Bug#291631: cmp/diff/etc. lack PT_GNU_STACK header

: Ease of adding, and potentional negative benefits would be very nice to have, and if it's going to be in policy, for lintian a way to check for it. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Please test latest lintian, upload after weekend?

Hi all, Please test lintian trunk (r411 currently). sources.list as usual: deb http://jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl/sw/debian EXPERIMENTAL lintian deb-src http://jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl/sw/debian EXPERIMENTAL lintian I think it'd be nice to upload after the weekend. Thanks, --Jeroen -- Jeroen van

Bug#294287: Add test for arch-specific defines in arch all /usr/include/*.h files

intltool-debian0.30+20040213 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf ii man-db 2.4.2-19 The on-line manual pager ii perl [libdigest-md5-perl] 5.8.4-5 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction -- no debconf information -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Bug#294926: Should alert on debian/rules (et al?) being symlink

2.4.2-19 The on-line manual pager ii perl [libdigest-md5-perl] 5.8.4-5 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction -- no debconf information -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Bug#265281: lintian: warns for possible bashism when using sed

uncommon that accidently triggers a check, and it's really hard/impossible to have the check be smart enough to understand this case. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl

Bug#268077: lintian: Patch to change this behavior

updated. Colin Watson wasn't clear in explaining it. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl

Bug#277187: lintian: Support for bzipped archives

works for all supporsed sources. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl

Re: Bug#265281: lintian: warns for possible bashism when using sed

On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 01:16:35PM +0200, Jonas Meurer wrote: so can you please provide a lintian override for python-mysqldb No, maintainers need to install the overrides themselves. See file:///usr/share/doc/lintian/lintian.html/ch2.html#s2.4 for details. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar

Upcoming NMU; svn commit access for it is open for you

make sure the eventual patch will get to the BTS as per NMU rules, so you don't need to - check your fix yourself! - update debian/changelog so it looks like this: - Do _NOT_ commit whitespace changes at the same time as real changes lintian (1.2.3) Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Fix

Re: Upcoming NMU; svn commit access for it is open for you

On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 12:05:53AM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 02:37:16PM +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: I just created a subversion repository with the latest lintian release in it. We need to convert the CVS repository to it, merge in the past releases (I have

Getting collaberative maintainace up (Re: Upcoming NMU)

a lot of double work... And easier for the user, as only one tool remains. And existing infrastructure like the global lintian check on the whole archive will for free feature the linda checks too then. /rant --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber MSN; ICQ: 33944357

Lintian bug squashing week (or more?)

be feasable. People wanting to hack on bugs can then easily find those bugs not having 'patch', without the need to search for doable bugs. Hope this helps dropping down the lintian bugnumber significantly, --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber MSN; ICQ: 33944357

Re: Lintian bug squashing week (or more?)

(and others). Any changes are mailed to this list, so anyone can check and comment on them (and fix if needed). I personally am taking lintian as a good excuse to finally learn perl better than I do now. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http

Re: Lintian bug squashing week (or more?)

On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 03:54:24AM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 01:57:19AM +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: By the way, Josip, already had time for getting your CVS repositories somewhere online? It isn't hurting lintian-by-subversion development as histories can

Proposed change in maintainers/uploaders of lintian

], + Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED], + Frank Lichtenheld [EMAIL PROTECTED] Build-Depends-Indep: debiandoc-sgml Standards-Version: 3.6.1 $ -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl pgpO00Hd62TIA.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: lintian: r23 - in trunk: checks debian

if they are to be written) should fail/succeed on each package. The latter is even preferred, as testpackages ensure that these tests will never be broken again. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl

Will warn for every recursive link

few packages will actually need it, and if they do, they should install an override IMHO. Comments? Tagged 'confirmed' as to indicate this will be changed/fixed. Remove 'confirmed' if some lint-maint disagrees. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber MSN; ICQ

Confirm

good check, what the future brings, nobody knows, that that's # true for most lintian checks severity 190897 wishlist -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl

Additional po-debconf check (Was: Re: lintian: r23 - in trunk: checks debian)

