Bug#749768: [new check] warn about svg (and others) files with a non-dfsg license

. In the metadata there is a Properties: field that the users can fill with every text he want, copyright and license included. It can be see with imagemagic and the identify -verbose command. Please add a check for this. -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo GPG Key

Bug#762261: new tag unused-file-paragraph-in-dep5-copyright is rather confusing

5.1.1alpha+20120614-2 -- no debconf information -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo GPG Key: 4096R/B9444540 http://goo.gl/I8TMB more about me: http://mapreri.org Launchpad User: https://launchpad.net/~mapreri Ubuntu Wiki page

Re: [Qa-jenkins-scm] Build failed in Jenkins: lintian-tests_wheezy #135

the current run is probably going to hit the timeout, and it's already stuck at the very same step of the last timeout. I don't really know how do you run during the tests, but one case of such failure is due to some program waiting for input (just wild-guessing) -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo GPG Key

Bug#801760: [checks/manpages] manpage-named-after-build-path won't trigger for packages built in sbuild

the .dsc, .orig, etc and a $pkg-$ver directory, as created by dpkg). I wonder if just using $file =~ m/_build_/ instaead of $file =~ m/_build_buildd/ is sane enough. -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo GPG Key: 66AE 2B4A FCCF 3F52 DA18 4D18 4B04 3FCD B944 4540

Bug#801528: lintian: package-contains-timestamped-gzip false positive

compressed in the original source, or not. This is already took care, since #762105, in version 2.5.33. The tag is emitted only if the timestamp is after the changelog. You did not say which package gives you this false positive. -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo GPG Key: 66AE 2B

Bug#801528: lintian: package-contains-timestamped-gzip false positive

useful at all for nobody. -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo GPG Key: 66AE 2B4A FCCF 3F52 DA18 4D18 4B04 3FCD B944 4540 .''`. more about me: http://mapreri.org : :' : Launchpad user: https://launchpad.net/~mapreri `. `'` Debian Q

Bug#797532: Please checks for /build and /tmp/buildd in dir-or-file-in-build-tree

pad.net/~mapreri `. `'` Debian QA page: https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=mattia `- From 9ac5395e1f5173993ce7b870a21b0da699068180 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mattia Rizzolo <mat...@mapreri.org> Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 11:40:14 + Subject: [PATCH] checks/files.pm: also

Bug#797556: lintian: False positive in maintainer-script-should-not-use-adduser-system-without-home if --system comes after --home

area. This got fixed just some hours ago :) https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/lintian/lintian.git/commit/?id=1d6b8a0a24c4bc477fd188964484f9480b76bce2 -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo GPG Key: 66AE 2B4A FCCF 3F52 DA18 4D18 4B04 3FCD B944 4540 .''`. more about

Bug#797532: Please checks for /build and /tmp/buildd in dir-or-file-in-build-tree

On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 11:42:56AM +, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > Yes, please add /build and /tmp/buildd to this check, where the actual > builds happen inside the chroots. > > Patch attached. Ok, that one was a bit broken. I also moved the check a bit up and checked for the dire

Bug#798900: lintian: false positive: source-is-missing for non-minified JS files

the line length alone is > probably not sufficient to reliably identify minified JS. > Any comments? Same thing for inkscape, though my line is 266 characters (>256) (I argue 256 is a really low number for such a check, and I wonder why Sascha report says another number). -- regards,

Bug#809248: check-copyright: link copyright-format 1.0 instead of dep5 WIP spec

Package: lintian Version: 2.5.39.1 Tags: patch See attached. Thanks. -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo GPG Key: 66AE 2B4A FCCF 3F52 DA18 4D18 4B04 3FCD B944 4540 .''`. more about me: http://mapreri.org : :' : Launchpad user: https

Bug#822281: lintian: support for Build-Depends-Arch & Build-Conflicts-Arch

y 5 packages only in the whole archive use B-D-A, but none uses B-C-A. No need to say, I'd like to use it, and split B-D into B-D-I+B-D-A everywhere I can. -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo GPG Key: 66AE 2B4A FCCF 3F52 DA18 4D18 4B04 3FCD B944 4540 .''`. more about me: ht

Bug#832099: lintian: please check for unnecessary SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH assignments

. At least, that's what my AM told me back then ^^ -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo GPG Key: 66AE 2B4A FCCF 3F52 DA18 4D18 4B04 3FCD B944 4540 .''`. more about me: https://mapreri.org : :' : Launchpad user: https://launchpad.net/~mapreri

Bug#852891: lintian: FTBFS: Test failures

d14a5cd4d3b38898c -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo GPG Key: 66AE 2B4A FCCF 3F52 DA18 4D18 4B04 3FCD B944 4540 .''`. more about me: https://mapreri.org : :' : Launchpad user: https://launchpad.net/~mapreri `. `'` Debian

Bug#856128: debian-watch-may-check-gpg-signature: false positives

ar.gz.md5 checksums. MD5 is useless and is nearly as good nothing for integrity checking. -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo GPG Key: 66AE 2B4A FCCF 3F52 DA18 4D18 4B04 3FCD B944 4540 .''`. more about me: https://mapreri.org : :' : La

Bug#856128: debian-watch-may-check-gpg-signature: false positives

lmangle you can use pgpmode=auto if uscan is clever enough for this case) does this solve your issue? -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo GPG Key: 66AE 2B4A FCCF 3F52 DA18 4D18 4B04 3FCD B944 4540 .''`. more about me: https://mapreri.org :

Bug#807461: lintian: check years in debian/copyright are not in the future

provide different results than it would on, for example, January 1st > 2017. > > Clearly, checking for dates >= 2100 might be considered be pretty safe. :) Why not just comparing it with the latest changelog entry instead? -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo GPG Key:

Bug#836756: closed by Niels Thykier <ni...@thykier.net> (Re: Bug#836756: lintian: please drop the build dependency on hardening-wrapper)

does not apply to lintian unless hardening-check goes > away as well or is moved to a different package. Yes, the whole package is going away. I know you have already fixed it in the git repository, please close this bug when a release happens, so the issue can be tracked properly. -- regards,

Bug#872076: lintian: please warn about build-dependency on dh-systemd

Package: lintian Version 2.5.52 Severity: wishlist dh-systemd is a transitional package in stretch, pointing to a new enough debhelper. Please emit a warning about an explicit build-dependency on it. See also https://bugs.debian.org/871312 -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo

Bug#872076: lintian: please warn about build-dependency on dh-systemd

Control: tag -1 + patch On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 09:31:24AM +0200, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > dh-systemd is a transitional package in stretch, pointing to a new > enough debhelper. Please emit a warning about an explicit > build-dependency on it. > > See also https://bugs.debian.or

Bug#823190: lintian: Please error out on orig tarball sigs for source 1.0

nd LTS would matter). -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo GPG Key: 66AE 2B4A FCCF 3F52 DA18 4D18 4B04 3FCD B944 4540 .''`. more about me: https://mapreri.org : :' : Launchpad user: https://launchpad.net/~mapreri `. `'` De

Bug#870829: Contradicting warnings/errors: useless-autoreconf-build-depends vs. missing-build-dependency-for-dh-addon

fig helper that is run for all debhelper compat level. Also, dropping that `--with autotools_dev` switch will cast away all the lintian warnings. -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo GPG Key: 66AE 2B4A FCCF 3F52 DA18 4D18 4B04 3FCD B944 4540 .''`. more about me: https://mapreri.org

Bug#870898: lintian: please warn about priority: extra

Package: lintian Starting with debian policy 4.0.1 the "extra" priority is deprecated in favour of "optional". https://browse.dgit.debian.org/debian-policy.git/commit/?id=4b3e61ac3fa06d8b82433e09a76f42a4f8859306 Please warn about the former. -- regards,

Bug#870902: lintian: please tweak debug-package-should-be-priority-extra and transitional-package-should-be-oldlibs-extra

for deborphan. -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo GPG Key: 66AE 2B4A FCCF 3F52 DA18 4D18 4B04 3FCD B944 4540 .''`. more about me: https://mapreri.org : :' : Launchpad user: https://launchpad.net/~mapreri `. `'` Debian QA page: https

Bug#871008: lintian: please refer to Policy 4.0.1 §9.6 for command-in-menu-file-and-desktop-file

to it. -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo GPG Key: 66AE 2B4A FCCF 3F52 DA18 4D18 4B04 3FCD B944 4540 .''`. more about me: https://mapreri.org : :' : Launchpad user: https://launchpad.net/~mapreri `. `'` Debian QA page: https://qa.debian.org

