Hi, sorry for not responding earlier.
Niels Thykier wrote: > >> I propose a new tag "section-is-empty" > > > > We could re-use "no-section-field" and simply modify the description > > to also say "or empty". I somehow dislike that variant. (Thought about it, too.) > > I just tried to fix this, but when creating testcases with a blank > > source and binary Sections, I get (for source) I at least have a working test case for binary packages (but not more yet): diff --git a/t/debs/fields-general-bad/control b/t/debs/fields-general-bad/control index a23dd299a..4fbd0ee83 100644 --- a/t/debs/fields-general-bad/control +++ b/t/debs/fields-general-bad/control @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Source: fields-general-bad Version: 1.0? Architecture: weird i386 amd64 Maintainer: Debian Lintian Maintainers <[email protected]> -Section: devel +Section: Priority: is weird Unknown-Field: Hallo World diff --git a/t/debs/fields-general-bad/desc b/t/debs/fields-general-bad/desc index 79fd5db1c..c89eac1e4 100644 --- a/t/debs/fields-general-bad/desc +++ b/t/debs/fields-general-bad/desc @@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ Test-For: bad-version-number multiline-field package-not-lowercase + section-is-empty too-many-architectures unknown-architecture unknown-field-in-control diff --git a/t/debs/fields-general-bad/tags b/t/debs/fields-general-bad/tags index 993ec2df0..eb9c99f03 100644 --- a/t/debs/fields-general-bad/tags +++ b/t/debs/fields-general-bad/tags @@ -13,3 +13,4 @@ W: fields-general-BAD?: file-name-contains-wildcard-character usr/share/doc/fiel W: fields-general-BAD?: file-name-contains-wildcard-character usr/share/doc/fields-general-BAD?/changelog.gz W: fields-general-BAD?: file-name-contains-wildcard-character usr/share/doc/fields-general-BAD?/copyright W: fields-general-BAD?: unknown-architecture weird +E: fields-general-BAD?: section-is-empty I get the following (expected) error: ~/lintian/lintian → debian/rules runtests onlyrun=fields-general-bad .... running tests .... mkdir -p "/home/abe/lintian/lintian/debian/test-out" t/runtests -k t "/home/abe/lintian/lintian/debian/test-out" fields-general-bad ENV[PATH]=/home/abe/perl5/perlbrew/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin/sbin:/usr/games:/home/abe/bin debs::fields-general-bad: diff -u t/debs/fields-general-bad/tags /home/abe/lintian/lintian/debian/test-out/debs/tags.fields-general-bad --- t/debs/fields-general-bad/tags 2017-10-14 13:45:25.436078765 +0200 +++ /home/abe/lintian/lintian/debian/test-out/debs/tags.fields-general-bad 2017-10-18 15:49:13.819645976 +0200 @@ -9,8 +9,11 @@ E: fields-general-BAD?: too-many-architectures E: fields-general-BAD?: unknown-priority is weird I: fields-general-BAD?: unknown-field-in-control unknown-field +Use of uninitialized value $parts[-1] in string eq at /home/abe/lintian/lintian/checks/fields.pm line 537. +Use of uninitialized value $parts[-1] in string ne at /home/abe/lintian/lintian/checks/fields.pm line 521. +Use of uninitialized value $parts[0] in string eq at /home/abe/lintian/lintian/checks/fields.pm line 512. W: fields-general-BAD?: file-name-contains-wildcard-character usr/share/doc/fields-general-BAD?/ W: fields-general-BAD?: file-name-contains-wildcard-character usr/share/doc/fields-general-BAD?/changelog.gz W: fields-general-BAD?: file-name-contains-wildcard-character usr/share/doc/fields-general-BAD?/copyright W: fields-general-BAD?: unknown-architecture weird -E: fields-general-BAD?: section-is-empty +W: fields-general-BAD?: unknown-section fail debs::fields-general-bad: output differs! Failed tests (1) debs::fields-general-bad debian/rules:48: recipe for target 'runtests' failed make: *** [runtests] Error 1 > > Use of uninitialized value $file in hash element at > > /home/lamby/git/debian/lintian/lintian/lib/Lintian/Collect/Changes.pm line > > 142. > > > > ... and the following when I add a binary with an empty Section: > > > > tests::fields-section-general: dpkg-genchanges > > >../fields-section-general_1.0_amd64.changes > > tests::fields-section-general: dpkg-genchanges: error: package > > fields-section-general has section contrib/devel in control file but - in > > files list > > tests::fields-section-general: dpkg-buildpackage: error: dpkg-genchanges > > subprocess returned exit status 25 > > > > > > How are you creating this frankenpackage? :) Not with dpkg-buildpackage, because dpkg-genchanges will fail. BTDT. :-) > You may want to use the t/debs test suite and the t/changes for this > kind of package (basically just a deb with nothing else and a .changes > with nothing else). The latter as we apparently have a bug in > L::C::Changes as well. :) Yes, we need separate tests for .deb and .dsc (and maybe .changees, but I think a check for .changes might not be not necessary.) Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <[email protected]>, https://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 `- | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE

