Bug#745763: license-problem-non-free-RFC: False positive when describing license conditions

2022-05-05 Thread Ben Finney
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Bug#1006348: lintian: Tag improbable-bug-number-in-closes condition considers 7-digit bug numbers improbable

2022-02-23 Thread Ben Finney
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Bug#1006348: lintian: Tag improbable-bug-number-in-closes condition considers 7-digit bug numbers improbable

2022-02-23 Thread Ben Finney
On 24-Feb-2022, Ben Finney wrote: > Currently the tag's condition matches all bug numbers 100 or > higher: > > = > W: xkcdpass: improbable-bug-number-in-closes 1006311 > = > > The maximum bug number should be increased to allow likely bug numbers > f

Bug#1006348: lintian: Tag improbable-bug-number-in-closes condition considers 7-digit bug numbers improbable

2022-02-23 Thread Ben Finney
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Bug#1006347: lintian: Tag ‘improbable-bug-number-in-closes’ description inaccurate

2022-02-23 Thread Ben Finney
/bugs-number’, but I don't know whether Lintian tag descriptions can be dynamically populated that way. -- \“Technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral.” | `\ —Melvin Kranzberg's First Law of Technology | _o__)

Bug#943684: lintian: Refine ‘override_dh_auto_test’ check to trigger only when different command

2019-10-27 Thread Ben Finney
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Bug#920184: lintian: incorrectly parses an unfinalised changelog entry

2019-01-22 Thread Ben Finney
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Bug#920184: lintian: incorrectly parses an unfinalised changelog entry

2019-01-22 Thread Ben Finney
On 22-Jan-2019, Ben Finney wrote: > In earlier Lintian versions (e.g. 2.5.94) an unfinalised changelog > entry would be handled correctly: no maintainer and no release timestamp. > > […] > > (Could this be related to the recent Lintian change “[…] now we are > trialling using

Bug#920184: lintian: incorrectly parses an unfinalised changelog entry

2019-01-22 Thread Ben Finney
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Bug#890959: lintian: inconsistent use of “header” terminology

2018-02-20 Thread Ben Finney
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Bug#890959: lintian: inconsistent use of “header” terminology

2018-02-20 Thread Ben Finney
cal branch) Disambiguate the overloaded “header” references. ---- Ben Finney (8): Refer to the marker as a marker. Use the term “header field” for the field in an email message header. Use the correct term “key” for a key

Bug#890959: lintian: inconsistent use of “header” terminology

2018-02-20 Thread Ben Finney
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Bug#885042: Check inclusion of Apache 2.0 NOTICE files

2018-01-20 Thread Ben Finney
quest to explain your position, so again, thanks. -- \“My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. | `\ Unless there are three other people.” —Orson Welles | _o__) | Ben Finney signature.asc

Bug#885042: Check inclusion of Apache 2.0 NOTICE files

2018-01-19 Thread Ben Finney
On 19-Jan-2018, Russ Allbery wrote: > Ben Finney writes: > > > We may be describing different problems. I am responding to a bug report > > that claims: > > > Apache 2.0 requires distributing any NOTICE file along with > > derivative works […] > &

Bug#885042: Check inclusion of Apache 2.0 NOTICE files

2018-01-19 Thread Ben Finney
On 19-Jan-2018, Russ Allbery wrote: > Ben Finney writes: > > > Why the entire contents? The only thing that clause requires is “the > > attribution notices contained within such NOTICE file”. > > Let's make this more concrete, because I'm not sure you understan

Bug#885042: Check inclusion of Apache 2.0 NOTICE files

2018-01-19 Thread Ben Finney
On 19-Jan-2018, Russ Allbery wrote: > Ben Finney writes: > > > That does require “Derivative Works […] must include a readable > > copy of the attribution notices contained within such NOTICE file > > […] in at least one of the following places: […] within the Source &

Bug#885042: Check inclusion of Apache 2.0 NOTICE files

2018-01-19 Thread Ben Finney
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Bug#886219: lintian should be less pedantic about latest policy version

2018-01-03 Thread Ben Finney
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Bug#863386: lintian: ‘libjs-fields-wrong-section’ should recommend “Section: javascript”

2017-05-25 Thread Ben Finney
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Bug#815308: streamlining license version "or later" version syntax

2016-02-20 Thread Ben Finney
line pilot. I got fired because I kept | `\ locking the keys in the plane. They caught me on an 80 foot | _o__)stepladder with a coathanger.” —Steven Wright | Ben Finney

Bug#784012: lintian: Allow quoted distribution name when checking experimental-to-unstable-without-comment

