Hi, Christian Seiler wrote: > You are using an older version of lintian (probably the one from Jessie).
It is what apt-get "update" and "dist-upgrade" gave me on Sid. It was downloaded during "dist-upgrade": Get:611 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian unstable/main amd64 lintian all 2.5.45 [1,036 kB] No messages about "Unpacking" or "Setting up" of lintian are to see, though. I meanwhile learned that i discussed this with my sponsor Dominique Dumont in february when i bumped to 3.9.7. Since 3.9.7 was new then, we expected lintian to change its expectations soon after. > https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/debian-policy Yep. That's the address i got from Dominique, together with https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/upgrading-checklist.txt which tells me that i can safely claim to comply to 3.9.8. > proper error messages from the lintian version of the release I > am building against. I intend to build for Sid on a Sid qemu-system-x86_64 VM (hosted by Jessie). That's why i wonder why lintian still expects 3.9.6. Trying to apply what i learned today: # dpkg -l lintian Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Architecture Description +++-==============-============-============-================================= ii lintian 2.5.40.2 all Debian package checker But dpkg --configure --pending does not do anything. So i try # apt-get install lintian ... Preparing to unpack .../lintian_2.5.45_all.deb ... Unpacking lintian (2.5.45) over (2.5.40.2) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ... Setting up lintian (2.5.45) ... Configuration file '/etc/lintianrc' ... *** lintianrc (Y/I/N/O/D/Z) [default=N] ? n The output of dpkg -l did not change much # dpkg -l lintian Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Architecture Description +++-==============-============-============-================================= ii lintian 2.5.45 all Debian package checker But nevertheless now debuild -S does not complain about the freshly changed "Standards-Version: 3.9.8" as it did before i installed lintian manually. Have a nice day :) Thomas
