package: lintian
version: 1.23.22
Hi,
the new version of policy mandates FHS 2.3, which requires /srv, so this is
clearly no error :-)
regards,
Holger
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Hi,
On Saturday 22 July 2006 02:49, you wrote:
By my reading of FHS 2.3, no Debian-supplied package should be installing
files into /srv, since /srv is reserved for the local administrator for
local data. The error message may not be accurate, but it looks to me
like this still should be an
Hi,
On Saturday 22 July 2006 17:35, you wrote:
How can that be reconciled with:
The methodology used to name subdirectories of /srv is unspecified as
there is currently no consensus on how this should be done. One method
for structuring data under /srv is by protocol, eg. ftp,
Hi,
On Saturday 22 July 2006 18:34, you wrote:
Yes, and if you ship files in /srv, then your package is creating and
insisting upon a particular structure in /srv. Even if the binaries in
the package don't insist, the *package* is insisting.
Yup. That's a structure my package created.
Hi,
from #debian-release
Jul 24 11:34:05 * h01ger would be interested in comments on #379176 or
http://lists.debian.org/debian-policy/2006/07/msg00033.html - as I read the
FHS, packages (the distributor) can put stuf
f into /srv - they (the packages) just need to cope with changes a
package: lintian
version: 1.23.44
Hi,
lintian doesnt warn about left over mercurial files in the source package,
like it does with svn or cvs files.
The following files remained unnoticed in my source package:
.hg_archival.txt |2
.hgignore
Hi Frank,
On Saturday 09 February 2008 17:24, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:
.hg_archival.txt |2
Out of curiosity, what is this one for?
I dont really know.
$ cat .hg_archival.txt
repo: 7efd15ce4dab28ef21588ffef8ca00550290bd1d
node:
Hi Raphael,
On Friday 12 September 2008 04:38, Raphael Geissert wrote:
As promised, attached is a patch in a mbox implementing that check.
I've only made it check executable scripts in /etc, as not to slow down
lintian even more for just one check.
Thats great, thank you!
Of course the
Hi Frank,
On Friday 12 September 2008 21:05, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:
Which doesn't change anything about the fact that it is whishlist for
lintian.
Sure :) (It's definitly wishlist for lintian.)
And I also (literally) wish lintian would support preventing issues which
where the reason for
Hi,
On Sonntag, 11. Januar 2009, Russ Allbery wrote:
I didn't see a reply to the above comment (although there was some other
further discussion about restructuring these patterns in Lintian). In the
absence of further information on this, I'm going to assume that Lintian's
current behavior
Hi Russ,
I agree for foo/../bar symlinks, but not for foo//bar symlinks, which are
those from kde which make up a huge portion of
http://lintian.debian.org/tags/symlink-has-double-slash.html
So please make foo/../bar symlinks minor issues and foo//bar a pedantic ones.
regards,
Holger
Hi,
#498590 was the cause for this bug, #64071, and #498590 was closed in
September 2009, rather at the beginning of the squeeze release cycle. So I'm
closing this bug now, as probably all packages exposing this bug have been
rebuild using a newer menu version since then. Also, there is a
package: lintian
severity: wishlist
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Hi,
On Donnerstag, 6. Februar 2014, Thomas Goirand wrote:
BTW, Debian has a way too many LSB header scripts with Required-Start:
$all, which is very bad. A decent init
Hi Niels,
On Donnerstag, 13. März 2014, Niels Thykier wrote:
I have tried to create a Jenkins job configuration for continuously
checking the Lintian test suite in the master branch. I based it on the
ruby-qa jobs and I would like it to run in at least sid and stable
(testing is a nice
package: lintian
severity: wishlist
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Hi,
it would be great if lintian could recognize squeeze-lts as a valid suite.
cheers,
Holger
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On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 09:03:07PM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote:
> If you need dependencies on tex4ht, please write them out.
why? we depend on packages which depend on packages…
> I have
Package: lintian
Severity: wishlist
Hi,
I reported on IRC and Niels asked me to file this bug and CC: Simon:
https://lintian.debian.org/tags/dbus-policy-at-console.html is not very
helpful in fixing the issue at hand, the referenced bug doesnt really
tell anything about how we should modify
Hi,
On Sat, Dec 16, 2017 at 04:50:37PM +, Simon McVittie wrote:
> Sending this specifically to you in case you missed it, since you weren't
> in Cc at the time:
thanks, I did indeed miss it, though Chris now made me aware, but then I
postponed looking into this… so you made me revisit this
On Sat, Dec 16, 2017 at 12:01:56PM +, Simon McVittie wrote:
> Yes - if I knew how to summarize it in a form short enough for a Lintian
> tag description, I would already have done so.
a link to a longer description would also do :)
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cheers,
Holger
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On Sat, Dec 16, 2017 at 10:21:40AM +, Chris Lamb wrote:
> [Adding Holger, the original submitter, to the CC - please see the last two
> messages for some more context]
> Wow, thank you so much for the detailed explanation!
indeed & thank you too for keeping me in the loop.
This is
On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 12:25:05PM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> I like the idea of pushing towards python3, but my impression of the
> near-term
> utility of this tag has changed. Specifically, I see people being confused
> about if python2.7 will be in buster (it will) and if it they
On Thu, May 03, 2018 at 05:48:36AM +0100, Chris Lamb wrote:
> However, instead of removing it I've marked the tag as
> "experimental" and with a "pedantic" severity, thus essentially
> hiding it from 99.999% of Lintian users (yet allowing us to continue
> to continue collect statistics and make
package: lintian
severity: wishlist
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On Wed, Jan 03, 2018 at 02:24:46PM +, Sean Whitton wrote:
[...lots of stuff I agree with deleted...]
> Lintian errors and warnings tell you, roughly, "watch out, your upload
> might/will make
On Wed, Jan 03, 2018 at 11:05:09PM +, Chris Lamb wrote:
> > > - ancient-standards-version should be triggered when S-V contains a
> > > release of Policy from the previous stable release cycle
> > This sounds good to me.
reading this once again I'm reminded that this feeds the notion that
package: lintian
severity: wishlist
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On Mon, Jan 01, 2018 at 05:26:35PM +, Sean Whitton wrote:
> I think that Lintian shouldn't warn about not using the latest
> Standards-Version; perhaps it should warn when you're using a really old
> one.
Same
package: lintian
severity: wishlist
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On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 06:33:20PM +0100, Chris Lamb wrote:
> For example, I think Holger is interpreting this particular tag as
> "this source package is shipping a Python 2.x" module. This is not
> the case.
>
>
On Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 04:08:09PM -0400, Chris Lamb wrote:
> Fixed in Git, pending upload:
>
> https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/commit/47b1aae3bc72229377aaebd7c197427f1b462292
cool, thank you.
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cheers,
Holger
Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.108
Severity: normal
affects: blends-dev
Dear Maintainer,
since very recently lintian emits the pedantic tag
'package-does-not-use-debhelper-or-cdbs' when testing the src:debian-edu
package, which build-depends on blends-dev, which depends on debhelper, which
is
On Sun, Oct 07, 2018 at 09:02:30PM +0100, Chris Lamb wrote:
> Fixed in Git, pending upload:
\o/
thank you!
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cheers,
Holger
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Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.105
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
subject says it all: please don't show changelog-empty-entry warning if
distribution is UNRELEASED.
Thanks for maintaining lintian!
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cheers,
Holger
Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.120
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
since recently and in pedantic mode only, lintian warns when using
debhelper-compat < 12, which I believe is a bit too early as
https://nthykier.wordpress.com/2019/01/04/debhelper-compat-12-is-now-released/
says "We generally
Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.118
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
gosa-plugin-pwreset (0.99.5-2) has "W: file-without-copyright-information"
for the files COPYING and COPYING.CC-BY-SA-3.0.
impressive-display (0.3.3-1) has "W: file-without-copyright-information"
for the file LICENSE.
Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.124
Severity: wishlist
Dear Maintainer,
so I uploaded
https://tracker.debian.org/news/1025869/accepted-anarchism-151-8-source-into-unstable/
and had this line in debian/control:
Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/anarchism.git.git
It would be nice if
Hi Chris,
On Sat, Aug 10, 2019 at 12:56:21PM +0100, Chris Lamb wrote:
> [Let me know if you would no longer like direct CCs for qa-jenkins-dev@ mails]
not being cc:ed would indeed be nice here.
> Please keep them for now; we have not totally replaced them Salsa jobs
> yet (see #930487 et al.)
hi,
do you still need/use the lintian related tests on jenkins.d.n or have
you already replaced them with Salsa / Debian CI?
I'd be happy to keep them (and extend them) if they are still useful!
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cheers,
Holger
package: lintian
severity: wishlist
version: 2.32.0
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On Fri, Nov 01, 2019 at 11:20:59AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > I think there is already a lintian warning:
> >
> >
On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 10:22:22AM +0100, Chris Lamb wrote:
> > definitly, yes, filing this bug now.
> As mentioned elsewhere, this was already fixed yesterday in fd8ee67d.
ah, cool! & thanks for the quick fix!
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cheers,
Holger
package: lintian
version: 2.67.0
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On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 09:56:24AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> today I've seen the first time this new lintian warning:
>
>
Package: lintian
Version: 2.82.0
Severity: wishlist
Dear Maintainer,
running lintian on developers-reference 11.0.12 from bullseye results in two
warnings:
W: developers-reference-ru: embedded-javascript-library
usr/share/developers-reference/ru/_static/jquery.js please use libjs-jquery
W:
On Mon, Jul 06, 2020 at 09:08:43PM -0700, Felix Lechner wrote:
> > not sure if this is the same bug or just a similar one:
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 user user 9 Jul 3 16:07 debian/munin.service -> /dev/null
> As for Holger's package, Lintian also flags that condition. Source
> packages can be unpacked
On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 03:52:08PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
> Holger, as I mentioned some days ago, I consider this case a
> regression which I was planning on fixing. This fix was already
> included earlier today in the dpkg 1.20.4 upload. :)
yup, I've seen this today. Thank you!
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Hi,
On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 12:24:53PM +0200, Alexis Murzeau wrote:
> I'm getting this new lintian warning for language_data.js,
> but I can't find which binary package I should depend on.
>
> "sphinx" (as suggested by lintian) is a virtual package provided by
> python3-sphinx
> which doesn't
Package: lintian
Version: 2.109.0
Severity: normal
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Dear Maintainer,
lintian fails to unpack the current strip-nondeterminism source package,
and thus also fails to properly check the package:
$ schroot -- lintian --info --pedantic
hi,
first: it's great that lintian is under active development again!
second: it's great that UDD now has up2date information from current lintian
runs!
(I've bcc:ed abe@d.o and lucas@d.o out of courtesy, so they see this but
won't get every reply cc:ed.)
Now my questions, as raised on
Hi,
I can confirm this issue for lintian 2.116.0 against src:piuparts
as it is in git or unstable.
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cheers,
Holger
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