Bug#797163: lintian: please warn if Arch:all package is not Multi-Archi: foreign

Hi again, Jakub, Am Montag, den 31.08.2015, 12:09 +0200 schrieb Jakub Wilk: > Python used to be the classic example: > "python" was an arch:all meta-package that depended on "python2.X". > But if a Python module depended on "python", it was because it needed a > Python interpreter of the same arc

Bug#797163: lintian: please warn if Arch:all package is not Multi-Archi: foreign

Hi Jakub, Am Freitag, den 28.08.2015, 11:25 +0200 schrieb Jakub Wilk: > Not every "Architecture: all" package can be marked as "Multi-Arch: > foreign". Otherwise, we could just teach dpkg and APT to treat all > arch:all packages as if they were ma:foreign and be done with it. :) could you please

Bug#797163: lintian: please warn if Arch:all package is not Multi-Archi: foreign

Package: lintian Version: 2.5.36.1 Severity: wishlist Hi there, I am not sure if there is a situation possible in which an Arch:all package should not carry the Multi-Arch:foreign tag. However, it is part of the Multiarch specification that packages which may satisfy dependencies on all architect

Bug#771191: Bug#771126: Bug#771191: Bug#771126: libav/tests/lena.pnm: also not mentioned in debian/copyright

Am Dienstag, den 02.12.2014, 23:29 +0100 schrieb Bastien ROUCARIES: > And offencive (sexist) for 50% of the population the women... Now it's getting really ridiculous. Gosh, it's a picture of a woman! - Fabian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-lint-maint-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subje

Bug#608866: lintian: False positive: extra-license-file usr/games/rott-sitelicense

Package: lintian Version: 2.4.3 Severity: normal Hi, in the pkg-games SVN repository I have modified the rott package to build an additional variant of the game that plays the CD Site License Version data files. The corresponding binary is 'usr/games/rott-sitelicense' and lintian complains it has

Bug#563773: lintian: false positive if a patch in debian/patches is a symlink

Package: lintian Version: 2.3.1 Severity: normal Hi, I am working on a package in the new source format "3.0 (quilt)" and I am making use of its multiple-tarball feature, i.e. I have a foo_1.0.orig.tar.gz and a foo_1.0.orig-bar.tar.gz. The second tarball "foo_1.0.orig-bar.tar.gz" contains a pa

Bug#513086: Lintian could provide some hints how I can repeat a certain check myself

the other hand, manpage-has-errors-from-man provides a section beginning with "To test this for yourself [...]" and gives a precise command how to reproduce the error detection. It would be nice if this could be expanded to more error/warning descriptions. Cheers, Fabian -- Dipl.-Ph

Bug#512645: lintian reports errors in package foo, because it does not honor files in the foo-data package, on which foo depends

an override here as well. This is what I wanted to avoid, too. I understand your concern, but it's unlikely that Lintian is going to change in any significant way in this area. Alright, but it feels good having talked about it. ;) I'll leave the bug report open, though. Cheers,

Bug#512645: lintian reports errors in package foo, because it does not honor files in the foo-data package, on which foo depends

p with a dead menu entry. Please, I really don't want to add a bunch of lintian overrides for reasonably packaged split-up packages. ;) Cheers, Fabian -- Dipl.-Phys. Fabian Greffrath Ruhr-Universität Bochum Lehrstuhl für Energieanlagen und Energieprozesstechnik (LEAT) Universitätsstr. 1

Bug#512645: lintian reports errors in package foo, because it does not honor files in the foo-data package, on which foo depends

package (foo-data)? Thank you very much! Cheers, Fabian -- Dipl.-Phys. Fabian Greffrath Ruhr-Universität Bochum Lehrstuhl für Energieanlagen und Energieprozesstechnik (LEAT) Universitätsstr. 150, IB 3/134 D-44780 Bochum Telefon: +49 (0)234 / 32-26334 Fax: +49 (0)234 / 32-14227 E-Mail: gref