Re: Upstream Tarball Signature Files

0.92.2-1/debian/upstream/signing-key.asc/ (that's https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/misc.git/tree/dump-gpg-keys.sh) IOW: Guillem: I second merging that sig→asc converter into dpkg-source! :) -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo GPG Key: 66AE 2B4A FCCF 3F52 DA18 4D18 4B04

Bug#865570: lintian: autopkgtest no longer requires an entry in debian/control

o look for a > control file in the debian/tests directory. Already reported yesterday. -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo GPG Key: 66AE 2B4A FCCF 3F52 DA18 4D18 4B04 3FCD B944 4540 .''`. more about me: https://mapreri.org : :' : Launchpad user:

Bug#875964: lintian: please warn about files in /usr/lib/pythonX.Y/dist-packages/tests/__init__.py

Package: lintian Version: 2.5.52 See https://bugs.debian.org/875962 I believe lintian should warn about these (and ISTR there is a already a tag for those kind of files). -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo GPG Key: 66AE 2B4A FCCF 3F52 DA18 4D18 4B04 3FCD B944 4540

Bug#876434: [new check] detect outdated use of dpkg-parsechangelog | grep

/lintian.debian.org/tags/debian-rules-parses-dpkg-parsechangelog.html -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo GPG Key: 66AE 2B4A FCCF 3F52 DA18 4D18 4B04 3FCD B944 4540 .''`. more about me: https://mapreri.org : :' : Launchpad user: https://launchpad.net/~mapr

Bug#875964: lintian: please warn about files in /usr/lib/pythonX.Y/dist-packages/tests/__init__.py

b/python2.7/dist-packages/tests/test_transport.py python-oauth2client: /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/tests/test_util.py Both of them gained said an RC bug by anbe about it, and indeed I also believe both of them installs those files by error. -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo

Bug#877766: lintian: more false positives in copyright-year-in-future

I see what you mean. Point taken :) On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 8:43 PM Chris Lamb wrote: > Hi Mattia, > > > Dunno if this is the case, but would be possible to at least keep it for > > some cases > […] > > Whilst this is certainly possible I just can't shake the feeling that >

Bug#877766: lintian: more false positives in copyright-year-in-future

t for some cases where the amount of fpos would be way lower? I'm thinking about checking on machine-parsable d/copyright, and only for the Copyright fields, and even there only the first chars of the field. -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo GPG Key: 66AE 2B4A FCCF 3F52 DA18 4D

Bug#873612: lintian: please check latest-debian-changelog-entry-without-new-date for sources as well

On Wed, 30 Aug 2017, 11:20 a.m. Chris Lamb wrote: > Hey Mattia, > > > if it checked also debian/control > > in source packages. > > I'm assuming you meant "debian/changelog in source packages" … ? :) > Oh well Of course :)

Bug#877511: lintian: remove 'mount' from the list of essential packages

(as other data files are), so I manually updated it, please correct me if I'm wrong. -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo GPG Key: 66AE 2B4A FCCF 3F52 DA18 4D18 4B04 3FCD B944 4540 .''`. more about me: https://mapreri.org : :' : Launchpad user

Bug#873096: Now nodejs provides node

an were warning about nodejs uses in script > (and in particular in debian/tests/). You already reported it 4 days ago :) -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo GPG Key: 66AE 2B4A FCCF 3F52 DA18 4D18 4B04 3FCD B944 4540 .''`. more about me: h

Bug#873096: Now nodejs provides node

" > being completely unrecognised whilst #873096 is about explicitly pointing > out that nodejs is depecrated and you should move to node Ah, sorry, thanks for explaining it. I didn't undestand it from the original message. -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo GPG Key: 66AE

Re: [lintian] 02/02: Check for packages shipping compiled Java class files. Thanks to Carnë Draug <carandraug+...@gmail.com>. (Closes: #873211)

# /usr/lib/site-python > if ($fname =~ m,^usr/lib/site-python/\S,) { > tag 'file-in-usr-lib-site-python', $file; -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo GPG Key: 66AE 2B4A FCCF 3F52 DA18 4D18 4B04 3FCD B944 4540

Bug#760021: lintian: check for not wrap-and-sort formatted files

model-dpkg-perl, most probably. Therefore elevating cme's implementation. Summing up: I don't think it's a practise ready to be nudged by lintian yet. -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo GPG Key: 66AE 2B4A FCCF 3F52 DA18 4D18 4B04 3FCD B944 4540 .''`. more about me:

