Re: Indent coding style for lintian

2008-01-02 Thread Russ Allbery
the best place for it in the long run. -- 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#458831: lintian: extra-license-file detects non-license files

2008-01-02 Thread Russ Allbery
-license W: kdelibs-data: extra-license-file usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/en/common/gpl-license W: kdelibs-data: extra-license-file usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/en/common/lgpl-license You could make them symlinks to common-licenses. That's probably what I'd do. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: New lintian pages available for testing

2008-01-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Thijs Kinkhorst [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thursday 3 January 2008 01:16, Russ Allbery wrote: http://lintian.debian.org/reports-testing/ This looks good in general, it's a clear improvement over what we have. Thanks! * The HTML pages are now templatized (using Text::Template

Re: New lintian pages available for testing

2008-01-03 Thread Russ Allbery
tim hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Russ Allbery wrote: If you want to take a look at how good (or bad) the templates look, the ones that generated those pages are in: /org/lintian.debian.org/lintian-test/reporting/templates on gluck.d.o. Not being a DD, I probably can't access

Re: homepage in udebs?

2008-01-03 Thread Russ Allbery
their opinion. I'm happy to modify lintian to match if needed. -- 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#456286: lintian: debian-revision-not-well-formed mentions old binNMU style

2008-01-03 Thread Russ Allbery
will get a more specific warning a few lines down for being an old-style binary-NMU version number. 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#459042: lintian: Should accept python-setuptools as Build-Depends

2008-01-04 Thread Russ Allbery
. Is python-dev the problem or python-setuptools? (pycha doesn't appear to be in the archive, so I can't easily check myself.) -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Bug#459042: lintian: Should accept python-setuptools as Build-Depends

2008-01-04 Thread Russ Allbery
python-setuptools, I found another package in the archive with this problem and it should now be fixed for 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#458896: lintian: Wrong interpreter information w.r.t. pike

2008-01-04 Thread Russ Allbery
information? I'm going to completely overhaul how script dependencies are handled to try to lift more of the logic into data instead of code, and I'll fix this at the same time. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#458896: lintian: Wrong interpreter information w.r.t. pike

2008-01-05 Thread Russ Allbery
Magnus Holmgren [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On lördagen den 5 januari 2008, Russ Allbery wrote: There are no scripts that would be compatible with multiple versions of Pike? Hmmm ... well, there probably exist such scripts, but they'd (theoretically) have to be able to work with all packages

Bug#459293: lintian: partially-translated-question is misleading and not really useful

2008-01-05 Thread Russ Allbery
in keeping this lintian warning. Agreed, and removed for the next release. That tag was added in the very first set of debconf checks in 2001-02-14. I'm guessing that the capabilities of debconf have passed it by. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle

Uploading 1.23.42

2008-01-05 Thread Russ Allbery
something or missed some additional false positive, and I expect we'll need several releases close together to clean up the fallout. Uploaders support for lintian.d.o, watch file checking, the man page groff warning discussion, and a few other things will have to wait for a later release. -- Russ Allbery

Bug#458742: lintian: Please test for valid filenames for run-parts

2008-01-05 Thread Russ Allbery
from the cron packages themselves. -- 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#458742: lintian: Please test for valid filenames for run-parts

2008-01-05 Thread Russ Allbery
Chris Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Russ Allbery wrote: it would save me time if you could also add a new test case for any patch that introduces a new tag. Revised patch with testcases attached. For this tag, I think we also want to exclude files named .placeholder (maybe any files

Bug#304866: Add warning for build-depends on libsomething not ending with -dev

2008-01-05 Thread Russ Allbery
Chris Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Attaching revised patch with testcases. Looks great. Thank you! -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Bug#459407: lintian: unusual-interpreter /usr/bin/env

2008-01-06 Thread Russ Allbery
of the test cases in lintian's test suite, so I'm pretty sure it works in general. lintian's script checking logic already does implement pretty much exactly what you describe. As Chris says, we'll need to see the specific problem that triggered this. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http

