Bug#322291: lintian: invalid-arch-string-in-source-relation triggers on amd64

2005-08-10 Thread Russ Allbery
Package: lintian Version: 1.23.10 Severity: normal Tags: patch (Bug severity because this is an incorrect error.) A Build-Depends entry like: libopenafs-dev [alpha amd64 hppa i386 ia64 powerpc s390 sparc] triggers invalid-arch-string-in-source-relation because of amd64. The reported

Bug#321564: lintian: shouldn't warn package-name-doesnt-match-sonames on non-library packages

2005-08-17 Thread Russ Allbery
{ lib_soname_path (@{$SONAME{$_}}) } keys %SONAME; tag several-sonames-in-same-package, @sonames if @sonames 1; my $match_found = 0; -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Bug#332770: Should check for editor's cruft

2005-10-08 Thread Russ Allbery
conversation about CVS directories, the source package check should probably only be done in the diff or the tarball for native packages, not on files from .orig.tar.gz. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#338203: 73 pkgs contain debhelper maintscript remnant (cruft?)

2005-11-08 Thread Russ Allbery
# generated by other debhelper scripts. #DEBHELPER# This refers to the #DEBHELPER# token. In any case, I would like to request that lintian includes a check to ensure that new packages do not contain that text. Please don't. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http

Bug#344609: lintian: better build-depends-indep check

2005-12-23 Thread Russ Allbery
Package: lintian Version: 1.23.14 Severity: normal Tags: patch While sponsoring a package (cdrbq), I noticed that lintian complaints about build-depends-without-arch-dep for Build-Depends: dpatch. However, if one uses the makefile include method for integrating dpatch, dpatch does have to be

Re: lintian: r532 - in trunk: checks debian testset testset/cdbs-test testset/cdbs-test/debian

2006-01-02 Thread Russ Allbery
more prone to false positives than the others. Thank you for adding a test! I was trying to figure out how to do that and couldn't quite see, so I can use this as an example in the future. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#349272: lintian: understand DH_COMPAT := level

2006-01-21 Thread Russ Allbery
Package: lintian Version: 1.23.15 Severity: minor Tags: patch Ran into this while fixing some older Debian Perl packages. Someone set DH_COMPAT with: export DH_COMPAT := 3 and lintian didn't see it. The attached patch allows an optional : before the = for both methods of setting

Re: Bug#109642: debhelper: Simplify inclusion of lintian overrides

2006-01-21 Thread Russ Allbery
. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#349273: lintian: allow quilt in Build-Depends

2006-01-21 Thread Russ Allbery
Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Package: lintian Version: 1.23.15 Severity: minor Tags: patch Not sure if anyone has started using quilt for an arch-independent package yet, but since the debian/rules glue works the same as dpatch, it too must be present during debian/rules clean

Bug#347510: lintian: menu-icon-not-in-xpm-format needs updating/removing

2006-01-22 Thread Russ Allbery
Paul Wise [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, 2006-01-21 at 15:03 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Aha, so that is where it is. Well, lintian should probably make what it is referring to more apparent, something like Debian Menu System 3.7. It does currently say menu 3.7; does that still seem

Re: xfonts-* overrides

2006-02-02 Thread Russ Allbery
/share. It's probably not worth modifying lintian in the meantime. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Lintian warnings/errors

2006-02-09 Thread Russ Allbery
)) { fixes the problem. Should I report a bug anyway? No, I've got it. Preparing a patch now that fixes this a bit more comprehensively (the above still fails if the filename contains ). -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Patch review for objdump fixes around debugging data

2006-03-04 Thread Russ Allbery
(revision 0) @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +Source: debug +Section: utils +Priority: optional +Maintainer: Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] +Build-Depends: debhelper (= 5.0.0) +Standards-Version: 3.6.2 + +Package: hello +Architecture: any +Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends} +Description: Test for external

Re: Lintian warnings/errors

2006-03-04 Thread Russ Allbery
Michael Stilkerich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-02-09 11:37]: lintian has code specifically to recognize this situation. I'm not sure why it isn't working. Can I see the rules and control file for this package somewhere? sure, see attachment. I think

