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 signal, the signal > handler then disabled itself and threw a "Interrupted" error. > Something then catches the error and flags the check / package as > "uncheckable" but continues on. When the second signal arrived, the > default signal handler terminated with lintian not cleaning up after > itself. > > > Thanks, > ~Niels >
Further log entries that suggests lintian did catch the signal and "demoted it" to a warning: """ N: ---- N: Processing binary package libghc-integer-logarithms-doc (version 1.0.2-1, arch all) ... C: libghc-integer-logarithms-doc binary (1.0.2-1) [all]: no-ctrl-scripts N: Interrupted. at /srv/lintian.debian.org/lintian/checks/deb-format.pm line 182. internal error: cannot run deb-format check on package binary:libghc-integer-logarithms-doc/1.0.2-1/all warning: skipping check of binary:libghc-integer-logarithms-doc/1.0.2-1/all N: ---- """ Thanks, ~Niels