Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.11
Severity: minor
Correct me if I am wrong or if I lack some coffee, please, but with this
copyright file:
=
Format: http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/
Upstream-Name: name
Upstream-Contact: Somebody
Files: file1.c file2.c
Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.6
Severity: wishlist
Hi!
Using #652099 as an example, we have a source package that has a -dbg
binary package, with files located under /usr/lib/debug/ as they should
be but with one problem: there are no debugging symbols.
Could lintian do a new check against the
Hi!
On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 11:13:31AM +0100, Helmut Grohne wrote:
However dep5.mdwn no longer exists. It apparently got replaced with a
directory. So the information given here is wrong.
Can't lintian just suggest to use the updated place?
Hi!
On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Niels Thykier ni...@thykier.net wrote:
Personally I would recommend the usage of suspicious-source (from
ubuntu-dev-tools?). I believe it already catches this, else asking them
to catch it seems very reasonable.
Indeed. I didn't know about
Hi Niels!
On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 10:03 PM, Niels Thykier ni...@thykier.net wrote:
Thanks for the report; I have applied changes to cover the most obvious
issues, but we currently do not check for all of them (or changed some
of them a bit).
I am really sorry that I did not explain it
Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.0~rc3
Severity: wishlist
Hi!
When building a package using CDBS and simple-patchsys.mk I saw this:
/usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/simple-patchsys.mk:31: WARNING: simple-patchsys.mk is
deprecated - please use source format 3.0 (quilt) instead
Would be good if lintian
Hi!
The same for bzip2: BZIP2=-9 or BZIP=-9 (--best too)
And just for reference, it's Developer's Reference 6.7.8.2:
should be gzipped or bzipped with maximal compression
Thank you!
Best regards,
Nelson
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Hi!
Can you verify if my patch is correct and, if yes, commit it, please?
Thank you very much!
Best regards,
Nelson
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From: Nelson A. de Oliveira nao...@debian.org
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 10:45:34 -0200
Subject: [PATCH] Add
Package: lintian
Version: 2.4.3
Severity: wishlist
Hi!
I am starting to see source packages (that are on our archive) with watch files
that are basically 95% equal the template created by dh-make.
It would be nice if lintian could somehow catch watch files like that.
For example, having the
Package: lintian
Version: 2.4.3
Severity: wishlist
I saw a package (on the NEW queue) with a debian/copyright (generated by
dh_make) like this:
=
This work was packaged for Debian by:
My Full Name n...@place.com on Tue, 28 Sep 2010 16:30:34 -0300
It was downloaded from:
Package: lintian
Version: 2.2.18
Severity: wishlist
Hi!
lintian could warn us about the usage of DEB_AUTO_UPDATE_DEBIAN_CONTROL = yes
inside debian/rules.
Since it's a serious violation (the second item at
http://ftp-master.debian.org/REJECT-FAQ.html) and FTP-masters will reject the
package, it
Package: lintian
Version: 2.2.17
Severity: wishlist
Hi!
Is it out of scope a check for duplicated entries in debian/control (for fields
like Build-Depends, Depends, Recommends, Suggests, Conflicts, Provides,
Replaces)?
For example:
Build-Depends: cdbs, debhelper (= 7), cdbs
It could
Package: lintian
Version: 2.2.14
Severity: wishlist
Hi!
If possible, would be good if lintian could check if debian/get-orig-source
(when used as a separated file) or the get-orig-source target of debian/rules
is using the maximum compression level when creating the tarball.
For example, I
Package: lintian
Version: 2.2.14
Severity: wishlist
Hi!
Can we have a check on lintian (at informational level) that verifies
if the source package has PS or PDF files, please?
This check would be valid only if the package has its section as main
(non-free can have files without the source
Hi!
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 8:02 PM, Russ Allberyr...@debian.org wrote:
I think it's going to be impossible for Lintian to figure out whether a
given PS or PDF file has source accompanying it.
But not even a test with wild-guess certainty?
I prefer a wild-guess message that will remind me to
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 8:11 PM, Russ Allberyr...@debian.org wrote:
Nelson A. de Oliveira nao...@debian.org writes:
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 8:02 PM, Russ Allbery r...@debian.org wrote:
I think it's going to be impossible for Lintian to figure out whether a
given PS or PDF file has source
Package: lintian
Version: 2.2.14
Severity: wishlist
Hi!
dh_undocumented is a deprecated program and would be good if lintian could warn
about using it in debian/rules.
Thank you!
Best regards,
Nelson
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Package: lintian
Version: 2.2.14
Severity: wishlist
Hi!
Sorry if it's related with #496902, but lintian could do a check when dh_python
is being unneeded used in debian/rules.
For example, a debian/rules with:
dh_pycentral
dh_python
We will get this message:
dh_python: Doing nothing since
Package: lintian
Version: 2.2.13
Severity: minor
Hi!
With this package description:
=
Package: pvrg-jpeg
Architecture: any
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
Suggests: netpbm, libjpeg-progs
Description: Stanford PVRG JPEG tool
PVRG is the JPEG implementation from Stanford Portable
Package: lintian
Version: 2.2.10
Severity: wishlist
Hi!
Lintian could warn us if debian/rules calls the deprecated dh_desktop program
and suggest to remove this call.
Thank you!
Best regards,
Nelson
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Hi!
Here is a warning that I am having on one package that I am using lintian:
W: libdownload1: copyright-refers-to-versionless-license-file
usr/share/common-licenses/GPL
N:
N:The copyright file refers to the versionless symlink in
N:/usr/share/common-licenses for the full text of the
Hi again!
And this one was not caught:
Files: debian/*
Copyright: 2008, Foo Bar f...@bar.com
License: GPL-2+
The Debian packaging is licensed under the GPL-2 or any later version,
see `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2'
If possible, it should warn that the it should use
Hi!
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 8:16 PM, Russ Allbery r...@debian.org wrote:
Nelson A. de Oliveira nao...@debian.org writes:
The Debian packaging is licensed under the GPL-2 or any later version,
see `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2'
If possible, it should warn that the it should use
/usr
Hi people!
Patrick and I are trying to create a lintian override for this message:
W: xtermset source: configure-generated-file-in-source config.status
I have tried various combination for the override file:
configure-generated-file-in-source
xtermset: configure-generated-file-in-source
Hi Russ!
On Dec 17, 2007 5:30 PM, Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
lintian (version 3.7.3) also says:
(That's a Policy version rather than a lintian version.)
Argh... sorry.
I was thinking in one thing and I wrote another one :-/
First, you're installing an override for the *binary*
Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.20
Severity: important
Hi!
Today I have downloaded lintian 1.23.20 from incoming and installed it
with dpkg -i.
Trying to test it with some packages, I've got:
$ lintian qsf_1.1.7-1_i386.deb
Can't locate common_data.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.13
Severity: normal
Hi!
The recommended compatibility level of a package is now 5 and version
3 is now deprecated.
However, lintian doesn't issue a
package-uses-deprecated-debhelper-compat-version warning with packages
using version compat level 3.
Thank you
Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.8
Severity: normal
Hi!
With the new debian-policy (version 3.6.2.x), lintian gives a warnign
about: newer-standards-version
It would be good to update lintian to this.
Thank you very much!
Nelson
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