Bug#352606: lintian: lintian-info -- Use of uninitialized value in split at /usr/bin/lintian-info line 51

2006-03-05 Thread Russ Allbery
lintian-info should have just passed it along without further comment. I fixed the bug that produced the various warnings messages in Subversion. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Bug#350114: Please add ubuntu upload targets to frontend/lintian

2006-03-10 Thread Russ Allbery
, this will be detected by lintian. Yeah, that was my reaction too -- I think this is one of those places where Debian and Ubuntu really want to be (slightly) distinct. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Bug#351324: lintian: incorrect tcl test

2006-03-11 Thread Russ Allbery
environment. There is no TkX and no stand-alone shells are built. ...which is why I suggested the dependency check should be on tclx8.3. Aha, now I understand. Thank you for the explanation! I've applied a patch to fix the dependency lintian expects. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#356307: lintian: wrong error messages for broken symlinks

2006-03-11 Thread Russ Allbery
libraries, for instance, but there are other cases). -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#350228: lintian: false positive package-uses-deprecated-debhelper-compat-version with cdbs

2006-03-11 Thread Russ Allbery
the compat level from cdbs until towards the end, and only if no other setting of it was found. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Patch review for objdump fixes around debugging data

2006-03-11 Thread Russ Allbery
Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 10:34:19PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: This is the largest patch I've written for lintian so far and it includes a new test suite package, so I'd rather someone else look it over before I just commit it. Could someone

Re: calling update-menus from prerm

2006-03-11 Thread Russ Allbery
sure what to say in this case. It's probably worth asking the menu maintainer if calling it in prerm is safe and if the above logic is correct. If it is safe, we can change the lintian warning. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: foo++ failing test

2006-03-15 Thread Russ Allbery
description says it is. This area will require some restructuring to make an exception for debian/control. Sorry for not following up on this faster. I've been working hard on a new WebAuth release and haven't had time for much else in the past few days. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Lintian release soon?

2006-03-15 Thread Russ Allbery
Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's been a while since the last release, and mainly thanks to the great work by Russ Allbery, we've got a 80-line changelog entry atm and a mere 18 bugs fixed. I've rolled and installed the current svn (which now passes its own testsuite again

Bug#357839: [frontend] report unused overrides

2006-03-19 Thread Russ Allbery
Package: lintian Version: 1.23.15 Severity: wishlist The lintian frontend has options to ignore overrides and report which overrides are triggered, but no option to report which overrides don't trigger. Since people add overrides to work around lintian bugs from time to time, it would be good to

Re: Lintian release soon?

2006-03-25 Thread Russ Allbery
no comments, and the testset still works etc. I plan to release tonight or tomorrow or so, unless someone yells and wants some more testing/finds showstopper bugs. Certainly works for me. I've been holding off from doing anything to make sure we stabilize for a release. :) -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL

Re: load custom checks from ~/.lintian/checks?

2006-03-25 Thread Russ Allbery
! -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: load custom checks from ~/.lintian/checks?

2006-03-25 Thread Russ Allbery
you). Hm, yes, those are both really good points. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#347169: X metapackage dependency check now obsolete?

2006-03-26 Thread Russ Allbery
straightforward. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#360216: lintian: maintainer-script-built-with-broken-debhelper-version fires in non-debhelper case

2006-03-31 Thread Russ Allbery
generic and note in the description the likely debhelper cause. Thanks for the report! -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#360217: lintian: should clean invocation environment

2006-03-31 Thread Russ Allbery
. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#360227: lintian: check for gksu in menu-command-not-in-package

2006-03-31 Thread Russ Allbery
use su-to-root. I suppose that may not do the right thing if the maintainer is really sure they want to force a *particular* interface, but is that something people are likely to want to do? It looks like the wrong thing to do for bum. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http

Bug#357636: shlib-without-PT_GNU_STACK-section check not valid for all arches?

