Bug#942493: lintian: Complain of too long header fields
Hi Felix Am 09.11.19 um 00:27 schrieb Felix Lechner: >> Given that systemd-tests-dbgsym is an autogenerated package, there isn't >> really something that can be done to reduce the number of characters, or >> is there? > > Unless there is a flag that indicates autobuilding, we could exempt > all packages ending in -dbgsym. > > Alternatively, we could exempt the field Build-Ids. Or, we could > except Build-Ids only in dbgsym packages. Please let us know. I don't have a preference here or the insight to judge which option is better suited or not. Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Bug#942493: lintian: Complain of too long header fields
Hi, On Fri, Nov 8, 2019 at 2:57 PM Michael Biebl wrote: > > > 1/ emit a warning when a field is larger than say 16K (somehow to force > >the maintainer to think twice whether's he's doing something > >reasonable) > > > > 2/ emit an error when a field is larger than 200K (it breaks reprepro > >above 256K) Lintian currently issues only a single tag---an error---for any field value exceeding 5000 characters. > > This should be applied to .deb headers and .dsc headers. (.changes headers > > are less interesting as they are auto-generated without much control by > > the maintainer, or are a simple copy of fields already present in other > > files). Lintian currently issue the tag for all files. > this now triggers an error in systemd: > E: systemd-tests-dbgsym: field-too-long 'Build-Ids' (8568 chars > 5000) > > Given that systemd-tests-dbgsym is an autogenerated package, there isn't > really something that can be done to reduce the number of characters, or > is there? Unless there is a flag that indicates autobuilding, we could exempt all packages ending in -dbgsym. Alternatively, we could exempt the field Build-Ids. Or, we could except Build-Ids only in dbgsym packages. Please let us know. Kind regards, Felix Lechner
Bug#942493: lintian: Complain of too long header fields
Hi On Thu, 17 Oct 2019 09:51:39 +0200 =?utf-8?q?Rapha=C3=ABl_Hertzog?= wrote: > Package: lintian > Version: 2.27.0 > Severity: wishlist > > Based on the problem discovered in #942487 where a Provides line of more > than 256K slipped in the archive, I believe it would be nice if lintian > could: > > 1/ emit a warning when a field is larger than say 16K (somehow to force >the maintainer to think twice whether's he's doing something >reasonable) > > 2/ emit an error when a field is larger than 200K (it breaks reprepro >above 256K) > > This should be applied to .deb headers and .dsc headers. (.changes headers > are less interesting as they are auto-generated without much control by > the maintainer, or are a simple copy of fields already present in other > files). this now triggers an error in systemd: E: systemd-tests-dbgsym: field-too-long 'Build-Ids' (8568 chars > 5000) N: N:The length of the specified field is too long. N: N:Overly-long fields not only can break some tools tools (eg. reprepro(1)) N:they can waste space as they are shipped to all users. N: N:Please reduce the number of characters. N: N:Refer to https://bugs.debian.org/942493 for details. N: N:Severity: important, Certainty: certain N: N:Check: fields/length, Type: binary, udeb, source Given that systemd-tests-dbgsym is an autogenerated package, there isn't really something that can be done to reduce the number of characters, or is there? -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Bug#942493: lintian: Complain of too long header fields
Package: lintian Version: 2.27.0 Severity: wishlist Based on the problem discovered in #942487 where a Provides line of more than 256K slipped in the archive, I believe it would be nice if lintian could: 1/ emit a warning when a field is larger than say 16K (somehow to force the maintainer to think twice whether's he's doing something reasonable) 2/ emit an error when a field is larger than 200K (it breaks reprepro above 256K) This should be applied to .deb headers and .dsc headers. (.changes headers are less interesting as they are auto-generated without much control by the maintainer, or are a simple copy of fields already present in other files). -- System Information: Debian Release: bullseye/sid APT prefers oldoldstable APT policy: (500, 'oldoldstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.33.1-1 ii bzip21.0.8-2 ii diffstat 1.62-1+b1 ii dpkg 1.19.7 ii dpkg-dev 1.19.7 ii file 1:5.37-5 ii gettext 0.19.8.1-9 ii gpg 2.2.17-3 ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.5 ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.36+b2 ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.67-1 ii libcapture-tiny-perl 0.48-1 ii libcgi-pm-perl 4.44-1 ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.51-1 ii libclone-perl0.41-1+b2 ii libdpkg-perl 1.19.7 ii libemail-valid-perl 1.202-1 ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.08-1 ii libfile-find-rule-perl 0.34-1 ii libio-async-loop-epoll-perl 0.20-1 ii libio-async-perl 0.74-1 ii libipc-run-perl 20180523.0-1 ii liblist-compare-perl 0.53-1 ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.416-1+b5 ii libmoo-perl 2.003004-2 ii libpath-tiny-perl0.108-1 ii libtext-levenshtein-perl 0.13-1 ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-2 ii libtry-tiny-perl 0.30-1 ii libtype-tiny-perl1.004004-1 ii liburi-perl 1.76-1 ii libxml-simple-perl 2.25-1 ii libyaml-libyaml-perl 0.80+repack-2+b1 ii man-db 2.8.7-3 ii patchutils 0.3.4-2+b1 ii perl [libdigest-sha-perl]5.30.0-7 ii t1utils 1.41-3 ii xz-utils 5.2.4-1+b1 Versions of packages lintian recommends: ii libperlio-gzip-perl 0.19-1+b6 Versions of packages lintian suggests: pn binutils-multiarch ii libhtml-parser-perl3.72-3+b4 ii libtext-template-perl 1.55-1 -- no debconf information