2015-05-01 Thread Ben Finney
| _o__) | Ben Finney The following changes since commit a0bac6cda42e8822aaf3c069cdfa82bb1fb4a30a: checks.pot: Update (2015-05-01 18:43:01 +0200) are available in the git repository at: https://bull.codes/git/bignose/lintian/ for

Bug#776267: lintian: Add check for unsupported PyPI URL in debian/watch

2015-01-31 Thread Ben Finney
_o__) | Ben Finney --- a/checks/watch-file.desc +++ b/checks/watch-file.desc @@ -174,3 +174,15 @@ Certainty: certain Info: The watch file contains a standard template included by dh_make. Please remove them once you have implemented the watch file. +Tag: debian-watch-file-unsupported-pyp

Bug#776267: lintian: Add check for unsupported PyPI URL in debian/watch

2015-01-31 Thread Ben Finney
om my job the other day. They said my | `\ personality was weird. … That's okay, I have four more.” | _o__) —Bug-Eyed Earl, _Red Meat_ | Ben Finney signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#766118: lintian: False positive for “missing-license-paragraph-in-dep5-copyright”

2014-10-20 Thread Ben Finney
ian release? -- \“[It's] best to confuse only one issue at a time.” —Brian W. | `\ Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie, _The C programming language_, 1988 | _o__) | Ben Finney signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#766118: lintian: False positive for “missing-license-paragraph-in-dep5-copyright”

2014-10-20 Thread Ben Finney
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Bug#762154: lintian: ignore header's license field for missing-license-paragraph-in-dep5-copyright ?

2014-10-20 Thread Ben Finney
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Bug#733120: Clarify description of tag ‘privacy-breach-google-adsense’

2013-12-25 Thread Ben Finney
we abandon our own reason, and are content to rely | `\ upon authority, there is no end to our troubles.” —Bertrand | _o__)Russell, _Unpopular Essays_, 1950 | Ben Finney diff --git a/checks/files.desc b/checks/files.desc index fd6ccae..c4258e0 100644 --- a

Bug#729096: lintian: new policy version 3.9.5 available

2013-11-11 Thread Ben Finney
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Bug#587837: lintian: tag ‘description-too-long’ should be severity ‘minor’

2010-07-01 Thread Ben Finney
Package: lintian Version: 2.4.1 Severity: normal Russ Allbery writes: > Ben Finney writes: > > Russ Allbery writes: > > >> Anything about the one-line synopsis is, in practice, probably a > >> minor severity bug even if it's over 80 columns, just because &g

Bug#555408: Locale generated, but Lintian still complains of manpage character errors

2010-01-28 Thread Ben Finney
esult/burn_0.4.6-1_powerpc.changes $ = -- \ “Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may | `\ hear from others twice as much as we speak.” —Epictetus, | _o__) _Fragments_ | Ben Finney signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#540484: lintian: new check + tag:

2009-09-13 Thread Ben Finney
be signalled properly instead of using the least-worst implementation-dependent compromise. -- \ “We can't depend for the long run on distinguishing one | `\ bitstream from another in order to figure out which rules | _o__) apply.” —Eben Moglen, _Anarchism Triumphant_, 1999 | Ben Finney signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#540484: lintian: new check + tag: desktop-entry-missing-recommended-key

2009-08-08 Thread Ben Finney
ood | `\place to begin or end, and it's hard to keep track of what | _o__) you've already covered.” —anonymous | Ben Finney diff --git a/checks/menu-format b/checks/menu-format index 981e5d5..0a36ca8 100644 --- a/checks/menu-format +++ b/checks/menu-for

Bug#481787: lintian fails to detect BTS data directory

2008-07-04 Thread Ben Finney
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Bug#481787: lintian fails to detect BTS data directory

2008-07-04 Thread Ben Finney
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Bug#481787: lintian fails to detect BTS data directory

2008-07-03 Thread Ben Finney
package lintian found 481787 1.24.0 thanks On 04-Jul-2008, Ben Finney wrote: > $ lintian -I hello_2.2-2.dsc I: hello source: > debian-watch-file-is-missing > W: hello source: debian-rules-ignores-make-clean-error line 31 > W: hello source: ancient-standards-version 3.7.2 (curr

Bug#481787: lintian fails to detect BTS data directory

2008-07-03 Thread Ben Finney
ir' warning for the source package, but it does not. -- \ “Holy tintinnabulation, Batman!” —Robin | `\ | _o__) | Ben Finney <

Bug#481787: lintian: check for BTS data directories in package

2008-05-18 Thread Ben Finney
Package: lintian Version: 1.23.48 Severity: minor Tags: patch Distributed bug tracking systems (such as Bugs Everywhere and DITrack) keep their data in the working tree of a project. Much like the VCS data directories, these BTS data directories need to be preserved in the working source but om