Bug#873612: lintian: please check latest-debian-changelog-entry-without-new-date for sources as well

the source upload, not during the binary only uploads from buildds) -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo GPG Key: 66AE 2B4A FCCF 3F52 DA18 4D18 4B04 3FCD B944 4540 .''`. more about me: https://mapreri.org : :' : Launchpad user: https

Bug#760021: lintian: check for not wrap-and-sort formatted files

r.debian.org/news/865454 * Replace FIXME markers with TODO markers. Silly lintian ... I do not want to see more of them, please let's try to stay real, even if I personally would like to see more cleaness around. -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo GPG Key: 66AE 2B4A FCCF 3F52

Bug#873612: lintian: please check latest-debian-changelog-entry-without-new-date for sources as well

I'm sure that this bug was triggered by some sort of discussion on IRC proposing the same… -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo GPG Key: 66AE 2B4A FCCF 3F52 DA18 4D18 4B04 3FCD B944 4540 .''`. more about me: https://mapreri.org : :' : Launchpad u

Bug#882954: lintian: warn about "team upload" but uploader is an uploader

Package: lintian Severity: wishlist please warn if somebody tries to do a "Team upload" (i.e. that string is in the changelog) but the person in the changelog trailer is among the Maintainer/Uploaders. -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo GPG Key: 66AE 2B4A FCCF 3F52

Bug#884676: lintian: please warn about python2 packages using ${python3:Depends} and python3 packages using ${python:Depends}

1-2/debian/control/#L36 A python2 package using ${python3:Depends} and therefore ending up with no dependencies at all. -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo GPG Key: 66AE 2B4A FCCF 3F52 DA18 4D18 4B04 3FCD B944 4540 .''`. more about me: https://m

Bug#884678: lintian: please consider debhelper compat 11 as stable

it!) -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo GPG Key: 66AE 2B4A FCCF 3F52 DA18 4D18 4B04 3FCD B944 4540 .''`. more about me: https://mapreri.org : :' : Launchpad user: https://launchpad.net/~mapreri `. `'` Debian QA page: https://qa.debian.org

Bug#884678: lintian: please consider debhelper compat 11 as stable

On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 11:32:25AM +0100, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > package-uses-experimental-debhelper-compat-version still triggers for > 11, but debhelper version 11 was released the other day > (https://tracker.debian.org/news/894669) and is now considered stable. > Please stop w

Bug#884678: lintian: please consider debhelper compat 11 as stable

Control: clone -1 -2 Control: retitle -2 lintian: please bump recommended debhelper compat to 11 Control: severity -2 wishlist Control: tag -1 patch On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 11:32:25AM +0100, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > package-uses-experimental-debhelper-compat-version still triggers for &

Re: [lintian] 01/01: Update description of python-script-but-no-python-dep to refer to pybuild. (Closes: #660718)

of dh_python[23], which was apparently already done at some point in the past. I recommend to just revert this commit and manually close the bug as "done at some point in the past already". -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo GPG Key: 66AE

Bug#897608: lintian: warn that debug symbol migration is complete

arning— would be very annoying. Graham: what is your reasoning for pushing toward what feels like a deprecation of --dbgsym-migration? I've never heard any deprecation plan from Niels, and surely a versioned Breaks+Replaces in dbgsyms are not causing any issues. -- regards,

Bug#889816: lintian: Complain when epoch has been bumped but upstream version did not go backwards

cted tags of the new tests, so I don't see how you felt like it was a duplicate. -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo GPG Key: 66AE 2B4A FCCF 3F52 DA18 4D18 4B04 3FCD B944 4540 .''`. more about me: https://mapreri.org : :' : Launchpad user:

Bug#898160: Please add (www\.)?gnu\.org to the whitelist of homepage-field-uses-insecure-uri

Package: lintian Version: 2.5.85 SSIA. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#898160: Please add (www\.)?gnu\.org to the whitelist of homepage-field-uses-insecure-uri

regards, Mattia Rizzolo GPG Key: 66AE 2B4A FCCF 3F52 DA18 4D18 4B04 3FCD B944 4540 .''`. more about me: https://mapreri.org : :' : Launchpad user: https://launchpad.net/~mapreri `. `'` Debian QA page: https://qa.debian.org/deve

Bug#898160: Please add (www\.)?gnu\.org to the whitelist of homepage-field-uses-insecure-uri

