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Actually, I don't believe we should apply this. I already did this
once and added it back in version 1.23.43. I think we should wait for
lenny to do this.
The thing is that php4 _won't_ be shipped in lenny. This change should
?
The Lintian test suite currently can't be run on non-i386 architectures
(well, on architectures that don't allow PIC code in shared libraries)
because libbaz builds a shared library with non-PIC code to test the
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shlib-declared-but-not-symbols may be fine by the same rationale as
mentioned above. symbols-declared-but-not-shlib is clearly an error.
Isn't shlib-declared-but-not-symbols always going to be redundant with
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lot of noise for a very theoretical gain.
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Check for deprecated SF redirector usage
* checks/watch-file{,.desc}:
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* checks/rules{,.desc}:
+ [RA] Warn about use
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The PHP 2.x tag saying that it's non-free bothers me without a reference
from ftp-master that it's non-free, and I don't see anything about PHP 2.x
specifically in the REJECT FAQ. I'm personally not very comfortable with
Lintian making any judgements
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But now policy states:
If multiple flags are given, they must be separated by whitespace
The only time it would break is if someone used some other build option
that contained the string searched for, which seems extremely
opposed to it either. Maybe Frank or
someone else has an opinion?
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looks a lot easier to implement.
Yeah, I think that's the way that they should be, since experimental
status is orthogonal to severity or certainty.
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general rule of thumb I've been applying with description checks is that
if they're quoting it, it's probably intentional.
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Add cupsys packages to the obsolete package list
* data/fields/obsolete-packages:
+ [RA] Add
packages to the list.
Looks good to me. Thanks. (I kept the list alphabetized.)
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I'm worried about blah-foo foo-baz sorts of cases, although I don't have a
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lintian chomps $_, so if \s is used it would never match the
above quoted line (which belongs to the libkiten4 package).
Which is why you wrote (^|\W) in your original regex, right? I don't see
how changing that to (^|\s) would change that.
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be relevant
for lintian.d.o (it's really meaningless before an upload), but I'm not
sure what anyone would do with the lintian.d.o output from it.
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An hypothetical case would be:
cat FOO
foo bar foo .Like like foo
FOO
Oh, actually, a good case would be like like. Okay. I think I'm
convinced. We'll see if we get false positives.
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This really doesn't seem useful to me, sorry. I'm not willing to apply
it, although I won't veto it if someone else sees it as useful enough to
warrant the maintenance.
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better than linking to the wiki page if it has a stable URL), it might be
legitimate to warn on postinst modifying php.ini and ask packages to
override if they really have to do this. (It would be even better if we
could check first if they're prompting, but that's hard to do.)
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//;
$wo_quotes =~ s/\Q$words//;
is equivalent and doesn't require the extra variable. Also, Lintian
doesn't usually use a leading underscore in the names of local variables;
no need, the my namespace will keep them local to that block.
Thank you for the test suite entries!
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diff --git a/testset/tags.libbaz b/testset/tags.libbaz
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Adds a check for maintainer scripts modifying the php.ini file (only
checks the preinst script as it is safe if done on the postrm to
rollback the changes). I believe the description
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Lintian overrides, although I suppose it's not a horrible use of
overrides.
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original bug report? Should those also be checked in the Debian diff and
possiby the upstream tarball?
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seems reasonable
in this case (libc6 uses a template in preinst, for instance).
They should indeed all be checked. Some packages use prerm and postrm
templates as well.
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I think that's reasonable to do.
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scripts, but the majority of
them are issues whichever script they occur in.
Yeah, I think the current Lintian behavior is due to an incorrect
optimization, assuming that other maintainer scripts won't use debconf.
Broadening the checks seems like a good idea to me.
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Nope.
But since the whole SVN history has essentially the same problem, one
more commit doesn't really matter that much. I just figured you should
know this is possible.
I hadn't realized that either. Thank you!
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is fundamentally different than
the one for config and postinst. The last two have special requirements
that are part of how debconf works, whereas the other scripts just need to
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--- a/checks/scripts
+++ b/checks/scripts
@@ -697,9 +697,12 @@ while (SCRIPTS) {
$line =~ s/(^|[^\\\'](?:)*)\(?:\\.|[^\\\])+\/$1/g;
for my $re (@bashism_regexs) {
if ($line =~ m/($re
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Given that running invoke-rc.d under time in a Debian maintainer script
doesn't seem like sane behavior, I don't think I have a problem with
that specific case. However, in general, there are a lot of shell script
checks
and specification for how it would work and see what it
looks like, it's an academic argument. :)
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What I think Lintian really needs is a module that can do the following:
* Read a shell script and provide the caller with a stream of logical
lines, dealing with things like backslash escapes so that each caller
doesn't
in postrm
IIRC.
Indeed, thank you. Will fix in the next release.
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Remove the lab in postrm instead of prerm
* debian/{prerm,postrm}:
+ [RA] Move prerm to postrm
patch is an improvement[1]. Note that the overridden text has
been moved to the end of the line, but it should work if you prefer to
keep it where it is now.
I agree that looks better. Applied, thanks!
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Mark packages that override all instances of a tag
* reporting/lintian.css:
+ [RA] New style for
won't have time to do
that until this coming weekend, though.
I'd like to find some sneaky solution to #487746 that would suppress those
errors on platforms with a broken binutils, though.
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Recommend comment-only watch files for more cases
* checks/watch-file{,.desc}:
+ [RA] Be more
to
expect readelf output instead of objdump output, but that's a bunch of
work and we'd have to be sure we weren't using anything we cared about.
