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

or if you don't want to have to run a test program (e.g. if you support cross compiling) maybe you can try to build a program that has at least one function call, do a disassembly on it (objdump -d foo) and see if get calls to _mcount, which will indicate to profiling is enabled. So, what

Bug#231770: lintian: Add checks for prompting in maintainerscripts

tags 231770 +patch thanks Hi Easy patch included for consideration. Cheers Luk -- Luk Claes - http://people.debian.org/~luk - GPG key 1024D/9B7C328D Fingerprint: D5AF 25FB 316B 53BB 08E7 F999 E544 DE07 9B7C 328D diff -Nru lintian-1.23.28/checks/scripts lintian-1.23.28.new/checks/scripts

Bug#330025: lintian: bogus compat check

Russ Allbery wrote: Luk Claes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: tags 330025 +patch thanks Hi Easy patch included for consideration. Thanks! At this point I'm tempted to take this, although I think that CDBS still uses DH_COMPAT rather than a debian/compat file (but I'm not positive

Bug#231770: lintian: Add checks for prompting in maintainerscripts

Russ Allbery wrote: Luk Claes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: tags 231770 +patch thanks Hi Easy patch included for consideration. My concern about the simple approach to this (which I never sent to the bug; my bad) is that the other major use of read besides prompting is for parsing

Re: Hard coded package names in lintian

Russ Allbery wrote: Luk Claes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So, libglib1.2ldbl, libgtk1.2 and maybe libgd2-xpm would qualify to be included? libgd2-xpm isn't even in oldlibs and there's no hint in the package description that it shouldn't be used. Is it really being phased out? The source

Re: Hard coded package names in lintian

Russ Allbery wrote: Luk Claes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So, libglib1.2ldbl, libgtk1.2 and maybe libgd2-xpm would qualify to be included? Do you want me to file a bug to include them or is mentioning them over here enough? Could you explain more why that would be? For the first two, do

Re: Lintian update for lenny (through t-p-u)

Frank Lichtenheld wrote: Hi. We noticed a yet unreported RC bug in the version of lintian in lenny (it will fail on purge in most cases) and we would like to fix this through t-p-u as we already have a new version in unstable. I've included a second fix which removes a tag which annoyed many

Bug#629308: [PATCH] packaging-dev should not be (build) depended on or even be recommended

Signed-off-by: Luk Claes l...@debian.org --- checks/fields |6 ++ checks/fields.desc |6 ++ debian/changelog |3 +++ 3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/checks/fields b/checks/fields index 4435f66..b23760c 100644 --- a/checks/fields +++ b

Bug#624201: [PATCH] simple-patchsys.mk is deprecated by source format 3.0 (quilt)

Signed-off-by: Luk Claes l...@debian.org --- checks/rules |5 + checks/rules.desc |7 +++ debian/changelog |3 +++ 3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/checks/rules b/checks/rules index 2ac1d3f..0b8a5f9 100644 --- a/checks/rules +++ b/checks

Bug#578329: lintian.debian.org using outdated man-db

I don't think this really belongs to the lintian package, but the web site directed me here. The tag manpage-has-errors-from-man has some false positives on lintian.debian.org because the tests have not been run with the current version of man-db. In particular, the 'errors from man' listed

Bug#634874: Please add error for udebs that contain non gziped tarballs

Package: lintian Version: 2.5.1 Severity: important Hi udpkg (the dpkg equivalent within d-i) does only support gziped tarballs. So it does not support data.tar.bz2 and similar. It would be good if there could be an autoreject for these to avoid broken daily/weekly images and uninstallable

Fwd: Lintian ERROR saying dpatch is obsolete

Hi Lintian Maintainers Is yada added to the obsolete packages? The package is orphaned and should probably be removed. So it would be good if it would also be added to the obsolete packages within lintian. Cheers Luk Original Message Subject: Lintian ERROR saying dpatch is