Package: lintian Version: 2.12.0~bpo9+1 Severity: normal Hi,
While processing old packages, I noticed that lintian hangs on some of them when dpkg-source fails to extract them. Example, using: http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20130509T215232Z/pool/main/u/usbredir/usbredir_0.6-2.dsc $ lintian usbredir_0.6-2.dsc dpkg-source: error: expected ^--- in line 3 of diff '/tmp/temp-lintian-lab-vcUvBQH1iD/pool/u/usbredir/usbredir_0.6-2_source/unpacked/debian/patches/update-usbredirserver-whatis-entry.diff' internal error: dpkg-source -x failed with status 2 at /usr/share/perl5/Lintian/Util.pm line 1177. Lintian::Util::internal_error("dpkg-source -x failed with status ", 2) called at /usr/share/lintian/collection/unpacked line 74 Lintian::coll::unpacked::collect("usbredir", "source", "/tmp/temp-lintian-lab-vcUvBQH1iD/pool/u/usbredir/usbredir_0.6"...) called at /usr/share/perl5/Lintian/CollScript.pm line 242 Lintian::CollScript::collect(Lintian::CollScript=HASH(0x55d35d11c150), "usbredir", "source", "/tmp/temp-lintian-lab-vcUvBQH1iD/pool/u/usbredir/usbredir_0.6"...) called at /usr/share/perl5/Lintian/Unpacker.pm line 412 eval {...} called at /usr/share/perl5/Lintian/Unpacker.pm line 412 Lintian::Unpacker::__ANON__() called at /usr/share/perl5/IO/Async/Loop.pm line 1943 eval {...} called at /usr/share/perl5/IO/Async/Loop.pm line 1943 IO::Async::Loop::fork(IO::Async::Loop::Poll=HASH(0x55d35cb387b0), "code", CODE(0x55d35e922518), "on_exit", CODE(0x55d35e926f20)) called at /usr/share/perl5/Lintian/Unpacker.pm line 461 eval {...} called at /usr/share/perl5/Lintian/Unpacker.pm line 385 Lintian::Unpacker::__ANON__("unpacked-source:usbredir/0.6-2", Lintian::CollScript=HASH(0x55d35d11c150), Lintian::Lab::Entry=HASH(0x55d35c8280b0), Lintian::DepMap::Properties=HASH(0x55d35e8e05d8)) called at /usr/share/perl5/Lintian/Unpacker.pm line 476 Lintian::Unpacker::process_tasks(Lintian::Unpacker=HASH(0x55d35d1108d8), HASH(0x55d35c4e18b0)) called at /usr/share/lintian/commands/lintian.pm line 957 main::unpack_group("usbredir/0.6-2", Lintian::ProcessableGroup=HASH(0x55d35c827f48)) called at /usr/share/lintian/commands/lintian.pm line 730 main::__ANON__() called at /usr/share/lintian/commands/lintian.pm line 1658 main::timed_task(CODE(0x55d35e9003b0)) called at /usr/share/lintian/commands/lintian.pm line 733 main::__ANON__() called at /usr/share/lintian/commands/lintian.pm line 1658 main::timed_task(CODE(0x55d35e8f3fe8)) called at /usr/share/lintian/commands/lintian.pm line 762 main::main() called at /usr/bin/lintian line 46 eval {...} called at /usr/bin/lintian line 46 main::__ANON__("/usr/share/lintian/commands/lintian.pm") called at /usr/bin/lintian line 114 dplint::run_tool("/usr/bin/lintian", "lintian") called at /usr/bin/lintian line 290 dplint::main() called at /usr/bin/lintian line 359 warning: collect info unpacked about package usbredir failed (512) warning: skipping check of source package usbredir I would expect lintian to exit with an error instead. A list of packages for which it hang: acpica-unix_20140424-1 cb2bib_1.4.4-3 cnews_cr.g7-37 cnews_cr.g7-38 cnews_cr.g7-39 cnews_cr.g7-40 cnews_cr.g7-40.1 cnews_cr.g7-40.2 