Bug#710086: lintian: reports package-contains-ancient-file where this is not an error

2013-05-28 Thread Ole Streicher
Package: lintian Version: 2.5.10.5 Severity: normal Tags: upstream X-Debugs-CC: debian-de...@lists.debian.org Dear Lintian maintainers, I am currently working on the (re-)packaging of the IRAF astronomical package [1]. This is a huge package with old roots -- the history goes back to 1981.

Bug#710086: lintian: reports package-contains-ancient-file where this is not an error

2013-05-28 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-05-28 09:38, Ole Streicher wrote: Package: lintian Version: 2.5.10.5 Severity: normal Tags: upstream X-Debugs-CC: debian-de...@lists.debian.org Dear Lintian maintainers, Hi, Thanks for your report. I am currently working on the (re-)packaging of the IRAF astronomical package

Bug#710086: lintian: reports package-contains-ancient-file where this is not an error

2013-05-28 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
On 05/28/2013 10:42, Niels Thykier wrote: I am currently working on the (re-)packaging of the IRAF astronomical package [1]. This is a huge package with old roots -- the history goes back to 1981. Therefore, the package contains a number of files which are quite old -- some help files,

[SCM] Debian package checker branch, master, updated. 2.5.12-134-gc954636

2013-05-28 Thread Niels Thykier
The following commit has been merged in the master branch: commit c954636c95cba071f77ec12d4044011620abc892 Author: Niels Thykier ni...@thykier.net Date: Tue May 28 14:07:53 2013 +0200 lintian: Bounds check the exit code in END lintian is documented to exit with 0, 1 or 2. However,

[SCM] Debian package checker branch, master, updated. 2.5.12-134-gc954636

2013-05-28 Thread Niels Thykier
The following commit has been merged in the master branch: commit fd43a998119df260e7fefc41bbb4f92a52e23ba5 Author: Niels Thykier ni...@thykier.net Date: Tue May 28 13:44:37 2013 +0200 lintian: Use autodie for checking open/close etc. Signed-off-by: Niels Thykier ni...@thykier.net

Bug#710132: Add /bin/false to list of known interpreters

2013-05-28 Thread Ryan Kavanagh
Package: lintian Version: 2.5.10.5 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Please add /bin/false to the list of known interpreters. This will remove 157 overrides from http://lintian.debian.org/tags/unusual-interpreter.html and save an additional 146 overrides from being contributed by the texi2html

[SCM] Debian package checker branch, master, updated. 2.5.12-135-gf7abbc2

2013-05-28 Thread Niels Thykier
The following commit has been merged in the master branch: commit f7abbc208a4ed6bebcf777aded7fd323474f1c39 Author: Niels Thykier ni...@thykier.net Date: Tue May 28 16:48:59 2013 +0200 data/.../interpreters: Add /bin/false as interpreter Signed-off-by: Niels Thykier

Processed: limit source to lintian, tagging 710132

2013-05-28 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: #lintian (2.5.13) UNRELEASED; urgency=low # # * data/scripts/interpreters: #+ [NT] Add false as known interpreters due to widespread # use of it in #!-lines. Thanks to Ryan Kavanagh for the # repoort. (Closes:#710132) #

Bug#709365: lintian: check for standard license short names

2013-05-28 Thread Clint Adams
On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 11:07:28PM +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote: FWIW, BSD (2 clause), BSD License and GPL (v2 or later) are not even syntactically correct, because spaces are not allowed in short license names. This helps a lot. The new patch checks for the space problem and also some incorrect

Bug#709365: license strings

2013-05-28 Thread Clint Adams
For the historical record, I attach a sampling of license short names found in debian/copyright files claiming to be dep5 or copyright format 1.0. License: License: License: License: - License: 2-clause BSD License: 3BSD-like License: 3-clause BSD License: Academic License: Academic or LGPL-2+

Bug#710132: Add /bin/false to list of known interpreters

2013-05-28 Thread Russ Allbery
Ryan Kavanagh r...@debian.org writes: Please add /bin/false to the list of known interpreters. This will remove 157 overrides from http://lintian.debian.org/tags/unusual-interpreter.html and save an additional 146 overrides from being contributed by the texi2html package. Personally, I