Bug#459787: lintian doesn't accept origin and bugs field in binary packages

2008-01-08 Thread Russ Allbery
to specify the syntax. We don't have any other reference document that tries to document all of the Debian package control fields. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Problem while checking for php-cli

2008-01-08 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#460168: lintian: ant needed in clean target

2008-01-10 Thread Russ Allbery
for: ^include\s*/usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/ant.mk in debian/rules, and it looks like that's the problem and it should be class/ant.mk instead. I'll fix this for the next release of lintian. Thanks for the report! -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/

Bug#460174: lintian: please suggest adding a get-orig-source target when applicable

2008-01-10 Thread Russ Allbery
in the lintian check that if it's not scriptable for some reason, they should still provide a get-orig-source target that prints out an error and then exits with status 2. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/

Bug#459851: lintian: outputs wrong total count of overrides

2008-01-11 Thread Russ Allbery
the current behavior if -I wasn't given, but if -I was given, add the number of info tags overridden to the summary as well. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#459851: lintian: outputs wrong total count of overrides

2008-01-11 Thread Russ Allbery
Cyril Brulebois [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 11/01/2008, Russ Allbery wrote: Chris Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm not sure this is a bug, per se. several-sonames-in-same-package is an info tag, whilst package-name-doesnt-match-sonames is a warning tag. Thus, you only override one

Bug#459787: lintian doesn't accept origin and bugs field in binary packages

2008-01-12 Thread Russ Allbery
Raphael Hertzog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 08 Jan 2008, Russ Allbery wrote: It's probably worth noting here that there's no specification for either in Policy, so they really are unknown in that sense. That won't stop me from adding them to Lintian's list, since we added Dm-Upload

Bug#460499: lintian: No need to warn about missing short-description LSB header in init.d scripts

2008-01-13 Thread Russ Allbery
practice thing even if it isn't used by software. -- 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#459787: lintian doesn't accept origin and bugs field in binary packages

2008-01-13 Thread Russ Allbery
Raphael Hertzog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, 12 Jan 2008, Russ Allbery wrote: I should also say that those should also be fixed IMO: I: dpkg source: non-standard-arch-in-source-relation kfreebsd-i386 [build-depends: libselinux1-dev (= 1.28-4) [!hurd-i386 !kfreebsd-i386 !kfreebsd

Bug#460625: Check for python build-deps doesn't allow packages relying on specific versions

2008-01-14 Thread Russ Allbery
Loïc Minier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Jan 14, 2008, Russ Allbery wrote: It sounds like, from your analysis, that the verioned dependencies also need to be permitted for Python (namely python2.4 | python2.4-dev | python2.5 | python2.5-dev) and if that were added, that would resolve

Bug#461978: lintian: spurious Perl warnings with --unpack

2008-01-21 Thread Russ Allbery
shouldn't even be running when the action isn't --check, which I'll fix. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/

Bug#462456: lintian: Please consider testing if files in -dbg packages retain Dynamic Section entries

2008-01-24 Thread Russ Allbery
of their libraries into the -dbg package instead of detached debugging symbols. I think this test might give false positives for that case. (Or are such library builds not seupposed to go into /usr/lib/debug?) -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle

Bug#451668: Reply not resent to maintainer

2008-01-25 Thread Russ Allbery
probably change, were I maintaining the package.) -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/

Bug#462586: lintian: Please don't no-description-in-changes-file for source-only .changes

2008-01-25 Thread Russ Allbery
that Description is mandatory for all *.changes files, which is why the lintian tag. However, I agree that Description doesn't make much sense for source-only uploads, since there are no individual package descriptions in that case to lift into it. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http

Bug#463281: lintian: tclsh-script-but-no-tclsh-dep and wish-script-but-no-wish-dep don't test for all Tcl/Tk packages

2008-01-30 Thread Russ Allbery
depend on tk. Added. -- 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#463281: [SPAM] - Re: Bug#463281: lintian: tclsh-script-but-no-tclsh-dep and wish-script-but-no-wish-dep don't test for all Tcl/Tk packages - Bayesian Filter detected spam