2006-04-02 Thread Russ Allbery
Bastian, You provided a patch to lintian to check for executable stack that was integrated in 1.23.13. We got a bug report indicating that it may not be valid on all architectures. Could you take a look at Bug#357636 when you get a chance and comment? Thanks! -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL

Bug#131347: lintian could check for -dev package dependencies

2006-04-04 Thread Russ Allbery
is unfortunately unworkable. If other lintian developers agree, I think this bug should probably just be closed. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Bug#360711: lintian: [lintian-info] improve diagnostics of package-uses-deprecated-debhelper-compat-version

2006-04-04 Thread Russ Allbery
to find out, that the problem lied in debian/control::Buil-Depends So far as I can tell from looking at the lintian source, Build-Depends cannot create or solve this problem. That's a different warning. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle

Bug#357636: shlib-without-PT_GNU_STACK-section check not valid for all arches?

2006-04-04 Thread Russ Allbery
Bastian Blank [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 05:52:36PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: You provided a patch to lintian to check for executable stack that was integrated in 1.23.13. We got a bug report indicating that it may not be valid on all architectures. Could you take

Re: lintian.debian.org still at 1.23.12

2006-04-04 Thread Russ Allbery
lately. This is another project that I'd be interested in working on, although of course getting up-to-date lintian.debian.org output is a good first step for this. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Status of 1.23.17

2006-04-04 Thread Russ Allbery
. Maybe a good lintian 1.24 project would be some substantial refactoring and lifting common routines into the library. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: lintian.debian.org still at 1.23.12

2006-04-04 Thread Russ Allbery
write something up if I get a chance. I have some policy stuff I want to do first, though. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: checks/rules returns

2006-04-05 Thread Russ Allbery
Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: checks/rules is now back, using the make -p suggestion from debian-devel a while back. Here are the details on how we run make: Unfortunately, it looks like running make just isn't something we can do. This set of flags *almost* works, except that make

Re: lintian.debian.org still at 1.23.12

2006-04-05 Thread Russ Allbery
with todo items on the QA package summary, but that can happen later. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: lintian.debian.org still at 1.23.12

2006-04-06 Thread Russ Allbery
Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 02:18:01PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: I may well be missing something, as that seemed fairly straightforward, so let me know what I didn't notice. consolidate-lintian and lintian.log in ~rra on merkel. Well, you missed

Re: lintian.debian.org still at 1.23.12

2006-04-06 Thread Russ Allbery
Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm not entirely sure yet how this all is going to work together exactly, there's more things that needs such techinques to show only particular archs/suites/etc. And the html_reports thingy is still being

Bug#362566: please add gambas interpreters to lintian

2006-04-15 Thread Russ Allbery
of gambas has gbx2 as its interpreter and will be uploaded to Debian in the short future. So, please, add gbx and gbx2 as interpreters to lintian. I see that /usr/bin/gbx is provided by gambas-runtime. What will be the package name that provides /usr/bin/gbx2? -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED

New lintian checks for X.Org 7 migration

2006-04-16 Thread Russ Allbery
-to-usr-x11r6 usr/X11R6/bin/testxbin2 W: filenames: svn-commit-file-in-package files/svn-commit.tmp W: filenames: symlink-is-self-recursive usr/lib/filenames/symlink10wrong ../../.. W: filenames: symlink-is-self-recursive usr/lib/filenames/symlink5ok+warn .. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: New lintian checks for X.Org 7 migration

2006-04-16 Thread Russ Allbery
Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If the package uses imake, it must build-depend on xutils-dev (= 1:1.0.2-1) for the correct paths. If it uses dh_installxfonts to handle X font installation, it must build-depend on debhelper (= 5.0.29). Ugh, sorry, all of those 1:1.0.2-1 mentions

Re: New lintian checks for X.Org 7 migration

2006-04-16 Thread Russ Allbery
Daniel Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 11:53:10AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Tag: package-installs-file-to-usr-x11r6-bin Type: error Info: Debian has switched to the modular X tree which now uses the regular FHS paths, and all packages must follow. All packages

Time for a new release?

2006-04-16 Thread Russ Allbery
. It will be nice to get the CDPATH fix out there, as that's bitten a few people. Anyway, please raise objections if you don't think we're ready for another release, and otherwise please test what's currently in Subversion and make sure it looks good. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http

Re: Time for a new release?