On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 12:30:57AM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote: On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 12:17:08PM +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: [...] I do not have experience with po-debconf (my own package soon to be uploaded failed this test as I didn't use po-debconf yet :)), it'd be great

Re: Proposed change in maintainers/uploaders of lintian

On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 06:20:50PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 02:21:53AM +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: In order to effectively change lintian to a group maintained package, I suggest the following patch. Yeah, but I'd prefer to have Colin Watson or another more

lintian.debian.org

that by yourself :). This is not my priority, but I think it'd a nice feat, and plan to look at it sometime next month or so. If anyone is also interested, please speak up :) --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl

Re: lintian.debian.org

On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 11:52:44PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 11:42:55PM +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: How does lintian.debian.org work? Who maintains it (this list according to the contact info)? Who updates the system? I do. Cool, already expected

Bug#232849: lintian: Warn about large /usr/share in arch-dependant packages

.[EMAIL PROTECTED] C++ ate my sanity -- Jon Rabone - End forwarded message - -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl pgpLJmquW3tF4.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Lintian trunk: ready for release?

On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 12:57:41PM +0100, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 01:52:29AM +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: Hi, Since r40, I think lintian trunk is ready for release. But first, testing is needed. I'm not happy with the current deb-format thingy. Why

Lintian: 1.22.11 RC2 available

dependency anymore (r44) - slight cleanup of tree (r45) Colin, can you check this out, and then upload? My deb-line has ~rc2 appended to the version, so that must be removed and of course a re-debuild then. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber MSN; ICQ: 33944357

Re: lintian: r44 - in trunk: checks debian

. you removed the leading slash Marc added to output. IMO a better output is to remove the leading dot, here is a patch. I'll commit it, but don't know whether this will show up now or in a later version :) --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber MSN; ICQ: 33944357

Bug#88021: #88021: rules - makefile?

Huh? Why is this wontfix? No explaination from Josip attached about why... IMHO, this is a valid request. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl

Bug#233765: lintian: menu-item-creates-new-section Apps/Education

tags 233765 + pending merge 233765 207529 thanks On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 09:56:20PM +0100, Martin Godisch wrote: Apps/Education is a valid menu section according to policy 3.6.1. Dupe of 207529, which is pending the 1.22.11 upload. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also

Bug#234531: lintian: Check for (build-)dep on xlibs(-dev)

Package: lintian Version: 1.22.11 Severity: wishlist A check should be made for (build-)dependencies on xlibs and xlibs-dev, because they are transitional meta packages including all X libraries, while they are now properly split up. Fixing dependencies will make it possible to not need to

Bug#234545: False warning caused by hard links

/uuid-dev 1.34+1.35-WIP-2004.01.31-1 This did not use to be a problem, so I believe this was a recently introduced bug in the lintian in sid. Thank you for your feedback, --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl

Bug#234978: Check for common Depends and Recommends

such a check. :-) /* Stenar */ -- Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A

Bug#224229: No, lintian should NOT sheck priority

whether other maintainers are inclined to include such a patch or not (I don't know, I speak only for myself in this paragraph). In any case, you'd probably need to write the patch yourself in that case. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber MSN; ICQ: 33944357

sash: Lintian exception for static /bin/sash removed

for your package sash to prevent the warning from popping up when the next lintian is released. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl

Bug#205934: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Processed: tagging 205934]

be difficult to handle... Thanks for your feedback. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl

Re: lintian: r77 - in trunk: checks debian testset testset/binary/debian

://svn.wolffelaar.nl) Solved, my computer went crazy, and I was visiting my parents. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl

Re: lintian: r87 - trunk/checks

much false positives and can only be replaced by a sophisticated debian/rules parser (Closes: #192037, #202950, #214231) You forgot the changelog, dude. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl

Bug#235735: lintian: CVS / .cvsignore terminology could be better

the terminology? --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl

Bug#207063: hppa profiling; debian-hppa please advise

__gmon_start__ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ debian-hppa, can you please advise? Has hppa profiling support? If so, how can we detect that? Are there other compile modes that we could and should check for? Please keep the bug in the Cc. Thank you very much for your advice, --Jeroen -- Jeroen van

