Bug#962158: lintian: New very problematic --fail-on default value

Felix Lechner wrote: > It would also give me more time to understand the possibly > unreasonable burden on Lintian users across Debian and the derivative > ecosystem. Simon may receive feedback from Ubuntu, a significant > derivative. If there are real problems, I am happy to discuss a > solution

Processed: Bug#904885 marked as pending in lintian

Processing control commands: > tag -1 pending Bug #904885 [lintian] En dashes in tag descriptions are output incorrectly Added tag(s) pending. -- 904885: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=904885 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact ow...@bugs.debian.org with problems

Bug#904885: lintian.d.o: En dashes in tag descriptions are output incorrectly

Hi Andrey, > lintian-info outputs "â" instead of en dash Fixed for the website in this commit: https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/taxiv/-/commit/927c23e0c2f28769321a34583b8339f35e1edc4d but not yet fixed for 'lintian-info'. We currently do not track bugs for the reporting code separately (a

Processed: Bug#962601 marked as pending in lintian

Processing control commands: > tag -1 pending Bug #962601 [lintian] manpage-section-mismatch doesn't take into account manpages with multiple binaries Added tag(s) pending. -- 962601: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=962601 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact ow...@bugs.debian.o

Bug#962601: manpage-section-mismatch doesn't take into account manpages with multiple binaries

Package: lintian Version: 2.80.0 Severity: normal Tags: patch Hi, I found a lintian limitation while working with a manpage that refers to two different binaries. In this scenario, lintian will mistakenly consider the name of the second binary as the man section number, and will issue a "manpage

Bug#962158: lintian: New very problematic --fail-on default value

Hi Chris, On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 11:15 PM Chris Lamb wrote: > > Felix, can you help out? I am not in a position to contribute to this > discussion itself. Well, I wish I could. Guillem makes many alarmist statements, but fails to explain why the change is an undue burden. I also do not know how

Bug#962583: lintian: doesn't follow optional convention to organise d/missing-sources

Source: lintian Severity: normal Dear lintian maintainers: The current debian-policy (4.5.0.2) states in Section 4.16. Missing sources: There is an optional convention to organise the contents of "debian /missing-sources" in the following way. For a sourceless file "foo" in the subd