Bug#548640: lintian check for dpatch describtion could honnor DEP3 style description

2009-09-28 Thread Paul Gevers
> I assume from that that dpatch supports DEP-3 and doesn't get confused by > comments not using that prefix? The patches apply cleanly. So I assume, yes. Header is maintained by dpatch-edit-patch when the @DPATCH@ tag is found (according to it's own comments). Paul signature.asc Description:

lintian 2.2.17 MIGRATED to testing

2009-09-28 Thread Debian testing watch
FYI: The status of the lintian source package in Debian's testing distribution has changed. Previous version: 2.2.14 Current version: 2.2.17 -- This email is automatically generated once a day. As the installation of new packages into testing happens multiple times a day you will receive l

Bug#548640: lintian check for dpatch describtion could honnor DEP3 style description

2009-09-28 Thread Paul Gevers
> The operation that I'd want to be sure to test is modifying the patch > and regenerating it and being sure that dpatch retained the comments > rather than rewriting the header and losing them. Just did that and no problem. Paul signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#548805: lintian: Packages using update-inetd must depend on inet-superserver

2009-09-28 Thread Serafeim Zanikolas
Package: lintian Version: 2.2.17 Severity: normal Hi, The tag maintainer-script-needs-depends-on-update-inetd recommends to depend on either inet-superserver or update-inetd, when it fact the later is redundant (a dependency on inet-superserver indirectly satisfies the update-inetd dependency) A

Bug#548819: lintian: Check duplicated entries in build-depends, depends, etc

2009-09-28 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Package: lintian Version: 2.2.17 Severity: wishlist Hi! Is it out of scope a check for duplicated entries in debian/control (for fields like Build-Depends, Depends, Recommends, Suggests, Conflicts, Provides, Replaces)? For example: Build-Depends: cdbs, debhelper (>= 7), cdbs It could detec

Bug#548805: lintian: Packages using update-inetd must depend on inet-superserver

2009-09-28 Thread Russ Allbery
Serafeim Zanikolas writes: > The tag maintainer-script-needs-depends-on-update-inetd recommends to > depend on either inet-superserver or update-inetd, when it fact the > later is redundant (a dependency on inet-superserver indirectly > satisfies the update-inetd dependency) I don't understand t

Bug#548819: lintian: Check duplicated entries in build-depends, depends, etc

2009-09-28 Thread Russ Allbery
"Nelson A. de Oliveira" writes: > Is it out of scope a check for duplicated entries in debian/control (for > fields like Build-Depends, Depends, Recommends, Suggests, Conflicts, > Provides, Replaces)? > For example: > Build-Depends: cdbs, debhelper (>= 7), cdbs > It could detect that cdbs

Bug#548844: lintian: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign generating false positives?

2009-09-28 Thread Charles Plessy
Package: lintian Version: 2.2.17 Severity: normal Dear Lintian maintainers, I have just checked at manual pages that triggers hyphen-used-as-minus-sign informational reports, like samtools(1) for instance, and I did not experience any problem in searching for the minus sign. I wonder if hyph

Bug#548844: lintian: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign generating false positives?

2009-09-28 Thread Russ Allbery
Charles Plessy writes: > I have just checked at manual pages that triggers > hyphen-used-as-minus-sign informational reports, like samtools(1) for > instance, and I did not experience any problem in searching for the > minus sign. I wonder if hyphen-used-as-minus-sign is not massively > triggerin