Package: lintian
Version: 2.3.3
Severity: wishlist
USE CASE
A package, that consists of pure perl (or python) program is installed
in usr/bin (or any *bin* directory in general).
The debian/control::Architecture field is set to 'any'
SUGGESTION
Please check if all installed
Hey, just got your email back regarding my ad, i got a heck of a lot of emails
from that lol... what plans do you have tonight, interested in getting together?
-Jenni
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# hinders klibc dev
severity 573914 important
Bug #573914 [lintian] lintian: refine embedded-zlib for libc's other then glibc
Severity set to 'important' from 'normal'
thanks
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Package: lintian
Version: 2.3.3
Severity: wishlist
I'm not sure we should warn about packages using their local scons.mk (they
differ, maybe?) but at least it should be added to the list of stuff that
requires a versioned build dependency.
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Hi,
It's been a while since I wanted to bring this up.
Is there any objection to dropping the 'Testname' field from the
t/tests/*/desc files?
IIRC the value of Testname _must_ match the name of the directory containing
the desc file, otherwise runtests fails.
Given this requirement, I would
Raphael Geissert geiss...@debian.org writes:
It's been a while since I wanted to bring this up.
Is there any objection to dropping the 'Testname' field from the
t/tests/*/desc files?
IIRC the value of Testname _must_ match the name of the directory
containing the desc file, otherwise
The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit 363388f3a64b17916ad8abda596c3c44e6cebcd9
Author: Raphael Geissert atom...@gmail.com
Date: Sat Mar 20 13:37:46 2010 -0600
Add a test for timewarp-standards-version
diff --git
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commit 44e66dbe478349ba406aa3d8f0c2f8c3e7492ec1
Author: Raphael Geissert atom...@gmail.com
Date: Sat Mar 20 14:27:46 2010 -0600
Don't warn about timewarp-s-v but an UNRELEASED changelog
* checks/standards-version:
+
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commit 55125a397b04173deea1872dcb5d537d907d7fba
Author: Niko Tyni nt...@debian.org
Date: Sat Feb 6 22:43:15 2010 +0200
Fix binaries-multiarch test failure on !i386
The binaries-multiarch test output depends on the host
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commit 33b700534a2f0389158fdbd6055a9796798b781a
Author: Raphael Geissert atom...@gmail.com
Date: Sat Mar 20 14:36:44 2010 -0600
Add changelog for test failure fix, to close the bug with the upload
*
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commit 3296f6d116a7c27999f8c4c473dadf64aed6aee9
Author: Cyril Brulebois k...@debian.org
Date: Tue Mar 9 16:17:43 2010 +0100
Fix package-depends-on-hardcoded-libc check.
The glibc source package was renamed into eglibc.
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commit 893e141ef62926b165e13b0c8ddf744cdcaa3052
Author: Raphael Geissert atom...@gmail.com
Date: Sat Mar 20 14:54:05 2010 -0600
Add changelog entry for eglibc exception and tweak the change
* checks/control-file:
+
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commit ac4f93d4ccfcc3f7427be574cc67874cb3941507
Author: Russ Allbery r...@debian.org
Date: Sat Mar 20 13:58:04 2010 -0700
Allow ant1.7 to satisfy an ant build dependency
* checks/rules:
+ [RA] Allow ant1.7 to satisfy
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commit 5c1eb0d55dc1ad9446dc8b080b934dbbaaec6042
Author: Russ Allbery r...@debian.org
Date: Sat Mar 20 14:06:36 2010 -0700
Exclude klibc from the embedded-zlib check
* checks/binaries:
+ [RA] Exclude packages from the
Raphael Geissert wrote:
I've been working on Lintian::Command::Simple but got
stuck with the interface. I should probably push it somewhere and ask for
comments.
I've also done some work on making t/runtests run multiple jobs in
parallel (using perl threads, actually). There's just one
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#
# * checks/control-file:
#+ [RG] Update package-depends-on-hardcoded-libc exception to also
# exclude eglibc. Based on a patch from Cyril Brulebois.
# (Closes: #573398)
# *
Salut Cyril,
Cyril Brulebois wrote:
for the package-depends-on-hardcoded-libc tag, a check is performed on
'glibc', which is 'eglibc' now, resulting in false positives. The
attached patch should fix this, although I didn't actually check
eglibc's binaries afterwards.