On Tue, May 08, 2018 at 06:46:43PM +0100, Chris Lamb wrote: > (Still, "SSIA" comes across as a little... lazy! :p) No doubt, that's me and being lazy was the goal :P -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo GPG Key: 66AE 2B4A FCCF 3F52 DA18 4D18 4B04 3FCD B944 4540

Bug#884567: lintian: Report about mismatches between the Build-IDs field and the content of /usr/lib/debug/

ntian should check for this nonetheless: another debhelper bug may pop up in the future, and there are packages building dbgsyms without using the facilities provided by debhelper. -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo GPG Key: 66AE 2B4A FCCF 3F52 DA18 4D18 4B04 3FCD B944 4540 .

Bug#898708: vcs-deprecated-in-debian-infrastructure browse.dgit.debian.org

l is private ("403" and 404 are handled the same way by gitlab). Chris: those urls should not contain '.git' :) -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo GPG Key: 66AE 2B4A FCCF 3F52 DA18 4D18 4B04 3FCD B944 4540 .''`. more about me: https://mapreri.org

Bug#900122: lintian: fpos debug-package-for-multi-arch-same-pkg-not-coinstallable

uld use the same filter debian-control-has-obsolete-dbg-package is using (that doesn't warn about this package because it "knows" that it's not a debug package). -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo GPG Key: 66AE 2B4A FCCF 3F52 DA18 4D18 4B04 3FCD B944 4540 .''`.

Bug#900213: lintian: please add override_dh_build to the possible dh_* misspellings

dh_auto_build -- update-gmo -C po <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Clearly that override is wrong, please have typo-in-debhelper-override-target warn about that (I must suppose there are similar chance to have people try to override dh_

Bug#902797: lintian: check latest changelog entry for duplicate contributor information

ected, I recommend getting in touch with them before any action is taken. And if anything is done, dch's default should be changed a well. -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo GPG Key: 66AE 2B4A FCCF 3F52 DA18 4D18 4B04 3FCD B944 4540 .''`. more about me: h

Bug#896840: lintian: autopkgtest fails with new version of file

e it's the same for Chris (whom is involved in both lintian and diffoscope). I don't know whether any of the other rdepds rely on its output so much, if there are the same treatment would apply for them as well. -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo GPG Key: 66AE 2B4A FCCF 3F52 DA18

Bug#879953: lintian: script-needs-depends-on-sensible-utils should not be emitted if there is already a Recommends on sensible-utils

e failure message would be quite unhelpful. It might be just me that I'm an happy user of sensible-utils and would rather see it a more widespread usage :) -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo GPG Key: 66AE 2B4A FCCF 3F52 DA18 4D18 4B04 3FCD B944 4540 .''`. more about m

Re: [lintian] 01/01: Check for Apache 2.0 packages that do not distribute their accompanying "NOTICE" files. (Closes: #885042)

hink in most cases (including your own example you made up for the testsuite!) that file probably should be in /usr/share/doc/pkg/, what about recommending to put it in the debian/package.docs file instead? -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo GPG Key: 66AE 2B4A FCCF 3F52 DA18 4D18 4B04 3FC

Re: [lintian] 03/03: Move bugs-field-does-not-refer-to-debian-infrastructure to fields.pm and split tests, only checking the source paragraph.

tbug unable to report bugs. > +Ref: #740944 Guess it should be "a Bugs" :) -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo GPG Key: 66AE 2B4A FCCF 3F52 DA18 4D18 4B04 3FCD B944 4540 .''`. more about me: https://mapreri.org : :' :

Bug#886303: lintian: python-foo-but-no-python3-foo false positive

kages (I don't know if lintian already has a definition of those, but I'd define them as "priority extra/optional, section oldlibs, any('dummy transitional', 'transitional package') in the long description"). -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo GPG Key: 66AE 2B4A

Bug#886566: lintian: please detect useless usage of the quilt dh addon

e limited to those kind of sources). Please emit a severity:wishlist tag about that useless dh-addon (ISTR (but should be confirmed) that once the `--with quilt` is removed there is already a tag warning about the usekess build-dep). -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo GPG Key: 66AE

Bug#886219: lintian should be less pedantic about latest policy version

mprovements is an example of > requiring prerequisite work of volunteers that is not needed for > co-ordinating with other volunteers. So we should not require it. Agree, we should not require it. But I believe we should definitely (more or less strongly) recommend it. -- regards,

