Package: lintian
Severity: important
Version: 2.36.0
Hello,
The cockpit package is a web application that ships some node_modules/ and the
generated webpacks from the source. This triggers a lot of lintian errors,
which are overridden [1] with
# node_modules ship pre-minified *.min.js alongside *.js
cockpit source: source-is-missing node_modules/*
# compiled translations can get rather long
cockpit source: source-is-missing dist/static/*po.*.html*
# dist/ is (pre-)built by webpack from pkg/ and node_modules, see
webpack.config.js
cockpit source: source-is-missing dist/*.js*
As far as I can see, this is still the currently documented syntax [2], and I
don't see anything related to this in the recent lintian changelog.
But these overrides now stopped working:
apt-get source -d cockpit
lintian --no-tag-display-limit cockpit_207-1.dsc
results in tons of complaints like
E: cockpit source: source-is-missing dist/static/login.po.ja.html line
length is 520 characters (>512)
E: cockpit source: source-is-missing node_modules/redux/dist/redux.min.js
This was still working up to lintian 2.32.0, but it fails with 2.36.0 and
2.37.0.
What does work is to simplify the overrides to
cockpit source: source-is-missing
But that's too big of a hammer -- I do want to keep the check for the real
source (src/, pkg/, etc.), just not for the pre-built bits.
Thanks,
Martin
[1]
https://salsa.debian.org/utopia-team/cockpit/blob/master/debian/source/lintian-overrides
[2] https://lintian.debian.org/manual/section-2.4.html