Bug#207063: hppa profiling; debian-hppa please advise

runs 'objdump --headers --private-headers -T', and this is not easy to change (all other archs use that objdump). Can you show us a dump like that with and without profiling, and indicate which line is definitely the sign for profiling? Thanks a lot, --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL

Bug#129131: Menu policy should be fixed

reassign 129131 debian-policy retitle 129131 add kderemove to allowed tags in menu subpolicy thanks Please fix menu subpolicy first, and only after that is done, clone and reassign the clone back to lintian. Thanks, --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber MSN; ICQ

Bug#236923: does not work: internal error: collect info objdump-info about package

... [EMAIL PROTECTED]/mirror/pool/main/t/toshset$ Please provide the exact deb that failed on you. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl pgpQvKlH0ilVd.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Lintian complaints for qemu-fast

./usr/bin/qemu-fast N: N: The package installs a statically linked binary or object file. N: N: Usually this is a bug. Otherwise, please contact N: [EMAIL PROTECTED] about this so that this exception would be N: recognized in future versions of Lintian. N: -- Jeroen van

Bug#242345: po-debconf: check for outdated templates.pot files

about running debconf-updatepo in the clean target would be in place here IMHO. Also, it's wrong to say PO files haven't been updated, as that is not where we test for. More correct: debconf-updatepo has not been run since the last change to your debconf template(s) --Jeroen -- Jeroen van

Re: Processed: Retitling

On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 10:15:15AM +0200, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 04:48:07PM -0700, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: tags 234978 + pending Bug#234978: [checks/fields

Re: lintian: r132 - trunk/lib

be. dpkg's implementation changed and was also fixed later, it's not yet in policy, it could be a hell to change all version compare implementations there are withing debian... --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl

Bug#111948: Will fix this

tags 111948 - wontfix thanks 1.23.0 will have a check for this, because it is only triggered if you either fail to have correct NMU version numbering and/or fail to mention the fact you're NMU'ing in the changelog. Correct NMU's will not provoke a lintian warning. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van

Re: lintian: r174 - in trunk: checks debian

in those two lines too... -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl

Bug#244830: lintian: Warn for -x.x.x version for SOURCE packages

man-db 2.4.2-14 The on-line manual pager ii perl 5.8.3-3 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction -- no debconf information -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl

Bug#221982: glibc's at fault here...

of this misplacement on every lintian run. Feel free to discuss this bug with [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you like. Thanks, --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl

Bug#245313: lintian: [new test] using sed -i requires a versioned sed dependendcy

4.07-2Determines file type using magic ii man-db 2.4.2-14 The on-line manual pager ii perl 5.8.3-3 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction -- no debconf information -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jeroen.A

Re: Patch for 1.23.0 - please comment

PROTECTED] Info: Collects information about binary packages from debian/control in source packages Type: source Unpack-Level: 1 Output: binary-pkgs Order: 2 Needs-Info: debfiles -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl

[announce] Lintian 1.23.0 RC1

and oversights. Regards, Frank Lichtenheld Marc Brockschmidt Jeroen van Wolffelaar ? what about the other two uploaders... -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl pgpuzz1f7rPLL.pgp Description: PGP signature

[announce] Lintian 1.23.0 RC2

comments on the mail to d-d upon release? --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl pgpkYK3zi9tMC.pgp Description: PGP signature

Bug#175049: lintian: please add undefined-symbol-in-library check

? --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl

Bug#221982: glibc's at fault here...

retitle 221982 Please put nss modules in /lib/nss/ (or something like that) severity 221982 wishlist reassign 221982 glibc thanks Please keep myself in the Cc list. On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 02:03:33PM -0700, Jeff Bailey wrote: On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 10:10:43PM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote

Re: lintian: r269 - in trunk: checks debian testset testset/foo++/debian

, but now it can easily be avoided: add some function like 'check_for_non_utf8' to lib/Util.pm, which accepts filename + appropriate tag, and make sure all scripts using that check are 'use Util', and invoke that function. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber MSN; ICQ

Permanent lab: keep or drop it?

