Re: Lintian.d.o 404 page not accurate anymore

2007-06-19 Thread Russ Allbery
will take effect the next time Apache re-reads its configuration file on gluck. -- 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 website has bad links

2007-06-24 Thread Russ Allbery
to regenerate the manual after the last time I upgraded the lintian installation on lintian.debian.org. -- 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#430354: lintian: Please support historical changelogs

2007-07-01 Thread Russ Allbery
be the first time that someone did that; I doubt that 0.5.9-1 and 0.5.7-1 were truly released in the exact same second. I can understand the aversion to changing historic information, though. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#431395: shlibs-declares-dependency-on-other-package shouldn't match udebs

2007-07-02 Thread Russ Allbery
it, I suppose it makes sense that they'd have to be in order to get dependencies correct when building other udeb packages. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/

Bug#431629: lintian: doesn't accept alternative for script interpreter

2007-07-03 Thread Russ Allbery
: jed | xjed ? That would trigger this problem. Ah, yes, I see from your package that's what you have. Will fix. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/

Bug#431844: lintian: please adopt new menu policy

2007-07-05 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#431844: lintian: please adopt new menu policy

2007-07-05 Thread Russ Allbery
the sections you propably want to add this check, too. Will do. And, while we are at it - I'm not sure if there is a check yet that complains about menu files in /usr/lib/menu instead of /usr/share/menu ... That I think is already there. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http

Bug#431946: lintian: maintainer-script-removes-device-files creates false positives

2007-07-06 Thread Russ Allbery
in Subversion and will be fixed 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]

Re: lintian warning because of broken needs field in menu file

2007-07-23 Thread Russ Allbery
is running errors. It's just newer than when the lintian test was written. I've added it to lintian and it will be in the next version. Thanks! -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: lintian warning because of broken needs field in menu file

2007-07-23 Thread Russ Allbery
Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Nico Golde [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: we are currently packaging a new openbox version. openbox.menu looks like: ?package(openbox):\ needs=wm\ section=Window Managers\ title=Openbox\ command=/usr/bin/openbox\ icon=/usr/share/pixmaps

Bug#435311: lintian: menu section allow Apps/Office

2007-07-31 Thread Russ Allbery
. It'd be nice if lintian accepted that. (I'm not sure what packages are using it yet, gnumeric would be a candidate I think.) Applications/Office, actually. Yes, support for the new menu format will be in the next upload. Thank you for the report! -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#434744: Downgrade source-contains-CVS-dir to info

2007-07-31 Thread Russ Allbery
that.) -- 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: upgrading lintian.d.o

2007-08-07 Thread Russ Allbery
Lior Kaplan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Any chance to upgrade the lintian version of lintian.d.o? I'd like to see the affect of #432959 on the binNMU checks. I'm waiting a little bit to let the latest upload shake out, and then I'll upgrade it. It's a bit behind, I know. -- Russ Allbery

Bug#436716: W: changelog-file-not-compressed changelog should not be displayed if changelog is a symlink

2007-08-08 Thread Russ Allbery
is likely to confuse matters. Consistency across packages seems more important here to me than saving some minor effort by not bothering to compress some small files. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Wiki page for lintian

2007-08-11 Thread Russ Allbery
for things that need to go into the documentation. Please feel free to edit, reorganize, add more information, etc. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/

Bug#439390: lintian: error debian-rules-ignores-make-clean-error

2007-08-24 Thread Russ Allbery
target, why wouldn't you just remove that line from debian/rules? -- 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#439390: lintian: error debian-rules-ignores-make-clean-error

2007-08-26 Thread Russ Allbery
replacement. It's possible that it's triggering on a line that it shouldn't trigger on. I need to know more about the package and the line that's causing the error to understand what the problem really is. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle

Bug#440825: lintian: fails to recognize csh fulfilled csh dependencies

2007-09-04 Thread Russ Allbery
results in an error: E: radiance: missing-dep-for-interpreter csh = c-shell | tcsh (./usr/bin/compamb) which is wrong in my opinion. Yeah, Debian didn't used to have a csh package, only tcsh. I see that's new. I'll add it to the acceptable dependencies in lintian. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL

Bug#440830: lintian: should ignore comments in debian/control

2007-09-04 Thread Russ Allbery
control files (which is more than just dpkg-buildpackage). My guess is that software is currently recognizing those as valid but unknown control fields. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Bug#440825: lintian: fails to recognize csh fulfilled csh dependencies

2007-09-04 Thread Russ Allbery
, it will still satisfy that dependency. -- 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#440830: lintian: should ignore comments in debian/control

