Package: lintian Version: 1.24.1 Severity: minor Tags: patch -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1
While hunting down another problem [0] I ran lintian with -d and found a missing "use" clause: N: Running check: changelog-file ... W: libnet-sftp-foreign-perl: changelog-not-compressed-with-max-compression changelog.gz Undefined subroutine &Dep::versions_gt called at /usr/share/lintian/checks/changelog-file line 305. internal error: cannot run changelog_file check on package libnet-sftp-foreign-perl N: Skipping check of binary package libnet-sftp-foreign-perl The following micro-patch fixes the problem: - --- changelog-file.orig 2008-06-28 17:16:07.000000000 +0200 +++ changelog-file 2008-06-28 17:47:44.000000000 +0200 @@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ package Lintian::changelog_file; use strict; use Spelling; +use Dep; use Tags; use Util; Cheers, gregor [0] The problem is the changelog-not-compressed-with-max-compression shown above; it's caused by `file' (in collection/file-info) which reports the file type of changelog.gz as "x86 boot sector". - -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'experimental'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.25.200806140318 Locale: LANG=C, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.18.1~cvs20080103-7 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii diffstat 1.45-2 produces graph of changes introduc ii dpkg-dev 1.14.19 package building tools for Debian ii file 4.24-3 Determines file type using "magic" ii gettext 0.17-3 GNU Internationalization utilities ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf ii libparse-debianchan 1.1.1-2 parse Debian changelogs and output ii libtimedate-perl 1.1600-9 Time and date functions for Perl ii liburi-perl 1.35.dfsg.1-1 Manipulates and accesses URI strin ii man-db 2.5.2-1 on-line manual pager ii perl [libdigest-sha 5.10.0-11 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction lintian recommends no packages. - -- no debconf information -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkhmYBYACgkQOzKYnQDzz+R81gCffBi5ZhXlrPEhH+JFktLG+k3g 9lUAnApWEfGQYATs56iEDLP3Ku2bfWoD =DQFc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