Thanks for the
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commit 45bc3366a3fafdf00f21973918c1fe1ffdca18e6
Author: Russ Allbery r...@debian.org
Date: Sat Mar 20 14:25:28 2010 -0700
Globally ignore SIGPIPE
* frontend/lintian:
+ [RA] Globally ignore SIGPIPE, forcing error
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#
# * checks/binaries:
#+ [RA] Exclude packages from the klibc source package from the
# embedded zlib check since klibc legitimately includes its own copy.
# Thanks, maximilian attems.
Raphael Geissert geiss...@debian.org writes:
I'm attaching both changes. Comments? suggestions?
0007 includes the first set of changes of Lintian::Command::Simple. In
the .t file I was trying to decide the best way to handle multiple jobs
while still being able to recognise which one is
Russ Allbery wrote:
The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit ac4f93d4ccfcc3f7427be574cc67874cb3941507
Author: Russ Allbery rra-8fiuurrzop0dnm+yrof...@public.gmane.org
Date: Sat Mar 20 13:58:04 2010 -0700
Allow ant1.7 to satisfy an ant build dependency
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#lintian (2.3.4) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
#
# * frontend/lintian:
#+ [RA] Globally ignore SIGPIPE, forcing error return codes from write.
# Hopefully will resolve some unreproducible occasional crashes.
# (Closes: #558360)
#
devn...@lordb.de devn...@lordb.de writes:
Sorry for the delay. Today I had some time to try your approach. I've
attached the log to this email (I hope this works).
I've no real clue on how to read this file but I think the two last
lines describe the problem:
read(5, Package:
Package: lintian
Version: 2.3.3
Severity: wishlist
Hi
A restructure of a debian/rules file lead to one of my packages containing
symlinks called usr/share/java/* and usr/share/java/*.jar pointing
to ../../lib/eclipse/plugins/* and ../../lib/eclipse/plugins/*.jar
respectively.
I think it is
Dustin Kirkland kirkl...@canonical.com writes:
On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 15:54 -0800, Raphael Geissert wrote:
I don't think anything will be merged unless the concern about the
ubuntu- specific exclusion of some of the tests is also addressed. It
would be even better if ubuntu helped with the
Russ Allbery wrote:
Raphael Geissert writes:
I'm attaching both changes. Comments? suggestions?
0007 includes the first set of changes of Lintian::Command::Simple. In
the .t file I was trying to decide the best way to handle multiple jobs
while still being able to recognise which one is
Raphael Geissert geiss...@debian.org writes:
I was working on that very same bug and had the very same patch. What
stopped me from committing was that there _is_ a build-dependency on ant
(ORed, yes).
So it looks like there's another bug that needs to be fixed. Since you are
more familiar
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commit 5f971aa8471483d0177e444ec1126d858ce27663
Author: Jos Boumans k...@cpan.org
Date: Sat Mar 20 15:05:54 2010 -0700
Bypass init script checks if the script is a link to upstart-job
diff --git a/checks/init.d b/checks/init.d
The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit 63ba2e6c2dff886e83350739f9ba5baed0291e86
Author: Russ Allbery r...@debian.org
Date: Sat Mar 20 15:40:14 2010 -0700
Exclude init script symlinks to upstart-job from syntax checks
* checks/init.d:
+ [RA] Exclude
Raphael Geissert geiss...@debian.org writes:
Heh, yeah. Those were terribly-chosen names but I lacked imagination
that day :) What do you suggest to use as names instead of fork() and
exec()?
background() and run() maybe?
what about the interface to reap jobs?
wait() seems fine there.
On 20 March 2010 16:17, Russ Allbery r...@debian.org wrote:
Lintian::Relation is functioning correctly. A dependency on ant | ant1.7
does not satisfy a requirement for ant, since the ant1.7 branch could be
taken. (This is more obvious if you consider that from Lintian's
perspective the
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commit 23039b9fd282951be16c78f4021212dfc375bdcd
Author: Russ Allbery r...@debian.org
Date: Sat Mar 20 16:11:00 2010 -0700
Check for a new upstream release without new upstream version
* checks/changelog-file{,.desc}:
tags 567485 wontfix
thanks
Jean-Christophe Dubacq jcduba...@free.fr writes:
Though the check is correct, it should not be severity serious: the
format of the Changed-By (and the Maintainer field) is not mandated by a
MUST, only a SHOULD.
