copyright-without-copyright-notice Severity: normal Certainty: certain diff --git a/checks/cruft.desc b/checks/cruft.desc index 663af78..12f3b86 100644 --- a/checks/cruft.desc +++ b/checks/cruft.desc @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Author: Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <[email protected]> Abbrev: deb Type: source Info: This looks for cruft in Debian packaging or upstream source -Needs-Info: unpacked, debfiles, diffstat, file-info, index, md5sums +Needs-Info: unpacked, debfiles, diffstat, file-info, md5sums Tag: native-package-with-dash-version Severity: normal @@ -348,6 +348,23 @@ Info: The Debian diff of this non-native package appears to be completely package updates in Debian (files can't be removed from the <tt>debian</tt> directory via the diff, for example). +Tag: debian-upstream-obsolete-path +Severity: important +Certainty: certain +Info: Upstream metadata is stored under an obsolete path. + . + Upstream MEtadata GAthered with YAml (UMEGAYA) an effort to collect + meta-information about upstream projects in a file called + <tt>debian/upstream/metadata</tt> in the source packages + maintained in a publicly accessible version control system (VCS). + . + Older version of this specification used + <tt>debian/upstream-metadata.yaml</tt> and <tt>debian/upstream</tt> + as file storage of meta-information. + . + You should move these file to <tt>debian/upstream/metadata</tt>. + + Tag: configure-generated-file-in-source Severity: normal Certainty: possible @@ -451,7 +468,7 @@ Info: The source tarball contains a prebuilt file in the Shockwave Flash (SWF) Tag: source-contains-prebuilt-flash-project Severity: pedantic Certainty: possible -Info: The source tarball contains a prebuilt file in the Shockwave Flash +Info: The source tarball contains a prebuilt file in the Shockwave Flash project (FLA) format. These are often included by mistake when developers generate a tarball without cleaning the source directory first. @@ -476,9 +493,26 @@ Severity: pedantic Certainty: possible Info: The source tarball contains a prebuilt (minified) JavaScript object. They are usually left by mistake when generating the tarball by not - cleaning the source directory first. You may want to report this as + cleaning the source directory first. You may want to report this as an upstream bug, in case there is no sign that this was intended. +Tag: source-contains-prebuilt-ms-help-file +Severity: serious +Certainty: possible +Info: The source tarball contains a prebuilt microsoft precompiled help + file (CHM file). These are often included by mistake when developers generate + a tarball without cleaning the source directory first. + CHM files are mainly produced by proprietary, Windows-specific software. + They are also mainly consumed by Windows internal HTML Help Workshop. + There is Linux software to read them and an incomplete + FreePascal related project to create them, + but any examples in source packages are likely to be created + by the proprietary Microsoft software and are probably missing + the source HTML and associated files. + . + If there is no sign this was intended, consider reporting it as + an upstream bug. + Tag: source-contains-prebuilt-sphinx-documentation Severity: pedantic Certainty: possible @@ -560,6 +594,25 @@ Info: The given source file is copyrighted under the non free The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil. Ref: https://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/jsonevil +Tag: license-problem-bad-php-license +Severity: serious +Certainty: possible +Info: This package appears to be covered by version 2.x of the PHP license, + which is not appropriate for anything other than the PHP interpreter + itself. + . + Note that PEAR modules are not a part of the PHP interpreter and cannot + use this license. +Ref: https://ftp-master.debian.org/REJECT-FAQ.html, #616436 + +Tag: license-problem-php-license +Severity: serious +Certainty: possible +Info: This package appears to be covered by version 3.0 (exactly) of the + PHP license. This license is not applicable to anything that is not PHP + and has no contributions from the PHP Group. +Ref: https://ftp-master.debian.org/REJECT-FAQ.html + Tag: license-problem-gfdl-invariants Severity: serious Certainty: possible @@ -618,7 +671,7 @@ Ref: https://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/gfdlinvariant, Tag: license-problem-gfdl-non-official-text Severity: pedantic Certainty: possible -Info: The given source file is licensed under GFDL, but using a +Info: The given source file is licensed under GFDL, but using a non-official text for the "no invariant sections" part. . Please ask upstream to always use (case insensitive): @@ -691,3 +744,15 @@ Info: The source of the