On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 9:57 AM, T o n g <mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com> wrote: > On Tue, 28 Jan 2014 07:34:20 +0100, Niels Thykier wrote: > >>>> $ lintian -EviIL +pedantic --color auto --display-experimental >>>> ../*.dsc >>>> [...] >>>> I.e., when I invoke lintian manually, I didn't see problems reported >>>> by debuild. >>> >>> Lintian can check both source packages (*.dsc) or binary packages >>> (*.deb). By running it on the .dsc file, you only see the results of >>> source checks. >>> >>> The solution to this is to invoke lintian on the .changes file. >>> As a consequence it will do both source and binary checks.... >>> >> Bonus hint: you can often omit the package argument for lintian, when >> you run it from the unpacked source tree. ... > > Thanks everyone for your helps. > > I run my above lintian with and without "../*.changes", but the results > are all the same. They all are the same as that of "../*.dsc". I.e., > still missing info. > > Any ideas? >
If you are on stable, do you have the version of lintian from backports installed? -- Regards, Jordan Metzmeier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAD758Rh00i+xQbyuTstYCV58aLoD=O_wJgzKq=b-+bjmfne...@mail.gmail.com