This is really cool -- this really fixes the problem instead of just
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* frontend/lintian:
+ [RA] Exit
In this case, lintian should return non-zero exit code, because it has
not been able to perform the check as request, because the .deb file it
was attempting to check was not actually present.
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* checks/changelog-file
of the license.
Thanks, will be fixed in the next release.
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Check maintainer addresses case-insensitively
* checks/nmu:
+ [RA] When comparing maintainers
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* debian/copyright:
+ [RA] Add Adam D. Barratt
the
program that deals with long tag descriptions; lintian --info actually
just pipes the output of lintian through lintian-info.
We should probably add a reference to this in lintian's man page.
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Refer to lintian-info in the lintian man page for tag descriptions
* man/lintian.1:
+ [RA]
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lintian-info -t tag
D'oh, many thanks.
We should probably add a reference to this in lintian's man page.
Patch for this attached.
Thanks, applied.
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Standards versions become ancient two years after obsolescence
* checks/standards-version{.desc
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Because there were maintainers who had set a standards version which
was higher than the $current one (e.g. 3.8.0.0 in a package uploaded
two years ago). And now that 3.8.0 is $current
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Adjust tag for the changed function bashism regex
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+ [RA] Warn for packages declaring a standards version
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Use better names for the internal runtests tags
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index
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Do not warn on Ubuntu security update versions
* checks/fields:
+ [RA] Recognize and do
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diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
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Update private/tags-never-seen
Also add a script that makes it easier to do this in the future
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tagging 9ff4c690cbb8dc4fe278a9ca580b5be042063530 (commit)
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- Shortlog
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Don't warn about a synopsis that ends in etc.
* checks/description:
+ [RA] Don't warn about a
intending to
end the sentence.
Thanks, applied.
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Why don't you just rewrap the license that you currently have wrapped at
90 columns?
I may be missing something, but it really is looking like you're
complaining that Lintian is noisy when run on a buggy package, rather than
just fixing the (minor) bugs that it's detecting.
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, hand-wrapping long URLs.
Hand-wrapping POD is definitely a bad idea.
I think this is the best solution.
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Exclude single words on header lines from copyright long line
Modify the fix to exclude Format
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Limit the number of tags for long copyright lines and direct changes
* checks/copyright-file
as needed.)
Applied with a changed name and description and without /usr/local in the
paths that it looks for.
Thanks, particularly for including a test suite!
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* checks/fields{,.desc}:
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Supress line break warnings in man pages with URLs
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+ [RA] Warn
to argue in favor of keeping this check,
but adding | par to the copyright generation script may end up just doing
the right thing.
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Try to recognize debconf template uses in Perl
* checks/debconf:
+ [RA] Try to recognize
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The plus is that the basic format uses the same terms that people are
already familiar with, even though we also have support for tuning the
output for things like ftp-master. The drawback
.
Thank you very much for getting some data!
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Yes, standardization would be excellent here, as well as adding more
keywords to the translator that turns them into nice descriptions for
the web and for -i output.
The one thing
the reference
takes more effort, particularly when running lintian from the command line
where you don't get clickable hyperlinks.
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easier and it's rare that it's wrong to drop the -1 in the
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I'm all in favor of moving to more stable references. The main constraint
from my perspective is to maintain our ability to create working
hyperlinks on lintian.d.o (which we're probably not doing that well at
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didn't understand in the first place, I'm really hesitant to make this
change; I think it would be better for any package that needs to use
su-to-root to add the necessary dependency. I disagree that this is
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sense, other than when using some debconf frameworks that
Lintian recognizes. Could you point me at an example?
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others should certainly feel free to beat me to it.)
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Expanding the desktop file checks to new files and new types of entries
have in the past produced tons of false positives and annoyed people
without really improving package quality.
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Raphael Geissert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Russ Allbery wrote:
Raphael Geissert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Attached is the new patch with a couple of corrections and the
following three new tags:
* desktop-command-with-path: same as the menu- version of the check
Probably shouldn't
The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit 7da32ac6db80627f86458f19d7894f40b89a4274
Author: Raphael Geissert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun Aug 3 14:59:11 2008 -0700
Warn about .kdelnk and KDE Desktop Entry
* checks/menu-format{,.desc}:
+ [RA] Warn about
by the old test suite.
* It does not yet use the description files to refine this
comparison.
Were you thinking about moving the sed thing into the description files?
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that connection. Basically,
have this be another level above serious in the new severity system that
Jordà is working on.
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that we now use git should make it easier to commit more
than one fix with only light fixing and only run the testsuite once
before the push.
Both good points. Definitely don't let the speed issue stop you.
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that you want to be able to tweak this without a new Lintian
release using a separate file outside of the Lintian installation? (Just
making sure I understand the design constraints.)
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selection, which we
were only previously talking about doing based on tag source.
It may also be a good idea for us to pull and ship your override file, or
at least do something with it. We should think about that further.
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in the tag file, regardless of which check scripts are run.
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for which this will occur; for
instance, /srv and /var/www. As all of the dir-or-file-in-* tags are
errors I'm inclined to agree that they should be exempted from the
unusual-dir checks.
Agreed.
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Frank Lichtenheld [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Here is a patch to remove this warning for this case, but I wanted to
ask for any objections before pushing it into the repository:
Looks fine to me. I agree with the rationale.
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. To
do that I would need a machine parseable version of the lintian output.
Is there anything like that available somewhere? I wouldn't like having
to scrape HTML ...
http://lintian.debian.org/lintian.log
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, there are many more.
Some of them are fixed in the current Git version of Lintian, but not that
one as I've never seen that before. What causes that error and how can we
tell whether to skip it?
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