I don't agree for two reasons:
*
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tags 573088 - patch
Bug #573088 [lintian] Allow and recommend shasums control file
Removed tag(s) patch.
severity 573088 wishlist
Bug #573088 [lintian] Allow and recommend shasums
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tags 567485 wontfix
Bug #567485 [lintian] [checks/lintian] changed-by-name-missing is not Severity:
serious
Added tag(s) wontfix.
thanks
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#lintian (2.3.4) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
#
# * checks/init.d:
#+ [RA] Exclude symlinks to upstart-job from init script syntax checks.
# Based on a patch by Jos Boumans. (Closes: #569492)
#
limit source lintian
Limiting to bugs
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commit d064ef09819f1a44885944fc41e87bbfd2f92de1
Author: Russ Allbery r...@debian.org
Date: Sat Mar 20 16:25:14 2010 -0700
Exclude *-common packages from weak-library-dev-dependency
* checks/control-file:
+ [RA] Also
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#lintian (2.3.4) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
#
# * checks/changelog-file{,.desc}:
#+ [RA] New check for a changelog entry indicating a new upstream
# release but no change in the upstream portion of the package
# version. Idea
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#lintian (2.3.4) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
#
# * checks/control-file:
#+ [RG] Update package-depends-on-hardcoded-libc exception to also
# exclude eglibc. Based on a patch from Cyril Brulebois.
# (Closes: #573398)
#+ [RA]
The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit 6befbc54f4c33bf9b6002bba6d5fcc800bc4999f
Author: Russ Allbery r...@debian.org
Date: Sat Mar 20 16:43:49 2010 -0700
Fix md5sums test problems in the etcfiles legacy test suite
* testset/etcfiles/:
+ [RA] Fix
Michael Biebl bi...@debian.org writes:
the rsyslog init script has the following LSB header
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: rsyslog
# Required-Start:$remote_fs $time
# Required-Stop: umountnfs $time
# X-Stop-After: sendsigs
# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
#
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#lintian (2.3.4) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
#
# * testset/etcfiles/:
#+ [RA] Fix problems with the md5sums test suite construction in the
# legacy etcfiles test. Thanks, Frank Lin PIAT. (Closes: #573081)
#
limit source lintian
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commit 4cc4aca61813fb9b9b064dceb155185fb0cfa5ae
Author: Russ Allbery r...@debian.org
Date: Sat Mar 20 16:58:09 2010 -0700
Suppress missing separator tag if substvars are in use
* checks/control-file:
+ [RA] Suppress
The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit 79a1d215357fc43c7098ffe6f8a0c10b8d2a3596
Author: Russ Allbery r...@debian.org
Date: Sat Mar 20 17:12:26 2010 -0700
Allow umountn?fs instead of $*_fs in LSB init headers
* checks/init.d:
+ [RA] Allow umountnfs
On 21.03.2010 00:37, Russ Allbery wrote:
Michael Biebl bi...@debian.org writes:
the rsyslog init script has the following LSB header
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: rsyslog
# Required-Start:$remote_fs $time
# Required-Stop: umountnfs $time
# X-Stop-After: sendsigs
Michael Biebl bi...@debian.org writes:
I don't think your analysis is correct.
The rsyslog header has a
Required-Stop: umountnfs
i.e. it is stopped before umountnfs.
As /usr can be a remote fs in Debian, this means, rsyslog is stopped
before /usr (or for that matter /var) is unmounted
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#
# * checks/control-file:
#+ [RG] Update package-depends-on-hardcoded-libc exception to also
# exclude eglibc. Based on a patch from Cyril Brulebois.
# (Closes: #573398)
#+ [RA]
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retitle 563773 [checks/patch-systems] false positive if a patch in
debian/patches is a symlink
Bug #563773 [lintian] lintian: false positive if a patch in debian/patches is a
symlink
Changed Bug title to '[checks/patch-systems] false positive
Your message dated Sat, 20 Mar 2010 17:00:50 -0700
with message-id 87iq8qo85p@windlord.stanford.edu
and subject line Re: Bug#574572: lintian: false positives with shared libraries
has caused the Debian Bug report #574572,
regarding lintian: false positives with shared libraries
to be marked as
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#
# * checks/init.d:
#+ [RA] Exclude symlinks to upstart-job from init script syntax checks.
