Package: lintian Version: 1.23.25 Severity: minor Hi,
Lintian outputs a warning when checking update-manager_0.42.2ubuntu22-5.dsc as available from the archive: $ lintian update-manager_0.42.2ubuntu22-5.dsc E: update-manager source: missing-build-dependency python | python-dev | python-all-dev Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/share/lintian/checks/fields line 754. E: update-manager source: malformed-python-version all, >= 2.4 Attached is the same run with debug output. Thijs -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.11-1-k7 Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.17-3 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii diffstat 1.43-2 produces graph of changes introduc ii dpkg-dev 1.13.24 package building tools for Debian ii file 4.17-4 Determines file type using "magic" ii gettext 0.15-2 GNU Internationalization utilities ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf ii libparse-debianchangel 1.0-1 parse Debian changelogs and output ii man-db 2.4.3-4 The on-line manual pager ii perl [libdigest-md5-pe 5.8.8-6.1 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction lintian recommends no packages. -- no debconf information
N: Lintian v1.23.25 N: Lintian root directory: /usr/share/lintian N: Configuration file: /etc/lintianrc N: Laboratory: N: Archive directory: N: Distribution: N: Default unpack level: 1 N: Architecture: any N: ---- N: Setting up lab in /tmp/VQQdVsvCf4 ... N: Processing 1 packages... N: Selected action: check N: Requested unpack level: 1 N: Requested data to collect: override-file,copyright-file,file-info,debian-readme,debfiles,init.d,md5sums,changelog-file,diffstat,source-control-file,scripts,objdump-info,menu-files,doc-base-files N: Selected checks: manpages,huge-usr-share,files,menus,debian-readme,rules,md5sums,scripts,version-substvars,debhelper,shared-libs,etcfiles,debconf,po-debconf,standards-version,copyright-file,debdiff,control-file,nmu,menu-format,deb-format,description,control-files,init.d,binaries,conffiles,spelling,changelog-file,fields,cruft,infofiles N: ---- N: Processing source package update-manager (version 0.42.2ubuntu22-5) ... N: Base directory in lab: /tmp/VQQdVsvCf4/source/update-manager N: Current unpack level is 0 N: Unpacking package to level 1 ... N: Current unpack level is 1 N: Unpacking package to level 2 ... N: /usr/share/lintian/unpack/unpack-srcpkg-l2 /tmp/VQQdVsvCf4/source/update-manager N: Collecting info: override-file ... N: Current unpack level is 2 N: Collecting info: debfiles ... N: Current unpack level is 2 N: Collecting info: diffstat ... N: Current unpack level is 2 N: Collecting info: source-control-file ... N: Current unpack level is 2 N: Running check: rules ... N: Current unpack level is 2 N: Running check: version-substvars ... N: Current unpack level is 2 N: Running check: debhelper ... N: Current unpack level is 2 N: Running check: po-debconf ... N: Current unpack level is 2 N: Running check: standards-version ... N: Current unpack level is 2 N: Running check: debdiff ... N: Current unpack level is 2 N: Running check: control-file ... N: Current unpack level is 2 N: Running check: nmu ... N: Current unpack level is 2 N: Running check: fields ... E: update-manager source: missing-build-dependency python | python-dev | python-all-dev Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/share/lintian/checks/fields line 754. E: update-manager source: malformed-python-version all, >= 2.4 N: Current unpack level is 2 N: Running check: cruft ... N: Decreasing unpack level to 1 (removing files) ... N: Removing /tmp/VQQdVsvCf4 ...