2007-09-04 Thread Russ Allbery
to deal with are probably fairly limited. -- 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#339829: Lintian home page check

2007-09-06 Thread Russ Allbery
Paul Wise [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, 2006-03-26 at 17:14 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: I really think the effort would be better spent standardizing an optional URL field in Policy so that people can start using that, package build tools can be updated where necessary to handle

Bug#441636: lintian: Doesn't check command line arguments properly

2007-09-10 Thread Russ Allbery
. Running it directly on source and .deb files is used when checking the whole archive. -- 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#441636: lintian: Doesn't check command line arguments properly

2007-09-10 Thread Russ Allbery
accompanying binaries). If .dsc is an file name this is true for .changes as well. Please rephrase it. Okay, I'll take another stab at it. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Bug#442711: lintian: tries to enforce devref 6.5.4.2 on debconf select templates

2007-09-16 Thread Russ Allbery
should change the devref accordingly. I'll fix 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]

Re: Nice html formatting for the lintian reports

2007-09-30 Thread Russ Allbery
improvement and anything that uses CSS and a proper HTML structure would be nice. These pages are generated by the scripts in the reporting subdirectory of the lintian source package, particularly reporting/html_reports. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle

Re: lintian.debian.org scripts and stuff available?

2007-10-04 Thread Russ Allbery
be glad to share scripts (and co-operate in maintaining them, if necessary). Any improvements would be much appreciated. I know that one of the problems with the current web pages is that they're not particularly pretty. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle

Re: lintian.debian.org scripts and stuff available?

2007-10-05 Thread Russ Allbery
Lars Wirzenius [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: to, 2007-10-04 kello 16:09 -0700, Russ Allbery kirjoitti: Any improvements would be much appreciated. I know that one of the problems with the current web pages is that they're not particularly pretty. They're in perl (I should've expected that), so

Re: Report URLs

2007-10-09 Thread Russ Allbery
, but there are a ton of places that link to lintian pages that would all need to change. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/

Bug#339829: Lintian home page check

2007-10-14 Thread Russ Allbery
URL found in the extended description should be a homepage) is really a good idea. -- 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#438202: lintian: detect useless windows thumbnail databases (thumbs.db)

2007-10-14 Thread Russ Allbery
, so for right now I'm just checking for Thumbs.db and Thumbs.db.gz. If you do see ones with a variation in case, let me know. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Bug#443939: [checks/scripts] install-sgmlcatalog-deprecated check probably wrong

2007-10-14 Thread Russ Allbery
in the report. What is so bad in making the transition in postinst? Hm, nothing that I can think of. I'll add that. Thanks! -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Bug#444642: lintian: python-all is a valid build-dep for arch:all packages

2007-10-14 Thread Russ Allbery
are you taking in the clean target that requires python? lintian tries to detect such usages, so I need to know what it's missing. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Bug#444355: lintian: Bogus diagnostics for hard-linked files

2007-10-14 Thread Russ Allbery
in general does try to handle hard links, so I don't think there are any general structural problems. If you run into any other mistaken warnings, please do submit additional bugs. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Bug#438202: lintian: detect useless windows thumbnail databases (thumbs.db)

2007-10-14 Thread Russ Allbery
Paul Wise [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, 2007-10-14 at 17:36 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: If you do see ones with a variation in case, let me know. The glest-data package contains the lowercased variation: http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=contentskeywords=Thumbs.dbmode

Bug#446097: lintian: desktop files check over strict for kde packages

2007-10-14 Thread Russ Allbery
will deal with X- categories and Actions keys, which should significantly reduce the warnings that you see. Maybe you could take a look at what's left and check with the KDE upstream and see if the desktop standard really is wrong? -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http

Bug#446097: lintian: desktop files check over strict for kde packages

2007-10-14 Thread Russ Allbery
Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I can, but I'd like to understand why KDE is generating so many invalid desktop files. For example, the kruler applnk desktop file contains essentially nothing at all and looks completely pointless. What is that file actually accomplishing? Does

Bug#446768: lintian: Bug in pred_implies in lib/Dep.pm

2007-10-15 Thread Russ Allbery
if in the same case $$p[2]='=' while you should return 0 because the implication is obviously impossible. For this you need to add another elsif testing specifically this case. Indeed. Thanks! This fix will be in the next release. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http

Bug#439390: lintian: error debian-rules-ignores-make-clean-error

2007-10-16 Thread Russ Allbery
triggering on a line that it | shouldn't trigger on. I need to know more about the package and the line | that's causing the error to understand what the problem really is. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#443509: menu policy checks may be ahead of their time

2007-10-16 Thread Russ Allbery
transition just because Policy isn't cutting 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]

Re: lintian: r988 - trunk/debian

2007-11-04 Thread Russ Allbery
this tweak) Thanks! I forgot to do that for the last 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#449477: lintian: When network is detected, test the watch file using uscan

2007-11-05 Thread Russ Allbery
in this category tagged wontfix so that others can work on other tools, or so that later maintainers can change their mind. I'll do the same with this one. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Bug#377392: Bug#450432: ... and even more bugs like this?