Bug#712394: lintian: Warn if override_dh_auto_test target doesn't check for DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck

many fpos I can think of. -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo GPG Key: 66AE 2B4A FCCF 3F52 DA18 4D18 4B04 3FCD B944 4540 .''`. more about me: https://mapreri.org : :' : Launchpad user: https://launchpad.net/~mapreri `. `'` Debian QA page:

Bug#823190: lintian: Please error out on orig tarball sigs for source 1.0

's correctly handled, and dak accepts them since last week. > > https://anonscm.debian.org/git/lintian/lintian.git/commit/?id=2f1efb44994b066c22a985c09a853fc9583aacf8 Please revert this commit and close this bug as no action needed anymore. -- regards, Mattia Rizz

Bug#787469: lintian: please report warning for debian/.lintian-overrides. if pkg is M-A: same

riting nonsense :) -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo GPG Key: 66AE 2B4A FCCF 3F52 DA18 4D18 4B04 3FCD B944 4540 .''`. more about me: https://mapreri.org : :' : Launchpad user: https://launchpad.net/~mapreri `. `'` Debian QA page: https://qa

Bug#889042: lintian: Do not use dot as a separator in build profile names

and somebody from the relevant group of people (Helmut, Josch, Guillem comes to my mind) ACKs it. -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo GPG Key: 66AE 2B4A FCCF 3F52 DA18 4D18 4B04 3FCD B944 4540 .''`. more about me: https://mapreri.org : :' : La

Bug#889638: lintian: please downgrade build-depends-on-obsolete-package dh-systemd to warning

e considered a valid use case, but if that's so can I instead suggest to just add a lintian override in that package (with a comment)?. -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo GPG Key: 66AE 2B4A FCCF 3F52 DA18 4D18 4B04 3FCD B944 4540 .''`. more about me: https:/

Bug#889592: lintian: false positive for override_dh_auto_test-does-not-check-DEB_BUILD_PROFILES

stsuite, as this one is *also* calling dh_auto_test, but it should still handle DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck by hand. -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo GPG Key: 66AE 2B4A FCCF 3F52 DA18 4D18 4B04 3FCD B944 4540 .''`. more about me: https://mapreri.org : :' :

Bug#889592: lintian: false positive for override_dh_auto_test-does-not-check-DEB_BUILD_PROFILES

d nothing. The only "safe" cases of command that are fine to run in an override_dh_auto_test are : and echo (if not redirected to a file). -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo GPG Key: 66AE 2B4A FCCF 3F52 DA18 4D18 4B04 3FCD B944 4540 .''`.

Bug#664520: [lintian] 04/06: Emit a warning about documentation packages that end with -docs. (Closes: #664520)

t /-docs-.+$/ or something more clever (to cover for the lang codes). -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo GPG Key: 66AE 2B4A FCCF 3F52 DA18 4D18 4B04 3FCD B944 4540 .''`. more about me: https://mapreri.org : :' : Launchpad user: https://launchpad.net/~ma

Bug#664520: [lintian] 04/06: Emit a warning about documentation packages that end with -docs. (Closes: #664520)

hypothetical, not as a real case. I'll let you choose if it's something to add to the check or not (probably not indeed). -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo GPG Key: 66AE 2B4A FCCF 3F52 DA18 4D18 4B04 3FCD B944 4540 .''`. more about me: https://mapreri.org

Bug#823190: lintian: Please error out on orig tarball sigs for source 1.0

On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 09:01:48PM +0100, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > Since 1.18.something dpkg can handle unpacking of 1.18.15, and since > dpkg 1.19.0 it also creates them. yes it was a issue back then but now > it's correctly handled, and dak accepts them since last week.

