Package: lsb-rpm Version: 4.4.1-14.1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable
Packages created by lsb-rpm don't pass the checks that the lsbpkgchk program (from the lsb-pkgchk3 package, or directly from LSB website, http://ftp.freestandards.org/pub/lsb/test_suites/released-3.1.0/binary/application/lsb-pkgchk-3.1.1-1.i486.rpm) does. Additionally, according to some anonymous pretending to be Jeff Johnson on the linux.org.ru site, (http://www.linux.org.ru/jump-message.jsp?msgid=2391597&cid=2394613) "The LSB format is not used by any version of rpm since rpm-3.0.5 and LSB packages cannot be produced by any version of rpm currently used in Linux." (http://www.linux.org.ru/jump-message.jsp?msgid=2391597&cid=2394781) "unmodified rpm-4.4.2.1 cannot produce LSB "standard" packages" (and debian doesn't apply patches that affect the output format) I don't know whether the comments above come actually from Jeff Johnson and whether they are true, but the "lsbpkgchk" messages do have the ultimate authority. Testcase: try bulding something simple, like Bison. First, edit the /usr/lib/rpm/rpmrc file so that the "buildarchtranslate" statements point to i486 (as mandated by LSB) instead of i386. Second, put bison-2.3.tar.bz2 (from GNU) to /usr/src/rpm/SOURCES/ and create the following spec file (save as bison.spec): ----- 8< ----- Summary: Generates parsers Name: bison Version: 2.3 Release: 1 Group: Base License: GPL Distribution: LeafOS Vendor: LeafOS Packager: LeafOS URL: http://www.gnu.org/software/bison/ Source0: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bison/bison-%{version}.tar.bz2 BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-root Requires: lsb = 3.1, lsb-core-ia32 >= 3.0 %description Bison generates, from a series of rules, a program for analyzing the structure of text files; Bison is a replacement for Yacc (Yet Another Compiler Compiler) %prep %setup -q %build %configure CC=lsbcc3 CXX=lsbc++3 echo '#define YYENABLE_NLS 1' >> config.h make %install rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT make DESTDIR=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT install rm -f $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/share/info/dir %preun install-info --delete %{_infodir}/bison.info.gz %{_infodir}/dir %post install-info %{_infodir}/bison.info.gz %{_infodir}/dir %files %defattr(-,root,root) /* %doc AUTHORS COPYING ChangeLog NEWS README THANKS TODO %clean rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT ----- 8< ----- Finally, run these commands: lsb-rpm -bb bison.spec lsbpkgchk /usr/src/rpm/RPMS/i486/bison-2.3-1.i486.rpm and see the following errors: Error: checkRpmIdx() unexpected Index tag=1140 type=4 offset=d00 count=21 Error: checkRpmIdx() unexpected Index tag=1141 type=4 offset=d84 count=21 Error: checkRpmIdx() unexpected Index tag=1142 type=8 offset=e08 count=7 Error: checkRpmIdx() unexpected Index tag=1143 type=4 offset=eec count=21 Error: checkRpmIdx() unexpected Index tag=1144 type=4 offset=f70 count=21 Error: checkRpmIdx() unexpected Index tag=1145 type=4 offset=ff4 count=1 Error: checkRpmIdx() unexpected Index tag=1147 type=8 offset=ff8 count=21 Since the only purpose of lsb-rpm is to produce LSB-compliant packages and it fails to do this, I am reporting a grave bug. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages lsb-rpm depends on: ii rpm 4.4.1-14.1 Red Hat package manager lsb-rpm recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
