Bug#954341: lintian: What's going on with "field-too-long Installed-Build-Depends"?

2020-03-22 Thread Julien Cristau
On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 08:57:05AM -0700, Felix Lechner wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 8:03 AM Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > > > > field-too-long was added to prevent silliness in the archive. As such, it > > only makes sense for binary control fields and .dsc, nothing else. > > Why

[rt.debian.org #7900] lindsay.debian.org ENOSPC

2019-08-19 Thread Julien Cristau via RT
Thanks Niels!

[rt.debian.org #7900] AutoReply CC: lindsay.debian.org ENOSPC

2019-08-13 Thread Julien Cristau via RT
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Bug#906155: lintian: should raise an error if a changes file's Version includes ~bpo but Distribution isn't *-backports

2018-08-15 Thread Julien Cristau
Package: lintian Version: 2.5.50.4 Severity: wishlist >From time to time uploads intended at stable-backports end up in stable-proposed-updates due to incorrect Distribution in .changes. lintian should be able to flag that as an error. Something like the below, maybe (+ tests)? Cheers, Julien

Bug#900354: lintian: warn against guarding adduser/addgroup calls

2018-05-29 Thread Julien Cristau
On 05/29/2018 04:28 PM, Chris Lamb wrote: > tags 900354 + moreinfo > thanks > > Hi Julien, > > Thanks for the report. > >> <@weasel> "guarding adduser calls considered harmful" > > … regardless of --system or? oh, some concrete examples of "good" and > "bad" would be really helpful here in

Bug#900354: lintian: warn against guarding adduser/addgroup calls

2018-05-29 Thread Julien Cristau
Package: lintian Severity: wishlist <@weasel> not that I'd file a bug about this, but I don't like this pattern: <@weasel> if ! getent group "$REPRO_GROUP" >/dev/null; then <@weasel> addgroup --system "$REPRO_GROUP" || exit 1 <@weasel> fi <@weasel> the goal of --system is to a)

Bug#793613: lintian: error in adduser --home check

2015-07-31 Thread Julien Cristau
--quiet --ingroup ntp --no-create-home ntp Looks to me like lintian is right, and you should set ntp's $HOME to something like /nonexistent instead of /home/ntp. Cheers, Julien -- Julien Cristau julien.cris...@logilab.fr Logilab http://www.logilab.fr/ Informatique

Re: udeb and data.tar.xz files?

2012-05-14 Thread Julien Cristau
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 15:16:15 -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: Can someone tell me what's up, and ideally update the text at: http://lintian.debian.org/tags/udeb-uses-non-gzip-data-tarball.html ... so developers can know what to do? debhelper switched to xz for udebs yesterday, udpkg

Bug#637540: lintian: bad-distribution-in-changes-file wheezy

2011-08-12 Thread Julien Cristau
Package: lintian Version: 2.5.2~bpo60+1 Severity: normal lintian complains about a bad distribution when a codename (like, say, wheezy or squeeze) is used in changes files as Distribution. Cheers, Julien -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.2 APT prefers proposed-updates APT policy:

Bug#637540: lintian: bad-distribution-in-changes-file wheezy

2011-08-12 Thread Julien Cristau
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 08:54:17 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Julien Cristau jcris...@debian.org writes: lintian complains about a bad distribution when a codename (like, say, wheezy or squeeze) is used in changes files as Distribution. This was intentional, since my understanding

Bug#627216: lintian: symbols-declares-dependency-on-other-package sort of false positive

2011-05-18 Thread Julien Cristau
Package: lintian Version: 2.5.0 Severity: minor A while ago I added a symbols file for libx11-6. Now, Xlib being of a certain age, it has exported symbols that should really not be public, but everyone's too afraid of breaking obscure stuff that may have come to rely on them anyway. So instead

Re: lintian's breaks-without-version and virtual packages

2010-05-04 Thread Julien Cristau
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 11:04:20 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Julien Cristau jcris...@debian.org writes: I was considering moving xserver-xorg-core's Conflicts to Breaks, but that seems to introduce new lintian warnings about 'breaks-without-version'. What's the motivation here? I

Bug#563370: lintian: [checks/control-file] weak-library-dev-dependency false positive

