Hi Simon, On Mon, Dec 02, 2013 at 02:45:30PM +0100, Simon Kainz wrote: > >>> http://familiekainz.at/deb/lintian/metadata.tgz > >> > >> That's very cool! Thanks for your effort! > > > > I have found some issue which is not found by the lintian check. > > Please have a look at > > > > git://git.debian.org/git/debian-med/r-cran-ggplot2.git > > Sorry, i didn't find d/upstream in the repo specified. Are your sure > this is the correct repo? > I simple git clone'd the url above.
Uhhm, that's true. I probably mixed something up. However, ... > > which contains an d/upstream file with the line > > > > > > Cite-as:<a > > href="http://home.imf.au.dk/jensen/software/gfan/gfan.html";>Gfan, a > > software system for Gröbner fans and tropical varieties</a> apt-get source gfan will bring you an example which shows the problem described below. > > This is wrong YAML syntax since the separator between key and value > > is > > > > ": " > > > > and the space is lacking in the line above. I might add that in > > the beginning the yaml files were parsed using Perl and later I did > > the parsing with Python and when doing so I detected several > > instances of this syntax issue. So I assume that the Perl YAML > > implementation is not as strict as it should be here - which leads > > to the consequence that lintian will not detect it. > > > > I would be very happy if you could inject this check into the > > lintian test. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