2007-11-17 Thread Russ Allbery
this for eons. I haven't looked at this particular usage, but there are places where this is exactly the desired markup. Maybe there's some missing logic for defining empty strings? -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: lintian: reporting/config is wrong?

2007-11-19 Thread Russ Allbery
always runs lintian pointing at lintian-dummy.cfg, which is empty. -- 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: reporting/config is wrong?

2007-11-19 Thread Russ Allbery
that had ever happened to harness :) -- 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: Multiple sections at a time?

2007-11-19 Thread Russ Allbery
on a mirror. Is that correct, or am I being dense again? It doesn't seem like lintian.d.o includes more than main. For Debian, that's quite reasonable, since main includes almost everything. Yup, that appears to be correct. Huh, I hadn't realized that. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#452216: W: libaa1: unknown-control-file symbols

2007-11-20 Thread Russ Allbery
the simple fix to recognize the control field earlier today and that will be in the next release. I'll see if anyone else responds to my plea to write a good test for the syntax and leave this bug open to track that. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle

Bug#452215: Add a check to make sure the .diff.gz is clean when debian/patches is used

2007-11-20 Thread Russ Allbery
that 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#409104: lintian: Add new informational message - no-watch-file-exists

2007-11-20 Thread Russ Allbery
by making them more reliable and useful. I wish I had time to work on a better fine-grained lintian message classification system. I'll think about it. We seem to be gathering more momentum around the idea that watch files should be expected and almost always used. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL

Bug#452316: Packages with empty directories

2007-11-21 Thread Russ Allbery
yourself in debian/rules after running make install. It's one of the standard things that we do for Perl packages. It would be nice to fix ExtUtils::MakeMaker to not create it in the first place, but so far as I know, no one has written a patch. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#452804: Please add a summary of errors/warnings suppressed by overrides

2007-11-25 Thread Russ Allbery
that may have been mistakenly over-ridden in packages they are checking, for example. I'll try and supply a patch if that helps... :-) I assume --show-overrides isn't quite what you mean? Could you give an example of the sort of thing you're looking for? -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#452804: Please add a summary of errors/warnings suppressed by overrides

2007-11-25 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: Aggregating QA data

2007-11-29 Thread Russ Allbery
, which I think is exactly what you're looking for except that it doesn't include the info number (since lintian.d.o generally doesn't do anything with info at the moment). -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/

Bug#441636: Warn if this is likely not meant

2007-12-03 Thread Russ Allbery
it, it's obvious in the future. -- 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#432959: #432959,lintian: addition to not-binnmuable-any-depends-any check

2007-12-03 Thread Russ Allbery
, but maybe I'm confused. If I'm confused, I'd appreciate a correction. -- 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#448207: lintian: please check for gfortran gf in package names

2007-12-03 Thread Russ Allbery
a transition suffix they don't need, so I think we can not worry too much about 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]

Re: A new check for debian-installer udebs depending on normal debs?

2007-12-03 Thread Russ Allbery
can exclude them and not create false positives? Thanks! -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/

Bug#316283: warn about intra-source circular dependencies

2007-12-04 Thread Russ Allbery
independent of all others (and indeed, lintian.d.o can't easily work any other way). -- 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#454239: symlink-should-be-relative: warning instead of error

2007-12-04 Thread Russ Allbery
, severity: should with an overridable default mapping to I/W/E, so that people can then classify on whatever combination of metadata that they need, but we're not there yet.) -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: URL convention to point to per-package lintian checks

2007-12-04 Thread Russ Allbery
Stefano Zacchiroli [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 01:17:39AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Let's do this. Let's standardize on: Ok, cool. Many thanks! I'll implement the convention PTS side, let me know when the new scheme is read on the lintian side. I'll sneak

Re: lintian: r1051 - in trunk: checks debian testset/scripts/debian/patches

2007-12-05 Thread Russ Allbery
Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Try appending .dpatch to patchnames found in 00list. Patch by Leo Antunes. (Closes: #454516, #454518) I think we need to try appending .diff as well, if I remember how dpatch works. Nope, never mind, I'm wrong. Just looked