2006-04-19 Thread Russ Allbery
Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anyway, please raise objections if you don't think we're ready for another release, and otherwise please test what's currently in Subversion and make sure it looks good. I fear I don't have the time

Bug#278290: Check does not work(?)

2006-04-22 Thread Russ Allbery
to see about knocking off a few other bugs today and will upload a new version with this fixed by the end of the day. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#364297: missing-dh_python-build-dependency does not check build-dep-indep

2006-04-22 Thread Russ Allbery
: svnmailer source: missing-dh_python-build-dependency Yup, my fault, I messed up that check. A new version will be uploaded with a fix by the end of the day. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#364330: lintian: Please account for python-dev's dependency on python

2006-04-22 Thread Russ Allbery
require python itself. However, I see that python-dev depends on python, so you get it through a transitive dependency. I'm not sure how safe it is to rely on that always being the case going forward, but maybe it should be -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http

Bug#364521: patch files are tagged as shell-script-fails-syntax-check

2006-04-23 Thread Russ Allbery
to ignore shell scripts with a suffix of .dpatch in /usr/src. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#365041: lintian: wrong build-depends-without-arch-dep quilt

2006-04-27 Thread Russ Allbery
is used, since I think it can do a better job there. Looking over CDBS, my guess is that the trigger is: include /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/patchsys-quilt.mk for quilt and: include /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/dpatch.mk for dpatch. Does that look right to you? -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL

Bug#365503: xfonts-encodings is not a font package

2006-04-30 Thread Russ Allbery
this to the exception list (xfonts-utils we already ran into). -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#365466: lintian: wrong build-depends-without-arch-dep patchutils

2006-04-30 Thread Russ Allbery
patch systems would *have* to Build-Depend on patchutils to avoid warnings. I don't think that's right; people may not care about that functionality and CDBS does fall back on other techniques. It's not a big deal; I just need to add another case in the code. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED

Time for another upload

2006-05-07 Thread Russ Allbery
reasonable and have already been vetted in the Developer's Reference and we can adjust if any of them are too unpopular. The doc-base checks will probably also find some problems, but those I have a higher confidence will all be bugs. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http

Bug#366481: lintian: Can't locate common_data.pm in @INC

2006-05-08 Thread Russ Allbery
the next archive push so no one in unstable will be affected. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#366769: lintian: [check/fields] false positive when building against a specific python version

2006-05-10 Thread Russ Allbery
me know if that's the case. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#367324: lintian: reports amd64 as non-standard arch (infomational message)

2006-05-14 Thread Russ Allbery
'); The source for this data is dpkg, which doesn't yet list amd64 in /usr/share/dpkg/archtable. I'd been sort of holding off until dpkg changed. But that's probably pointless... I think amd64 is about as official as it gets at this point. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http

Bug#367466: lintian: enhancement, check for missing menu files

2006-05-16 Thread Russ Allbery
with the X libraries directly, but that doesn't necessarily rule it out.) -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#368206: lintian: Should not warn for writing style in untranslatable templates

2006-05-20 Thread Russ Allbery
, and with all the weird build systems out there (yada comes to mind), trying to find the templates in the source package can be quite hard. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Bug#367466: lintian: enhancement, check for missing menu files

2006-05-21 Thread Russ Allbery
this. It unfortunately takes a very, very long time to do. I've been meaning to set up a test environment where I can run that sort of controlled test, but realistically I'm not going to have time before late this summer. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle

Bug#368792: script-not-executable false positives

2006-05-24 Thread Russ Allbery
on this, though. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: B-Depends and B-Depends-Indep with python-dev and cdbs

2006-06-02 Thread Russ Allbery
still chasing down several more edge cases with these rules, as unfortunately it's a bit complex to detect programmatically what is called during a clean rule and what isn't. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/

Re: B-Depends and B-Depends-Indep with python-dev and cdbs

2006-06-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Jan Lübbe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 13:55 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: The way that lintian tries to detect this case is by looking for a line like: include /usr/share/cdbs/1/class/python-distutils.mk in your debian/rules file. If there's some other way to tell

Bug#370720: virtual-package-depends-without-real-package-depends is bodus

2006-06-06 Thread Russ Allbery
. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#372190: build-depends-without-arch-dep with cdbs/ant packages