: extracting the files to a temporary filesystem is the major thing making things slow... But this is version 2 stuff :) -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl

Re: lintian: r273 - in trunk: checks debian testset testset/filenames/files

time also check for subversion's leftovers? They are called *.mine and *.r\d+ --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl

Bug#250632: Incorrectly identifies menu-methods as needing +x

On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 07:10:04PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 10:56:20AM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 06:18:24PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: Package: lintian Version: 1.23.0 Severity: minor As per the Debian menu

Re: few lintian questions

/lib, simply add a lintian-override. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl

Bug#249414: lintian: Fails to detect usr-doc-symlink

at best). --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl

Bug#253884: lintian: override matching should be allowed partially too

introduc ii file 4.07-2Determines file type using magic ii man-db 2.4.2-16 The on-line manual pager ii perl 5.8.3-3 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction -- no debconf information -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL

Re: lintian: r283 - trunk/doc

[...] -occourence of it by specifying the additional info, too (second line +occurence of it by specifying the additional info, too (second line That's occurrence. Sigh... this was the last time I did some English typography fix! Who will do the honours? --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL

Bug#253405: Add kfreebsd-i386 and knetbsd-i386 to arch check

arches are not official but are used often. Objections to add those three? Let's wait till ftp-master decission on this matter... maybe it's going to be called 'fred', who knows? --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl

Re: lintian: r292 - in trunk: debian lib

That dpkg it handles doesn't mean it is allowed in Debian, or according to policy... IIRC there was a discussion about this before. I'm against this change, and will followup after the weekend (hm, and try to steer to release -- it's about time). --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: lintian: r293 - trunk/lib

) By the way, you're doing great work... reminds me get off my lazy ass soon w.r.t. lintian. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl

Bug#253621: [ef]grep check

-- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl

Bug#255593: lintian: should check build-depends(-indep) for virtual packages without a real package too

. Apparantly, it does, I didn't test myself, but the whole reason this came up on IRC is that it didn't work with pure virtual build-dependency. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl

Re: Bug#255595: lintian: Please add libgl-dev and libglu-dev as known virtual packages

think we should provide a full list of all current virtual packages in lintian... Not just these two. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl pgpuzMbsyqgMN.pgp Description: PGP signature

Bug#249414: lintian: Fails to detect usr-doc-symlink

On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 04:40:08PM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 11:55:21PM +0200, Rafael Laboissiere wrote: * Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-05-31 14:32]: No problem. /usr/share/doc/$pkg/copyright is the reason. As the copyright notice

Bug#252695: lintian: Check for stripped binaries should not be made for OCaml-generated bins

an exception, and at the same time, I've reported an important bug (#256900) against ocaml for this IMHO buggy behaviour. Thanks for reporting, --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl

Bug#249435: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: ELF expert's help/advice/opinion wanted for two bugs]

+0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: objdump -T gives Invalid operation on some ELF files in /usr/lib/debug. Is this objdump at fault? On files without a dynamic section, usually objdump simply doesn't display the dynamic symbols, so why does it error out here? Example

[ANNOUNCE] lintian 1.23.1~beta-r304 availabe

release or a later one, at some time, one should release... And that time has come. 1.23.0 is now two months old, and if we don't release really soon now, we'll have more than 100 bugs again soon! ;) --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http

Re: lintian: r307 - in trunk: debian lib

+):(.*)$/o) { Erm, shouldn't there be some extra \s* here? To kill the whitespace before the value that is being put into $2? --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl

Re: Some points to discuss in the beta

' characters there, I think consensus is quite clear it should be UTF-8, at least, I've so far seen nobody even stating he disagrees, which is quite a feat withing Debian. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl

Re: lintian: r307 - in trunk: debian lib

On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 08:06:03PM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 06:51:48PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Author: djpig Date: 2004-07-01 18:51:47 +0200 (Thu, 01 Jul 2004) New Revision: 307 Modified: trunk/debian/changelog trunk/lib/Util.pm

Re: Request comments for patch regarding debfiles collection

be a file, implying it cannot be a symlink. What about checking whether debian/changelog is a symlink, and bail out with a lintian warning if it is? --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl

Re: Some points to discuss in the beta

of these two? This may lead to confusion sometimes. Silly... I suggest the newest one, introduced in 1.23.1, should be renamed (or merged if possible). --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl

Re: Problems found in testing run

/mDebian_Lintian_Maintainers.html * testset/filenames: + [JvW] Fix two lintian warnings in lintian itself by touching files only on clean target, and not distributing them in the source Since the archive has the not-yet-fixed 1.23.0 version, you'll indeed find that. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van

Re: Bug#253405: Bug#257503: lintian: support for amd64.

