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

2006-08-20 Thread Russ Allbery
(rather than having to also factor in packages that use transitive dependencies)? -- 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#384424: lintian: possible mishandling of similarily-named shlibs with dashes

2006-08-24 Thread Russ Allbery
to hear other opinions on this, though. I may be missing something. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/

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

2006-08-25 Thread Russ Allbery
. Could you add support to dput and dupload to see if the Distribution in the *.changes file is set to UNRELEASED and reject the upload if so? After that's done, we'll make the change to lintian. Thanks! -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle

Re: has lintian developed a ruby (bang) related bug?

2006-08-30 Thread Russ Allbery
with a fix. -- 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#385833: Please lower the importance of source-tar-is-posix-tar

2006-09-03 Thread Russ Allbery
are not required to support oldstable, it's not necessary any longer to avoid POSIX tar. Unless someone disagrees, my inclination is to remove this tag entirely. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/

Bug#386968: lintian: LSB-compliance check doesn't accept empty lines

2006-09-12 Thread Russ Allbery
in the next upload. -- 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#387166: lintian: Failed to identify Priorities error: Policy 2.5.

2006-09-12 Thread Russ Allbery
is a policy violation, it has not historically been an RC bug. Not all policy violations are RC. -- 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#387360: [checks/po-debconf] Invalid files in debian/po directory

2006-09-13 Thread Russ Allbery
Thomas Huriaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] (13/09/2006): W: dpkg-www source: unknown-po-debconf-file debian/po/cs.po.Miroslav_Kure This is an example of an extra file that, on its surface, seems legitimate. This looks more like an old translation that could

Bug#387432: lintian: init.d test should allow present but empty default-stop and required-stop

2006-09-14 Thread Russ Allbery
in any runlevel, and only be used in runlevel S, and thus do not need any required-stop values either: Yeah, sorry about that. It's already fixed in Subversion. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#388042: lintian: php-script-but-no-php-cli-dep broken?

2006-09-18 Thread Russ Allbery
easier.) -- 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#388786: lintian fails on small /tmp and doesn't allow using a different place

2006-09-26 Thread Russ Allbery
. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/

Bug#388824: select-with-translated-default-field may be a bit overzealous

2006-09-26 Thread Russ Allbery
, although we'll see if we get any pushback after the next lintian release. -- 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#388824: select-with-translated-default-field may be a bit overzealous

2006-09-27 Thread Russ Allbery
as well, right? Not just select and multiselect? -- 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#392587: lintian: doc-base check: shell glob not correctly expanded

2006-10-12 Thread Russ Allbery
of action may be to reassign this bug to doc-base (or to both doc-base and lintian) and ask the doc-base maintainer to clarify the specification. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Bug#396454: lintian: Check for LSB logging usage in init.d scripts

2006-10-31 Thread Russ Allbery
are fairly apparent, though. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/

Bug#392587: lintian: doc-base check: shell glob not correctly expanded

2006-11-05 Thread Russ Allbery
you mention the specific wildcards that are supported and let me know so that I can update lintian accordingly? Thanks! -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#397785: [debconf] Should warn if postinst doesn't understand argument reconfigure

2006-11-09 Thread Russ Allbery
that the tests in postinst can be written as case statements or if statements and in many different formats and syntaxes and simply missing the word reconfigure doesn't mean that the postinst is wrong. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/

Bug#393975: lintian: [checks/po-debconf] po-debconf is now installed by debhelper

2006-11-10 Thread Russ Allbery
package is ever updated to change its dependencies. Even if this seems unlikely, please always add explicit build dependencies on every non-essential, non-build-essential package that is used directly during the build. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org

Bug#359059: [frontend] load custom checks from ~/.lintian/checks?

2006-11-11 Thread Russ Allbery
circumstances, one can always make a copy of the root directory, modify it however, and then point lintian at it. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Bug#398658: lintian: Please detect unconditional use of some nonessential pkgs during purge

2006-11-14 Thread Russ Allbery
of maintainer scripts. -- 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#398898: lintian: zero-byte-file-in-doc-directory bogus complain on files in examples

2006-11-16 Thread Russ Allbery
directory (although far less common than installing a zero-length README file or the like). -- 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: Outdated lintian.debian.org?

