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commit 8e5b05587f58c757cfe88cb095ca77805c181c66 Author: Chris Lamb <la...@debian.org> Date: Tue Oct 24 23:12:06 2017 -0400 Emit new empty-section-field tag instead of uninitialized value warnings on an empty "Section:" field. (Closes: #878515) --- checks/fields.desc | 6 ++++++ checks/fields.pm | 4 +++- debian/changelog | 2 ++ t/debs/fields-general-bad/control | 2 +- 4 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/checks/fields.desc b/checks/fields.desc index 2ada4c0..da6cfc6 100644 --- a/checks/fields.desc +++ b/checks/fields.desc @@ -1331,3 +1331,9 @@ Info: Since Debian Policy version 4.0.1, the priority <tt>extra</tt> Please update <tt>debian/control</tt> and replace all instances of <tt>Priority: extra</tt> with <tt>Priority: optional</tt>. Ref: policy 2.5 + +Tag: empty-section-field +Severity: normal +Certainty: certain +Info: The "Section:" field in this package's control file is empty. +Ref: policy 2.4 diff --git a/checks/fields.pm b/checks/fields.pm index 3a5de15..9dbeb2e 100644 --- a/checks/fields.pm +++ b/checks/fields.pm @@ -520,13 +520,15 @@ sub run { tag 'wrong-section-for-udeb', $section; } } else { - my @parts = split(m{/}, $section, 2); + my @parts = split(m{/}, $section, 2) || (''); if (scalar @parts > 1) { tag 'unknown-section', $section unless $KNOWN_ARCHIVE_PARTS{$parts[0]}; tag 'unknown-section', $section unless $KNOWN_SECTIONS->known($parts[1]); + } elsif ($parts[0] eq '') { + tag 'empty-section-field'; } elsif ($parts[0] eq 'unknown') { tag 'section-is-dh_make-template'; } else { diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index 2d64e4d..e5d9b00 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -30,6 +30,8 @@ lintian (2.5.56) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium * checks/fields.pm: + [CL] Apply patch from Nicolas Boulenguez to accept and recommend the new vcs-mtn mtn:// uri format. (Closes: #878798) + + [CL] Emit new empty-section-field tag instead of uninitialized value + warnings on an empty "Section:" field. (Closes: #878515) * checks/init.d.pm: + [CL] Check for files that use content from the /etc/init.d/skeleton template. Thanks to Christoph Biedl for the idea. (Closes: #879152) diff --git a/t/debs/fields-general-bad/control b/t/debs/fields-general-bad/control index a23dd29..4fbd0ee 100644 --- a/t/debs/fields-general-bad/control +++ b/t/debs/fields-general-bad/control @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Source: fields-general-bad Version: 1.0? Architecture: weird i386 amd64 Maintainer: Debian Lintian Maintainers <lintian-ma...@debian.org> -Section: devel +Section: Priority: is weird Unknown-Field: Hallo World -- Alioth's /usr/local/bin/git-commit-notice on /srv/git.debian.org/git/lintian/lintian.git