Package: lintian Version: 2.5.56 Severity: normal Tags: patch lintian reports that libcanberra-gstreamer has "wrong-section-according-to-package-name libcanberra-gstreamer => interpreters". This appears to be because it matches ^lib.*-gst which is thought to be a GNU Smalltalk binding.
I think the regex should be anchored to the end (add $), since TCL, Lua and GNU Smalltalk libraries seem to follow the same naming pattern as Perl. Untested patch which I hope will DTRT: diff --git a/data/fields/name_section_mappings b/data/fields/name_section_mappings index 12e9bb89b..1fdc1cfd7 100644 --- a/data/fields/name_section_mappings +++ b/data/fields/name_section_mappings @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ lib.*-cil(?:-dev)?$ => cli-mono ^rust- => rust ^lib.*-(?:ocaml|camlp4)-dev$ => ocaml ^libjs- => javascript -^lib.*-(tcl|lua|gst) => interpreters +^lib.*-(tcl|lua|gst)$ => interpreters # data files ^gir\d+\.\d+-.*-\d+\.\d+$ => introspection ^(?:x?fonts|ttf)- => fonts Regards, smcv -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'buildd-experimental'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.13.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.29.1-6 ii bzip2 1.0.6-8.1 ii diffstat 1.61-1+b1 ii dpkg 1.19.0.4 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 0.51-1 ii libclone-perl 0.38-2+b2 ii libdpkg-perl 1.19.0.4 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] 5.26.1-2 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 5.26.1-2 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 2.29.1-6 ii dpkg-dev 1.19.0.4 ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.72-3+b2 ii libtext-template-perl 1.47-1 -- no debconf information