2006-11-18 Thread Russ Allbery
supposed to work at some point, but I won't have time to do that for some time yet, probably not before the etch release. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: RFS: fvwm-icons -- XPMs icons from fvwm development site

2006-11-22 Thread Russ Allbery
fromt eh beginning. Yeah, info-priority messages are filling this need for right now, and this one is already info-priority. Eventually this will get better. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#400957: lintian: [checks/po-debconf] needs --use-untranslated when invoking msgcmp (getext 0.16)

2006-11-29 Thread Russ Allbery
Damyan Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Russ Allbery написа: I can't do that because no version of msgcmp prior to 0.16 supports that flag and 0.16 is only in experimental. Making that change would require a dependency on 0.16, which would make lintian uninstallable in unstable. gettext

Bug#400957: lintian: [checks/po-debconf] needs --use-untranslated when invoking msgcmp (getext 0.16)

2006-11-29 Thread Russ Allbery
be smooth (expect, maybe, the new msgcmp behaviour). That the msgcmp change is annoying for lintian is, I think, an artifact of the fact that lintian is doing something weird and not really the fault of gettext. Okay, I'll ponder how best to fix lintian. Thanks for the information! -- Russ Allbery

Bug#401046: please make lintian easier to debug

2006-11-30 Thread Russ Allbery
going on.) -- 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 versus Closes in changelog headers

2006-12-03 Thread Russ Allbery
-debianchangelog-perl? That's the package that does the syntax checking of the changelog file rather than lintian itself. Thanks! -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#399714: ANSI color output (attached)

2006-12-03 Thread Russ Allbery
is using for their shell and we may inadvertantly produce something that's unreadable. That looks like it's a fairly simple change to your patch. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/

Re: Lintian results for sid-ia64

2006-12-03 Thread Russ Allbery
is for the 'dpkg-source -q' issue. Don't you also have to patch around the msgcmp thing that just went into the current version? -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Bug#399714: ANSI color output (attached)

2006-12-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Loïc Minier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Dec 03, 2006, Russ Allbery wrote: The one thing that I think should probably be changed is that lintian should probably default to not using color and support --color={never,always,auto} similar to ls. The problem with defaulting to using color

Bug#401881: archive section mismatch is over-zealous

2006-12-06 Thread Russ Allbery
that. The real check here is done by ftp-master; lintian is just helping maintainers catch problems that save a round-trip with ftp-master. Maybe it would be better to defer the subtleties to that check. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle

Bug#402319: lintian: does not detect `inet-superserver' for update-inetd

2006-12-09 Thread Russ Allbery
predates that virtual package. I'll make this 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#286379: Lintian insecure removal bug (#286379)

2006-12-14 Thread Russ Allbery
for that 3) Appeal to tech-ctte if the above fails Otherwise, I'll close this bugreport by the end of the year. I was about to just close it, so I completely agree with this evaluation. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#405840: lintian: build-depends-indep-should-be-build-depends debhelper with version

2007-01-06 Thread Russ Allbery
information about why this is the case, and let me know if, after reading that, you still think the message is wrong. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Bug#407528: packages containing .pc files should generally depend on pkgconfig

2007-01-19 Thread Russ Allbery
to this with the next upload. -- 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#407529: debian/control spaces not parsed by dpkg-checkbuilddeps

2007-01-19 Thread Russ Allbery
don't object to adding a lintian check, but from a lintian perspective this is just aesthetics since either form is valid.) -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Bug#409099: lintian: debian/control::Depends check for missing commas

2007-01-30 Thread Russ Allbery
that because the syntax check is done on the binary package. -- 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#409103: lintian: [Add new check] check debian/compat file against debian/control::Build-Depands(debhelper)

