Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.0
Severity: normal
Hi,
the lintian 1.22.9 currently in use on lintian.debian.org correctly
complains about a missing debconf dependency on console-log 1.0-7.
Current lintian doesn't detect that error any more.
Greetings
Marc
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On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 01:13:06AM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:
I forward it to the BTS to not forget it. It's a minor issue since
it only affects one or two packages in the archive.
... one of them being the default MTA, exim4.
Anyway, 'debian/changelog' being a symlink is awkward...
Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.9
Severity: normal
Hi,
beginning with sarge, the character ~ is valid in version numbers.
However, lintian reports an error when checking rageircd_2.0.1~pre2-1.
Greetings
Marc
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APT
Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.12
Severity: normal
W: exim4-config: possible-bashism-in-maintainer-script config:33 ' local '
W: exim4-config: possible-bashism-in-maintainer-script config:55 ' local '
W: exim4-config: possible-bashism-in-maintainer-script postinst:101 ' local '
W: exim4-config:
Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.15
Severity: normal
Hi,
I have accidentally built an exim4 package without
changelog/copyright. lintian should detect this.
$ ar p exim4_4.60-5_all.deb data.tar.gz | tar --list --gzip --file -
../
../usr/
../usr/share/
../usr/share/doc/
../usr/share/bug/
Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.16
Severity: normal
maintainer-script-built-with-broken-debhelper-version is reported if
the construct invoke-rc.d.*exit 0 is found in any maintainer script.
In my case, this was not from debhelper, but the offending code was in
the maintainer script from the
Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.16
Severity: normal
I have CDPATH set in my environment. This causes cd to print the new
working directory, which in turn confuses lintian's
has-errors-from-man detector so that a bogus error is reported.
lintian should clean its environment before doing any tests
Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.16
Severity: minor
N: This packag was built with a debhelper version suffering from #337664.
There is an e missing.
Greetings
Marc
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APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.26
Severity: wishlist
Hi,
I am currently investigating a persistent newer-debconf-templates
warning in exim4. This has shown to be incredibly frustrating.
* --debug does not give remotely helpful information
* the lab is removed immediately
* there is no option to
Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.26
Severity: normal
Hi,
I am not sure whether this is a bug in lintian or in some other
package or even in mine. Please help in sorting this out.
In the latest exim4 package, I ran debconf-updatepo (which didn't
change anything) and built the package. Lintian, run
Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.29
Severity: normal
Hi,
having a non-conffile symlink in /etc causes data loss on package
installation if the symlink name was already there as a file
(#420578). The file-in-etc-not-marked-as-conffile check does not seem
to fire for symlinks.
Please consider
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' behavior is correct.
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 02:22:08PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 01:53:24PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 01:13:48PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
cdbs creates an unversioned debhelper dependency, which triggers a
lintian
Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.19
Severity: wishlist
Hi.
adduser --system automatically puts the new system users' home
directory under /home and creates it. This makes a package
insta-buggy, and piuparts has a check for that filing rc bugs against
packages that do so.
The adduser maintainer
Hi Felix,
On Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 01:34:24PM -0800, Felix Lechner wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 4:33 AM Marc Haber
> wrote:
> >
> > I wondering whether the missing leading backslash in the path is
> > correct.
>
> You probably meant a regular slash, and
Package: lintian
Version: 2.114.0
Severity: normal
Hi,
[208/5813]mh@drop:~/packages/ippl/build-area $ lintian
ippl_1.4.14-12.2_amd64.deb
W: ippl: missing-systemd-service-for-init.d-script ippl [etc/init.d/ippl]
W: ippl: skip-systemd-native-flag-missing-pre-depends (does not satisfy
Package: lintian
Version: 2.113.0
Severity: wishlist
Hi,
yesterday (in November 2021), I accidentally uploaded a package with the
changelog date back in February 2021. I should have used dch instead of
straight vim.
Please have lintian issue a warning if the changelog date is like, more
than a
s
Marc
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Package: lintian
Version: 2.113.0
Severity: minor
Hi,
the update-debian-copyright check is also applied to the debian/po
subdirectory. Debconf translations ARE actually seldomly touched, so an
older package might actually HAVE translations that have a copyright
that differs from the rest of
Package: lintian
Version: 2.113.0
Severity: minor
Hi,
in a yet unpublished branch of the aide package
(https://salsa.debian.org/debian/aide), I get the following pedantic
warning:
W: aide source: mismatched-override update-debian-copyright 2005 vs 2021
[debian/copyright:103]
W: aide source:
On Fri, Nov 26, 2021 at 08:00:21AM -0800, Felix Lechner wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 25, 2021 at 10:57 PM Marc Haber
> wrote:
> > in a yet unpublished branch of the aide package
> > (https://salsa.debian.org/debian/aide),
>
> Would you please attach your unpublished d/copyright
Package: lintian
Version: 2.113.0
Severity: wishlist
Hi,
| E: daemon: malformed-override Expected a colon in line 2
my package can probably have multiple override files. Which file is the
issue in?