cnews_cr.g7-40.4 dwm_6.0-3 dwm_6.0-5 dynare_4.2.1-2 flite_1.4-release-8 foremost_1.5.7-4 fslint_2.16-1 getfem++_4.1.1-10 getfem++_4.1.1-9 getfem++_4.1.1+dfsg1-11 getfem++_4.2+dfsg1-1 grpn_1.1.2-3.1 herculesstudio_1.3.0-2 hfsutils_3.2.6-12 icedove_3.0.11-2 katoob_0.5.9.1-3 katoob_0.5.9.1-4 katoob_0.5.9.1-4.1 kvpm_0.8.6-2 kvpm_0.8.6-3 lazarus_1.2~rc2+dfsg-1 lldpad_0.9.43+git20111215.c0498b-1 lldpad_0.9.44-1 lldpad_0.9.46-1 lldpad_0.9.46-2 lurker_2.3-4 lurker_2.3-4.1 lutefisk_1.0.7+dfsg-1 moodle_1.9.9.dfsg2-4 moodle_1.9.9.dfsg2-5 ncmpcpp_0.5.5-1 nsnake_1.5-1 ompl_0.13.0+git20130920.01d0ca4-1 ompl_0.14.1-1 opencryptoki_2.3.1+dfsg-1 openms_1.9.0-4 openms_1.9.0-4.1 openoffice-python_1:0.1+20110129-1 piwigo_2.3.1-1 puppet_2.7.17-1 python-virtualenv_1.7-1 python-webob_1.2.3-4 qemu_1.7.0+dfsg-5 ruby-saml_1.0.0-1 ruby-saml_1.1.2-1 ruby-saml_1.3.0-1 ruby-saml_1.4.1-1 ruby-saml_1.7.2-1 rust-roxmltree_0.4.1-2 samba_2:3.6.16-1 samba_2:3.6.6-2 samba_2:3.6.6-3 samba_2:3.6.6-5 spice_0.12.4-0nocelt1 spice_0.12.4-0nocelt2 spice-vdagent_0.14.0-1 spice-vdagent_0.15.0-1 tac-plus_F4.0.4.alpha-12 tac-plus_F4.0.4.alpha-12.1 u-boot_2014.04+dfsg1-1 u-boot_2014.07+dfsg1-2 u-boot_2014.10+dfsg1-2.1 usbredir_0.4.3-2 usbredir_0.6-2 widelands_build10-1 widelands_build9-6 widelands_build9-7 widelands_build9half-1 widelands_build9half-10 widelands_build9half-9 - Lucas -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.8 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable'), (400, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: armhf Kernel: Linux 4.18.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_DK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US: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 2.28-5 ii bzip2 1.0.6-8.1 ii diffstat 1.61-1+b1 ii dpkg 1.18.25 ii dpkg-dev 1.18.25 ii file 1:5.30-1+deb9u2 ii gettext 0.19.8.1-2 ii gnupg [gpg] 2.1.18-8~deb9u4 ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.4 ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.32 ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.59-1+deb9u1 ii libcapture-tiny-perl 0.44-1 ii libcgi-pm-perl 4.35-1 ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1 ii libclone-perl 0.38-2+b1 ii libdpkg-perl 1.18.25 ii libemail-valid-perl 1.202-1 ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.07-1 ii libio-async-perl 0.71-1 ii libipc-run-perl 0.94-1+deb9u1 ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.416-1+b1 ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-12 ii libpath-tiny-perl 0.100-1 ii libperl5.24 [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.24.1-3+deb9u5 ii libtext-levenshtein-perl 0.13-1 ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-2 ii libtry-tiny-perl 0.28-1 ii liburi-perl 1.71-1 ii libxml-simple-perl 2.22-1 ii libyaml-libyaml-perl 0.63-2 ii man-db 2.7.6.1-2 ii patchutils 0.3.4-2 ii perl 5.24.1-3+deb9u5 ii t1utils 1.39-2 ii xz-utils 5.2.2-1.2+b1 Versions of packages lintian recommends: ii libperlio-gzip-perl 0.19-1+b2 Versions of packages lintian suggests: pn binutils-multiarch <none> ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.72-3 ii libtext-template-perl 1.46-1 -- no debconf information