following file is missing. Lintian checked a few "debian/missing-sources" directory. . If this is a false-positive, please report a bug against Lintian. + +Tag: source-contains-autogenerated-visual-c++-file +Severity: pedantic +Certainty: possible +Info: The following file is autogenerated by Microsoft Visual C++. + . + They are usually provided for the convenience of users. These files + usually just take up space in the tarball and are of no use in Debian. + . + Check if upstream also provides source-only tarballs that you can use as + the upstream distribution instead. If not, you may want to ask upstream + to provide source-only tarballs. diff --git a/checks/deb-format.desc b/checks/deb-format.desc index 6876ed9..0b30f73 100644 --- a/checks/deb-format.desc +++ b/checks/deb-format.desc @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Check-Script: deb-format Author: Russ Allbery <[email protected]> Abbrev: dfmt Type: binary, udeb -Needs-Info: unpacked, bin-pkg-control, index +Needs-Info: unpacked, bin-pkg-control Info: This script checks the format of the deb ar archive itself. Tag: malformed-deb-archive diff --git a/checks/description.desc b/checks/description.desc index 890e5bf..fee50a0 100644 --- a/checks/description.desc +++ b/checks/description.desc @@ -31,6 +31,20 @@ Info: The extended description (the lines after the first line of the "Description:" field) is empty. Ref: policy 3.4 +Tag: description-too-short +Severity: serious +Certainty: certain +Ref: devref 6.2.2 +Info: The description contains only a single word. It is likely that the + description won't be very clear for the user. + +Tag: description-is-pkg-name +Severity: serious +Certainty: certain +Ref: devref 6.2.2 +Info: The description is the same the package name. A better description should + be provided for the user. + Tag: extended-description-is-probably-too-short Severity: minor Certainty: possible diff --git a/checks/duplicate-files.desc b/checks/duplicate-files.desc index 7bc8a06..c07ede4 100644 --- a/checks/duplicate-files.desc +++ b/checks/duplicate-files.desc @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Check-Script: duplicate-files Author: Niels Thykier <[email protected]> Abbrev: dupf Type: binary -Needs-Info: md5sums, index +Needs-Info: md5sums, unpacked Info: This script checks for duplicate files using checksums Tag: duplicate-files diff --git a/checks/fields.desc b/checks/fields.desc index 48002ea..85c4bdd 100644 --- a/checks/fields.desc +++ b/checks/fields.desc @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Check-Script: fields Author: Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt <[email protected]> Abbrev: fld Type: binary, udeb, source -Needs-Info: debfiles, index +Needs-Info: debfiles, unpacked Info: This script checks the syntax of the fields in package control files, as described in the Policy Manual. diff --git a/checks/files.desc b/checks/files.desc index 460be08..313729e 100644 --- a/checks/files.desc +++ b/checks/files.desc @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Check-Script: files Author: Christian Schwarz <[email protected]> Abbrev: fil Type: binary, udeb -Needs-Info: unpacked, objdump-info, scripts, file-info, index +Needs-Info: unpacked, objdump-info, scripts, file-info Info: This script checks if a binary package conforms to policy WRT to files and directories. @@ -674,6 +674,13 @@ Certainty: certain Info: Package contains a .xvpics directory. It was most likely installed by accident, since thumbnails usually don't belong in packages. +Tag: package-contains-thumbnails-dir +Severity: important +Certainty: certain +Info: Package contains a .thumbnails directory. It was most likely installed by + accident, since thumbnails usually don't belong in packages. +Ref: http://standards.freedesktop.org/thumbnail-spec/thumbnail-spec-0.8.0.html + Tag: package-contains-vcs-control-file Severity: normal Certainty: certain @@ -708,7 +715,7 @@ Tag: package-installs-nonbinary-perl-in-usr-lib-perl5 Severity: normal Certainty: certain Info: Architecture-independent Perl code should be placed in - <tt>/usr/share/perl5</tt>, not <tt>/usr/lib/perl5</tt> + <tt>/usr/share/perl5</tt>, not <tt>/usr/lib/.../perl5</tt> unless there is at least one architecture-dependent file in the module. Ref: perl-policy 2.3 @@ -943,6 +950,15 @@ Info: This package creates a potential privacy breach by fetching data that the remote resources are suitable for Debian main before making local copies of them. +Tag: privacy-breach-may-use-debian-package +Severity: important +Certainty: possible +Info: This package creates a potential privacy breach by fetching data + from an external website at runtime. Please remove these scripts or + external HTML resources. + . + You may use if compatible