2008-01-30 Thread Russ Allbery
Sergei Golovan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 1/30/08, Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sergei Golovan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: These checks can't be sufficient anymore. There are two new packages tcl8.5 (which includes /usr/bin/tclsh8.5) and tk8.5 (includes /usr/bin/wish8.5) which can

Bug#463474: lintian: Please check doc-base Section field for allowed values

2008-01-31 Thread Russ Allbery
if that would reach some other conclusion. -- 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#463474: lintian: Please check doc-base Section field for allowed values

2008-01-31 Thread Russ Allbery
happy to change lintian accordingly. -- 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#463138: lintian: package-contains-empty-perl-directory and Perl 5.10

2008-02-03 Thread Russ Allbery
good internal procedures for testing things and can fix this for our packages, but since the real bug is in Perl, I think the average maintainer is best off just ignoring it until the bug is fixed there. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle

Bug#463913: lintian: Miscounts line length when unicode characters are involved

2008-02-03 Thread Russ Allbery
the unicode characters as two characters each. Yup, it was 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#464026: [checks/scripts] Sync bashism tests with checkbashisms

2008-02-04 Thread Russ Allbery
(as odd as that might be)? We do run the risk of missing cases where people put the statement on the same line as an if statement or the like, but I think it makes sense to err on the side of conservatism. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle

Bug#464026: [checks/scripts] Sync bashism tests with checkbashisms

2008-02-04 Thread Russ Allbery
was proposing using: '(?:^|\s+)echo\s+-e',# echo -e '(?:^|\s+)exec\s+-[acl]',# exec -c/-l/-a name '(?:^|\s+)let\s',# let ... -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#464026: [checks/scripts] Sync bashism tests with checkbashisms

2008-02-04 Thread Russ Allbery
entirely correct. Sorry about that. I misread that regex. Hm, that's more aggressive than I expected, but since I've not gotten any bug reports, I guess I'll leave it and see if anyone complains. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle

Bug#464461: lintian: Wrongly getting a spelling error

2008-02-06 Thread Russ Allbery
this particular correction from the non-case-sensitive corrections (and fix the bug that caused it not to recognize D-Bus). -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Bug#464511: detect a fully vaild .po file as non-valid

2008-02-07 Thread Russ Allbery
or i18n expert to tell me what to do. -- 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#464626: missing-dependency-on-perlapi: false positives

2008-02-07 Thread Russ Allbery
, supposed to be optional. *sigh*. Fixed now. It catches architecture restrictions to allow for perlapi-5.8.8 [i386]. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Bug#464709: lintian: Something wrong with checking for python build-depends

2008-02-08 Thread Russ Allbery
-devpython2.4 is not a common package. *heh*. Fixing now. I'll upload another version later today. -- 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#464775: lintian: false positive about debconf module loading

2008-02-08 Thread Russ Allbery
that all postinst scripts are shell scripts? No, it was just expecting use and didn't know about require. I've taught it about require and the fix will be in the bug-fix release of lintian that will probably be uploaded this evening. Thanks! -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http

Re: Another raw idea for lintian check: variable substitution in debconf templates

2008-02-09 Thread Russ Allbery
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Re: Merge tags for VCS'?

2008-02-09 Thread Russ Allbery
-contains-* tags are a bit different). May not be worth the effort, 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: Test suite failure

2008-02-09 Thread Russ Allbery
in debhelper. Committing a fix in a moment. -- 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#464837: should warn about merciurial files

2008-02-10 Thread Russ Allbery
is sufficiently useful to warrant the separation, I'm not sure. I considered merging them when I restructured how the code worked and decided not to, but not for any strong reasons. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Bug#464992: lintian: Copyright false positive

2008-02-10 Thread Russ Allbery
, as this line seems to satisfy all of the requirements: copyright, date, holder. Is the check case-sensitive such that it misses the all-caps COPYRIGHT? Yes, sorry, my mistake. The check was supposed to be case-insensitive. Will be fixed shortly. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#464837: should warn about merciurial files