2006-06-08 Thread Russ Allbery
exemption? -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#365041: lintian: wrong build-depends-without-arch-dep quilt again

2006-06-21 Thread Russ Allbery
file new bug reports for new problems so that we can better track in debian/changelog what's been fixed in each release. Thanks! -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Bug#365041: lintian: wrong build-depends-without-arch-dep quilt

2006-06-21 Thread Russ Allbery
Marcus Better [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Russ Allbery wrote: I don't. What version of lintian are you using? lintian is 1.23.21. And do you have a dependency on the right version of quilt? Here's debian/control: Source: ixp400-accesslib Section: misc Priority: optional Maintainer

Bug#344269: etch release policy: scripts must set appropriate #! line?

2006-06-22 Thread Russ Allbery
until he pointed it out). If you try to run a binary that starts with the above and no #! line via, say, execv inside a C program, it will fail. It only works from the command line because the shell falls back on trying to interpret binaries with no valid magic as shell scripts. -- Russ Allbery

Re: Uploads

2006-06-23 Thread Russ Allbery
Raphael Hertzog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: (moving to lintian-maint) On Fri, 23 Jun 2006, Russ Allbery wrote: Raphael Hertzog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I tend to think that you're doing too much checks here. Having too much in Build-Depends is not *that* bad. You'd better check only

Time for 1.23.22

2006-06-26 Thread Russ Allbery
Since the tar fix requires a change to lintian, I think it's time for another upload. If anyone has objections, voice them now, or I'll make an upload tomorrow from what's in Subversion. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Time for 1.23.22

2006-06-27 Thread Russ Allbery
Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 12:54:01PM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 05:46:33PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Since the tar fix requires a change to lintian, I think it's time for another upload. If anyone has objections

Bug#344269: etch release policy: scripts must set appropriate #! line?

2006-06-27 Thread Russ Allbery
that permitted the Perl magic without a #! line. Thanks to Piotr Engelking and Steve Langasek for pointing this out. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/

Bug#375638: lintian: deb-created-with-broken-tar: typos and tar version clarification

2006-06-27 Thread Russ Allbery
. The current version of tar in unstable now generates these sorts of archives again, so if tar is going to be changed again, we'll have to list the current version as well. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#375764: lintian: man page doesn't know about option '-t'

2006-06-27 Thread Russ Allbery
encountered this message. And: windlord:~/dvl/debian/lintian grep -r 'Informational is deprecated' * windlord:~/dvl/debian/lintian lintian -I ~/tmp/test.deb windlord:~/dvl/debian/lintian lintian -i -I ~/tmp/test.deb So I can't reproduce this -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http

Re: Lintian and boot dependency violations.

2006-06-29 Thread Russ Allbery
Hat and nothing in Debian used them, and I would have no idea how to fill them out. Is there some sort of existing policy document that explains all of this, and to which we could code lintian checks? If not, I think developing such a document would be the first step. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL

Bug#376920: lintian: missing-build-dependency cdbs even though depends on dh-make-php

2006-07-05 Thread Russ Allbery
in lintian. I don't see anything in the documentation of dh-make-php that guarantees that it will always depend on cdbs in the future, so if your package is directly using cdbs features, I think you should add an explicit cdbs dependency. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http

Bug#376920: lintian: missing-build-dependency cdbs even though depends on dh-make-php

2006-07-06 Thread Russ Allbery
reason to depend on dh-make-php at build time is to use the cdbs module pear.mk. But you're also using other cdbs modules not supplied directly by dh-make-php, correct? Certainly, the template generated by dh-make-php does so. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org

Bug#376920: lintian: missing-build-dependency cdbs even though depends on dh-make-php

2006-07-06 Thread Russ Allbery
like lintian without a surfeit of special cases. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#377392: Bug#377382: lintian: Please add a check for macros in manpages

2006-07-14 Thread Russ Allbery
, please let us know. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#379176: E: foo: non-standard-toplevel-dir srv/ is policy not an error

