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 value $parts[0] in string eq at /usr/share/lintian/checks/fields.pm line 541. Use of uninitialized value $parts[-1] in string ne at /usr/share/lintian/checks/fields.pm line 550. And in the end gdebi told me: "Lintian finished with exit status 1f" On Sid (2.5.55) I was still able to reproduce at least very similar Perl warnings: Use of uninitialized value $parts[0] in string eq at /usr/share/lintian/checks/fields.pm line 512. Use of uninitialized value $parts[-1] in string ne at /usr/share/lintian/checks/fields.pm line 521. Use of uninitialized value $parts[-1] in string eq at /usr/share/lintian/checks/fields.pm line 537. Here, lintian exited with return code 1. I'm quite sure I can't share the .deb (as I suspect that it contains cryptographic keys), but I'll try to figure out the exact reason for the warnings and find a patch. (I.e. this bug report is primarily to document the findings as of now.) But the .deb is definitely a really bad example of how not to package stuff. Summary of emitted tag severities: 1 P: 8 I: 19 E: 31 W: Full list with stripped package and file names and Perl warnings in surrounding context (lintian 2.5.55): E: <packagename>: arch-independent-package-contains-binary-or-object usr/bin/<bin> I: <packagename>: spelling-error-in-binary usr/bin/<bin> occured occurred I: <packagename>: spelling-error-in-binary usr/bin/<bin> specifiy specify I: <packagename>: spelling-error-in-binary usr/bin/<bin> TRANSFERED TRANSFERRED I: <packagename>: spelling-error-in-binary usr/bin/<bin> perfom perform E: <packagename>: binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath usr/bin/<bin> /usr/local/lib/<only-part-of-the-package-name> E: <packagename>: embedded-library usr/bin/<bin>: curl E: <packagename>: arch-independent-package-contains-binary-or-object usr/lib/<only-part-of-the-package-name>/libavcodec.so.52 I: <packagename>: spelling-error-in-binary usr/lib/<only-part-of-the-package-name>/libavcodec.so.52 precission precision I: <packagename>: spelling-error-in-binary usr/lib/<only-part-of-the-package-name>/libavcodec.so.52 inofficial unofficial I: <packagename>: spelling-error-in-binary usr/lib/<only-part-of-the-package-name>/libavcodec.so.52 convertion conversion E: <packagename>: embedded-library usr/lib/<only-part-of-the-package-name>/libavcodec.so.52: libavcodec E: <packagename>: embedded-library usr/lib/<only-part-of-the-package-name>/libavcodec.so.52: libavutil E: <packagename>: arch-independent-package-contains-binary-or-object usr/lib/<only-part-of-the-package-name>/libavformat.so.52 E: <packagename>: arch-independent-package-contains-binary-or-object usr/lib/<only-part-of-the-package-name>/libavutil.so.49 W: <packagename>: missing-depends-line P: <packagename>: no-upstream-changelog E: <packagename>: debian-changelog-file-missing E: <packagename>: no-copyright-file E: <packagename>: description-too-short <bin> E: <packagename>: extended-description-is-empty Use of uninitialized value $parts[0] in string eq at /usr/share/lintian/checks/fields.pm line 512. Use of uninitialized value $parts[-1] in string ne at /usr/share/lintian/checks/fields.pm line 521. W: <packagename>: unknown-section Use of uninitialized value $parts[-1] in string eq at /usr/share/lintian/checks/fields.pm line 537. W: <packagename>: non-standard-dir-perm usr/ 0777 != 0755 W: <packagename>: non-standard-dir-perm usr/bin/ 0777 != 0755 W: <packagename>: non-standard-executable-perm usr/bin/<bin> 0777 != 0755 W: <packagename>: non-standard-dir-perm usr/lib/ 0777 != 0755 W: <packagename>: non-standard-dir-perm usr/lib/<only-part-of-the-package-name>/ 0777 != 0755 W: <packagename>: non-standard-executable-perm usr/lib/<only-part-of-the-package-name>/libavcodec.so 0777 != 0755 W: <packagename>: non-standard-executable-perm usr/lib/<only-part-of-the-package-name>/libavcodec.so.52 0777 != 0755 W: <packagename>: non-standard-executable-perm usr/lib/<only-part-of-the-package-name>/libavformat.so 0777 != 0755 W: <packagename>: non-standard-executable-perm usr/lib/<only-part-of-the-package-name>/libavformat.so.52 0777 != 0755 W: <packagename>: non-standard-executable-perm usr/lib/<only-part-of-the-package-name>/libavutil.so 0777 != 0755 W: <packagename>: non-standard-executable-perm usr/lib/<only-part-of-the-package-name>/libavutil.so.49 0777 != 0755 W: <packagename>: non-standard-dir-perm usr/share/ 0777 != 0755 W: <packagename>: non-standard-dir-perm usr/share/doc/ 0777 != 0755 W: <packagename>: non-standard-dir-perm usr/share/doc/<only-part-of-the-package-name>/ 0777 != 0755 E: <packagename>: executable-in-usr-share-doc usr/share/doc/<only-part-of-the-package-name>/changelog.Debian.gz 0777 W: <packagename>: non-standard-executable-perm usr/share/doc/<only-part-of-the-package-name>/changelog.Debian.gz 0777 != 0755 W: <packagename>: non-standard-dir-perm usr/share/locale/ 0777 != 0755 W: <packagename>: non-standard-dir-perm usr/share/locale/de/ 0777 != 0755 W: <packagename>: non-standard-dir-perm usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/ 0777 != 0755 W: <packagename>: non-standard-executable-perm usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/<lib>.mo 0777 != 0755 W: <packagename>: non-standard-executable-perm usr/share/locale/<locale-ish>_de.qm 0777 != 0755 W: <packagename>: non-standard-executable-perm usr/share/locale/<locale-ish>_en.qm 0777 != 0755 W: <packagename>: binary-without-manpage usr/bin/<bin> I: <packagename>: no-md5sums-control-file W: <packagename>: executable-not-elf-or-script usr/lib/<only-part-of-the-package-name>/libavcodec.so W: <packagename>: executable-not-elf-or-script usr/share/doc/<only-part-of-the-package-name>/changelog.Debian.gz W: <packagename>: executable-not-elf-or-script usr/share/locale/<locale-ish>_de.qm W: <packagename>: executable-not-elf-or-script usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/<lib>.mo W: <packagename>: executable-not-elf-or-script usr/share/locale/<locale-ish>_en.qm W: <packagename>: executable-not-elf-or-script usr/lib/<only-part-of-the-package-name>/libavutil.so W: <packagename>: executable-not-elf-or-script usr/lib/<only-part-of-the-package-name>/libavformat.so E: <packagename>: shlib-with-non-pic-code usr/lib/<only-part-of-the-package-name>/libavcodec.so.52 E: <packagename>: shlib-with-executable-bit usr/lib/<only-part-of-the-package-name>/libavcodec.so.52 0777 E: <packagename>: shlib-with-non-pic-code usr/lib/<only-part-of-the-package-name>/libavformat.so.52 E: <packagename>: shlib-with-executable-bit usr/lib/<only-part-of-the-package-name>/libavformat.so.52 0777 E: <packagename>: shlib-with-non-pic-code usr/lib/<only-part-of-the-package-name>/libavutil.so.49 E: <packagename>: shlib-with-executable-bit usr/lib/<only-part-of-the-package-name>/libavutil.so.49 0777 -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (600, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (110, 'experimental'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'buildd-experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.13.0-rc7-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.29.1-4 ii bzip2 1.0.6-8.1 ii diffstat 1.61-1+b1 ii dpkg 1.18.24 ii file 1:5.32-1 ii gettext 0.19.8.1-4 ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.4 ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.33 ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.59-1 ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1 ii libclone-perl 0.38-2+b2 ii libdigest-sha-perl 5.98-1 ii libdpkg-perl 1.18.24 ii libemail-valid-perl 1.202-1 ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.07-1 ii libipc-run-perl 0.96-1 ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.416-1+b3 ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-12 ii libperl5.26 [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.26.0-8 ii libtext-levenshtein-perl 0.13-1 ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-2 ii liburi-perl 1.72-2 ii libxml-simple-perl 2.24-1 ii libyaml-libyaml-perl 0.63-2+b2 ii man-db 2.7.6.1-2 ii patchutils 0.3.4-2 ii perl 5.26.0-8 ii t1utils 1.40-2 ii xz-utils 5.2.2-1.3 Versions of packages lintian recommends: ii libperlio-gzip-perl 0.19-1+b4 Versions of packages lintian suggests: ii binutils-multiarch 2.29.1-4 ii dpkg-dev 1.18.24 ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.72-3+b2 ii libtext-template-perl 1.47-1 -- no debconf information