Bug#890873: lintian: gcc-8-cross-ports makes lintian fork-bomb, consume all memory and fill the disk

[Olly Betts]

On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 07:48:31AM +0100, Niels Thykier wrote:
> Seen twice on lindsay.d.o in the last 24 hours.  The exact reason is
> unknown, but it is probably during the unpacker (last non-error in the
> log is lintian starting the unpack, plus previously we had a race-condition
> in the unpacker that could trigger a similar fork-bomp situation).
> 
> Most likely we never fixed this condition and only made it
> "sufficiently unlikely" until gcc-8-cross-ports showed up.
> 
> For now, I have disabled the crontab on lindsay.d.o to avoid it taking
> down our host.

I tried to build the wxwidgets3.0 3.0.4+dfsg-1 in an unstable chroot a
couple of days ago.  I use sbuild and it's configured to run lintian in
the chroot on the built packages.  However lintian ran out of disk space
in the chroot, which isn't something I have hit before.  And I would
expect the build itself to need more disk space than lintian (assuming
that the debian/rules clean target is run before lintian is).  Lintian
appeared to be slowly failing on each binary package in turn, so I just
hit Ctrl-C on it.

I asked on #debian-devel in case this was a known problem, and lamby
pointed out this ticket and suggested adding a note in case this is the
same underlying issue, so I'm doing so.  I didn't attempt to investigate
further yet.

Cheers,
Olly

Processed: Re: lintian: Wrong URL in debian-control-has-obsolete-dbg-package

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Bug#893480: lintian: Wrong URL in debian-control-has-obsolete-dbg-package

[Chris Lamb]

tags 893480 + pending
thanks

Thanks Antonio - well spotted. Fixed in Git, pending upload:

  
https://anonscm.debian.org/git/lintian/lintian.git/commit/?id=ad2657c8316e4a546f9d4ca0d4d89bc0371964a5


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[lintian] branch master updated (5e6da7e -> ad2657c)

[Chris Lamb]

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lamby pushed a change to branch master
in repository lintian.

  from  5e6da7e   spelling: Add another correction
   new  ad2657c   Correct location of "AutomaticDebugPackages" wiki page in 
the description of the debian-control-has-obsolete-dbg-package tag. (Closes: 
#893480)

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Summary of changes:
 checks/control-file.desc | 2 +-
 debian/changelog | 5 +
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

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[lintian] 01/01: Correct location of "AutomaticDebugPackages" wiki page in the description of the debian-control-has-obsolete-dbg-package tag. (Closes: #893480)

[Chris Lamb]

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commit ad2657c8316e4a546f9d4ca0d4d89bc0371964a5
Author: Chris Lamb 
Date:   Mon Mar 19 09:36:47 2018 -0400

Correct location of "AutomaticDebugPackages" wiki page in the description 
of the debian-control-has-obsolete-dbg-package tag. (Closes: #893480)
---
 checks/control-file.desc | 2 +-
 debian/changelog | 5 +
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/checks/control-file.desc b/checks/control-file.desc
index 18b3d8c..ce13d48 100644
--- a/checks/control-file.desc
+++ b/checks/control-file.desc
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ Info: The debian/control file includes declaration of
 Tag: debian-control-has-obsolete-dbg-package
 Severity: wishlist
 Certainty: possible
-Ref: https://wiki.debian.org/AutomaticDebugPackage
+Ref: https://wiki.debian.org/AutomaticDebugPackages
 Info: The debian/control file includes declaration of
  -dbg package.
  .
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 1dbeb6a..378a759 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -2,6 +2,11 @@ lintian (2.5.81) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
 
   XXX: generate tag summary
 
+  * checks/control-file.desc:
++ [CL] Correct location of "AutomaticDebugPackages" wiki page in the
+  description of the debian-control-has-obsolete-dbg-package tag.
+  Thanks to Antonio Ospite for the report.  (Closes: #893480)
+
  -- Chris Lamb   Sun, 18 Mar 2018 22:55:23 -0400
 
 lintian (2.5.80) unstable; urgency=medium

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[lintian] branch master updated (cfac8a8 -> 5e6da7e)

[Paul Wise]

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  from  cfac8a8   Open new changelog entry for 2.5.81.
   new  5e6da7e   spelling: Add another correction

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Summary of changes:
 data/spelling/corrections | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

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[lintian] 01/01: spelling: Add another correction

[Paul Wise]

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pabs pushed a commit to branch master
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commit 5e6da7ea8b2ea0c7ca8c5d63862487c753969e4c
Author: Paul Wise 
Date:   Mon Mar 19 21:05:13 2018 +0800

spelling: Add another correction
---
 data/spelling/corrections | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/data/spelling/corrections b/data/spelling/corrections
index 499af35..e635c39 100644
--- a/data/spelling/corrections
+++ b/data/spelling/corrections
@@ -3044,6 +3044,7 @@ programing||programming
 programm||program
 programms||programs
 progresss||progress
+progrmae||program
 promiscous||promiscuous
 promps||prompts
 promt||prompt

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Bug#893480: lintian: Wrong URL in debian-control-has-obsolete-dbg-package

[Antonio Ospite]

Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.79
Severity: minor
Tags: patch

Dear Maintainer,

the current URL[1] in debian-control-has-obsolete-dbg-package brings to
a generic Wiki page, it misses a trailing 's'.

I am attaching a patch to use the correct URL[2] which gets directly to
the page about Automatic Debug Packages.

Ciao,
   Antonio

[1] https://wiki.debian.org/AutomaticDebugPackage
[2] https://wiki.debian.org/AutomaticDebugPackages

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.15.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), 
LANGUAGE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii  binutils  2.30-7
ii  bzip2 1.0.6-8.1
ii  diffstat  1.61-1+b1
ii  dpkg  1.19.0.5
ii  file  1:5.32-2
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-perl0.51-1
ii  libclone-perl 0.39-1
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-perl0.416-1+b3
ii  libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-12
ii  libperl5.26 [libdigest-sha-perl]  5.26.1-5
ii  libtext-levenshtein-perl  0.13-1
ii  libtimedate-perl  2.3000-2
ii  liburi-perl   1.73-1
ii  libxml-simple-perl2.24-1
ii  libyaml-libyaml-perl  0.69+repack-1
ii  man-db2.8.2-1
ii  patchutils0.3.4-2
ii  perl  5.26.1-5
ii  t1utils   1.41-2
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:
pn  binutils-multiarch 
ii  dpkg-dev   1.19.0.5
ii  libhtml-parser-perl3.72-3+b2
ii  libtext-template-perl  1.47-1

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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
   See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
>From 8c29d57a53240fd4efc0beb92e20f9d1e92c82ea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Antonio Ospite 
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2018 10:33:15 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Fix wrong URL in debian-control-has-obsolete-dbg-package
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The current URL brings to a generic Wiki page, use the correct URL which
gets directly to the page about Automatic Debug Packages.
---
 checks/control-file.desc | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/checks/control-file.desc b/checks/control-file.desc
index 18b3d8cf4..ce13d48d4 100644
--- a/checks/control-file.desc
+++ b/checks/control-file.desc
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ Info: The debian/control file includes declaration of
 Tag: debian-control-has-obsolete-dbg-package
 Severity: wishlist
 Certainty: possible
-Ref: https://wiki.debian.org/AutomaticDebugPackage
+Ref: https://wiki.debian.org/AutomaticDebugPackages
 Info: The debian/control file includes declaration of
  -dbg package.
  .
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