2006-07-21 Thread Russ Allbery
for the local administrator for local data. The error message may not be accurate, but it looks to me like this still should be an error. Am I missing something? -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#379176: E: foo: non-standard-toplevel-dir srv/ is policy not an error

2006-07-22 Thread Russ Allbery
be consistent with the second-to-last sentence above. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#379176: E: foo: non-standard-toplevel-dir srv/ is policy not an error

2006-07-22 Thread Russ Allbery
wrong. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#379176: E: foo: non-standard-toplevel-dir srv/ is policy not an error

2006-07-22 Thread Russ Allbery
this to debian-policy and see what other folks think? Sure. Go ahead. And thanks for caring! Okay, will do. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Bug#379749: trailing spaces not handled correctly in doc-base checks

2006-07-25 Thread Russ Allbery
though the doc-base file in the apckages looked fine. Upon debugging, it turned out the Format field in freesci-doc's doc-base file had trailing spaces, which lintian included in the format, causing it to try and match textto the known formats. Thanks! Applied. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL

Re: how can I add custom lintian checks?

2006-07-25 Thread Russ Allbery
to me. :) -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#380286: bogus missing-dh_python-build-dependency error with arch-specific build-deps

2006-07-28 Thread Russ Allbery
guarantee that those packages are installed. To fix this, we probably need to add a dependency checking function that ignores architecture strings. Ugh. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Bug#368206: lintian: Should not warn for writing style in untranslatable templates

2006-07-29 Thread Russ Allbery
because it serves no use and would only end up in the .po files as an extra translatable string. Only if you mark it translatable. So don't do that. (In other words, omit the _ in front of Description.) -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle

Bug#381800: lintian: [checks/scripts] unjustified possible-bashism-in-maintainer-script

2006-08-06 Thread Russ Allbery
. If you want to use [[ or ]], you need to use #!/bin/bash or some equivalent. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#382477: too-long-extended-description-in-templates: rather fix the tool than condense a description

2006-08-11 Thread Russ Allbery
, the devref should really change. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#383203: lintian has a hard coded path prefix for the --dist option

2006-08-18 Thread Russ Allbery
page to be clearer about how lintian constructs the path to the package repository. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#378088: new control file: clilibs

2006-08-18 Thread Russ Allbery
the contents of the control file. At least a syntax specification would seem to be in order here. Is the intention for cli-policy to eventually become a subpolicy of the main Debian Policy manual? -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#382327: Please don't consider UNRELEASED an invalid distro

2006-08-18 Thread Russ Allbery
than maybe a wasted upload. I have a sneaking suspicion that if we do recognize it, we'll immediately get a request from someone to stop recognizing it since they were using lintian to remind themselves to change the distribution before uploading. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#322657: [external] check bugs closed in changelog against BTS

2006-08-19 Thread Russ Allbery
for inspiration. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Time for another lintian upload

2006-08-19 Thread Russ Allbery
As always, I didn't get everything in from the BTS that should be straightforward, but at least the Python checks are in and this should be a good chunk of stuff for a new release. Unless there are any objections, I'm going to upload what's in Subversion on Monday. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL

Bug#383958: lintian: python-script-but-no-python-dep error with python-support

2006-08-20 Thread Russ Allbery
documentation that this is an invariant and a promise that won't be changed later. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#378088: new control file: clilibs

2006-08-20 Thread Russ Allbery
Sebastian Dröge [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fr, 2006-08-18 at 18:11 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Did this replace netlibs, or is netlibs still also of interest? I seem to recall that CLI and .NET are two different ways of talking about the same general set of technology. Yes, it replaces

Bug#382327: Please don't consider UNRELEASED an invalid distro

2006-08-20 Thread Russ Allbery
martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: also sprach Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006.08.19.0549 +0100]: I have a sneaking suspicion that if we do recognize it, we'll immediately get a request from someone to stop recognizing it since they were using lintian to remind themselves

Bug#383958: lintian: python-script-but-no-python-dep error with python-support

2006-08-20 Thread Russ Allbery
Pierre Habouzit [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Le lun 21 août 2006 02:30, Russ Allbery a écrit : If it's really the intention that python-support will always provide a Python interpreter, that should be added to its long description so that there's documentation that this is an invariant

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