Greetings
Marc
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Package: lintian
Version: 2.114.0
Severity: minor
Hi,
in sudo, I get
E: sudo: python3-script-but-no-python3-dep /usr/bin/python3 (does not satisfy
python3:any | python3-minimal:any)
[usr/share/apport/package-hooks/source_sudo.py]
and
E: sudo-ldap: python3-script-but-no-python3-dep
Package: lintian
Version: 2.114.0
Severity: wishlist
Hi,
chown user.group has been deprecated in favor of chown user:group for
many years. Yet, a codesearch for
[^[:alpha:]]chown[[:space:]][^[:space:]]+\.[^[:space:]] yields 829 hits.
Most of them are in docs, texts and comments, but I still feel
On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 01:47:27PM -0800, Felix Lechner wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 1:18 PM Marc Haber
> wrote:
> >
> > [^[:alpha:]]chown[[:space:]][^[:space:]]+\.[^[:space:]]
>
> I cannot get that search to work properly on codesearch.d.n. Do you
> have a samp
On Sat, Mar 12, 2022 at 08:52:45AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Marc Haber writes:
> > That regexp was copied verbatim from my codesearch search box. Did you
> > forget to switch the dropdown to "regex"?
>
> > The shadow package contains about ten of those const
Package: lintian
Version: 2.114.0
Severity: wishlist
Hi,
When setting info=yes in the configuration file, there does not seem to
be a possibility to reverse that decision on the command line. Neither
the commmon --no-info nor --info=no is accepted.
Many other software have "reverse options"
Package: lintian
Version: 2.114.0
Severity: wishlist
Hi,
I find myself frequently in the position that I am trying to override a
lintian warning or a lintian error but have to experiment a bit until I
get it right. This might be my personal problem, or lintian sometimes
behaves erratically.
In
Package: lintian
Version: 2.114.0
Severity: minor
Hi,
lintian.txt.gz is full of explanation that features appeared in lintian
2.5, and regularly, libc5 (sic!) is used as an example package.
While an experienced developer notices that the document has been
carefully updated (for example,
On Sun, Jan 23, 2022 at 10:07:26AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> lintian.txt.gz is full of explanation that features appeared in lintian
> 2.5, and regularly, libc5 (sic!) is used as an example package.
The lintian manual page also contains references to lintian 2.5. That
should be r
Package: lintian
Version: 2.114.0
Severity: minor
Hi,
the manual page mentions for various options that there is also a
configuration file option to set a default. tag-display-limit can be
set from the configuration file as well while this is not mentioned in
the manual page.
That being said,
Package: lintian
Version: 2.114.0
Severity: minor
Hi,
I wanted to silence those pesky "elf-error In proram headers" warnings
that have been resulting from #1000977 and #1000449 since weeks.
For example, I get:
W: sudo-dbgsym: elf-error In program headers: Unable to find program
interpreter
exception for bookworm will only lead to more
> whack-a-mole down the line (see #1051140).
I don't see the connection here.
Greetings
Marc
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Package: lintian
Version: 2.115.2
Severity: normal
Hi,
this line:
(space), '@' and '\\' (backslash) (e.g. '\\ ' or '\\@'). To literally match a
'\fB\\\fR'
in a man page triggers
I: aide: acute-accent-in-manual-page [usr/share/man/man5/aide.conf.5.gz:16]
I think this is caused by the '\\',
Package: lintian
Version: 2.115.2
Severity: wishlist
Hi,
please consider implementing a lintian warning / error if the changelog
date is in the past more than a few days. This avoids accidental uploads
with forgotten dch --release.
This is not as easy as it sounds, since lintian is used as well
Package: lintian
Version: 2.115.3
Severity: minor
Hi,
the description of debian-rules-uses-as-needed-linker-flag says:
"The bullseye toolchain defaults to linking with --as-needed and
therefore it should no longer be necessary to inject this into the build
process."
It then continues states
Package: lintian
Version: 2.116.3
Severity: important
Hi,
this is the bookworm edition of #1001651 which got fixed by adding an
exception, judging from the changelog entry of lintian 2.115.0.
This issue happens again when preparing a successive upload to bookworm.
I have aide 0.18.3-1,
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