2010-01-02 Thread Julien Cristau
: optional Maintainer: Debian X Strike Force debia...@lists.debian.org Uploaders: Julien Cristau jcris...@debian.org, David Nusinow dnusi...@debian.org Build-Depends: debhelper (= 5), automake, autoconf, libtool, pkg-config, quilt Standards-Version: 3.8.3 Vcs-Git: git://git.debian.org/git/pkg-xorg/lib

Bug#540425: lintian: package-depends-on-an-x-font-package false positive

2009-08-07 Thread Julien Cristau
Package: lintian Version: 2.2.13 Severity: minor Hi, xfonts-utils Depends on xfonts-encodings, which triggers the package-depends-on-an-x-font-package lintian error. The encodings are used by some scripts in xfonts-utils. I'm overriding the error for now, but filing this bug in case you think

Bug#534580: lintian: false positive in trap bashism check

2009-06-25 Thread Julien Cristau
Package: lintian Version: 2.2.12 Severity: normal Hi, lintian complains about bashisms in some X maintainer scripts, because they include the following code: trap message;\ message \Received signal. Aborting $THIS_PACKAGE package $THIS_SCRIPT script.\;\ message;\ exit 1 HUP

Bug#513823: lintian: Add nickle as a known interpreter

2009-02-01 Thread Julien Cristau
+ + * Add nickle as a known interpreter. + + -- Julien Cristau jcris...@debian.org Sun, 01 Feb 2009 15:53:14 +0100 + lintian (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low * Summary of tag changes: -- 1.5.6.5 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#499847: lintian: command-with-path false positives with 'case' construct

2008-09-22 Thread Julien Cristau
Package: lintian Version: 2.0.0~rc2 Severity: normal Hi lintian maintainers, See http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-xorg/xsfbs.git;a=blob;f=debian/xsfbs/xsfbs.sh;h=72efa950d3276968f8405e8fecc32ea5a4572e77;hb=HEAD#l213 The following construct: case $foo in /usr/bin/bar) baz ;;

Bug#491296: lintian: 1.24.2 makes a *lot* of noise

2008-07-21 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 22:16:32 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Julien Cristau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I disagree with this, but that's not really the point. If lintian wants to complain that there are changes outside debian/, then it can do it once. Doing it once for every modified file

Bug#491296: lintian: 1.24.2 makes a *lot* of noise

2008-07-18 Thread Julien Cristau
Package: lintian Version: 1.24.2 Severity: serious $ lintian ../xorg-server_1.4.2-2_i386.changes |wc -l 1438 This is just not bearable. I get one warning for every Makefile.in in the package (see #471263), and one for every line deemed too long in debian/copyright for every binary package.

Bug#491296: lintian: 1.24.2 makes a *lot* of noise

2008-07-18 Thread Julien Cristau
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 09:47:14 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: $ lintian ../xorg-server_1.4.2-2_i386.changes |wc -l 1438 A fair chunk of that with 1.4.2-1 at least is: E: xserver-xorg-core: unstripped-binary-or-object ./usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libGLcore.so There are 35 of

Bug#456802: lintian: strong implies weak dependency check broken

2007-12-18 Thread Julien Cristau
On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 17:55:02 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: It looks like this should only trigger when you're listing the exact same substvar in both depends and recommends, which seems to be exactly the problem that this check is warning about since that will generate the same results in

Bug#440830: lintian: should ignore comments in debian/control

2007-09-04 Thread Julien Cristau
Package: lintian Version: 1.23.34 Severity: minor Hi, running lintian on the xorg-server package from experimental gives me the following errors: E: xorg-server source: debian-control-with-duplicate-fields #package: 88, 108 E: xorg-server source: debian-control-with-duplicate-fields

Bug#440830: lintian: should ignore comments in debian/control

2007-09-04 Thread Julien Cristau
On Tue, Sep 4, 2007 at 09:24:33 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: I see no indication in Debian Policy that comments are permitted in control files. I'm happy to change Policy and then the lintian check if they truly are, but I'd need confirmation from everything significant that parses control

Bug#433516: lintian: please warn if a source package contains a .git/ directory

2007-07-17 Thread Julien Cristau
Package: lintian Version: 1.23.32 Severity: wishlist lintian has checks for CVS directories in source package, I think it'd be useful to have it check for .git directories as well (I've mistakenly uploaded a package with the whole repo). Thanks, Julien signature.asc Description: Digital