Bug#878609: lintian: detection of xfonts- packages as section fonts

Package: lintian Severity: minor X-Debbugs-CC: pkg-fonts-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org Hi, Let me clarify changes in recent lintian. Now lintian detect xfonts-* package as fonts section package, not section x11. > W: xfonts-mplus: wrong-section-according-to-package-name xfonts-mplus => fonts

Re: [lintian] 01/01: Apply patch from Ville Skyttä <ville.sky...@iki.fi> to fix a number of spelling mistakes. (Closes: #878446)

On Fri, 2017-10-13 at 20:47 +, Chris Lamb wrote: > - An _Choices field must be translated as a single string. > + A _Choices field must be translated as a single string. I guess that depends on how one pronounces / spells out "_Choices". I'd be tempted to say "underscore choices", personally,

Bug#878575: lintian: Unreliable signal handling - causes left-over trash on lindsay.d.o

Niels Thykier: > Package: lintian > Version: 2.5.54 > Severity: normal > > Hi, > > Lintian is unreliable at handling signals. This causes it to fail to > clean up in some cases on lindsay.d.o (and other archive-wide runs). > > > [...] > > My /guess/ is that when lintian received the first

Bug#878575: lintian: Unreliable signal handling - causes left-over trash on lindsay.d.o

Package: lintian Version: 2.5.54 Severity: normal Hi, Lintian is unreliable at handling signals. This causes it to fail to clean up in some cases on lindsay.d.o (and other archive-wide runs). Example from the log file: """ [2017-10-14T03:34:39]: Updating harness state cache

Bug#878557: lintian: * matches too much?

Hi, On Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 05:41:12PM +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote: > see > https://lintian.debian.org/full/debian-openoff...@lists.debian.org.html#libreoffice_1_x3a5.4.2-3. > > Search for libreoffice-wiki-publisher. > > You'll see that all jar-in-usr-share tags are overriden. But the

Bug#878557: lintian: * matches too much?

Package: lintian Version: 2.5.55 Severity: minor Hi, see https://lintian.debian.org/full/debian-openoff...@lists.debian.org.html#libreoffice_1_x3a5.4.2-3. Search for libreoffice-wiki-publisher. You'll see that all jar-in-usr-share tags are overriden. But the override says: $ cat

[lintian] branch master updated (1a0e674 -> d0fc84f)

This is an automated email from the git hooks/post-receive script. nthykier pushed a change to branch master in repository lintian. from 1a0e674 t/scripts/pod-synopsis.t: Skip all if Test::Pod is not available. (Closes: #878522) new e1ade16 c/debhelper: The autotools-dev

Processed: limit source to lintian, tagging 871711

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[lintian] 02/02: c/debhelper: Avoid false-positive useless-autoreconf-build-depends

This is an automated email from the git hooks/post-receive script. nthykier pushed a commit to branch master in repository lintian. commit d0fc84fad2e7262c11bc8070c78c9d1fae8b6c8b Author: Niels Thykier Date: Sat Oct 14 12:51:07 2017 + c/debhelper: Avoid

[lintian] 01/02: c/debhelper: The autotools-dev debhelper commands are deprecated

This is an automated email from the git hooks/post-receive script. nthykier pushed a commit to branch master in repository lintian. commit e1ade164a923d529e760f056d47599df5bbf18fb Author: Niels Thykier Date: Sat Oct 14 12:44:22 2017 + c/debhelper: The autotools-dev

Bug#878522: lintian: [PATCH] Skip all POD synopsis tests if Test::Pod is not available

tags 878522 + pending thanks Again, fixed in Git… Again, many thanks! https://anonscm.debian.org/git/lintian/lintian.git/commit/?id=1a0e67452657bdba94a85fbf8fd74bdb3ed2f799 Regards, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` la...@debian.org / chris-lamb.co.uk `-

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[lintian] branch master updated (f34b8d0 -> 1a0e674)

This is an automated email from the git hooks/post-receive script. lamby pushed a change to branch master in repository lintian. from f34b8d0 Various link fixes and updates. (Closes: #878521) new 1a0e674 t/scripts/pod-synopsis.t: Skip all if Test::Pod is not available.

