Bug#1029479: lintian: reject packages with debmake default description
Control: tag -1 + confirmed Hi Paul, Paul Wise wrote: > yq was just accepted into Debian with a completely bogus description > that is the default from the debmake automatic package generator. Right, noticed that, too. Writing a bug report about that was on my TODO list. So thanks for filing https://bugs.debian.org/1029481 :-) > Please add a lintian tag and add it to the ftp-master auto-rejects. Definitely a good addition. No promises that this will be added before Bookworm, though. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert , 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
Bug#1029479: lintian: reject packages with debmake default description
Package: lintian Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: ftp-master yq was just accepted into Debian with a completely bogus description that is the default from the debmake automatic package generator. Please add a lintian tag and add it to the ftp-master auto-rejects. $ apt-cache show yq | grep-dctrl -s Description-en . Description-en: auto-generated package by debmake This Debian binary package was auto-generated by the debmake(1) command provided by the debmake package. $ dgrep -A5 'auto-generated' debmake /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/debmake/control.py:desc = "auto-generated package by debmake" /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/debmake/control.py-# /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/debmake/control.py-if para["desc_long"].rstrip(): /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/debmake/control.py-desc_long = para["desc_long"].rstrip() /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/debmake/control.py-elif para["desc"].strip(): /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/debmake/control.py-desc_long = " " + para["desc"].strip() -- /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/debmake/para.py:help="pedantically check auto-generated files", /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/debmake/para.py-) /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/debmake/para.py-p.add_argument( /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/debmake/para.py-"-T", /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/debmake/para.py-"--tutorial", /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/debmake/para.py-action="store_true", -- /usr/share/debmake/extra0desc_long/_long: This Debian binary package was auto-generated by the /usr/share/debmake/extra0desc_long/_long- debmake(1) command provided by the debmake package. -- /usr/share/debmake/extra0desc_long/_long_tutorial: This Debian binary package was auto-generated by the /usr/share/debmake/extra0desc_long/_long_tutorial- debmake(1) command provided by the debmake package. /usr/share/debmake/extra0desc_long/_long_tutorial- . /usr/share/debmake/extra0desc_long/_long_tutorial- = This comes from the unmodified template file = /usr/share/debmake/extra0desc_long/_long_tutorial- . /usr/share/debmake/extra0desc_long/_long_tutorial- Please edit this template file (debian/control) and other package files -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
