Bug#672297: lintian: False positive package-contains-broken-symlink for files created during postinst

2012-05-09 Thread Paul Gevers
Package: lintian Version: 2.5.6 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, My package cacti replaces an upstream file with a symlink to /etc/cacti/debian.php. This later file is created upon configuration by dbconfig-common. I therefor think this package-contains-broken-symlink is a false positive in that

Bug#672292: marked as done (lintian: harness errors out on master due to list being passed to require)

2012-05-09 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Wed, 09 May 2012 21:20:38 +0200 with message-id <20120509192038.d170187857...@bmail-n01.one.com> and subject line Re: Bug#672292: lintian: harness errors out on master due to list being passed to require has caused the Debian Bug report #672292, regarding lintian: harness errors

[SCM] Debian package checker branch, master, updated. 2.5.6-128-gd8b80fe

2012-05-09 Thread Niels Thykier
The following commit has been merged in the master branch: commit d8b80fe0fbf2dfe52f6b1ada3cce5c1a047d53b7 Author: Niels Thykier Date: Wed May 9 21:16:46 2012 +0200 harness: Fix misuse of "require" Signed-off-by: Niels Thykier diff --git a/reporting/harness b/reporting/harness in

Bug#672292: lintian: harness errors out on master due to list being passed to require

2012-05-09 Thread Evan Broder
Package: lintian Version: 2.5.6-100-geef3c3b Severity: important Dear Maintainer, Currently the reporting harness on master exits with the following error: syntax error at ./harness line 104, near "require Lintian::Util qw(visit_dpkg_paragraph)" It seems that this is because the `require` fu

Bug#672284: lintian: False positive: no-debian-copyright when packages supply debian/$pkgname.copyright

2012-05-09 Thread phpbbaid
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 7:51 PM, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Emanuele Rocca , 2012-05-09, 19:23: > >> lintian reports a no-debian-copyright warning for packages that supply a >> copyright file in debian/$pkgname.copyright >> > > This is correct. It's a violation of Policy §12.5: “A copy of the file >

Bug#672284: lintian: False positive: no-debian-copyright when packages supply debian/$pkgname.copyright

2012-05-09 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Emanuele Rocca , 2012-05-09, 19:23: lintian reports a no-debian-copyright warning for packages that supply a copyright file in debian/$pkgname.copyright This is correct. It's a violation of Policy §12.5: “A copy of the file which will be installed in ‘/usr/share/doc//copyright’ should

Bug#672284: lintian: False positive: no-debian-copyright when packages supply debian/$pkgname.copyright

2012-05-09 Thread Emanuele Rocca
Package: lintian Version: 2.5.6 Severity: normal Hi, lintian reports a no-debian-copyright warning for packages that supply a copyright file in debian/$pkgname.copyright That seems to be a valid way to provide copyright files, at least according to dh_installdocs(1). Such a false positive is re

Bug#672273: [Reporting] Visualizing $HISTORY

2012-05-09 Thread Niels Thykier
Package: lintian Version: 2.5.6 Tags: patch Hi, Thanks for the code. :) I have forwarded it to the BTS so it doesn't get lost (hench the full quote). ~Niels On 2012-04-29 18:53, Jordà Polo wrote: > The idea of keeping track of the history and statistics of archive-wide > Lintian runs has been

[SCM] Debian package checker branch, master, updated. 2.5.6-127-g283dd3f

2012-05-09 Thread Niels Thykier
The following commit has been merged in the master branch: commit 283dd3f25796790a935c4aeb50457e0bb0bbe5db Author: Jakub Wilk Date: Wed May 9 11:58:26 2012 +0200 f/lintian: Add missing new line to error message Signed-off-by: Niels Thykier diff --git a/frontend/lintian b/frontend