Bug#350228: lintian: false positive package-uses-deprecated-debhelper-compat-version with cdbs

2006-03-11 Thread Russ Allbery
Jay Berkenbilt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Package: lintian
 Version: 1.23.15
 Severity: normal
 Tags: patch

 If a package uses cdbs and includes debhelper.mk, then it is using a
 correct debhelper compatibility version of 4.  If you don't have a
 debian/compat file that contains 4 (which cdbs will create
 automatically, but may not be in the original sources), you will a
 warning such as this one:

 W: tiff source: package-uses-deprecated-debhelper-compat-version 1

 I believe a sensible fix is to simply recognize that the correct
 dhcompatvalue is 4 if cdbs is in use.  The lintian debhelper check
 already makes other assumptions based on cdbs.  This one-line patch
 should do the job.  It has the unfortunate property of hard-coding the
 number 4 as the current debhelper compat version in another place, but
 that's easily rectified if desirable.

This seems basically reasonable, at least as a starting point.  The
obvious elaboration would be to choose this value based on a versioned
build dependency on cdbs, but I think we can wait on doing that until it
looks needed.

 --- checks/debhelper~ 2006-01-19 09:11:59.0 -0500
 +++ checks/debhelper  2006-01-27 21:58:02.671089168 -0500
 @@ -93,6 +93,7 @@
   $seencommand = 1;
   $needbuilddepends = 1;
   $needtomodifyscripts = 1;
 + $needversiondepends = $dhcompatvalue = 4;
  } elsif (/^\s*export\s+DH_COMPAT\s*=\s*(\d+)/) {
   $needversiondepends = $1;
  } elsif (/^\s*export\s+DH_COMPAT/) {

This would cause any cdbs package that did have a debian/compat file to
produce warnings about conflicting versions.  I don't think that's
correct; I think cdbs is happy to use the debian/compat file that you have
if that's what you want.

I'm going to apply a slightly different patch that doesn't set the compat
level from cdbs until towards the end, and only if no other setting of it
was found.

-- 
Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED])   http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/


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Bug#350228: lintian: false positive package-uses-deprecated-debhelper-compat-version with cdbs

2006-01-27 Thread Jay Berkenbilt
Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.15
Severity: normal
Tags: patch

If a package uses cdbs and includes debhelper.mk, then it is using a
correct debhelper compatibility version of 4.  If you don't have a
debian/compat file that contains 4 (which cdbs will create
automatically, but may not be in the original sources), you will a
warning such as this one:

W: tiff source: package-uses-deprecated-debhelper-compat-version 1

I believe a sensible fix is to simply recognize that the correct
dhcompatvalue is 4 if cdbs is in use.  The lintian debhelper check
already makes other assumptions based on cdbs.  This one-line patch
should do the job.  It has the unfortunate property of hard-coding the
number 4 as the current debhelper compat version in another place,
but that's easily rectified if desirable.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-686-smp
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii  binutils 2.16.1cvs20060117-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii  diffstat 1.41-1  produces graph of changes introduc
ii  dpkg-dev 1.13.11.1   package building tools for Debian
ii  file 4.15-2  Determines file type using magic
ii  gettext  0.14.5-2GNU Internationalization utilities
ii  intltool-debian  0.34.1+20050828 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii  libparse-debianchang 1.0-1   parse Debian changelogs and output
ii  man-db   2.4.3-3 The on-line manual pager
ii  perl [libdigest-md5- 5.8.7-10Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

lintian recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information
--- checks/debhelper~   2006-01-19 09:11:59.0 -0500
+++ checks/debhelper2006-01-27 21:58:02.671089168 -0500
@@ -93,6 +93,7 @@
$seencommand = 1;
$needbuilddepends = 1;
$needtomodifyscripts = 1;
+   $needversiondepends = $dhcompatvalue = 4;
 } elsif (/^\s*export\s+DH_COMPAT\s*=\s*(\d+)/) {
$needversiondepends = $1;
 } elsif (/^\s*export\s+DH_COMPAT/) {