Bug#941762: lintian in Stretch backports contains leftover from merge

2019-10-04 Thread Thorsten Alteholz
Package: lintian Version: 2.24.0~bpo9+2 Severity: serious thanks Hi Chris, the lintian version in Stretch backports seems to be broken: debian@devel:~/tmp/lintian$ grep -R "" lintian-2.24.0~bpo9+2/checks/fields.pm:<<< HEAD lintian-2.24.0~bpo9+2/checks/fields.pm:<<< HEAD

Bug#903669: lintian -- false positive on using-first-person-in-description

2018-07-12 Thread Thorsten Alteholz
Hi Chris, On Thu, 12 Jul 2018, Chris Lamb wrote: The description of pyicloud contains the name of a software called "Find My iPhone". I think this is a case for an override rather than a change in Lintian as it will never be able to reliably know that this is a false positive without

Bug#903669: lintian -- false positive on using-first-person-in-description

2018-07-12 Thread Thorsten Alteholz
Package: lintian Version: 2.5.84 Severity: normal The description of pyicloud contains the name of a software called "Find My iPhone". So in this case "My" is not a using-first-person-in-description ... Thorsten

Bug#897915: lintian -- False positive on orphaned-package-not-maintained-in-debian-infrastructure

2018-05-04 Thread Thorsten Alteholz
Package: lintian Version: 2.5.82~bpo9+1 Severity: normal git.dgit.debian.org seems to be within *.debian.org, so this looks like a false positive ... lintian check for python-ofxhome_0.3.3-2.dsc W: python-ofxhome source: orphaned-package-not-maintained-in-debian-infrastructure

Bug#895841: lintian -- False positive on spelling-error-in-binary

2018-04-16 Thread Thorsten Alteholz
Package: lintian Version: 2.5.80 Severity: normal For osmo-trx 0.2.0 I get: I: osmo-trx: spelling-error-in-binary usr/bin/osmo-trx wIH with But there is no wIH in the source: debian@devel:~/move-to-salsa/mobcom/osmo-trx/osmo-trx-0.2.0$ grep -R wIH

Bug#895758: lintian -- when is a patch a patch (HG)

2018-04-15 Thread Thorsten Alteholz
Hi Chris, On Sun, 15 Apr 2018, Chris Lamb wrote: I could have sworn that already not all files in the patch/ directory trigger such a message. But as I understand you right now, this is not the case yet. So I am fine with it ... Sorry, I don't understand what you mean here. :) Can you

Bug#895758: lintian -- when is a patch a patch (HG)

2018-04-15 Thread Thorsten Alteholz
Hi Chris, On Sun, 15 Apr 2018, Chris Lamb wrote: This might be a language thing but I would not know what "patch back" would mean out of context. Indeed, even when I am pretty sure what you are trying to achieve (temporarily ignore a patch?) yes, thats what I wanted. I could have sworn that

Bug#895758: lintian -- when is a patch a patch (HG)

2018-04-15 Thread Thorsten Alteholz
Package: lintian Version: 2.5.80 Severity: wishlist My outreachy mentee renamed an old patch to: 02_set_version_explicitly.patch_back lintian complained about that with: W: libosmo-sccp source: patch-file-present-but-not-mentioned-in-series 02_set_version_explicitly.patch_back I would like

Bug#891794: lintian -- False positive on spelling-error-in-binary

2018-02-28 Thread Thorsten Alteholz
Package: lintian Version: 2.5.67 Severity: normal A soon to be available package gives: I: osmocom-analog: spelling-error-in-binary usr/bin/amps Rouge Rogue This is a false positive as it comes from: osmocom-analog-0.0.1/src/amps/stations.c: { 85, 0, "Baton Rouge",

Bug#890943: lintian -- False positive on license-problem-non-free-img-lenna

2018-02-20 Thread Thorsten Alteholz
Package: lintian Version: 2.5.67 Severity: normal According to the maintainer of libplacebo this is false positive. md5sum :0ea16a2c4b94f0c1a83d11278655ac9f ./libplacebo-0.4.0/demos/lena.jpg sha1sum :14045bb11fbccdfa9a522cf74ced9385f02307d8 ./libplacebo-0.4.0/demos/lena.jpg

Bug#889154: maintainer-script-should-not-use-service, long description

2018-02-02 Thread Thorsten Alteholz
Package: lintian Version: 2.5.72 Severity: wishlist Please extend the long description of maintainer-script-should-not-use-service Especially it is not clear what to do in case a package changes the config of another package and would like to reload the config during installation. For

Bug#873323: lintian -- False positives on copyright-year-in-future

2017-08-26 Thread Thorsten Alteholz
Package: lintian Version: 2.5.52 Severity: normal The license of package oysttyer contains an example, which gives a false positive for "copyright-year-in-future": * If you choose to create and distribute a derivative work based on this package, your derivative work must clearly

Bug#749542: false positive: E: scheme48 source: license-problem-non-free-RFC debian/copyright

2014-06-22 Thread Thorsten Alteholz
Hi Niels, On Sun, 22 Jun 2014, Niels Thykier wrote: AFAICT this license explicitly forbids modification and therefore fails to meet the DFSG ยง3. If you disagree with our assertion, then I recommend we pass it by the FTP masters, who are the authority on this. Should they disagree with our

Bug#749542: false positive: E: scheme48 source: license-problem-non-free-RFC debian/copyright

2014-05-27 Thread Thorsten Alteholz
Package: lintian Severity: normal User: alteh...@debian.org thanks Dear Maintainer, I am very sure that I did not put any RFC into debian/copyright of the scheme48 package. So I am afraid this error is a false positive. Thanks! Thorsten -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#746656: privacy-breach-generic false positive on LINK rel=Bookmark ..:

2014-05-02 Thread Thorsten Alteholz
Package: lintian Version: 2.5.22.1 Severity: normal As already mentioned in #736992 something like: LINK rel=Bookmark title=Ab Initio Physics Home Page href=http://ab-initio.it.edu; doesn't seem to be any privacy breach ... Thorsten -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#677142: lintian: [checks/init.d] + should be allowed as part of package name

2012-06-11 Thread Thorsten Alteholz
Package: lintian Version: 2.5.8 Severity: important Tags: patch While checking for duplicate-updaterc.d-calls-in-postinst the character + is not allowed as a valid name of the package. Attached is a patch to solve this problem but I guess that it might occur somewhere else. Thorsten --

Bug#632669: lintian: no detection of shell-script-fails-syntax-check

2011-07-04 Thread Thorsten Alteholz
Package: lintian Version: 2.5.1 Severity: normal Hi, assuming that there is a python package containing some ksh-scripts which are started from the python scripts (please don't ask for the purpose of this, it is an example from real life). The Build-Depends: of the source packages does not need