Bug#454730: lintian: bogus W: dpatch-missing-description

2007-12-07 Thread Russ Allbery
Julien BLACHE [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's the blank line in 00list. Will be fixed in the next upload. Great, thanks ! Also, the warning could include the patch name as a useful hint :) Yeah, it actually was -- that's how I figured out the problem

Bug#454730: lintian: bogus W: dpatch-missing-description

2007-12-07 Thread Russ Allbery
broken. Is this package in the archive, and if so, what's its name? I'll take a look. -- 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#454790: lintian: bogus malformed-override warnings or documentation wrong

2007-12-07 Thread Russ Allbery
into multiple packages), so lintian should be fixed. Yeah, I misread the code when I was implementing this. Will be fixed in the next release. Sorry about that. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#454723: false positive: perl-package-should-be-section-perl dh-make-perl

2007-12-07 Thread Russ Allbery
the language or provides resources for it or its programmers. Yeah, c) will be implemented 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

Bug#454730: lintian: bogus W: dpatch-missing-description

2007-12-07 Thread Russ Allbery
the blank line in 00list. Will be fixed 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#454723: false positive: perl-package-should-be-section-perl dh-make-perl

2007-12-07 Thread Russ Allbery
named lib*-perl I think we should only check for lib-*-perl. The initial check for both Perl and Python was a bit too aggressive and picked up stuff that wasn't actually modules. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Bug#454941: lintian: False positive doc-base-abstract-field-separator-extra-whitespaces

2007-12-08 Thread Russ Allbery
Chris Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: tags 454941 patch thanks I am seeing the same bug with swi-prolog-doc. Patch attached. Thanks, just uploaded a fixed version. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Processed: Reopening #444651: desktop-entry-contains-unknown-key: Actions

2007-12-08 Thread Russ Allbery
. If this key is in a Desktop Entry .desktop file, it really is an error so far as I can tell from the standard. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Bug#444651: Processed: Reopening #444651: desktop-entry-contains-unknown-key: Actions

2007-12-08 Thread Russ Allbery
Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Debian Bug Tracking System) writes: found 444651 1.23.39 Bug#444651: desktop-entry-contains-unknown-key: Actions Bug marked as found in version 1.23.39. Er, this is only a valid key in desktop files for things other than Desktop

Bug#444651: Processed: Reopening #444651: desktop-entry-contains-unknown-key: Actions

2007-12-08 Thread Russ Allbery
Raphael [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 08/12/2007, Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Er, this is only a valid key in desktop files for things other than Desktop Entry, which lintian explicitly ignores. If this key is in a Desktop Entry .desktop file, it really is an error so far as I can

Bug#444651: Processed: Reopening #444651: desktop-entry-contains-unknown-key: Actions

2007-12-08 Thread Russ Allbery
Raphael [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 08/12/2007, Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could you point me to an example package? Plenty of them: $grep -lr 'Actions=' /usr/share/app-install/desktop/ /usr/share/applications/kde/ /usr/share/applications/ /usr/share/applnk/System/ScreenSavers

Bug#444651: Processed: Reopening #444651: desktop-entry-contains-unknown-key: Actions

2007-12-08 Thread Russ Allbery
frustrating (for everyone, I think -- sorry to all the KDE people!), and I'm vaguely annoyed that I even did it, but that's not your fault! And I really do appreciate the bug reports and feedback. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Bug#454024: Processed: Reassigning

2007-12-09 Thread Russ Allbery
of damage that one gets when cutting and pasting into an xterm that isn't in a UTF-8 locale or something similar. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/

Bug#455740: should use desktop-file-validate

2007-12-11 Thread Russ Allbery
following the standard), that's a bad idea. I'm not planning on doing the analysis myself; I've already spent far more time on the desktop checks than I wanted to. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#456318: lintian: rpath check for games should include games dir

2007-12-14 Thread Russ Allbery
Bas Wijnen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Package: lintian Version: 1.23.41 Severity: normal Lintian checks if files have an rpath set, and warns if they do, unless it is set to /usr/lib/packagename. This is incorrect for games, they would need it to /usr/lib/games/packagename. Why? -- Russ

Bug#456318: lintian: rpath check for games should include games dir

2007-12-14 Thread Russ Allbery
). Hm. Okay. I think it's kind of silly, but I hadn't thought to check the FHS for it, only Debian policy. It's not too hard to add an exception for games. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#456515: lintian: Undesirable spelling warning on changelog entries describing spelling fixes

2007-12-16 Thread Russ Allbery
reduce false positives. -- 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#456657: lintian: should check for man-page availability in the Depends/Pre-Depends packages

2007-12-17 Thread Russ Allbery
to think about that. -- 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 not recognizing override file?