[lintian] 01/01: t/scripts/pod-synopsis.t: Skip all if Test::Pod is not available. (Closes: #878522)

This is an automated email from the git hooks/post-receive script. lamby pushed a commit to branch master in repository lintian. commit 1a0e67452657bdba94a85fbf8fd74bdb3ed2f799 Author: Ville Skyttä Date: Sat Oct 14 14:26:54 2017 +0300 t/scripts/pod-synopsis.t: Skip

Bug#878521: lintian: [PATCH] Various link fixes and updates

tags 878521 + pending thanks Applied in Git :) https://anonscm.debian.org/git/lintian/lintian.git/commit/?id=f34b8d07f9daff9b33ede8d1576b5b77e84ae709 Regards, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` la...@debian.org / chris-lamb.co.uk `-

Processed: Re: lintian: [PATCH] Various link fixes and updates

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[lintian] 01/01: Various link fixes and updates. (Closes: #878521)

This is an automated email from the git hooks/post-receive script. lamby pushed a commit to branch master in repository lintian. commit f34b8d07f9daff9b33ede8d1576b5b77e84ae709 Author: Ville Skyttä Date: Sat Oct 14 14:24:50 2017 +0300 Various link fixes and updates.

[lintian] branch master updated (9280981 -> f34b8d0)

This is an automated email from the git hooks/post-receive script. lamby pushed a change to branch master in repository lintian. from 9280981 Refresh manual references and pointers to them. (Closes: #878517) new f34b8d0 Various link fixes and updates. (Closes: #878521) The

Bug#878517: lintian: [PATCH] Manual reference fixups

tags 878517 + pending thanks Hi Ville, I've applied this in Git: https://anonscm.debian.org/git/lintian/lintian.git/log/?h=master Thank you again! :) Regards, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` la...@debian.org / chris-lamb.co.uk `-

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[lintian] 07/07: Refresh manual references and pointers to them. (Closes: #878517)

This is an automated email from the git hooks/post-receive script. lamby pushed a commit to branch master in repository lintian. commit 9280981b2ed9f4ec2e63e74b49b238277298ff2b Author: Ville Skyttä Date: Sat Oct 14 13:25:29 2017 +0300 Refresh manual references and

[lintian] 05/07: private/refresh-manual-refs: Don't trump earlier refs on section reuse

This is an automated email from the git hooks/post-receive script. lamby pushed a commit to branch master in repository lintian. commit 4a575321915a96298843ddbe00a56bd8d0db977a Author: Ville Skyttä Date: Sat Oct 14 11:35:12 2017 +0300 private/refresh-manual-refs:

[lintian] 01/07: private/refresh-manual-refs: Parse menu, perl, and python policy refs from index

This is an automated email from the git hooks/post-receive script. lamby pushed a commit to branch master in repository lintian. commit 92f1f9aec7b54d63b04395a795eb44dae3e38612 Author: Ville Skyttä Date: Fri Oct 13 22:49:12 2017 +0300 private/refresh-manual-refs:

[lintian] 02/07: private/refresh-manual-refs: Open std streams in utf-8 mode

This is an automated email from the git hooks/post-receive script. lamby pushed a commit to branch master in repository lintian. commit 24d15e497d4e87b8c91991f71fe2b811cdc2c91b Author: Ville Skyttä Date: Sat Oct 14 10:18:39 2017 +0300 private/refresh-manual-refs:

[lintian] 06/07: Add changelog entry for previous patches from Ville Skyttä <ville.sky...@iki.fi>.

This is an automated email from the git hooks/post-receive script. lamby pushed a commit to branch master in repository lintian. commit 23bf238befabd5f4f3af24b416116d3be6eb7bc7 Author: Chris Lamb Date: Sat Oct 14 07:35:07 2017 -0400 Add changelog entry for previous

[lintian] 04/07: private/refresh-manual-refs: Fix parsing of current Policy

This is an automated email from the git hooks/post-receive script. lamby pushed a commit to branch master in repository lintian. commit 359a63ec8baf6aeea8fba56522383688e49bf3e0 Author: Ville Skyttä Date: Sat Oct 14 11:32:32 2017 +0300 private/refresh-manual-refs: Fix

[lintian] 03/07: private/refresh-manual-refs: Exclude trailing vX.Y... from doc title

This is an automated email from the git hooks/post-receive script. lamby pushed a commit to branch master in repository lintian. commit d2e47a2d332c3812e0c7322a173dda305026fd4f Author: Ville Skyttä Date: Sat Oct 14 10:22:28 2017 +0300 private/refresh-manual-refs:

[lintian] branch master updated (79867d7 -> 9280981)

This is an automated email from the git hooks/post-receive script. lamby pushed a change to branch master in repository lintian. from 79867d7 Apply patch from Helmut Grohne to treat e2fsprogs as non-essential. (Closes: #878518) new 92f1f9a