2007-01-30 Thread Russ Allbery
what you're talking about, lintian already does this and has for quite a while. -- 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#409098: lintian: Please check that *.deb contains all directories mentioned in debian/dirs

2007-01-30 Thread Russ Allbery
, it may be that some package that doesn't use debhelper is using it for an entirely different purpose. And I can't think of what bug this would catch. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Bug#409104: lintian: Add new informational message - no-watch-file-exists

2007-01-30 Thread Russ Allbery
with doing this is the high risk of false positives. There are a lot of non-native packages for which a watch file is not meaningful. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Bug#409096: lintian: Check non existing directories listed in debian/dirs

2007-01-30 Thread Russ Allbery
sometimes correct to ship an empty directory, but not one of the regular system directories like usr/bin or usr/sbin. (Shipping empty directories in /var is quite common, though, and not an error.) -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Bug#409108: lintian: [improve message] W: bzrtools source: changelog-should-mention-nmu

2007-01-30 Thread Russ Allbery
the missing hyphen in first message is not very obvios. Or, there could be some leverage to match some obvious strings that look like the correct string: /[*].*(Non[- \t]Maintainer upload|NMU[ \t]upload)/i A combination of both of these approaches sounds good to me. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL

Bug#409114: lintian: Suggestion to check Build-Depends versions with --display-info

2007-01-30 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#409109: lintian: Add E: to check debian/control::Architecture matches dh_* rules in debian/rules::binary-{arch, indep}

2007-01-30 Thread Russ Allbery
, but the basic idea is sound. I've thought about implementing this a few times but haven't gotten around to it. This is one of the checks I had in mind when I started the new checks/rules file. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#409120: lintian: Add INFO to recommend debian/control::Build-Depends list devel package in certain order

2007-01-30 Thread Russ Allbery
The recommended order: - debhelper - dpatch - autotools-dev - others in alphabetical order I don't agree with this check or this suggested order. I think alphabetical order is reasonable, as is order based on the Autoconf script, as is putting debhelper and similar internal checks last. -- Russ

Bug#409122: lintian: [lintian-info] A small fix to declares-possibly-conflicting-debhelper-compat-versions

2007-01-30 Thread Russ Allbery
: of synchronisation, the package may not build as expected. N: N: Refer to the debhelper(7) manual page for details. Sure, that's fine. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Bug#409136: lintian: Add check for unneeded 'debian/control::Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}'

2007-01-30 Thread Russ Allbery
a compiled library. It doesn't have to do with whether the package itself contains a library. (Not to mention that you're searching for files only included in a dev package, which is something else entirely.) I think there's some fundamental misunderstanding here. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL

Bug#409124: lintian: Add INFO to report trailing newlines and expty whitespace at the end of lines

2007-01-30 Thread Russ Allbery
that are easily overlooked and they appear in patch. Paying attention to these could help making files in debian/* more strict. I think info level is too strong for this. I'd rather wait until we have better tagging and an explicit aesthetics category. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#409136: lintian: Add check for unneeded 'debian/control::Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}'

2007-01-30 Thread Russ Allbery
Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This doesn't make sense. ${shlibs:Depends} is required for any package that contains a compiled library. Er, compiled *binary*. Basically, any package that's not Arch: all needs ${shlibs:Depends}, with a very small number of exceptions. -- Russ

Bug#349616: #349616 still here - checks/debconf: false alarm about settitle

2007-02-02 Thread Russ Allbery
that allowing a dependency on libdebconfclient0 without cdebconf is really what we want, but that's what the current code does. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Bug#349616: #349616 still here - checks/debconf: false alarm about settitle

2007-02-02 Thread Russ Allbery
Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Damyan Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Package: lintian Version: 1.23.27 Followup-For: Bug #349616 Thanks for the updated problem description, but it does not solve the problem. A Depends: line of debconf (= 1.3.22) | cdebconf (= 0.43) still

Bug#410042: lintian: please warn on effectively-empty maintscripts

2007-02-07 Thread Russ Allbery
exit Yup, seems like a good idea 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#412577: doesn't understand 'emergency' urgency

