Bug#482869: lintian: no-md5sums-control-file false positive on package containing only conffiles
On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 12:30:54PM -0400, Zack Weinberg wrote: I have a package that contains only conffiles and directories. (It works with another package that can, among other things, be used as a network server, by providing scripts and a directory hierarchy to make that easy.) [...] Naturally enough, dh_md5sums does not produce a checksums file for this package, which makes lintian object: $ lintian -I monotone_0.40-3_amd64.changes I: monotone-server: no-md5sums-control-file Please consider having this check verify that there are regular files in the package that are not conffiles. Hmm, I wonder if it wouldn't be better for dh_md5sums to generate an empty md5sums file in this case to make it clear that it checked but found no files that needed to be listed. Otherwise every other program that tries to use the information later will need to check again. OTOH they probably need to check anyway since an empty md5sums file also could be an error. Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.djpig.de/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#482869: lintian: no-md5sums-control-file false positive on package containing only conffiles
Frank Lichtenheld [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hmm, I wonder if it wouldn't be better for dh_md5sums to generate an empty md5sums file in this case to make it clear that it checked but found no files that needed to be listed. Otherwise every other program that tries to use the information later will need to check again. OTOH they probably need to check anyway since an empty md5sums file also could be an error. We do already have code that's supposed to check whether an md5sums control file is needed. It apparently isn't working right. (Naively, I would have thought that files in /etc would still have md5sums in the package? I'm probably just confused.) -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#482869: lintian: no-md5sums-control-file false positive on package containing only conffiles
Russ Allbery wrote: We do already have code that's supposed to check whether an md5sums control file is needed. It apparently isn't working right. (Naively, I would have thought that files in /etc would still have md5sums in the package? I'm probably just confused.) dpkg already includes md5sums for conffiles, so it's redundant to put those in the md5sums file (though dh_md5sums can do it if asked via -x). -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#482869: lintian: no-md5sums-control-file false positive on package containing only conffiles
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Russ Allbery wrote: We do already have code that's supposed to check whether an md5sums control file is needed. It apparently isn't working right. (Naively, I would have thought that files in /etc would still have md5sums in the package? I'm probably just confused.) dpkg already includes md5sums for conffiles, so it's redundant to put those in the md5sums file (though dh_md5sums can do it if asked via -x). Oh, okay, that makes perfect sense. Thanks. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#482869: lintian: no-md5sums-control-file false positive on package containing only conffiles
Package: lintian Version: 1.23.49 Severity: minor I have a package that contains only conffiles and directories. (It works with another package that can, among other things, be used as a network server, by providing scripts and a directory hierarchy to make that easy.) $ dpkg-deb --contents monotone-server_0.40-3_all.deb drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2008-05-25 12:03 ./ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2008-05-25 12:03 ./var/ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2008-05-25 12:03 ./var/lib/ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2008-05-25 12:03 ./var/lib/monotone/ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2008-05-25 12:03 ./var/lib/monotone/keys/ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2008-05-25 12:03 ./var/log/ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2008-05-25 12:03 ./var/log/monotone/ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2008-05-25 12:03 ./var/run/ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2008-05-25 12:03 ./var/run/monotone/ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2008-05-25 12:03 ./etc/ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2008-05-25 12:03 ./etc/monotone/ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2008-05-25 12:03 ./etc/default/ -rw-r--r-- root/root 394 2008-02-25 10:35 ./etc/default/monotone drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2008-05-25 12:03 ./etc/init.d/ -rwxr-xr-x root/root 2182 2008-02-25 10:35 ./etc/init.d/monotone drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2008-05-25 12:03 ./usr/ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2008-05-25 12:03 ./usr/share/ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2008-05-25 12:03 ./usr/share/doc/ lrwxrwxrwx root/root 0 2008-05-25 12:03 ./usr/share/doc/monotone-server - monotone Naturally enough, dh_md5sums does not produce a checksums file for this package, which makes lintian object: $ lintian -I monotone_0.40-3_amd64.changes I: monotone-server: no-md5sums-control-file Please consider having this check verify that there are regular files in the package that are not conffiles. (Note that version 0.40-3 of this package is not yet in the archive, and the versions that are currently available do contain some regular files.) -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils2.18.1~cvs20080103-6 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii diffstat1.45-2 produces graph of changes introduc ii dpkg-dev1.14.19 package building tools for Debian ii file4.24-2 Determines file type using magic ii gettext 0.17-2 GNU Internationalization utilities ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf ii libparse-debianchan 1.1.1-2 parse Debian changelogs and output ii liburi-perl 1.35.dfsg.1-1Manipulates and accesses URI strin ii man-db 2.5.2-1 on-line manual pager ii perl [libdigest-sha 5.10.0-10Larry Wall's Practical Extraction lintian recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