Bug#878522: lintian: [PATCH] Skip all POD synopsis tests if Test::Pod is not available

Package: lintian Version: 2.5.55 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, Patch for skipping all POD synopsis tests when Test::Pod is not available is attached. -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers artful APT policy: (500, 'artful') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign

Bug#878518: lintian: treat e2fsprogs as non-essential

tags 878518 + pending thanks Fixed in Git: https://anonscm.debian.org/git/lintian/lintian.git/commit/?id=79867d761b09ffaf6f8c8f555bc99fa310f2961e Regards, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` la...@debian.org / chris-lamb.co.uk `-

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Bug#878521: lintian: [PATCH] Various link fixes and updates

Package: lintian Version: 2.5.55 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, Patch containing various link fixes and updates is attached. -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers artful APT policy: (500, 'artful') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel:

[lintian] branch master updated (709420f -> 79867d7)

This is an automated email from the git hooks/post-receive script. lamby pushed a change to branch master in repository lintian. from 709420f spelling: Add several corrections new 79867d7 Apply patch from Helmut Grohne to treat e2fsprogs as non-essential.

[lintian] 01/01: Apply patch from Helmut Grohne <hel...@subdivi.de> to treat e2fsprogs as non-essential. (Closes: #878518)

This is an automated email from the git hooks/post-receive script. lamby pushed a commit to branch master in repository lintian. commit 79867d761b09ffaf6f8c8f555bc99fa310f2961e Author: Chris Lamb Date: Sat Oct 14 07:25:43 2017 -0400 Apply patch from Helmut Grohne

Bug#878517: lintian: [PATCH] Manual reference fixups

Package: lintian Version: 2.5.55 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, Attached is a series of 'git am'able fixes related to manual references. After this, they should be correct and up to date again. (Aside, the previous patches I sent got applied, thanks for that, but somehow also with charset

Bug#878518: lintian: treat e2fsprogs as non-essential

Package: lintian Version: 2.5.55 Tags: patch User: helm...@debian.org Usertags: rebootstrap d-devel@l.d.o has discussed the removal of e2fsprogs from essential. The next step in doing so is allowing dependencies on e2fsprogs. Then we can MBF the remaining packages to add those dependencies. Thus

Bug#878515: lintian: Use of uninitialized value $parts[0] in string eq at …/checks/fields.pm line 512. / Use of uninitialized value $parts[-1] in string ne at …/checks/fields.pm lines 521 and 537.

Hi, a first analysis (might not be able to come up with a patch immediately, but likely later today): Axel Beckert wrote: > Use of uninitialized value $parts[0] in string eq at > /usr/share/lintian/checks/fields.pm line 512. Comes from the first one of these lines: } elsif

Bug#878515: lintian: Use of uninitialized value $parts[0] in string eq at …/checks/fields.pm line 512. / Use of uninitialized value $parts[-1] in string ne at …/checks/fields.pm lines 521 and 537.

Package: lintian Version: 2.5.55 Severity: normal Control: found -1 2.5.30+deb8u4 More less by accident (via gdebi) I checked a propietary .deb with lintian on the jessie-running laptop of a family member. And lintian threw these Perl warnings: On Jessie (2.5.30+deb8u4): Use of uninitialized

Processed: lintian: Use of uninitialized value $parts[0] in string eq at …/checks/fields.pm line 512. / Use of uninitialized value $parts[-1] in string ne at …/checks/fields.pm lines 521 and 537.

Processing control commands: > found -1 2.5.30+deb8u4 Bug #878515 [lintian] lintian: Use of uninitialized value $parts[0] in string eq at …/checks/fields.pm line 512. / Use of uninitialized value $parts[-1] in string ne at …/checks/fields.pm lines 521 and 537. Marked as found in versions

Bug#878477: linitian problem when using dh --with autotools-dev

Hi Niels, On Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 06:39:00AM +, Niels Thykier wrote: > Indeed; my recommendation for you would be to remove the "--with > autotools-dev" and rely on the dh_update_autotools_config helper. This > would avoid the warning from lintian and satisfy Policy as well. thanks for your

Bug#878477: linitian problem when using dh --with autotools-dev

On Sat, 14 Oct 2017 00:59:02 +0200 Gennaro Oliva wrote: > Package: lintian > Version: 2.5.55 > > Hi, Hi, > I'm trying to build the new version of my package (munge) and > I added "--with autotools-dev" to dh in order to comply with the > paragraph 4.3 of the policy