# Based on a patch by Jos Boumans. (Closes: #569492)
#+ [RA] Allow umountnfs to satisfy a
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commit 6c27e7c9ea1e9d1fc91abf470bd679622ebe1275
Author: Modestas Vainius modes...@vainius.eu
Date: Sat Mar 20 17:41:08 2010 -0700
Avoid trailing whitespace for symbols dependency on other package
If dependency is not
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commit 495a39f7ee976092a5409ed46835e01960f566df
Author: Russ Allbery r...@debian.org
Date: Sat Mar 20 17:42:54 2010 -0700
Add changelog for symbols dependency tag fix
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index
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commit 1d4a12d3d684a021a670b31b864b65e56366acdd
Author: Jari Aalto jari.aa...@cante.net
Date: Tue Mar 2 23:55:16 2010 +0200
checks/cruft.desc: improve native-package-with-dash-version
Signed-off-by: Jari Aalto
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commit 7179bf83c803d0c421449d528889143b1937f215
Author: Russ Allbery r...@debian.org
Date: Sat Mar 20 17:48:14 2010 -0700
Improve native-package-with-dash-version wording
Rewrite the tag long description a bit more to be
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commit e430927c171ac520c9c05f13634cf2bebe000352
Author: Russ Allbery r...@debian.org
Date: Sat Mar 20 17:51:24 2010 -0700
Add bug closer for #572298
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index ef5cd1d..710521c 100755
---
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commit 4a9c91ca82d9955c9c6f388fbd9f89bb1a32d8a6
Author: Russ Allbery r...@debian.org
Date: Sat Mar 20 17:54:23 2010 -0700
Reword source-contains-prebuilt-windows-binary description
* checks/cruft.desc:
+ [RA] Reword
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commit 7b2e01ff676fa20dd02183f4a1ac89fcf0f838bf
Author: Frans Pop elen...@planet.nl
Date: Sat Mar 20 18:00:41 2010 -0700
Don't warn about length of short description of text templates
For udebs all cases are templates of
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commit fa28867552d172d2adcbf14f16699661d42844da
Author: Russ Allbery r...@debian.org
Date: Sat Mar 20 18:03:37 2010 -0700
Add changelog for udeb text template debconf fix
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index
Raphael Geissert geiss...@debian.org writes:
The other day while fixing a bug that made lintian fail to install
together with locales-all (but no 'locales' package,) I only
workarounded the bug.
Doing the following should demonstrate a case where lintian is left
without a locale:
apt-get
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retitle 567451 [general] could be left without a functional locale in some
cases
Bug #567451 [lintian] lintian: could be left without a functional locale in
some cases
Changed Bug title to '[general] could be left without a functional locale in
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#
# * checks/cruft.desc:
#+ [RA] Provide more information in native-package-with-dash-version
# long description about how native packages can be created by
# mistake. Thanks, Jari
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#lintian (2.3.4) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