2007-02-26 Thread Russ Allbery
, since at the least the list in footnote 16 and the list in 5.6.17 should match. And we should discuss whether the list in 5.6.17 should be normative and comprehensive; are other urgencies rejected by the archive software? Anyway, I will also fix lintian. Thank you! -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#403515: Please add gambas2 interpreter to lintian

2007-02-26 Thread Russ Allbery
that provide gbx2 or gbr2. Am I just looking in the wrong place? (Sorry about the delay in responding to this.) -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Bug#409098: Please check that *.deb contains all directories mentioned in debian/dirs

2007-02-26 Thread Russ Allbery
of that sort and I'm not sure that getting into the business of checking one's debian/* files for consistency with debhelper dh_* invocations is where we want to go. Seems rife with false positives and unlikely to catch real bugs. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org

Bug#403515: Please add gambas2 interpreter to lintian

2007-02-27 Thread Russ Allbery
. Okay, making this change now. Just to confirm, gbx2 should be removed and gbr2 should be added, right? (The package currently provides both.) -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Bug#317615: [external] Please check for C++ ABI mixups

2007-02-27 Thread Russ Allbery
that something is doing this. -- 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#406362: ignores errors from (invoke|update)-rc.d

2007-02-27 Thread Russ Allbery
is buggy the bug will rarely show up in practice, but I'm not sure a lintian check is the right approach. (And I *really* dislike the idea of telling maintainers to obfuscate their code to avoid a lintian warning.) -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle

Bug#414237: lintian: Uses insecure temporary file /tmp/debug in objdump-info

2007-03-09 Thread Russ Allbery
version now with a minimal fix for migration into testing. I added this in the process of fixing an earlier bug and clearly missed the debugging code when I committed the fix. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Bug#414511: lintian: lintain complains about non-binnmu being binnmu

2007-03-16 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#415558: lintian: too pedantic about /usr/lib vs. /usr/share (image-file-in-usr-lib)

2007-03-20 Thread Russ Allbery
of this and some opinion from ftp-master about what level they're willing to enforce before we make a 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#416140: lintian: Should warn about the needed debconf version for packages using error debconf templates

2007-03-26 Thread Russ Allbery
need to look at which should make this even easier to implement, so I'm hopeful that it will make it into the next release. Do you know what verson of cdebconf introduced this feature? -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Unidentified subject!

2007-03-31 Thread Russ Allbery
waiting on me to find a few moments of free time, which have been unexpectedly scarce in the last couple of weeks between an OpenAFS security vulnerability and a few explosions at work. I will hopefully get it back up and running normally soon. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED

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

2007-04-10 Thread Russ Allbery
if we exempt essential packages from this check (plus things like libc6 that are essential in practice), that would cut the false positives down sufficiently. What do you think? -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Bug#330025: lintian: bogus compat check

2007-04-10 Thread Russ Allbery
want to be sure that it's really the right thing to warn about before we do it. -- 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#330025: lintian: bogus compat check

2007-04-10 Thread Russ Allbery
Luk Claes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: According to joeyh it's appropriate to warn for use of DH_COMPAT at the top of the file (before any Makefile target). Thank you for checking on this! I'll get this merged for the next release. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http

Bug#418105: lintian: Add a new interpreter: jruby0.9

2007-04-10 Thread Russ Allbery
and what's the canonical path to the interpretor? Also, is there no jruby interpretor? Is it always jruby0.9? What happens when 1.0 comes out? -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Bug#418217: lintian: Please check for identical, non-linked binaries.

2007-04-10 Thread Russ Allbery
that this is a bug. It saves a small amount of space to link the binaries, but when the binaries are small, it's not immediately obvious that deviation from upstream practice is worth it. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#417912: lintian: tells about missing manpage on incorrect _binary_ location

2007-04-10 Thread Russ Allbery
in the binary-without-manpage tag. These changes will be in the next release. -- 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#418217: lintian: Please check for identical, non-linked binaries.