the debian package indicated in the hint. + Tag: privacy-breach-google-adsense Severity: serious Certainty: possible @@ -1553,3 +1569,13 @@ Info: This package ships a PKCS#11 module configuration file under . p11-kit currently warns on every file that does not follow the convention and may ignore them in the future. + +Tag: package-contains-timestamped-gzip +Severity: wishlist +Certainty: certain +Info: The package contains a gzip'ed file that has timestamps. + Such files make the packages unreproducible, because their + contents depend on the time when the package was built. + . + Please consider passing the "-n" flag to gzip to avoid this. +Ref: https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds diff --git a/checks/group-checks.desc b/checks/group-checks.desc index 03b445a..219feda 100644 --- a/checks/group-checks.desc +++ b/checks/group-checks.desc @@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ Author: Niels Thykier <[email protected]> Abbrev: gchck # This is a source check, so we only run it once per group Type: source +Needs-info: unpacked Info: This script checks for some issues that may appear in packages built from the same source. This includes intra-source circular dependencies and intra-source priority checks. diff --git a/checks/huge-usr-share.desc b/checks/huge-usr-share.desc index a5cabf8..0b002de 100644 --- a/checks/huge-usr-share.desc +++ b/checks/huge-usr-share.desc @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Check-Script: huge-usr-share Author: Jeroen van Wolffelaar <[email protected]> Abbrev: hus Type: binary -Needs-info: index +Needs-info: unpacked Info: This script checks whether an architecture-dependent package has large amounts of data in /usr/share. diff --git a/checks/infofiles.desc b/checks/infofiles.desc index a586c36..41b9387 100644 --- a/checks/infofiles.desc +++ b/checks/infofiles.desc @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Check-Script: infofiles Author: Josip Rodin <[email protected]> Abbrev: info Type: binary -Needs-Info: unpacked, file-info, index +Needs-Info: unpacked, file-info Info: This script checks if a binary package conforms to info document policy. Tag: info-document-not-compressed diff --git a/checks/java.desc b/checks/java.desc index ab335a1..c6aecac 100644 --- a/checks/java.desc +++ b/checks/java.desc @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Check-Script: java Author: Vincent Fourmond <[email protected]> Abbrev: java Type: binary -Needs-Info: java-info, index +Needs-Info: java-info, unpacked Info: This script checks if the packages comply with various aspects of the debian Java policy. diff --git a/checks/manpages.desc b/checks/manpages.desc index 2bf66b1..4513ba6 100644 --- a/checks/manpages.desc +++ b/checks/manpages.desc @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Check-Script: manpages Author: Christian Schwarz <[email protected]> Abbrev: man Type: binary -Needs-Info: unpacked, file-info, index +Needs-Info: unpacked, file-info Info: This script checks if a binary package conforms to manual page policy. Tag: bad-link-to-undocumented-manpage diff --git a/checks/md5sums.desc b/checks/md5sums.desc index a29af12..cd65a3b 100644 --- a/checks/md5sums.desc +++ b/checks/md5sums.desc @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Check-Script: md5sums Author: Christian Schwarz <[email protected]> Abbrev: md5 Type: binary -Needs-Info: md5sums, bin-pkg-control, index +Needs-Info: md5sums, bin-pkg-control, unpacked Info: This script checks if md5sum control files are valid, if they are provided by a binary package. diff --git a/checks/menu-format.desc b/checks/menu-format.desc index 1bc39f5..6f9e583 100644 --- a/checks/menu-format.desc +++ b/checks/menu-format.desc @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Check-Script: menu-format Author: Joey Hess <[email protected]> Abbrev: mnf -Needs-Info: unpacked, menu-files, index +Needs-Info: unpacked, menu-files Type: binary Info: This script validates the format of <b>menu</b> files. @@ -379,6 +379,15 @@ Info: The header on this line of the desktop entry has been deprecated in the useful for checking the syntax of desktop entries. Ref: http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/1.0/apc.html +Tag: desktop-mime-but-no-exec-code +Severity: normal +Certainty: possible +Info: The desktop entry lists support for at least one mime type, but does not + provide codes like %f, %F, %u or %U for the Exec key. + . + If the application can indeed handle files of the listed mime types, it should + specify a way to pass the filenames as parameters. + Tag: deprecated-kdelnk-file Severity: important Certainty: certain diff --git a/checks/menus.desc b/checks/menus.desc index c910fdc..d09dab0 100644 --- a/checks/menus.desc +++ b/checks/menus.desc @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Abbrev: men Type: binary Info: Check if a binary package conforms to policy with respect to <b>menu</b> and <b>doc-base</b> files. -Needs-Info: doc-base-files, menu-files, bin-pkg-control, index +Needs-Info: doc-base-files, menu-files, bin-pkg-control, unpacked Tag: maintainer-script-does-not-check-for-existence-of-updatemenus Severity: important diff --git a/checks/ocaml.desc b/checks/ocaml.desc index 7d7ebf6..69c314e 100644 --- a/checks/ocaml.desc +++ b/checks/ocaml.desc @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Author: Stephane Glondu <[email protected]> Abbrev: ocaml Type: binary Info: This looks for common mistakes in OCaml binary packages. -Needs-Info: ar-info, index +Needs-Info: ar-info, unpacked Tag: ocaml-dangling-cmxa Severity: serious diff --git a/checks/phppear.desc b/checks/phppear.desc index 477b373..64d3dc3 100644 --- a/checks/phppear.desc +++ b/checks/phppear.desc @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Check-Script: phppear Author: Mathieu Parent <[email protected]> Abbrev: phppear Type: source -Needs-Info: index, debfiles, unpacked +Needs-Info: debfiles, unpacked Info: This script checks if the packages comply with various aspects of the debian PHP policy. diff --git a/checks/scripts.desc b/checks/scripts.desc index 675505b..6d4b33b 100644 --- a/checks/scripts.desc +++ b/checks/scripts.desc @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Author: Richard Braakman <[email protected]> Abbrev: scr Type: binary Info: This script checks the #! lines of scripts in a package. -Needs-Info: unpacked, file-info, scripts, bin-pkg-control, index +Needs-Info: unpacked, file-info, scripts, bin-pkg-control Tag: script-without-interpreter Severity: important diff --git a/checks/shared-libs.desc b/checks/shared-libs.desc index 6c1d69d..e647610 100644 --- a/checks/shared-libs.desc +++ b/checks/shared-libs.desc @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Check-Script: shared-libs Author: Christian Schwarz <[email protected]> Abbrev: shl Type: binary, udeb -Needs-Info: unpacked, file-info, objdump-info, bin-pkg-control, index +Needs-Info: unpacked, file-info, objdump-info, bin-pkg-control Info: This script checks if a binary package conforms to shared library policy. Tag: shlib-with-executable-bit diff --git a/checks/source-copyright.desc b/checks/source-copyright.desc index 92df8e4..448e7cb 100644 --- a/checks/source-copyright.desc +++ b/checks/source-copyright.desc @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Check-Script: source-copyright Author: Jakub Wilk <[email protected]> Abbrev: scpy Type: source -Needs-Info: debfiles, index +Needs-Info: debfiles, unpacked Info: This script checks if a source package conforms to policy with regard to copyright files. . @@ -23,6 +23,15 @@ Ref: policy 12.5 Info: Every package must include the file <tt>/usr/share/doc/<i>pkg</i>/copyright</tt>. A copy of this file should be in <tt>debian/copyright</tt> in the source package. +Tag: no-dep5-copyright +Severity: pedantic +Certainty: possible +Info: This package does not use Machine-readable debian/copyright file. + . + This format help to review license problem and could be easily parsed + by Lintian. +Ref: https://dep.debian.net/deps/dep5/ + Tag: unknown-copyright-format-uri Severity: pedantic Certainty: wild-guess @@ -107,6 +116,48 @@ Ref: https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/ Info: The paragraph in the machine readable copyright file is missing a field that is required by the specification. +Tag: empty-short-license-in-dep5-copyright +Severity: normal +Certainty: possible +Ref: https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/ +Info: The short license field in the machine readable copyright file + is empty. + +Tag: license-problem-undefined-license +Severity: serious +Certainty: possible +Ref: https://ftp-master.debian.org/REJECT-FAQ.html +Info: Your copyright file references a license that is not defined. + Due to copyright law or treaties, files that are not available under + a defined license are non-free and non-re-distributable. + . + Referencing an undefined license could mean the file cannot be + distributed in Debian or it could simply mean that the existing + license needs to be documented. In both cases, + the copyright file should be updated to reflect reality. + . + Please re-package the package without the file (if possible) + or ask the FTP-masters to remove the package. + . + If the package has been uploaded to Debian before, and if + affected files cannot be distributed in Debian please + remember to also notify snapshot.debian.org about this + package containing a non-distributable file. + +Tag: invalid-short-name-in-dep5-copyright +Severity: