Bug#1017530: lintian: dwz generated file false positive

2024-04-15 Thread Stéphane Glondu
Hi all, I bumped into this bug while investigating what seems like a stripped-library false positive... On Mon, 22 Aug 2022 15:12:24 +0200 Axel Beckert wrote: thanks for the bug report. Unfortunately I don't get what actually is the bug. Can you be a bit more verbose? Some questions below.

Bug#702349: lintian should not complain about hardening for package written in pure Ocaml

2014-02-03 Thread Stéphane Glondu
Le 06/01/2014 16:24, Moritz Muehlenhoff a écrit : Le 05/03/2013 16:35, Niels Thykier a écrit : Does ELF binaries produced by pure Ocaml have any distinct feature that can be used to tell them apart from any other ELF binary? ELF binaries produced by the OCaml compiler always include a bit of

Bug#702349: lintian should not complain about hardening for package written in pure Ocaml

2013-03-06 Thread Stéphane Glondu
Le 06/03/2013 09:37, Hendrik Tews a écrit : In principle I agree, that programs written in a certain subset of OCaml do not need these hardening features. However, at the moment this safe subset is not even identified... OCaml has a built-in notion of unsafe feature (see ocamlobjinfo output)

Bug#702349: lintian should not complain about hardening for package written in pure Ocaml

2013-03-06 Thread Stéphane Glondu
Le 06/03/2013 10:48, Hendrik Tews a écrit : OCaml has a built-in notion of unsafe feature (see ocamlobjinfo output) that could serve as a starting point for that. Yes, I tried this on let f b = let a = abcde in let c = Obj.magic b in String.unsafe_blit c

Bug#702349: lintian should not complain about hardening for package written in pure Ocaml

2013-03-05 Thread Stéphane Glondu
Le 05/03/2013 16:35, Niels Thykier a écrit : Does ELF binaries produced by pure Ocaml have any distinct feature that can be used to tell them apart from any other ELF binary? ELF binaries produced by the OCaml compiler always include a bit of C code (the runtime), so they are never actually

Re: Bug#562606: FTBFS: unknown options to dh_ocaml

2010-02-01 Thread Stéphane Glondu
clone 562606 -1 reassign -1 lintian retitle -1 add tags for needed versioned dependencies with dh_ocaml severity -1 wishlist thanks Mehdi Dogguy a écrit : dh-ocaml will not see his depends changing (just like the quilt package do). We might correct to build-dep for OCaml (and we will certainly

Bug#567949: Bug#562606: FTBFS: unknown options to dh_ocaml

2010-02-01 Thread Stéphane Glondu
Stéphane Glondu a écrit : - when using dh --with quilt, or dh_ocaml{,init,doc}, one needs ^ I meant --with ocaml, of course. Best regards, -- Stéphane -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-lint-maint-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Bug#528367: RFC: various Lintian checks for OCaml packages

2009-12-25 Thread Stéphane Glondu
Russ Allbery a écrit : I've written a test suite for this that seems to work, although I suspect it will throw a bunch of other errors if we add more tests for other things in the OCaml Policy. I also tweaked the patch a bit, and it's now committed for the next release of Lintian. Wonderful.

Bug#557883: lintian: false positive in lib-recommends-documentation (name vs. content)

2009-11-29 Thread Stéphane Glondu
Russ Allbery a écrit : For the time being at least, I suspect we should special-case -tools and maybe a few other similar cases (I think Policy recommends some package names for things like this). ...and -bin, then? Cheers, -- Stéphane -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#553207: lintian: wrong patch-system-but-no-source-readme when using quilt with 3.0 (quilt) source packages

2009-11-04 Thread Stéphane Glondu
tags 553207 + patch thanks Raphaël Hertzog a écrit : This warning is wrong since with this source format the quilt patch is auto-applied by dpkg-source -x and we don't need any special instruction. Attached is a patch that fixes this issue. Cheers, -- Stéphane From

Bug#548210: False-positive in lib-recommends-documentation

2009-09-25 Thread Stéphane Glondu
tags 548210 + patch thanks Ross Burton a écrit : W: libgupnp-doc: lib-recommends-documentation recommends: libgssdp-doc This is due to an error in the regexp on the package name: (?!...) preceded by .+ is void, since .+ can match whatever is excluded by (?!...). A simple fix is attached.

Bug#498138: Lintian check for OCaml custom bytecode executables

2009-07-20 Thread Stéphane Glondu
Stéphane Glondu a écrit : I've implemented this check in the attached patch. Here is an updated patch, thanks to Raphael Geissert's comments. Cheers, -- Stéphane From c61138eb5e629d6f245ccd72f3070e4e8805b9fe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stephane Glondu st...@glondu.net Date: Sun, 19 Jul

Re: Using a subset of all lintian tags

2009-07-20 Thread Stéphane Glondu
Jeremiah Foster a écrit : I read on debian-devel that lintian can use a subset of tags when it checks packages. This might be a useful feature for downstream projects, like maemo, which might be able to use only a limited amount of lintian tags and would like to use their own. Is

Bug#528367: RFC: various Lintian checks for OCaml packages

2009-07-20 Thread Stéphane Glondu
retitle 528367 new Lintian checks for OCaml packages tags 528367 + patch thanks Stephane Glondu a écrit : It would be nice to emit a Lintian error in the following circumstances: [...] There are of course many other checks that we (OCaml maintainers) would like Lintian to perform. Attached are

Bug#498138: Lintian check for OCaml custom bytecode executables

2009-07-19 Thread Stéphane Glondu
tags 498138 + patch thanks Hello, I've implemented this check in the attached patch. Cheers, -- Stéphane From 21c7b134f81490a13503aeffcf553f46817e7437 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stephane Glondu st...@glondu.net Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 11:23:40 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Add check for

Bug#498138: check for deprecated OCaml -custom linked executable

2009-05-12 Thread Stéphane Glondu
Stefano Zacchiroli a écrit : This check is quite easy using the ocamlobjinfo tool: it prints Force custom: YES when given a faulty .cma. ... but I doubt that we can rely on external packages from lintian checks (lintian maintainers: can we?). So I suggest implementing the test in pure Perl,

Bug#498138: check for deprecated OCaml -custom linked executable

2008-09-07 Thread Stéphane Glondu
' returns: /usr/lib/ocaml/3.10.2/bjack/bjack.cma: Force custom: YES /usr/lib/ocaml/3.10.2/ssl/ssl.cma: Force custom: YES /usr/lib/ocaml/3.10.2/ssl/ssl_threads.cma: Force custom: YES Cheers, -- Stéphane Glondu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Bug#476417: Bug#495431: Bogus missing-dep-for-interpreter errors with ocamlrun

2008-09-02 Thread Stéphane Glondu
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