Bug#889592: lintian: false positive for override_dh_auto_test-does-not-check-DEB_BUILD_PROFILES

don't forget, the tag could also be marked as experimental, which is thought exactly to help out developing of the tags with high chances of fpos. On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 4:48 AM Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > On Mon 2018-02-05 04:38:14 +0530, Chris Lamb wrote: > > tags 889592 +

Bug#738442: lintian: Possibility to provide stats on .deb member compressors

tag as well? -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo GPG Key: 66AE 2B4A FCCF 3F52 DA18 4D18 4B04 3FCD B944 4540 .''`. more about me: https://mapreri.org : :' : Launchpad user: https://launchpad.net/~mapreri `. `'` Debian QA

Bug#738442: lintian: Possibility to provide stats on .deb member compressors

l? > > Sure, please file a wishlist bug :) Aye! -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo GPG Key: 66AE 2B4A FCCF 3F52 DA18 4D18 4B04 3FCD B944 4540 .''`. more about me: https://mapreri.org : :' : Launchpad user: https://laun

Bug#889746: lintian: several suggestion to override_dh_auto-test-does-not-check-DEB_BUILD_PROFILES metadata

for nocheck). * Lower its certanty from possible to wild-guess * Mark the tag as Experimental:yes TIA -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo GPG Key: 66AE 2B4A FCCF 3F52 DA18 4D18 4B04 3FCD B944 4540 .''`. more about me: https://mapreri.org

Re: [lintian] 01/01: Also check, for example, "override_dh_fixperms-indep" targets for "override_dh_fixperms-does-not-call-dh_fixperms", etc.

ep') { Maybe also add '-arch' ? -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo GPG Key: 66AE 2B4A FCCF 3F52 DA18 4D18 4B04 3FCD B944 4540 .''`. more about me: https://mapreri.org : :' : Launchpad user: https://launchpad.net/~mapreri `. `'` Debian Q

Bug#832099: lintian: please check for unnecessary SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH assignments

? If I read it correctly this is proposing to drop all S_D_E assignments from d/rules, instead of e.g. proposing to replace them with include /u/s/d/pkg-info.mk export S_D_E# if needed (and if wanted a dependency on dpkg-dev (>= 1.18.8)) -- regards, Mattia R

Bug#793406: lintian: should warn about wrongly formatted dates in changelog

the to have verb, not should nor must. It's a fact, that date is plain wrong, period :) -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo GPG Key: 66AE 2B4A FCCF 3F52 DA18 4D18 4B04 3FCD B944 4540 .''`. more about me: https://mapreri.org : :' : Launchpad user: https

Bug#886219: lintian should be less pedantic about latest policy version

maintainer should make an effort to keep up and check for Policy compliance at each package update. -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo GPG Key: 66AE 2B4A FCCF 3F52 DA18 4D18 4B04 3FCD B944 4540 .''`. more about me: https://mapreri.org : :' : Laun

Bug#741071: lintian: [new check] Warn about packages using the Bugs field in the control file

it then there probably is a good reason, it's not like some random person would ever be able to find such an un-advertised field… -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo GPG Key: 66AE 2B4A FCCF 3F52 DA18 4D18 4B04 3FCD B944 4540 .''`. more about me

Bug#884870: lintian: vcs-field-has-unexpected-spaces and vcswatch don't agree

be!?) while discussing a detail from DEP-14. -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo GPG Key: 66AE 2B4A FCCF 3F52 DA18 4D18 4B04 3FCD B944 4540 .''`. more about me: https://mapreri.org : :' : Launchpad user: https://launchpad.net/~mapreri `. `'`

Bug#795261: add a warning for stripped python-*-dbg packages

3-libxml2-dbg: library-in-debug-or-profile-should-not-be-stripped usr/lib/debug/.build-id/81/856a797c537c2f1ad0cff65a70d03e7ddb2956.debug -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo GPG Key: 66AE 2B4A FCCF 3F52 DA18 4D18 4B04 3FCD B944 4540 .''`. more

Bug#886271: lintian: do not warn about debian-control-has-obsolete-dbg-package for python-*-dbg packages

build of python. Interestingly, I do not get that tag for the python3 version... -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo GPG Key: 66AE 2B4A FCCF 3F52 DA18 4D18 4B04 3FCD B944 4540 .''`. more about me: https://mapreri.org : :' : Launchpad user: https

Re: [lintian] 01/01: Don't warn about extra license files installed via Sphinx. Thanks, Stuart Prescott! (Closes: #885968)

txt$,o instead. I.e. it needs to ignore license.txt and license.rst.txt, there is no mention of files named license.rst. -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo GPG Key: 66AE 2B4A FCCF 3F52 DA18 4D18 4B04 3FCD B944 4540 .''`. more about me: https://mapre

Re: [lintian] 01/01: checks/files.pm: Correct extra-license-check filename matching. Thanks Mattia!

