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--- Begin Message ---Package: lintian Version: 2.115.2 Severity: important Hello, this could be due to an incomplete fix for bug #999768 or maybe it is caused by some other bug. Anyway, I have: $ grep -n Ruby-Versions debian/control 9:XS-Ruby-Versions: all 16:XB-Ruby-Versions: ${ruby:Versions} in my package ('apt-listbugs'). Running "lintian -EviIL +pedantic" on the .changes file generates the following reports: N: W: apt-listbugs source: unknown-field Ruby-Versions N: N: See the Policy Manual for a list of the possible fields in a package N: control files. N: N: Please refer to Binary package control files – DEBIAN/control (Section N: 5.3) in the Debian Policy Manual and Debian source control files – .dsc N: (Section 5.4) in the Debian Policy Manual for details. N: N: Visibility: warning N: Show-Always: no N: Check: fields/unknown N: Renamed from: unknown-field-in-dsc unknown-field-in-control N: N: I: apt-listbugs source: adopted-extended-field (in section for apt-listbugs) XB-Ruby-Versions [debian/control:16] N: N: A field in debian/control has an extension prefix but is also known N: without it. N: N: Extension prefixes like XS-* or XC-* allow experimental fields to N: propagate to the right place when packages are built with dpkg. In this N: case, however, the field is also known without the prefix. In all N: likelihood the field was permanently adopted, and dpkg learned how to deal N: with it. N: N: Please consider removing the extension prefix for the field name. N: N: Visibility: info N: Show-Always: no N: Check: debian/control/field/adopted N: Renamed from: xc-package-type-in-debian-control N: xs-testsuite-field-in-debian-control xs-vcs-field-in-debian-control N: Both reports look wrong, since I have no plain 'Ruby-Versions' field in my package source, and 'XB-Ruby-Versions' has not been adopted, thus requiring the 'XB-' prefix. Please fix this bug in lintian. Thanks for your time and patience! -- System Information: Debian Release: bookworm/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (800, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 5.18.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.38.90.20220713-2 ii bzip2 1.0.8-5 ii diffstat 1.64-1 ii dpkg 1.21.9 ii dpkg-dev 1.21.9 ii file 1:5.41-4 ii gettext 0.21-6 ii gpg 2.2.35-3 ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.5 ii iso-codes 4.11.0-1 ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.40+b1 ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.68-1 ii libberkeleydb-perl 0.64-1+b2 ii libcapture-tiny-perl 0.48-1 ii libclass-xsaccessor-perl 1.19-4 ii libclone-perl 0.45-1+b2 ii libconfig-tiny-perl 2.28-1 ii libconst-fast-perl 0.014-2 ii libcpanel-json-xs-perl 4.30-1 ii libdata-dpath-perl 0.58-1 ii libdata-validate-domain-perl 0.10-1.1 ii libdata-validate-uri-perl 0.07-2 ii libdevel-size-perl 0.83-2 pn libdigest-sha-perl <none> ii libdpkg-perl 1.21.9 ii libemail-address-xs-perl 1.05-1 ii libencode-perl 3.19-1 ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.09-1 ii libfile-find-rule-perl 0.34-2 ii libfont-ttf-perl 1.06-2 ii libhtml-html5-entities-perl 0.004-2 ii libhtml-tokeparser-simple-perl 3.16-4 ii libio-interactive-perl 1.023-1 ii libipc-run3-perl 0.048-2 ii libjson-maybexs-perl 1.004003-1 ii liblist-compare-perl 0.55-1 ii liblist-someutils-perl 0.58-1 ii liblist-utilsby-perl 0.12-1 ii libmldbm-perl 2.05-3 ii libmoo-perl 2.005004-3 ii libmoox-aliases-perl 0.001006-2 ii libnamespace-clean-perl 0.27-2 ii libpath-tiny-perl 0.122-1 ii libperlio-gzip-perl 0.20-1 ii libperlio-utf8-strict-perl 0.009-1+b1 ii libproc-processtable-perl 0.634-1+b1 ii libregexp-wildcards-perl 1.05-3 ii libsereal-decoder-perl 4.025+ds-1 ii libsereal-encoder-perl 4.025+ds-1 ii libsort-versions-perl 1.62-2 ii libsyntax-keyword-try-perl 0.27-1 ii libterm-readkey-perl 2.38-1+b3 ii libtext-levenshteinxs-perl 0.03-5 ii libtext-markdown-discount-perl 0.13-1+b1 ii libtext-xslate-perl 3.5.9-1+b1 ii libtime-duration-perl 1.21-1 ii libtime-moment-perl 0.44-1+b4 ii libtimedate-perl 2.3300-2 ii libunicode-utf8-perl 0.62-1+b3 ii liburi-perl 5.12-1 ii libwww-mechanize-perl 2.13-1 ii libwww-perl 6.67-1 ii libxml-libxml-perl 2.0207+dfsg+really+2.0134-1 ii libyaml-libyaml-perl 0.83+ds-1+b1 ii lzip [lzip-decompressor] 1.23-4 ii lzop 1.04-2 ii man-db 2.10.2-1 ii patchutils 0.4.2-1 ii perl [libencode-perl] 5.34.0-5 ii t1utils 1.41-4 ii unzip 6.0-27 ii xz-utils 5.2.5-2.1 lintian recommends no packages. Versions of packages lintian suggests: pn binutils-multiarch <none> ii libtext-template-perl 1.61-1 -- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---Hello, > this could be due to an incomplete fix for bug #999768 or maybe it > is caused by some other bug. The latest release tried to fix this completely. But even then, I can't see this with older release either. https://udd.debian.org/lintian-tag/unknown-field?affected=yes does not list even a single package with Ruby-Versions. I took an example of src:hiera package which has XB-Ruby-Versions declared and I do not see this hint being emitted in the lintian run with version 2.138.0, at the time of writing this mail. See https://udd.debian.org/lintian/?email1=&email2=&email3=&packages=hiera&ignpackages=&format=html<_error=on<_warning=on<_information=on<_pedantic=on<_experimental=on<_overridden=on&lintian_tag=#all So I think this got fixed at some point, unsure of the timeline. Hence, I am closing this bug. If you are still able to reproduce this, please re-open this bug. Thank you for reporting, Nilesh
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