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Bug#258604: lintian: Source NMU check needs tightening-up

On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 08:00:52PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: Hi, Jeroen van Wolffelaar: WTF? This is a perfectly valid non-NMU version number. If lintian gives this warning, the package as it is now is a NMU according to the algorithm katie uses. That is, the most recent entry

Bug#258604: lintian: Source NMU check needs tightening-up

On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 10:29:55PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: Hi, Jeroen van Wolffelaar: You might want to grep for /new maintainer/ in the changelog entry: don't report a problem if that text is present. Err, no, on maintainer change, you also put yourself in debian/control

Bug#258815: lintian: [frontend] -i option doesn't show description for O: tags

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Re: What to do about source-contains-CVS-dir?

. What is a packager to do? IMHO, the tarball should be left alone, and the lintian warning overridden. You can put a comment in the override file explaining why (upstream distributes the CVS dirs...) --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http

Bug#262649: partially-translated-question causes false positives (Was: Re: Please check my interpretation of policy/lintian)

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Bug#268688: lintian: please detect inproper fiddling with device files

pager ii perl [libdigest-md5-perl] 5.8.4-2 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction -- no debconf information -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl

Re: RFH lintian too hush

Diverting to lintain-maint, where this is more appropriate... On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 10:26:13PM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 07:26:35PM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 05:10:21PM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: snip what=warnings found

Re: Broken link, to Lintian, for fetchyahoo pkg.

, hence not listed at all. Yes, that's suboptimal. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl

Re: Doubt about package-has-a-duplicate-relation

since most maintainers are giving priority to have Sarge released ASAP. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl

Re: incorrect instance of unusual-interpreter

about it. Bugs are much more easily tracked. I don't have the time right now to check, but it looks valid to me, so please file a bug, and it'll probably get fixed in the next version. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A

Bug#284728: ununderstandable-for-me lintian behavior, and seek for sponsor.

'./' though. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl

Bug#286379: lintian: Insecure temporary directory usage

, maintainers of lintian can always be mailed privately about security issues, so that this could have been fixed in a timely matter. I never got any mail about this issue. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl

Bug#286379: lintian: Insecure temporary directory usage

On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 12:29:09AM +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 11:58:32PM +0100, Javier Fern?ndez-Sanguino Pe?a wrote: The lintian script does not protect itself from temporary directory attacks since it creates the labs in an insecure manner (the process PID

Bug#286379: Lintian insecure removal bug (#286379)

On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 08:43:53PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: Should we prepare a security upload for woody for this issue? Do you agree or not that this is a security bug in woody that should be fixed? I wonder if this isn't that low that it wouldn't require

Bug#286379: lintian: Insecure temporary directory usage

). PS: Yes, version was 1.23.3, blame it on opening up multiple bug reports at 1 am Thought something like that :), n/p. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl

Bug#286379: Lintian insecure removal bug (#286379)

discussion, feel free to give your opinion there if you wish. Thanks, --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl

Bug#286379: Lintian insecure removal bug (#286379)

/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=286379msg=24 [3] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=286379msg=27 [4] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=286379msg=36 -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl

Bug#286681: marked as done ([CAN-2004-1000] [lib/Lab] Insecurely removes files after lab failed to be created)

to be marked as done. But is done in Sid only at the moment. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl

Bug#288568: lintian: exceptions for description starting with capital letter

don't really think it's a valuable warning. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl

Bug#315919: lintian: doesn't like ~ version number

isn't yet ready. The sarge release was a pre-requisite, but that doesn't imply it's allowed immediately after the release. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

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