The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit c6c5b6ae8c9bcccfd005341a59b1e028a7592b02
Author: Niels Thykier <[email protected]>
Date: Mon Sep 24 22:22:32 2012 +0200
L::Collect: Remove auto-creation of "source" in field
Since 7facd69 the field have not been "auto-created" created.
The auto-creation used to serve as a work around for bugs like
Signed-off-by: Niels Thykier <[email protected]>
diff --git a/lib/Lintian/Collect.pm b/lib/Lintian/Collect.pm
index 7e8c42f..f24ce98 100644
--- a/lib/Lintian/Collect.pm
+++ b/lib/Lintian/Collect.pm
@@ -117,7 +117,6 @@ sub _get_field {
} else {
$fields = (get_deb_info("$base_dir/deb"));
}
- $fields->{'source'} = $fields->{'package'} unless
$fields->{'source'};
}
$self->{field} = $fields;
} else {
@@ -200,14 +199,6 @@ DEFAULT (if given) or undef.
Otherwise this will return a hash of fields, where the key is the field
name (in all lowercase).
-Note: For binary and udeb packages, this method will create the
-"source"-field if it does not exist (using the value of the
-"package"-field as described in ยง5.6.1 of the Debian Policy Manual).
-
-Some checks rely on the presence "source"-field to whitelist some
-packages, so removing this behaviour may cause regressions (see
-bug 640186 for an example).
-
=item name()
Returns the name of the package.
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