Bug#348864: please check if man page is in right section
Collin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All that said, while I can think of valid examples where a program is in bin with a man page in section 8, I can't think of any valid examples where a program is in sbin with a man page in section 1. I think a check for the latter would probably be reasonable enough. The package 'piuparts' is such an example. I first filed that as a bug against the program, but the maintainer convinced me that he was indeed doing the right thing: | I'm not sure that is correct. man(7) describes section 8 as System | management commands, and piuparts is not such a command, it is a | programmer tool. Or at least that is what it is in my mind. Therefore, I | find that section 1 is correct, even if it can be usefully run only by | root. Thijs signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Bug#350114: Please add ubuntu upload targets to frontend/lintian
Reinhard Tartler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: in order to get rid of this patch in ubuntu, please include it in the next lintian upload. Attached the patch we have in ubuntus lintian. That doesn't seem right. We can assume that someone packaging on a Debian system (i.e. running lintian from Debian) is preparing a Debian package, and someone on Ubuntu, running Ubuntu's lintian, is targetting Ubuntu. Therefore, the check as-is is valid, and quite useful: if someone is confused and puts an Ubuntu target in a Debian package, this will be detected by lintian. Thijs signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Bug#356307: lintian: wrong error messages for broken symlinks
Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.15
Severity: normal
The following lintian error occured during the testing of a package I
am preparing:
E: firefox-greasemonkey: symlink-should-be-absolute
usr/lib/firefox/extensions/{e4a8a97b-f2ed-450b-b12d-ee082ba24781}
../../../../share/mozilla-extensions/greasemonkey
And, after making it absolute:
E: firefox-greasemonkey: symlink-should-be-relative
usr/lib/firefox/extensions/{e4a8a97b-f2ed-450b-b12d-ee082ba24781}
/usr/share/mozilla-extensions/greasemonkey
The first of these is obviously wrong. After further testing I realized that
the symlink ascended one too many levels and was broken. Lintian erronously
reported that a broken relative symlink (which should be relative) should be
made absolute. It might be wise to add a broken symlink error or warning.
Thanks!
Michael Spang
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-rc5-git3
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.16.1cvs20060117-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii diffstat 1.41-1 produces graph of changes introduc
ii dpkg-dev 1.13.16 package building tools for Debian
ii file 4.15-2 Determines file type using magic
ii gettext 0.14.5-2GNU Internationalization utilities
ii intltool-debian 0.34.1+20050828 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii libparse-debianchang 1.0-1 parse Debian changelogs and output
ii man-db 2.4.3-3 The on-line manual pager
ii perl [libdigest-md5- 5.8.8-2 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
lintian recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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Bug#350114: Please add ubuntu upload targets to frontend/lintian
Thijs Kinkhorst [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Reinhard Tartler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: in order to get rid of this patch in ubuntu, please include it in the next lintian upload. Attached the patch we have in ubuntus lintian. That doesn't seem right. We can assume that someone packaging on a Debian system (i.e. running lintian from Debian) is preparing a Debian package, and someone on Ubuntu, running Ubuntu's lintian, is targetting Ubuntu. Therefore, the check as-is is valid, and quite useful: if someone is confused and puts an Ubuntu target in a Debian package, this will be detected by lintian. Yeah, that was my reaction too -- I think this is one of those places where Debian and Ubuntu really want to be (slightly) distinct. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#350114: marked as done (Please add ubuntu upload targets to frontend/lintian)
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Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.14ubuntu1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
in order to get rid of this patch in ubuntu, please include it in the
next lintian upload. Attached the patch we have in ubuntus lintian.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers dapper
APT policy: (700, 'dapper')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-13-amd64-k8
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.16.1cvs20060117-1ubuntu1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii diffstat 1.41-1 produces graph of changes introduc
ii dpkg-dev 1.13.11ubuntu1 package building tools for Debian
ii file 4.16-0ubuntu1 Determines file type using magic
ii gettext 0.14.5-2ubuntu2GNU Internationalization utilities
ii intltool-debi 0.34.1+20050828Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii libparse-debi 1.0-1 parse Debian changelogs and output
ii man-db2.4.3-3The on-line manual pager
ii perl [libdige 5.8.7-10ubuntu1Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
lintian recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
diff -Nru /tmp/3H1FwJWeEY/lintian-1.23.15/frontend/lintian
/tmp/ezIn5O7j3U/lintian-1.23.15ubuntu1/frontend/lintian
--- /tmp/3H1FwJWeEY/lintian-1.23.15/frontend/lintian2005-10-14
02:19:49.0 +0200
+++ /tmp/ezIn5O7j3U/lintian-1.23.15ubuntu1/frontend/lintian 2006-01-27
13:39:28.0 +0100
@@ -625,7 +625,13 @@
or ($data-{'distribution'} eq 'testing')
or ($data-{'distribution'} eq 'unstable')
or ($data-{'distribution'} eq 'experimental')
+ or ($data-{'distribution'} eq 'dapper')
+ or ($data-{'distribution'} eq 'breezy')
+ or ($data-{'distribution'} eq 'hoary')
+ or ($data-{'distribution'} eq 'warty')
or ($data-{'distribution'} =~ /\w+-proposed-updates/)
+ or ($data-{'distribution'} =~ /\w+-updates/)
+ or ($data-{'distribution'} =~ /\w+-backports/)
or ($data-{'distribution'} =~ /\w+-security/))
) {
# bad distribution entry
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On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 07:20:51PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
Thijs Kinkhorst [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Reinhard Tartler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
in order to get rid of this patch in ubuntu, please include it in the
next lintian upload. Attached the patch we have in ubuntus lintian.
That doesn't seem right. [...]
Yeah, that was my reaction too -- I think this is one of those places
where Debian and Ubuntu really want to be (slightly) distinct.
Yup, I agree here -- it doesn't make sense to me either to add ubuntu
targets (new ones get created every 6 months anyway, making for a
continuous maintainance overhead).
Closing bug.
--Jeroen
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Jeroen van Wolffelaar
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http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl
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