2008-02-10 Thread Russ Allbery
metadata directory, so the instructions for how to avoid them in diffs used for other files in the source package wouldn't be accurate. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Bug#465132: outdated-autotools-helper-file: Should refer to autotools-dev README

2008-02-10 Thread Russ Allbery
in case I'd not seen it. Will be there 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#253012: [checks/scripts] check all /bin/sh scripts for bashisms

2008-02-10 Thread Russ Allbery
couple of weeks since I won't have much time to work on lintian for that time period. -- 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#465258: lintian: copyright-without-copyright-notice should accept line breaks

2008-02-11 Thread Russ Allbery
. (C) 2007 Tom Patzig [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Looks fine to me except that there is a CR involved. It currently handles a date appearing in that situation but not (C) followed by a date. That's a pretty simple fix; I'll add that for the next version. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#465192: lintian: Please warn on documentation referring to /usr/doc

2008-02-11 Thread Russ Allbery
to me. Going beyond that gets pretty hairy for possible false positives, but README.Debian at least should be fine. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Bug#286842: lintian: Avoid false positives

2008-02-13 Thread Russ Allbery
for. -- 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#286842: lintian: Avoid false positives

2008-02-13 Thread Russ Allbery
negatives. I think it's better the way that it is, once the case insensitivity is fixed and it's a bit more accepting about (c) bits when there's an intervening newline. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Some fixed warnings still showing up on lintian.d.o

2008-02-17 Thread Russ Allbery
tomorrow. -- 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: dfsg/ds/etc versioning

2008-02-18 Thread Russ Allbery
checking the watch file for version mangling as well, although there are no watch files at all at present). I'd be happy to accept patches for this. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: web pages broken?

2008-02-18 Thread Russ Allbery
release). It moves backwards from Z to A and it's up to Fr, so it shouldn't be too much longer. -- 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/scripts / checkbashsims updates

2008-02-18 Thread Russ Allbery
forms are equivalent. Added \s* after ; in the regex. 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]

Re: Some fixed warnings still showing up on lintian.d.o

2008-02-18 Thread Russ Allbery
Christian Perrier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Quoting Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Forbidden You don't have permission to access / on this server. Apache/1.3.33 Server at lintian.debian.org Port 80 This works correctly now that the scan of the archive is finished. OK, I

Re: Some fixed warnings still showing up on lintian.d.o

2008-02-18 Thread Russ Allbery
Christian Perrier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Quoting Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Rather than try to poke at it too much, I've just updated lintian to the latest version on lintian.d.o and started a full archive run. It should be fixed (with various other improvements in the reports

Re: checks/scripts / checkbashsims updates

2008-02-18 Thread Russ Allbery
. That change has now also been made in lintian. -- 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/scripts / checkbashsims updates

2008-02-19 Thread Russ Allbery
things like $((4 + 5)), and if the above is also okay, I'm not sure when this would not be a false positive. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Bug#466714: bogus advice in copyright-without-copyright-notice

2008-02-20 Thread Russ Allbery
is the best way of satisfying the first two requirements. I'll clarify the long description to make it more obvious that this is a Debian-specific requirement, not something required for a work to be considered copyrighted. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org

Bug#466665: lintian: menu-command-not-in-package should not warn about the use of su-to-root

2008-02-20 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#466714: bogus advice in copyright-without-copyright-notice

2008-02-20 Thread Russ Allbery
). The benefit is really quite high, IMO. -- 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#466665: lintian: menu-command-not-in-package should not warn about the use of su-to-root

2008-02-20 Thread Russ Allbery
with quoted strings. I think the right thing to do here is to just bail if people use quoted strings for the commands and assume they know what they're doing, since more complex things may be going on than we can easily analyze. I'll do this for the next release. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#467019: off-by-one error in debian-changelog-line-too-long (80 column check)

2008-02-22 Thread Russ Allbery
of each line (to convert the format into what one would expect in a .changes file presumably). The test needed to be adjusted for that. Thanks! -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Bug#381485: lintian check for direct init script invocation (was: Bug#438885: Not blocking anymore)

