Bug#917120: lintian: Lintianrc should contain valid configuration
retitle 917120 lintian: misleading line format description in lintianrc thanks Salvo, > # Also note, that this file uses a special syntax: > # Empty lines are allowed, comments are introduced by a hash sign (#). > # All other lines must have the format > #VAR=text > # or > #VAR="text" I don't read this as forbidding spaces myself, but I would concede that it could be ambiguous so very happy to update the comment. For the avoidance of doubt, I was asking you to copy-paste exactly what you were seeing and reading (text, errors, etc.) just in case we had different file contents. When filing bugs, please do try and a) be as explicit as possible and b) avoid making assumptions about what the problem is (your bug title is misleading; the commented-out syntax is perfectly valid). We could have saved a number of round-trips at the very least. :) Best wishes, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` la...@debian.org / chris-lamb.co.uk `-
Bug#917120: lintian: Lintianrc should contain valid configuration
# Also note, that this file uses a special syntax: # Empty lines are allowed, comments are introduced by a hash sign (#). # All other lines must have the format #VAR=text # or #VAR="text" # It is allowed to use `~' and `$HOME' in the variables, but not other # shell/environment variables. # Enable info tags by default (--display info) #display-info = yes # Limit the number of parallel unpacking jobs to X (--jobs) #jobs = 8 # Enable pedantic tags by default (--pedantic) #pedantic = yes In the example syntax, spaces do not seem to be allowed. Il giorno dom 23 dic 2018 alle ore 01:00 Chris Lamb ha scritto: > > Hi Salvo, > > > No error message, just that the comment at the top of the file states > > that var assignments should have no spaces, and then all the example > > assignments have spaces. > > I don't see any reference to spaces being illegal in this file. Please > could you copy-paste what you are seeing? I'm struggling to see what > the bug is here and we appear to be making a number of unnecessary > round-trips. :) > > > Regards, > > -- > ,''`. > : :' : Chris Lamb > `. `'` la...@debian.org / chris-lamb.co.uk >`- -- Salvo Tomaselli "Io non mi sento obbligato a credere che lo stesso Dio che ci ha dotato di senso, ragione ed intelletto intendesse che noi ne facessimo a meno." -- Galileo Galilei http://ltworf.github.io/ltworf/
Bug#917120: lintian: Lintianrc should contain valid configuration
Hi Salvo, > No error message, just that the comment at the top of the file states > that var assignments should have no spaces, and then all the example > assignments have spaces. I don't see any reference to spaces being illegal in this file. Please could you copy-paste what you are seeing? I'm struggling to see what the bug is here and we appear to be making a number of unnecessary round-trips. :) Regards, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` la...@debian.org / chris-lamb.co.uk `-
Bug#917120: lintian: Lintianrc should contain valid configuration
No error message, just that the comment at the top of the file states that var assignments should have no spaces, and then all the example assignments have spaces. Unless I am misinterpreting the meaning of the comment, but the example syntax there has no spaces. Il giorno dom 23 dic 2018 alle ore 00:24 Chris Lamb ha scritto: > > tags 917120 + moreinfo > thanks > > Hi Salvo, > > > According to the comments at the beginning of the file, /etc/lintianrc uses > > shell syntax (it gets sourced I presume). > > Hm? It's not shell, it's parsed with: > > > https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/blob/master/commands/lintian.pm#L1240 > > > It would be better if people could just uncomment, rather than needing to > > fix > > the syntax as well. > > What error message(s) are you seeing, specifically? > > > Regards, > > -- > ,''`. > : :' : Chris Lamb > `. `'` la...@debian.org / chris-lamb.co.uk >`- -- Salvo Tomaselli "Io non mi sento obbligato a credere che lo stesso Dio che ci ha dotato di senso, ragione ed intelletto intendesse che noi ne facessimo a meno." -- Galileo Galilei http://ltworf.github.io/ltworf/
Bug#917120: lintian: Lintianrc should contain valid configuration
tags 917120 + moreinfo thanks Hi Salvo, > According to the comments at the beginning of the file, /etc/lintianrc uses > shell syntax (it gets sourced I presume). Hm? It's not shell, it's parsed with: https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/blob/master/commands/lintian.pm#L1240 > It would be better if people could just uncomment, rather than needing to fix > the syntax as well. What error message(s) are you seeing, specifically? Regards, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` la...@debian.org / chris-lamb.co.uk `-
Bug#917120: lintian: Lintianrc should contain valid configuration
Package: lintian Version: 2.5.117 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, According to the comments at the beginning of the file, /etc/lintianrc uses shell syntax (it gets sourced I presume). However all the later commented example options do not use said valid syntax. It would be better if people could just uncomment, rather than needing to fix the syntax as well. Best -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.18.16 (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE= (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.31.1-11 ii bzip2 1.0.6-9 ii diffstat 1.62-1 ii dpkg 1.19.2 ii dpkg-dev 1.19.2 ii file 1:5.34-2 ii gettext0.19.8.1-9 ii gpg2.2.12-1 ii intltool-debian0.35.0+20060710.4 ii libapt-pkg-perl0.1.34+b1 ii libarchive-zip-perl1.64-1 ii libcgi-pm-perl 4.40-1 ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.51-1 ii libclone-perl 0.41-1+b1 pn libdigest-sha-perl ii libdpkg-perl 1.19.2 ii libemail-valid-perl1.202-1 ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.08-1 ii libipc-run-perl20180523.0-1 ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.416-1+b4 ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-13 ii libtext-levenshtein-perl 0.13-1 ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-2 ii liburi-perl1.74-1 ii libxml-simple-perl 2.25-1 ii libyaml-libyaml-perl 0.75+repack-1 ii man-db 2.8.4-3 ii patchutils 0.3.4-2 ii perl 5.28.1-3 ii t1utils1.41-2 ii xz-utils 5.2.2-1.3 Versions of packages lintian recommends: pn libperlio-gzip-perl Versions of packages lintian suggests: pn binutils-multiarch ii libhtml-parser-perl3.72-3+b3 pn libtext-template-perl -- no debconf information
