Bug#934899: lintian tries and fail to unpack non ar archives

2019-08-16 Thread Felix Lechner
Hi, According to 'git bisect' I introduced this bug when I provided a defective implementation of `safe_qx` based on IO::Async in commit 39cd0295by, and unwittingly fixed it in commit 0d8ed5fa. The fix was committed a few hours before the bug was filed. It was just-in-time development! The

Bug#934899: lintian tries and fail to unpack non ar archives

2019-08-16 Thread Felix Lechner
Hi Aurelien, On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 2:39 AM Aurelien Jarno wrote: > > lintian should probably check the type of the file before trying to > unpack it, as already done for .so files. I wrote a merge request for it: https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/merge_requests/249 but oddly, the

Bug#934899: lintian tries and fail to unpack non ar archives

2019-08-16 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Package: lintian Version: 2.18.0 Severity: normal Running lintian on the libc6-dev package leads to the following error: | Command ar t usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.a exited with status 1: ar: usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.a: file format not recognized | warning: collect info ar-info about