Possibly excessive lintian warnings (was: NEW processing)

2008-12-04 Thread Russ Allbery
Sune Vuorela [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Latest, the warning about quilt patches without any description. Sure it is nice to have a description, but I don't need lintian to tell it. This is severity: minor, certainty: certain, which currently *barely* makes the W threshold. I think a very good

Re: Possibly excessive lintian warnings (was: NEW processing)

2008-12-04 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:00:17 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Sune Vuorela [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Latest, the warning about quilt patches without any description. Sure it is nice to have a description, but I don't need lintian to tell it. This is severity: minor, certainty: certain, which

Bug#507761: lintian - quilt-series-but-no-build-dep false positive: debian/patches/series directory

2008-12-04 Thread Bastian Blank
Package: lintian Version: 2.1.0 Severity: normal lintian reports quilt-series-but-no-build-dep for linux-2.6. It includes a _directory_ debian/patches/series, which is never usable by quilt. Bastian -- Vulcans worship peace above all. -- McCoy, Return to Tomorrow, stardate

lintian.d.o sorting is weird

2008-12-04 Thread Bastian Blank
Hi folks The entries on lintian.d.o are sorted after the source package name and the binary package version. This means that linux-modules-extra-2.6 currently have 10 entries instead of one. Bastian -- It is necessary to have purpose. -- Alice #1, I, Mudd, stardate 4513.3 --

Bug#507761: lintian - quilt-series-but-no-build-dep false positive: debian/patches/series directory

2008-12-04 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 10:56 +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: lintian reports quilt-series-but-no-build-dep for linux-2.6. It includes a _directory_ debian/patches/series, which is never usable by quilt. Fixed, thanks. Regards, Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Possibly excessive lintian warnings

2008-12-04 Thread Russ Allbery
Adam D. Barratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As I mentioned to Sune on IRC last night, the quilt tag's severity was copied from the equivalent dpatch tag (which was originally implemented as a warning and then moved to minor/certain during the transition). I've no problem with downgrading the

Re: Possibly excessive lintian warnings

2008-12-04 Thread Russ Allbery
Adam D. Barratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ... and did that an hour ago. Apologies for not waiting a little longer for objections / consensus. Oh, no, it's no problem. I was being too conservative. Thank you! -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/

[SCM] Debian package checker branch, master, updated. 2.1.0-14-g10d6ceb

2008-12-04 Thread Russ Allbery
The following commit has been merged in the master branch: commit 10d6ceb98e5b563855ce2a81dad59ed16e587458 Author: Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu Dec 4 13:16:26 2008 -0800 Improve the recommendation for debug package dependencies * checks/fields.desc: + [RA] Improve

Processed: setting package to lintian, tagging 507761

2008-12-04 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: #lintian (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low # # * checks/patch-systems{,.desc}: #+ [ADB] Don't complain about a missing quilt build-dependency if # the package contains a directory named debian/patches/series. # (Closes: #507761) #+

Re: lintian.d.o sorting is weird

2008-12-04 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 12:53:06PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Bastian Blank [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The entries on lintian.d.o are sorted after the source package name and the binary package version. This means that linux-modules-extra-2.6 currently have 10 entries instead of one. Is

Re: lintian.d.o sorting is weird

2008-12-04 Thread Russ Allbery
Bastian Blank [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sure. Collect all binaries for one source/version and output them en bloc. You can always find this information in the Source field of the control file. Each binary which have a different version then the corresponding source gets it appended, for

Bug#507849: lintian.d.o: group packages by source version

2008-12-04 Thread Russ Allbery
Package: lintian Version: 2.1.0 Severity: minor This is a bug report corresponding to Bastian Blank's recent mail to the mailing list. Currently, lintian.d.o groups packages by source package name and binary package version, which is not correct for packages where the binary package version may