Package: devscripts Version: 2.16.11 Severity: important Since debuild now relies on dpkg-buildpackage's hook to run lintian, a failing lintian fails the whole build process. This was not the case before 2.16.9. So this is either a regression or a annoying new feature.
When I work on Kali packages, I almost always get a lintian error because lintian doesn't know of the suite or because my name does not appear in the maintainer field. I want to be informed of the errors but I don't want the whole build process to be stopped... I want "gbp buildpackage" to create my tag and I want debuild to sign my package. If you consider this a new feature, then I ask you to document how to configure debuild to not fail on lintian failures (possibly adding a new option to ignore the result of the check-command). If you consider this a regression, then the default check hook should have some "|| true" added at the end or something like that (or you can also add a new option to ignore the result and have its default to true instead of false). Thank you! -- Package-specific info: --- /etc/devscripts.conf --- --- ~/.devscripts --- DEBRELEASE_UPLOADER=dput DEBRELEASE_DEBS_DIR=../build-area DEBCHANGE_RELEASE_HEURISTIC=changelog DEBCHANGE_MULTIMAINT_MERGE=yes DEBCHANGE_PRESERVE=yes DEBUILD_LINTIAN_OPTS="--color always -I" DEBSIGN_KEYID=0xF2AC729A DEBSIGN_PROGRAM=gpg2 DEBCHANGE_AUTO_NMU=no -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.8.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages devscripts depends on: ii dpkg-dev 1.18.15 ii libc6 2.24-8 ii perl 5.24.1~rc4-1 pn python3:any <none> Versions of packages devscripts recommends: ii apt 1.4~beta1 ii at 3.1.20-1 ii curl 7.51.0-1 ii dctrl-tools 2.24-2 ii debian-keyring 2016.09.04 ii dput 0.11.0 ii equivs 2.0.9+nmu1 ii fakeroot 1.21-3 ii file 1:5.29-1 ii gnupg 2.1.16-2 ii gnupg2 2.1.16-2 ii libdistro-info-perl 0.14 ii libencode-locale-perl 1.05-1 ii liblwp-protocol-https-perl 6.06-2 ii libsoap-lite-perl 1.20-1 ii liburi-perl 1.71-1 ii libwww-perl 6.15-1 ii licensecheck 3.0.28-1 ii lintian 2.5.49 ii man-db 2.7.5-2 ii patch 2.7.5-1 ii patchutils 0.3.4-2 ii python3-debian 0.1.29 ii python3-magic 1:5.29-1 ii sensible-utils 0.0.9 ii strace 4.13-0.1 ii unzip 6.0-20 ii wdiff 1.2.2-1+b1 ii wget 1.18-4 ii xz-utils 5.2.2-1.2 Versions of packages devscripts suggests: ii adequate 0.15.1 ii autopkgtest 4.2.2 pn bls-standalone <none> pn bsd-mailx | mailx <none> ii build-essential 12.2 pn check-all-the-things <none> pn cvs-buildpackage <none> pn devscripts-el <none> pn diffoscope <none> pn disorderfs <none> pn dose-extra <none> pn duck <none> pn faketime <none> pn gnuplot <none> ii gpgv 2.1.16-2 pn how-can-i-help <none> ii libauthen-sasl-perl 2.1600-1 ii libfile-desktopentry-perl 0.22-1 pn libnet-smtps-perl <none> pn libterm-size-perl <none> ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-2 pn libyaml-syck-perl <none> pn mozilla-devscripts <none> ii mutt 1.7.1-5 ii openssh-client [ssh-client] 1:7.3p1-5 ii piuparts 0.72 pn ratt <none> pn reprotest <none> ii svn-buildpackage 0.8.6 ii w3m 0.5.3-33 -- no debconf information