Bug#998115: lintian: false positive: "unknown-field Description" in source package

2021-10-31 Thread Felix Lechner
Control: reopen -1 Hi, On Sun, Oct 31, 2021 at 3:24 AM Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > > dpkg maintainers pointed me to #555743 - so I think this "just" > needs some Policy massaging. > I filed #998165 on that regard Lintian will soon allow the field, too. Thanks for the research! Kind regards Felix L

Bug#998115: lintian: false positive: "unknown-field Description" in source package

2021-10-31 Thread Mattia Rizzolo
On Sat, Oct 30, 2021 at 04:41:11PM +0200, Hannah Rittich wrote: > >> Furthermore, deb-substvars allows to reference the description > >> field of the source package, using the variables ${source:Synopsis} > >> and ${source:Extended-Description} [2]. > > > > Uh. TIL. However I find that odd. Regar

Bug#998115: lintian: false positive: "unknown-field Description" in source package

2021-10-30 Thread Hannah Rittich
Hi, > I think you misunderstood the Policy here. > >> The Debian Policy Manual [1] states that "in a source or binary >> control file, the Description field contains a description of the >> binary package [...]". > > expanding the sentence above, that's "source control file" or > "binary control

Bug#998115: lintian: false positive: "unknown-field Description" in source package

2021-10-30 Thread Mattia Rizzolo
Control: tag -1 moreinfo Hi. On Sat, Oct 30, 2021 at 04:01:30PM +0200, Hannah Rittich wrote: > Adding a "Description" field in the source section of a control file > will cause lintian to issue the error "source: unknown-field Description". I think you misunderstood the Policy here. > The Debi

Bug#998115: lintian: false positive: "unknown-field Description" in source package

2021-10-30 Thread Hannah Rittich
Package: lintian Version: 2.110.0 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: v...@rittich.net Adding a "Description" field in the source section of a control file will cause lintian to issue the error "source: unknown-field Description". The Debian Policy Manual [1] states that "in a source or binary contro