Package: lintian Version: 2.5.49 Severity: wishlist User: de...@kali.org Usertags: origin-kali
I would love if lintian could stop emitting unwanted errors/warnings in Kali Linux. In particular now that debuild fails when lintian fails (see #847168). At the very least, I want to get rid of the "bad-distribution-in-changes-file" error that I always get. The allowed distribution values are: - kali-dev - kali-rolling - kali-experimental - kali-bleeding-edge Then Kali does not have the concept of maintainer and NMU. We frequently do one-off upload and do not update the Maintainer/Uploaders fields which tends to trigger those warnings too: - changelog-should-mention-nmu - source-nmu-has-incorrect-version-number Can we disable those too? You can obviously rely on vendor data but it would be nice if the presence of the "kali" string in the version would also trigger the special rules above since I often build Kali source packages in a Debian environment. This would cover forked packages but not native packages. Is there a way to mark a source package as being targeted for a specific distribution? I guess you could map back a known distribution name in debian/changelog to a vendor... FYI in a Kali system/chroot you have this: $ cat /etc/dpkg/origins/default Vendor: Kali Vendor-URL: http://www.kali.org/ Parent: debian Bugs: http://bugs.kali.org $ cat /etc/os-release PRETTY_NAME="Kali GNU/Linux Rolling" NAME="Kali GNU/Linux" ID=kali VERSION="2016.2" VERSION_ID="2016.2" ID_LIKE=debian ANSI_COLOR="1;31" HOME_URL="http://www.kali.org/"; SUPPORT_URL="http://forums.kali.org/"; BUG_REPORT_URL="http://bugs.kali.org/"; Thank you! -- 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 lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.27.51.20161201-1 ii bzip2 1.0.6-8 ii diffstat 1.61-1 ii file 1:5.29-1 ii gettext 0.19.8.1-1 ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.4 ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.30 ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.59-1 ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1 ii libclone-perl 0.38-2+b1 ii libdpkg-perl 1.18.15 ii libemail-valid-perl 1.202-1 ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.07-1 ii libipc-run-perl 0.94-1 ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.416-1+b1 ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-11 ii libperl5.24 [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.24.1~rc4-1 ii libtext-levenshtein-perl 0.13-1 ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-2 ii liburi-perl 1.71-1 ii libyaml-libyaml-perl 0.63-1+b1 ii man-db 2.7.5-2 ii patchutils 0.3.4-2 ii perl 5.24.1~rc4-1 ii t1utils 1.39-2 ii xz-utils 5.2.2-1.2 Versions of packages lintian recommends: ii dpkg 1.18.15 ii libperlio-gzip-perl 0.19-1+b2 ii perl 5.24.1~rc4-1 ii perl-modules-5.22 [libautodie-perl] 5.22.2-5 ii perl-modules-5.24 [libautodie-perl] 5.24.1~rc4-1 Versions of packages lintian suggests: pn binutils-multiarch <none> ii dpkg-dev 1.18.15 ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.72-3 ii libtext-template-perl 1.46-1 -- no debconf information