minor +Certainty: certain +Ref: http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/ +Info: The license header contains a short name observed to be a + misspelling of one of the standard short names. + +Tag: space-in-std-shortname-in-dep5-copyright +Severity: minor +Certainty: certain +Ref: http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/ +Info: The license header contains a short name with a space, which + does not conform to the specification. + Tag: missing-license-paragraph-in-dep5-copyright Severity: normal Certainty: possible @@ -168,3 +219,47 @@ Info: The paragraph has a "License" and a "Copyright" field, but no Lintian will attempt to guess what you intended and continue based on its guess. If the guess is wrong, you may see spurious tags related to this paragraph. + +Tag: pipe-symbol-used-as-license-disjunction +Severity: normal +Certainty: possible +Ref: https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/ +Info: In contrast to package dependencies, the pipe symbol or vertical + bar does not indicate a logical disjunction or OR-relationship + between two license short names. Instead, the keyword "or" between + two license names indicates the dual licensing. + +Tag: invalid-escape-sequence-in-dep5-copyright +Severity: normal +Certainty: possible +Ref: https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/ +Info: The only allowed escape sequences are "\*", "\?" and "\\" (without + quotes) to produce a literal star, question mark and backslash, respectively. + Without the escaping backslash, the star and question mark take the role of + globbing operators similar to shell globs which is why they have to be + escaped. No other escapable characters than "*", "?" and "\" exist. + +Tag: wildcard-matches-nothing-in-dep5-copyright +Severity: minor +Certainty: possible +Ref: https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/ +Info: The wildcard that was specified matches no file in the source tree. + This either indicates that you should fix the wildcard so that it matches + the intended file or that you can remove the wildcard. Notice that in + contrast to shell globs, the "*" (star or asterisk) matches slashes and + leading dots. + +Tag: file-without-copyright-information +Severity: normal +Certainty: possible +Ref: https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/ +Info: The source tree contains a file which was not matched by any of + the <tt>Files</tt> paragraphs in debian/copyright. Either adjust existing + wildcards to match that file or add a new <tt>Files</tt> paragraph. + +Tag: unused-file-paragraph-in-dep5-copyright +Severity: minor +Certainty: possible +Ref: https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/ +Info: The <tt>Files</tt> paragraph in debian/copyright is superfluous as it is + never used to match any files. You should be able to safely remove it. diff --git a/checks/symlinks.desc b/checks/symlinks.desc index 39d6f2d..c9b1850 100644 --- a/checks/symlinks.desc +++ b/checks/symlinks.desc @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Check-Script: symlinks Author: Niels Thykier <[email protected]> Abbrev: sym Type: binary, udeb -Needs-Info: index +Needs-Info: unpacked Info: This script checks for broken symlinks. Tag: package-contains-broken-symlink diff --git a/checks/systemd.desc b/checks/systemd.desc index 3365241..ed1b777 100644 --- a/checks/systemd.desc +++ b/checks/systemd.desc @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Check-Script: systemd Author: Michael Stapelberg <[email protected]> Type: binary Info: Checks various systemd policy things -Needs-Info: scripts, index, unpacked, file-info, bin-pkg-control +Needs-Info: scripts, unpacked, file-info, bin-pkg-control Tag: systemd-service-file-outside-lib Severity: serious diff --git a/checks/testsuite.desc b/checks/testsuite.desc index cf9c3f7..a1865a2 100644 --- a/checks/testsuite.desc +++ b/checks/testsuite.desc @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Check-Script: testsuite Author: Nicolas Boulenguez <[email protected]> Type: source -Needs-Info: index, unpacked +Needs-Info: unpacked Info: This script checks the Testsuite field in package dsc files, and debian/tests/control if any. @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ Certainty: certain Info: Runtime test names in debian/tests/control are only allowed to contain decimal digits, lowercase ASCII letters, plus or minus signs, dots or slashes. -Ref: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=autopkgtest/autopkgtest.git;a=blob_plain;f=doc/README.package-tests;hb=HEAD +Ref: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=autopkgtest/autopkgtest.git;a=blob_plain;f=doc/README.package-tests.rst;hb=HEAD Tag: inconsistent-testsuite-field Severity: wishlist @@ -41,28 +41,28 @@ Info: The package provides a debian/tests/control file but no For discoverability, packages shipping tests for the autopkgtest testing framework should declare their presence in the package dsc file by adding "XS-Testsuite: autopkgtest" to their debian/control. -Ref: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=autopkgtest/autopkgtest.git;a=blob_plain;f=doc/README.package-tests;hb=HEAD +Ref: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=autopkgtest/autopkgtest.git;a=blob_plain;f=doc/README.package-tests.rst;hb=HEAD Tag: missing-runtime-tests-field Severity: normal Certainty: certain Info: A mandatory field is missing in some paragraph of the debian/tests/control file. -Ref: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=autopkgtest/autopkgtest.git;a=blob_plain;f=doc/README.package-tests;hb=HEAD +Ref: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=autopkgtest/autopkgtest.git;a=blob_plain;f=doc/README.package-tests.rst;hb=HEAD Tag: missing-runtime-test-file Severity: normal Certainty: possible Info: A test file listed in the debian/tests/control file does not exist in the package source. -Ref: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=autopkgtest/autopkgtest.git;a=blob_plain;f=doc/README.package-tests;hb=HEAD +Ref: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=autopkgtest/autopkgtest.git;a=blob_plain;f=doc/README.package-tests.rst;hb=HEAD Tag: runtime-test-file-is-not-a-regular-file Severity: wishlist Certainty: certain Info: A runtime test listed by debian/tests/control is not a regular file. -Ref: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=autopkgtest/autopkgtest.git;a=blob_plain;f=doc/README.package-tests;hb=HEAD +Ref: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=autopkgtest/autopkgtest.git;a=blob_plain;f=doc/README.package-tests.rst;hb=HEAD Tag: syntax-error-in-debian-tests-control Severity: normal @@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ Info: The debian/tests/control file didn't pass Debian control file . This issue may hide other issues as Lintian skips some checks on the file in this case. -Ref: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=autopkgtest/autopkgtest.git;a=blob_plain;f=doc/README.package-tests;hb=HEAD +Ref: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=autopkgtest/autopkgtest.git;a=blob_plain;f=doc/README.package-tests.rst;hb=HEAD Tag: unknown-runtime-tests-feature Severity: pedantic @@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ Certainty: wild-guess Info: A paragraph in debian/tests/control mentions a non standard value for the Features field. Though allowed, this may indicate an error, as the value will be ignored. -Ref: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=autopkgtest/autopkgtest.git;a=blob_plain;f=doc/README.package-tests;hb=HEAD +Ref: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=autopkgtest/autopkgtest.git;a=blob_plain;f=doc/README.package-tests.rst;hb=HEAD Tag: unknown-runtime-tests-field Severity: pedantic @@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ Certainty: wild-guess Info: A paragraph in debian/tests/control mentions a non standard field. Though allowed, this may indicate an error, as the whole paragraph will be ignored. -Ref: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=autopkgtest/autopkgtest.git;a=blob_plain;f=doc/README.package-tests;hb=HEAD +Ref: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=autopkgtest/autopkgtest.git;a=blob_plain;f=doc/README.package-tests.rst;hb=HEAD Tag: unknown-runtime-tests-restriction Severity: pedantic @@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ Certainty: wild-guess Info: A paragraph in debian/tests/control mentions a non standard value for the Restrictions field. Though allowed, this may indicate an error, as the whole paragraph will be ignored. -Ref: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=autopkgtest/autopkgtest.git;a=blob_plain;f=doc/README.package-tests;hb=HEAD +Ref: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=autopkgtest/autopkgtest.git;a=blob_plain;f=doc/README.package-tests.rst;hb=HEAD Tag: unknown-testsuite Severity: normal @@ -104,4 +104,4 @@ Certainty: certain Info: The dsc file sets Testsuite to a value other than autopkgtest, the only one allowed. This field is most probably copied by dpkg-source from XS-Testsuite in debian/control. -Ref: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=autopkgtest/autopkgtest.git;a=blob_plain;f=doc/README.package-tests;hb=HEAD +Ref: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=autopkgtest/autopkgtest.git;a=blob_plain;f=doc/README.package-tests.rst;hb=HEAD -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? 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