2008-03-02 Thread Russ Allbery
into merging patches. I'd welcome a patch implementing this feature (ideally with some test cases as well). -- 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/scripts] checkbashsims update

2008-03-02 Thread Russ Allbery
now. -- 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#468804: lintian: Please detect mismatch between bin/sbin and man1/man8, improperly located Perl modules and arch all when should be arch any

2008-03-02 Thread Russ Allbery
in the future! -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/

Bug#468876: lintian: please warn when icons are installed in the wrong dirs

2008-03-02 Thread Russ Allbery
parameter in it. Hm, I guess. Parsing desktop files and trying to verify things in them is really hard due to the lack of standardization of desktop files, but this looks reasonably self-contained. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Bug#467642: new check for unneeded control scripts

2008-03-02 Thread Russ Allbery
assertions. 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#468876: lintian: please warn when icons are installed in the wrong dirs

2008-03-02 Thread Russ Allbery
Paul Wise [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, 2008-03-02 at 21:18 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: [snipped tons of directories] This looks rather unmaintainable from a lintian perspective unless there's some (rarely-changing) standard that specifies those directories. If I'm reading

Bug#452215: lintian: r1238 - in trunk: checks debian testset testset/diffs/debian testset/diffs/debian/patches

2008-03-03 Thread Russ Allbery
to allow for that or not. I find the logic dubious, but dpatch supports that mode of operation. -- 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#452215: lintian: r1238 - in trunk: checks debian testset testset/diffs/debian testset/diffs/debian/patches

2008-03-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't know if we want to allow for that or not. I find the logic dubious, but dpatch supports that mode of operation. I have to admit that I consider using a patch system in this way to be a bug. I

Bug#469106: lintian: False positive for possible-gpl-code-linked-with-openssl

2008-03-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Andrew Pollock [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Package: lintian Version: 1.23.28 Severity: normal Lintian produces a false possible-gpl-code-linked-with-openssl warning for packages that are not GPL licensed, but contain the magic /usr/share/common

Bug#452215: lintian: r1238 - in trunk: checks debian testset testset/diffs/debian testset/diffs/debian/patches

2008-03-04 Thread Russ Allbery
Bernhard R. Link [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But I agree a general warning is nice, though it should be easily circumventable. (Though I guess it always is via renaming the patches dir to something else). Source lintian overrides also work. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#469301: lintian: multiarch libraries support

2008-03-04 Thread Russ Allbery
for the host operating system? -- 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#469301: lintian: multiarch libraries support

2008-03-04 Thread Russ Allbery
on what problem you're solving here and what sort of package would contain files in those directories but be arch: all? -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Bug#469301: lintian: multiarch libraries support

2008-03-04 Thread Russ Allbery
. ldconfig should have the chance to decide how to handle those libraries. Oh. Hm. So replacing the /emul stuff. Yeah, okay, I guess this makes sense. I'm not sure that this is the direction Debian is going to go, but I also don't see the harm in making these changes to lintian. -- Russ Allbery

Bug#470403: lintian: /var/www

2008-03-10 Thread Russ Allbery
it, please +++---+++ but you might want some better english for it :) Wow, there's a fascinating selection of stuff in the archive that installs files under there. I particularly like dart-server. Will do. Thanks! -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle

Bug#469924: lintian: suggestion: check for dynamic UIDs or GIDs in file ownership

2008-03-12 Thread Russ Allbery
the base-passwd package and verify that all users match the corresponding UIDs, groups match their corresponding GIDs, and verify that any UID or GID or owner or group is one of the reserved ones. This would probably be a good idea, but I don't have time to implement it at the moment. -- Russ

Bug#469924: lintian: suggestion: check for dynamic UIDs or GIDs in file ownership

2008-03-12 Thread Russ Allbery
); #check for sect: games but nothing in /usr/games. Check for any binary to (A superfluous 0 at end of file won't trigger the original test.) Sorry for this inconvenience. Oh, no problem, and good catch. I'll fix that now. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http