2007-04-11 Thread Russ Allbery
, or is it more a best practice kind of thing? This feels like the kind of thing that, if lintian is going to warn about it, should also be in either Policy or the DevRef. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: lintian lab not updating anymore?

2007-04-19 Thread Russ Allbery
, but it's finally starting to clear up. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/

lintian.debian.org update in progress

2007-04-20 Thread Russ Allbery
that goes well, will switch lintian.debian.org over and start up the nightly cron job again. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

lintian.debian.org back up and running

2007-04-21 Thread Russ Allbery
architectures during the etch release cycle while lintian.debian.org was not updating. It would have taken me much longer to get lintian.debian.org back up and running without him. - -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version

Bug#420526: lintian: false positive: clean-should-be-satisfied-by-build-depends python-central

2007-04-22 Thread Russ Allbery
cannot see any reason why it would be, or even how you could usefully do so. Indeed. Will be fixed in the next release. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#420465: lintian: no-md5sums-control-file triggered on binary package with no files

2007-04-22 Thread Russ Allbery
example is the php5 binary package, which only contains a few directories and a symlink (/usr/share/doc/php5 - php5-common). Good catch. Thanks. Will be fixed in the next release. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Bug#420077: lintian: Lintian confuses Affero General Public License with GPL

2007-04-22 Thread Russ Allbery
what string in the license I should use to recognize it? Thanks! -- 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#419446: debian-rules-missing-required-target false positive with phony targets

2007-04-22 Thread Russ Allbery
! Will be fixed in the next release. -- 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#419461: [checks/scripts] Add maintainer-script-needs-depends-on-xml-core check

2007-04-22 Thread Russ Allbery
on itself. But the suggested check would make this necessary to avoid an error :) Maybe the check should contain an unless (($pkg eq $package) || ... at the start too, to make sure, we don't try to check for a dependency on ourselves. Good idea. Added. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#420558: extra-license-file check shouldn't consider .dtd files

2007-04-24 Thread Russ Allbery
. Sounds right to me. This will be in the next release. -- 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#56440: lintian: Should check for shlibs that with incorrect package name

2007-04-24 Thread Russ Allbery
grep -vH `echo $f | sed 's/\.shlibs//'` $f | grep -v udeb | grep -v '\#' done -- 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#421011: [reporting] show co-maintained packages in web report

2007-04-25 Thread Russ Allbery
Package: lintian Version: 1.23.29 Severity: wishlist Per the message from Mike Hommey [EMAIL PROTECTED] on debian-devel: It would be great if developer lintian report would should not only directly maintained packages but also co-maintained ones. This will require some work on the data formats

Bug#420160: please allow to drop version constraint in B-D when it's in stable

2007-04-25 Thread Russ Allbery
important and needs to be preserved. The question is how far to go back beyond stable. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/

Bug#421345: lintian: does not alert on non-conffile symlink in /etc

2007-04-28 Thread Russ Allbery
out this possible bug, but in that case the bug only triggers if the symlink replaces something that was previously a file, and lintian doesn't have a way of knowing that. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#421549: build-depends-without-arch-dep: support libmodule-build-perl use in clean target

2007-04-29 Thread Russ Allbery
. As-is, it will require libmodule-build-perl in Build-Depends and error if it's not there, which *seems* right, but we'll see. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Bug#417067: closed by Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bug#417067: fixed in lintian 1.23.29)

2007-04-30 Thread Russ Allbery
people do. I was under the impression that automake as of 1.10 had dropped the versioned thing, but I see that didn't happen. Okay, I'll go back and add the individual versions. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/

Bug#423096: lintian: Please do independent check of extra whitespace in doc-base files

2007-05-09 Thread Russ Allbery
lines are fine, so I'm fixing the test so that it doesn't produce a false positive on blank lines. 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

Bug#423171: possible-missing-colon-in-closes should not check ancient entires

2007-05-10 Thread Russ Allbery
how far to go back. (Although I suppose one could do the same check against the changelog entry included in the *.changes file, which would be an interesting route to take. I'll have to think about doing it that way.) -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle

Bug#423171: possible-missing-colon-in-closes should not check ancient entires

2007-05-10 Thread Russ Allbery
Thijs Kinkhorst [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thursday 10 May 2007 17:28, Russ Allbery wrote: However, it's not correct that only the top-most changelog entries are relevant. That's true in some cases, and indeed the .changes file might address that. But I wonder whether there will be many

Bug#423223: lintian: Please add directory name sanity check for orig.tar.gz

2007-05-10 Thread Russ Allbery
packages should be unpacked with dpkg-source or with a program that performs the same operations. Since you're repackaging the upstream source anyway, you can certainly fix it if you so choose, but there's no need to do so. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle

Bug#426168: tripping over a blank line at the end of the file

2007-05-28 Thread Russ Allbery
with packages that are unaffected (like libglib2.0-doc). Yeah, this is already fixed in Subversion and will be in the next upload. (Sorry to have not responded before you spent time tracking it down; I'm mostly off-line this weekend.) -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http

Bug#426469: lintian: Add jed as script interpreter

2007-06-03 Thread Russ Allbery
in the lintian output? If the full path isn't used, that will still need to be fixed; lintian expects all command interpreters to be used with the full path. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/

Bug#426628: lintian: please error on maintainer scripts parsing dpkg status file

2007-06-03 Thread Russ Allbery
this, but a lintian error is going to be more effective. ;) Sorry for not providing a patch, I hope to have time and submit one this week. No problem on the lack of patch; it's easy enough to implement. It'll be in the next release. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http

Bug#426469: lintian: Add jed as script interpreter

2007-06-04 Thread Russ Allbery
Jörg Sommer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Russ Allbery schrieb am Sun 03. Jun, 20:09 (-0700): That warning seems to indicate that the script isn't using the full path to jed-script in the #! line. Is that correct, or is there also some sort of bug in the lintian output? Yes

Bug#427577: lintian: warn on usage of deprecated substvar Source-Version

2007-06-04 Thread Russ Allbery
(in different forms), which might be good to refactor into common_data.pm or something. Good idea. I'll take a look at doing this. The patch will be in the next version of lintian. Thank you! -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#424164: lintian: don't complain about README/LICENSE files in zope Products

2007-06-05 Thread Russ Allbery
of the web-application. Should the lintian check only be excluding files that end in *.pt? -- 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#428627: Lintian gets confused if locale encoding differs from manpage encoding

2007-06-13 Thread Russ Allbery
/no? If so, I think you're right and this is a false positive. (If it's installed directly in /usr/share/man, there's a different answer.) -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/

Bug#428403: lintian: Please add octave to the list of known interpreters.

2007-06-17 Thread Russ Allbery
Sebastian Harl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Package: lintian Version: 1.23.8 Severity: wishlist Hi, Please add /usr/bin/octave (currently provided by the octave2.X packages) to the list of known interpreters. It is used by the (upcoming) pfstools package. Thanks, added. -- Russ Allbery

Bug#424164: lintian: don't complain about README/LICENSE files in zope Products

2007-06-17 Thread Russ Allbery
Bernd Zeimetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Should the lintian check only be excluding files that end in *.pt? *.dtml, *.pt and *.cpt are Zope template extensions, it should be enough to exclude only those files. Thanks, I've done that. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http

Bug#429528: shlib-with-non-pic-code mess with the soname

2007-06-18 Thread Russ Allbery
this bug. I think you're misreading the code -- lintian skips this check for any file that isn't a shared library, which is what the SONAME check is for. But I'm not positive. Could you provide more details on where you think lintian is confused? -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#429528: that would be me

2007-06-18 Thread Russ Allbery
properly with -module, but I'm not sure with -avoid-version. I'm not sure that I've used that option. Is the source package exhibiting the problem available anywhere? I'd poke at the current unstable version, but it appears to not have this issue. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED

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