% > rename from t/tests/files-extra-license/debian/_sources/license.rst.txt > rename to t/tests/files-extra-license/debian/_sources/license.txt This one was right as it was :) -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo GPG Key: 66AE 2B4A FCCF 3F52 DA18 4D18 4B04 3FCD B944 4540

Bug#885974: lintian: warn about non-git Vcs fields

ntained-in-debian.org-infrastracture or somesuch. Then, if it's not maintained in git it would trigger the above. -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo GPG Key: 66AE 2B4A FCCF 3F52 DA18 4D18 4B04 3FCD B944 4540 .''`. more about me: https://mapreri.org

Bug#885974: lintian: warn about non-git Vcs fields

eel free to rename the tag, perhaps making it start with 'vcs-' to match other tags also checking the VCS fields. -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo GPG Key: 66AE 2B4A FCCF 3F52 DA18 4D18 4B04 3FCD B944 4540 .''`. more about me: https://mapreri.org

Bug#891555: Detect and warn about debhelper >= 11 instead of 11~ b-d

Agreed. Just bear with it for some weeks for few packages... On Mon, 26 Feb 2018, 6:10 p.m. Raphael Hertzog, wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 26 Feb 2018, Thomas Goirand wrote: > > Currently, there's debhelper 11~bpo9+1 in Stretch. However, mostly > everyone > > build-depends on

Re: Heads-up: New upstream version of src:file in experimental

ucible-builds/Week-of-Mon-20180723/010464.html I'll test diffoscope and if you don't hear from me (in the form of bug reports), everything is fine ^^ BTW, for diffoscope a test build using the new version of file is enough of a test (in case you want to just do it yourself :)). -- regards,

Re: Bug#903220: libconfig-model-dpkg-perl: Please change policy to current version of debian policy in sid

tian maintainers because I don't think they ever thought of that file as a public API, so they might want to be aware of this new reverse-dependency. -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo GPG Key: 66AE 2B4A FCCF 3F52 DA18 4D18 4B04 3FCD B944 4540 .''`. more about

Bug#903399: lintian: FPOS: old-python-version-field x-python3-version 3.5

intian shouldn't complain about 3.5 just yet, unless dh_python3 starts emitting dependencies on >= 3.5 by itself for some reason. -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo GPG Key: 66AE 2B4A FCCF 3F52 DA18 4D18 4B04 3FCD B944 4540 .''`. more about me: https://ma

Bug#762261: lintian: introduce a inexistent-file-in-dep5-copyright rather confusing

Control: clone -1 -2 Control: tag -2 - pending Control: retitle -2 lintian: introduce a inexistent-file-in-dep5-copyright Control: severity -2 wishlist On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 11:15:16AM +0200, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > 1) split the check in something like inexistent-file-in-dep5-copyri

Bug#735040: lintian: confusing tag name: debian-watch-may-check-gpg-signature

rchive, please add them here). -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo GPG Key: 66AE 2B4A FCCF 3F52 DA18 4D18 4B04 3FCD B944 4540 .''`. more about me: https://mapreri.org : :' : Launchpad user: https://launchpad.net/~mapreri `. `'` Debian Q

Bug#888001: Bug#762261: lintian: introduce a inexistent-file-in-dep5-copyright rather confusing

for this one, so it should stop emitting unused-file-paragraph-in-dep5-copyright and move to inexistent-file-in-dep5-copyright instead. -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo GPG Key: 66AE 2B4A FCCF 3F52 DA18 4D18 4B04 3FCD B944 4540 .''`. more abo

Bug#735040: lintian: confusing tag name: debian-watch-may-check-gpg-signature

ag. Renaming the tag would cause all those overrides to be for naught, so please don't do it. ISTR there was a facility in lintian somewhere (was it ever merged into master?) to support for renamed tags, if it does exist, that would cover my concerns. -- regards, Mattia R

Bug#888001: Bug#762261: lintian: introduce a inexistent-file-in-dep5-copyright rather confusing

it simple: this last paragraph should eming **only one tag** saying the file doesn't match any file from the source package. > Terrible names, I know, but just to make the clarifications easier! "entry-coverd-by-another-entry" is probably wrong on many level, starting by anything else a

Bug#892197: lintian: fpos for debian-changelog-line-too-short

: (line 42) Now, they are all fpos, as that's just a heading containing the name of an existing program, and the lines after explains what's happened to them. I suggest to ignore lines ending with ':' for this tag. -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo GPG Key: 66AE 2B4A FCCF 3F52 DA18

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