Package: lintian Version: 2.4.3 Severity: normal lintian does not work properly when binutils from experimental is installed, I recorded the following errors when checking a kernel module binary package. There are no errors on lenny or sid with binutils/sid.
(pbuild19643)r...@cake:/tmp# su nobody -c "lintian nvidia-kernel-2.6.32-5-amd64_195.36.31+2+6+2.6.32-27_amd64.deb" && echo OK warning: collect info objdump-info about package nvidia-kernel-2.6.32-5-amd64 failed warning: skipping check of binary package nvidia-kernel-2.6.32-5-amd64 (pbuild19643)r...@cake:/tmp# su nobody -c "lintian nvidia-kernel-2.6.32-5-amd64_195.36.31+2+6+2.6.32-27_amd64.deb" && echo OK warning: collect info objdump-info about package nvidia-kernel-2.6.32-5-amd64 failed warning: skipping check of binary package nvidia-kernel-2.6.32-5-amd64 internal error: file-info invoked in wrong directory (pbuild19643)r...@cake:/tmp# su nobody -c "lintian nvidia-kernel-2.6.32-5-amd64_195.36.31+2+6+2.6.32-27_amd64.deb" && echo OK warning: collect info objdump-info about package nvidia-kernel-2.6.32-5-amd64 failed warning: skipping check of binary package nvidia-kernel-2.6.32-5-amd64 /bin/rm: cannot remove `/tmp/IjEU89AW0g/binary/nvidia-kernel-2.6.32-5-amd64': Directory not empty warning: cannot remove lab directory /tmp/IjEU89AW0g (please remove it yourself) warning: cannot remove lab directory /tmp/IjEU89AW0g (please remove it yourself) /usr/bin/strings: 'unpacked/./lib/modules/2.6.32-5-amd64/nvidia/nvidia.ko': No such file internal error: command failed with error code 1 Looks like there are two issues: * objdump does no longer understand the contents of the package (either a bug there or different parameters are nneded now) * a race condition in lintian: after objdump failed, a temporary directory with the package contents gets removed, but is concurrently still used by different tests Andreas -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers stable APT policy: (800, 'stable'), (700, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (130, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.20.90.20101105-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii diffstat 1.53-1 produces graph of changes introduc ii dpkg-dev 1.15.8.5 Debian package development tools ii file 5.04-5 Determines file type using "magic" ii gettext 0.18.1.1-3 GNU Internationalization utilities ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.24+b1 Perl interface to libapt-pkg ii libclass-accessor-per 0.34-1 Perl module that automatically gen ii libipc-run-perl 0.89-1 Perl module for running processes ii libparse-debianchange 1.1.1-2.1 parse Debian changelogs and output ii libtimedate-perl 1.2000-1 collection of modules to manipulat ii liburi-perl 1.54-2 module to manipulate and access UR ii locales 2.11.2-7 Embedded GNU C Library: National L ii man-db 2.5.7-6 on-line manual pager ii perl [libdigest-sha-p 5.10.1-16 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction lintian recommends no packages. Versions of packages lintian suggests: ii binutils-multiarch 2.20.90.20101105-1 Binary utilities that support mult pn libtext-template-perl <none> (no description available) ii man-db 2.5.7-6 on-line manual pager -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