2007-12-17 Thread Russ Allbery
://lintian.debian.org/manual/ch2.html#s2.4. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Coordinate time for the lintian URL updates

2007-12-20 Thread Russ Allbery
the breakage in links from the PTS and developer pages, so I want to coordinate with you a good time to do this. Could you let me know when would be a good time to do the switch, assuming that the archive run needs to start about a day and a half in advance of when the new URLs will be live? -- Russ

Bug#457247: inexplicable warning stronger-dependency-implies-weaker

2007-12-20 Thread Russ Allbery
, this was completely broken for substvars. It 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]

Re: Please update lintian!

2007-12-20 Thread Russ Allbery
on lintian.d.o will be updated as soon as I can coordinate a time with the QA folks so that I don't break the links in the QA pages. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Bug#457413: Check section header in source package

2007-12-22 Thread Russ Allbery
, it already does. So I must be missing something. Maybe you had an older version of lintian? The check for a Section header in the source package was only upgraded to a warning (from info) at the request of the ftp-masters in lintian 1.23.37. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http

Bug#457501: lintian: quilt needed in clean target

2007-12-22 Thread Russ Allbery
already be handling this correctly and there isn't any general fix that I know how to apply without more details. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Bug#457550: lintian: stronger-dependency-implies-weaker fails on debhelper substvars

2007-12-23 Thread Russ Allbery
merge 457550 457247 Bernd Zeimetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: it fails on deps/suggests/recommends using debhelper substvars. I didn't check all packages, but here are examples from two random, small packages: Yup, will be fixed in the next release. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: lintian.debian.org should also list co-maintained packages

2007-12-24 Thread Russ Allbery
by lintian, but it shouldn't be *too* much work. -- 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

2007-12-27 Thread Russ Allbery
fix so that it only displays information about the actual version(s) checked. Yeah, this is a long-standing problem. It's a little tricky to fix, so could you file a bug against the lintian package so that I don't lose track of it? -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http

Re: erroneous Lintian report

2007-12-27 Thread Russ Allbery
as soon as irussian is built for i386. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/

Re: erroneous Lintian report

2007-12-27 Thread Russ Allbery
that all arch-independent packages would have to be built somewhere, but that's probably a minor implementation detail.) It's one of those debates that's been going on for years and never reaches any firm consensus, and hence nothing ever changes. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#458164: Lintian should not suggest the Makefile test for packages that use a static Makefile

2007-12-29 Thread Russ Allbery
it? Normally, the solution would be to just remove the - in front of that line. -- 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: strange warnings shown on http://lintian.debian.org/reports/maintainer/[EMAIL PROTECTED]

2007-12-30 Thread Russ Allbery
number that 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#454790: lintian: bogus malformed-override warnings and documentation inconsistent with help message

2007-12-30 Thread Russ Allbery
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]

Re: architecture all packages

2008-01-01 Thread Russ Allbery
). I think the tag reports for out-of-date-standards-version and ancient-standards-version will mostly give you that, although perhaps not in the most convenient form. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#458785: [checks/fields] *-dbg packages should not have empty dependencies

2008-01-02 Thread Russ Allbery
Package: lintian Version: 1.23.41 Severity: wishlist *-dbg packages should depend on the package for which they're providing debugging symbols, generally with an (= ${binary:Version) dependency, to ensure consistency between the debugging symbols and the package. -- System Information: Debian

New lintian pages available for testing

2008-01-02 Thread Russ Allbery
of the previous maintainers. This particularly affects packaging teams, since our packaging teams have a regrettable tendency to use many different variations of the team name in their packages. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Bug#458074: lintian: detect template README.Debian

2008-01-02 Thread Russ Allbery
. There was a test for this, but it required that the whole file match exactly the dh-make template. I've now relaxed that to just look for that particular phrase. Similar warnings can be given for .ex files if its not done yet (not sure there) Yup, have that. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#457067: Patch for symbols support

2008-01-02 Thread Russ Allbery
/libtokyocabinet1_1.1.4-1_i386.deb Thanks, committed. -- 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#457501: lintian: quilt needed in clean target

2008-01-02 Thread Russ Allbery
was called from clean.) This will be fixed in the next version. -- 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#456318: lintian: rpath check for games should include games dir

2008-01-02 Thread Russ Allbery
setting rpath come up. I think we need to add something to the binaries section on how to handle rpath. I'm going to open a Policy bug on this and block this bug on that one. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

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