Bug#378055: rpath and /usr/lib/package directories

2006-07-15 Thread Steve Langasek
such as rpath, LD_LIBRARY_PATH in a wrapper script, or dlopen()ing used instead. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

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

2007-04-25 Thread Steve Langasek
, or Provides: debconf-2.0, debconf-2.0.1? (BTW, why was 'settitle' not included in the output of the 'CAPB' command? Seems like it should have been?) Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move

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

2007-09-16 Thread Steve Langasek
that there are any grounds for prohibiting questions as the short description of select templates. Please enforce the question-mark check only for string and password templates. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set

Bug#534326: wrong lintian messages on a package using (provisional) dh_installupstart

2009-06-23 Thread Steve Langasek
to '/lib/init/upstart-job' are correct). The combination of the two lintian messages on a single package is amusing. ;) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer

Bug#543418: postinst-uses-db-input is not always a bug

2009-08-24 Thread Steve Langasek
. If that's not possible, then at least the warning should not be presented as Certainty: certain, and the description should mention this exception to the rule. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can

Bug#617959: 'script-calls-init-script-directly' is bad advice

2011-03-12 Thread Steve Langasek
Package: lintian Version: 2.4.3 Severity: normal It's been brought to my attention that lintian outputs a 'script-calls-init-script-directly' warning for scripts in /etc/ that call scripts in /etc/init.d/: W: samba: script-calls-init-script-directly ./etc/network/if-up.d/samba:30 As discussed

Bug#617991: lintian overrides should support more precise pattern matching

2011-03-12 Thread Steve Langasek
Package: lintian Version: 2.4.3 Severity: normal User: vor...@debian.org Usertags: multiarch lintian overrides currently only support prefix/postfix glob matching; there is no way with a lintian override to have a wildcard match in the middle of a string. This becomes more of an issue with

Re: Status on Lintian 2.5.0~rc3

2011-04-19 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Niels, On Sat, Apr 09, 2011 at 02:36:17PM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: I thought I would bring a little update on the progress on Lintian 2.5.0~rc3. I have CC'ed Steve Langasek and Vincent Fourmond because I last I heard from you, you were working on patches for bugs I am considering

Re: Status on Lintian 2.5.0~rc3

2011-04-26 Thread Steve Langasek
to the FTP masters? Well, I have now! :) And as a bonus, attached is a patch to add a test suite check for the new tag. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer

Bug#629648: lintian: missing-pre-dependency-on-multiarch-support FP for -dev packages

2011-06-08 Thread Steve Langasek
(as provided by the symlink) follows one of the standard patterns? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/ slanga

Bug#629648: lintian: missing-pre-dependency-on-multiarch-support FP for -dev packages

2011-06-08 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 06:11:08PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: On Wed, 08 Jun 2011 at 09:24:44 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: But, do we risk getting a false negative for cases where the real file has a weird filename whereas the soname (as provided by the symlink) follows one

Bug#693442: wrong lintian check 'maintainer-script-removes-device-files'

2012-11-16 Thread Steve Langasek
...@lists.alioth.debian.org, Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org Subject: sysvinit_2.88dsf-33_i386.changes REJECTED initscripts: lintian output: 'maintainer-script-removes-device-files postinst:364', automatically rejected package. initscripts: lintian output: 'maintainer-script-removes-device-files postinst:382

Bug#869750: lintian: fix for readelf parsing with binutils 2.29 on ppc64el

2017-07-26 Thread Steve Langasek
/ +=~ m/^\s*(\d+):\s*[0-9a-f]+\s+\d+\s+(?:(?:\S+\s+){3})(?:\[.*\]\s+)?(\S+)\s+(.*)\Z/ and $section eq 'DS') { # We (sometimes) need to read the "Version symbols section" first to # use this data and readelf tends to print after this section, so Thanks,

Bug#869750: lintian: fix for readelf parsing with binutils 2.29 on ppc64el

2017-07-25 Thread Steve Langasek
with binutils 2.29-1, then the severity of this bug should arguably be raised to serious. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp