Package: lintian Version: 2.12.0 Severity: normal Hello, on last Monday (April, the 22nd) I rebuilt my package (apt-listbugs) inside a pbuilder-managed sid chroot environment and checked the result with lintian/2.12.0 (that was the version available from sid on that day: however, it seems to me that nothing relevant has changed in version 2.13.0).
I got a new complaint from "lintian -EviIL +pedantic" : missing-systemd-timer-for-cron-script Well, nothing to say, that's true: apt-listbugs currently lacks any systemd timer, but ships a cron.daily script. Hence, I began doing some research on the proper way to ship a systemd timer along with an equivalent cron script (while avoiding conflicts between the two). I looked for examples in other packages which seem to have already done this. I think two examples could be man-db and logrotate, is that correct? $ dpkg -L man-db | grep 'cron\|systemd\/system\/[^\/]\+\.timer' /etc/cron.daily /etc/cron.daily/man-db /etc/cron.weekly /etc/cron.weekly/man-db /lib/systemd/system/man-db.timer $ dpkg -L logrotate | grep 'cron\|systemd\/system\/[^\/]\+\.timer' /etc/cron.daily /etc/cron.daily/logrotate /lib/systemd/system/logrotate.timer I even looked inside these files, and it seems to me that the systemd timer is really equivalent to the cron script (in both cases). But, to my great surprise, I see that lintian [complains] [about] those two packages, as well! [complains]: <https://lintian.debian.org/full/cjwat...@debian.org.html#man-db_2.8.5-2> [about]: <https://lintian.debian.org/full/cgzo...@googlemail.com.html#logrotate_3.14.0-4> Are these false positives? I took a look at the [code] that implements the check. [code]: <https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/blob/master/checks/systemd.pm> I have a question: is the following line return if any { m,^/lib/systemd/system/\.timer$, } $info->sorted_index; missing something in the regexp? Should it be return if any { m,^/lib/systemd/system/[^\/]+\.timer$, } $info->sorted_index; or anyway something able to catch some characters between "system/" and ".timer" ? I am not sure this is the cause of the false positives, though. Of course, I can well be completely off-track, so please bear with me! Please clarify. Thanks for your time! -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (800, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.31.1-16 ii bzip2 1.0.6-9 ii diffstat 1.62-1 ii dpkg 1.19.6 ii dpkg-dev 1.19.6 ii file 1:5.35-4 ii gettext 0.19.8.1-9 ii gpg 2.2.12-1 ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.5 ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.34+b1 ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.64-1 ii libcapture-tiny-perl 0.48-1 ii libcgi-pm-perl 4.40-1 ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.51-1 ii libclone-perl 0.41-1+b1 pn libdigest-sha-perl <none> ii libdpkg-perl 1.19.6 ii libemail-valid-perl 1.202-1 ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.08-1 ii libio-async-perl 0.72-1 ii libipc-run-perl 20180523.0-1 ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.416-1+b4 ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-13 ii libpath-tiny-perl 0.108-1 ii libtext-levenshtein-perl 0.13-1 ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-2 ii libtry-tiny-perl 0.30-1 ii liburi-perl 1.76-1 ii libxml-simple-perl 2.25-1 ii libyaml-libyaml-perl 0.76+repack-1 ii man-db 2.8.5-2 ii patchutils 0.3.4-2 ii perl 5.28.1-6 ii t1utils 1.41-3 ii xz-utils 5.2.4-1 Versions of packages lintian recommends: ii libperlio-gzip-perl 0.19-1+b5 Versions of packages lintian suggests: pn binutils-multiarch <none> ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.72-3+b3 ii libtext-template-perl 1.55-1 -- no debconf information
