Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.74
Severity: minor
I’m fairly sure the code around lines 56-62 of
/usr/share/lintian/collection/override-file
does NOT prefer the first (cf. line 44ff.)
but the last override file found.
I think there’s a break missing in lines 58 and 60.
(Or, well, the Perl equivalent; I don’t speak Perl.)
It’s also a bit unfortunate that, if I have both
(one being a symlink to the other), I still have¹
to override that the old location is used. I prefer
my packages backportable with ease, which is why
I’m a tad annoyed at such incompatible changes,
but also (not scope of this bugreport) having to
jump to the latest debhelper version when 5 is
enough for me.
① live example: git clone \
https://evolvis.org/anonscm/git/alioth/jupp.git
(dump http transport, so may take a minute)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers unreleased
APT policy: (500, 'unreleased'), (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: x32 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386, amd64
Kernel: Linux 4.14.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/lksh
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.30-4
ii bzip2 1.0.6-8.1
ii diffstat 1.61-1
ii dpkg 1.19.0.5
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 1.60-1
ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.51-1
ii libclone-perl 0.39-1
ii libdigest-sha-perl 6.01-1
ii libdpkg-perl 1.19.0.5
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] 5.26.1-4+b1
ii libtext-levenshtein-perl 0.13-1
ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-2
ii liburi-perl 1.73-1
ii libxml-simple-perl 2.24-1
ii libyaml-libyaml-perl 0.69+repack-1
ii man-db 2.8.1-1
ii patchutils 0.3.4-2
ii perl 5.26.1-4+b1
ii t1utils 1.41-2
ii xz-utils 5.2.2-1.3
Versions of packages lintian recommends:
pn libperlio-gzip-perl <none>
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn binutils-multiarch <none>
ii dpkg-dev 1.19.0.5
ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.72-3+b2
pn libtext-template-perl <none>
-- no debconf information