#
# * checks/shared-libs:
#+ [RA] symbols-declares-dependency-on-other-package should not have
# trailing whitespace for unversioned dependencies. Patch from
# Modestas Vainius.
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#lintian (2.3.4) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
#
# * checks/cruft.desc:
#+ [RA] Provide more information in native-package-with-dash-version
# long description about how native packages can be created by
# mistake. Thanks, Jari
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#lintian (2.3.4) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
#
# * checks/debconf:
#+ [RA] Don't warn about the length of the short description for
# templates of type text in udebs, since they're frequently used by
# including them into other
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commit 2e37cf41dab7efeda3f5d4d228f94bfed01de267
Author: Raphaël Hertzog hert...@debian.org
Date: Wed Mar 3 20:04:34 2010 +0100
Simplify collection/debfiles to copy the debian directory entirely
Despite the comment in the
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commit 605002a29c854d19ed4e9968e99e35f70a5043c4
Author: Raphaël Hertzog hert...@debian.org
Date: Wed Mar 3 20:26:23 2010 +0100
New check script debian-source-dir
This script is meant to contain all checks made on
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commit 20c55612944e2cbf91e82f6a49447037b56105b2
Author: Raphaël Hertzog hert...@debian.org
Date: Wed Mar 3 20:43:47 2010 +0100
Fix description of unsupported-source-format
The check has been modified to allow 3.0
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commit 2f987268fa5d5b2edcc726e120c6f7e0b23e36b0
Author: Raphaël Hertzog hert...@debian.org
Date: Wed Mar 3 20:47:09 2010 +0100
Define source format to be 3.0 (native)
This makes lintian lintian-clean again after the
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commit 9ab83d6ef424d6e94372709c1ce525f0c615ee4a
Author: Raphaël Hertzog hert...@debian.org
Date: Wed Mar 3 21:30:23 2010 +0100
New tag unknown-file-in-debian-source
The new tag is issued for unknown/unrecognized files in
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commit 3ce5911d688711674ace5b16ff4eb4c2b27f69c6
Author: Russ Allbery r...@debian.org
Date: Sat Mar 20 19:01:30 2010 -0700
Coding style and related cleanups for debian-source-dir
Document the new check script in lintian.1,
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commit 6ed7853bb719aeced152e394c3b542061e8ed001
Author: Russ Allbery r...@debian.org
Date: Sat Mar 20 19:03:37 2010 -0700
Add a summary of tag changes so far in this release
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index
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commit 4d8d638f295b9f935333714d9ee957b97b70e199
Author: Russ Allbery r...@debian.org
Date: Sat Mar 20 19:04:13 2010 -0700
Remove using-old-source-format tag for right now
diff --git a/checks/debian-source-dir
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commit ca2ae307a53faa63097ee0f2520dec6522a14717
Author: Russ Allbery r...@debian.org
Date: Sat Mar 20 19:24:35 2010 -0700
Add basic tests for debian-source-dir
diff --git
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commit 9c556fa206ed71a1cafcdce6c61d3c21f30b8e45
Author: Russ Allbery r...@debian.org
Date: Sat Mar 20 19:31:58 2010 -0700
Update test suite for new source format tag
diff --git a/t/source/control-field-traversal-1/Makefile
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commit 5eb50bf8b687cf1ba2534a8f1c5a98aa3540f7c2
Author: Russ Allbery r...@debian.org
Date: Sat Mar 20 19:32:57 2010 -0700
Escape all angle brackets in cruft tag long description
The modification to
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#
# * checks/debian-source-dir{,.desc}:
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# about debian/source/* control files including checking for a source
#
[re-sending as I suspect it hit an attachment size limit]
Hi everyone,
With the last set of changes to Lintian::Command::Simple, it is now
possible
to use the dependencies-based version without regressions.
So, I was wondering if these changes could make their way into the next
release.
The
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commit 71fdabfdfe19dfc21182617b95dbc7c214b4b9d1
Author: Russ Allbery r...@debian.org
Date: Sat Mar 20 20:58:06 2010 -0700
Fix multiarch test in legacy libbaz
ia32-libbaz2 triggers a multiarch error if it's arch: all. Set
Raphael Geissert geiss...@debian.org writes:
Russ Allbery wrote:
Is there any way that we can fix the output handling so that at least
it won't intersperse output from multiple threads? Making failures
basically unreadable is unappealing, and I assume that's the possible
result. Can we use
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commit c42d026dadd710ee1f66c51628205e4a48c9324c
Author: Raphael Geissert atom...@gmail.com
Date: Sat Mar 20 22:23:42 2010 -0600
Run multiple Perl TAP tests in parallel
Defaults to two jobs and can be configured with the -j
Russ Allbery wrote:
Raphael Geissert writes:
Russ Allbery wrote:
Is there any way that we can fix the output handling so that at least
it won't intersperse output from multiple threads? Making failures
basically unreadable is unappealing, and I assume that's the possible
result. Can we
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tags 568748 patch
Bug #568748 [lintian] lintian: check for deprecated Debian-specific Makefile.PL
usage
Added tag(s) patch.
thanks
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