Re: DRAFT: Bits from the Lintian maintainers

2008-03-13 Thread Russ Allbery
in mind. Anyway, the mail looks fine, please go ahead and post it to dda. I'm just waiting for the complete archive run to finish so that the uploaders information is there, and then I'll do that. Thanks for the review! -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle

Bug#470912: lintian: Please activate no-upstream-changelog

2008-03-14 Thread Russ Allbery
be missing some neat way of handling it, 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]

Bug#470913: lintian: False positive: Manual pages should be compressed with gzip -9

2008-03-14 Thread Russ Allbery
something weird is 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: r1264 - in trunk: debian lib

2008-03-14 Thread Russ Allbery
/Spelling.pm line 401. Exiting subroutine via next at /home/adam/lintian/lib/Spelling.pm line 401. (Spotted via having forgotten to unset LINTIANROOT after looking at #469222 a couple of weeks ago :-) Good catch. Thanks. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle

Bug#470913: lintian: False positive: Manual pages should be compressed with gzip -9

2008-03-14 Thread Russ Allbery
Hideki Yamane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The current version of this package doesn't give this warning, so something must have changed. I gather you either just uploaded this or haven't yet? I don't see it in the archive yet. Just you get source

Bug#470913: lintian: False positive: Manual pages should be compressed with gzip -9

2008-03-14 Thread Russ Allbery
is another possible difference; if that's it, I can check by running lintian in a current sid environment this evening from home. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#470913: lintian: False positive: Manual pages should be compressed with gzip -9

2008-03-15 Thread Russ Allbery
Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm afraid I don't. After getting the source and building it, I get the same lintian output as I get with the binary package currently in the archive, namely: windlord:~/tmp lintian -I *.changes W: tomoyo-ccstools: maintainer-script-empty preinst W

Re: GPLv3 x lintian

2008-03-15 Thread Russ Allbery
a basic system without any graphic environment. The current stable release of Debian does not include the GPLv3 in common-licenses. It will be included in base-files in that directory in the next stable release of Debian (lenny). -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http

Bug#471263: [patch-systems]: please no patch-system-but-direct-changes-in-diff for generated files

2008-03-16 Thread Russ Allbery
at build time, but I realize this is an ongoing debate and that's far from the consensus at the moment. I think we're still trying to feel out what Lintian's role should be here. I'd welcome any feedback from other people reading the mailing list. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http

Re: lintian.debian.org no longer updated?

2008-03-18 Thread Russ Allbery
: Last updated: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 21:11:15 + Archive timestamp: Fri Mar 14 09:00:01 UTC 2008 The ftp.debian.org mirror on gluck is not updating properly, and therefore lintian is still working from old packages. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http

Re: lintian.debian.org no longer updated?

2008-03-18 Thread Russ Allbery
Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Petter Reinholdtsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The URL:http://lintian.debian.org/reports/tags.html page currently show this: init.d-script-missing-lsb-section (172 packages, 200 tags, plus 0 overrides) It has shown the same number since 2008-03-13

Re: lintian.debian.org no longer updated?

2008-03-19 Thread Russ Allbery
Petter Reinholdtsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [Russ Allbery] Looks like it updated today, so this should now be better, although it may have missed some new packages that came in over the last few days. (The package lists were updating when the actual packages were not.) Great. Yes

Bug#471751: False positive: unknown-section base

2008-03-19 Thread Russ Allbery
and it will be removed from the next Policy release. Please change the section. Thanks for catching the incorrect long description of the tag. I'll fix that. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Bug#471838: Extend testset for description checks

2008-03-20 Thread Russ Allbery
-never-seen file. BTW, how do you generate that file? testset/runtests -v with some munging after the fact. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Bug#471537: check for repackaged .orig.tar.gz

2008-03-20 Thread Russ Allbery
usage properly. As both my English language skills and my perl skills could be better, I'm not setting the patch tag. Thank you very much for this. I'll try to get this merged for the next release. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

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