Package: lintian Version: 1.23.8 Severity: important
lintian has a hard coded path prefix for the --dist option lintian -V Lintian v1.23.8 lintian --allow-root --show-overrides -viI --dist /var/local/packages/dists/custom/main N: Setting up lab in /tmp/V7FwttCogR ... internal error: No packages file /dists//var/local/packages/dists/custom/main//binary-i386/Packages internal error: cannot create binary package list LINTIAN_DIST="/var/local/packages/dists/custom/main" lintian --allow-root --show-overrides -viIa N: Setting up lab in /tmp/q7kevgePYf ... internal error: No packages file /dists//var/local/packages/dists/custom/main//binary-i386/Packages internal error: cannot create binary package list ls -l /var/local/packages/dists/custom/main/binary-i386 total 72 -rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 53041 2006-08-15 00:21 Packages -rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 15381 2006-08-15 00:21 Packages.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 78 2006-08-03 14:42 Release lintian allways tacks on a '/dists/' prefix to the searched path and fails. lintian shouldn't force the end user to keep there local repository under /dists/. *** /home/brian/.reportbug.sig NOTE: Due to debian.org's inadequate measures to prevent email address harvesting from bugs.debian.org, you must include "Bug#", without the quotes, in the subject of any email that you wish to send me. Thank You. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (470, 'testing'), (460, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-3-686 Locale: LANG=en_CA, LC_CTYPE=en_CA (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.15-6 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii diffstat 1.39-1 produces graph of changes introduc ii file 4.12-1 Determines file type using "magic" ii gettext 0.14.4-2 GNU Internationalization utilities ii intltool-debian 0.30+20040213 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf ii man-db 2.4.2-21 The on-line manual pager hi perl [libdigest-md5-perl 5.8.4-8sarge4.1 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
