Bug#1051338: lintian: Downgrade wrong-path-for-interpreter from error to pedantic, merged-usr is mandatory now

2023-09-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
he times and annoy everyone. I disagree strongly. Just because those paths will now work, that doesn't mean they're *correct* locations. We should be trying hard *not* to break interfaces here. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com < sladen> I ac

Bug#959037: lintian: FPOS? for executable-in-usr-lib

2020-04-28 Thread Steve McIntyre
se directories is where d-i go look for >hooks, and I doubt just moving them to libexec is useful. > >I'm re-instating the CC on d-boot@ to see if it sparks some comment... ACK. d-i won't be looking in /usr/libexec. Please leave things where they are... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "War does not determine who is right - only who is left." -- Bertrand Russell

Bug#931183: Incorrect complaints about duplicate words in patch descriptions

2019-06-27 Thread Steve McIntyre
Package: lintian Version: 2.15.0 Severity: normal Looking through the lintian reports for the grub2 source package at https://lintian.debian.org/maintainer/pkg-grub-de...@alioth-lists.debian.net.html#grub2 I can see a couple of errors reported as "spelling-error-in-patch-description" which

Bug#895574: lintian: binary-compiled-with-profiling-enabled test fails on Ubuntu's armhf

2018-04-23 Thread Steve McIntyre
add some simple printf-style debugging in the code for the profiling regex match * profit! Some way of getting lintian to print the *actual commands run* for its test would be helpful here. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com < Aardvark> I d

Bug#895574: lintian: binary-compiled-with-profiling-enabled test fails on Ubuntu's armhf

2018-04-22 Thread Steve McIntyre
at: if ($sec =~ /^GLIBC_.*/ and $sym =~ m{\A _?+ _?+ mcount \Z}xsm){ That's not going to match "__gnu_mcount_nc" at all. Simple fix: if ($sec =~ /^GLIBC_.*/ and $sym =~ m{\A _?+ _?+ (gnu_)?+mcount(_nc)?+ \Z}xsm) { works both on armhf and amd64. Wow, debugging lintian test

Bug#895574: lintian: binary-compiled-with-profiling-enabled test fails on Ubuntu's armhf

2018-04-18 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 06:19:51PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 10:36:59PM +0100, Chris Lamb wrote: >>tags 895574 + moreinfo >>thanks >> >>Hi Jeremy, >> >>Thanks for the report! >> >>> armhf is a bit different t

Bug#631656: lintian: Please consider a check for long source file names

2011-06-30 Thread Steve McIntyre
, I suspect the limit is really more like 80 - length($longest_arch_name) Correct. I've reported bugs against a variety of packages so far, but using relaxed criteria: serious bugs for 90 characters (#620827) minor bugs for 80 characters (#620830, #620831, #620832, #620833) -- Steve McIntyre

Bug#452804: Please add a summary of errors/warnings suppressed by overrides

2007-11-25 Thread Steve McIntyre
in packages they are checking, for example. I'll try and supply a patch if that helps... :-) -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.[EMAIL PROTECTED] You lock the door And throw away the key There's someone in my head but it's not me -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Bug#452804: Please add a summary of errors/warnings suppressed by overrides

2007-11-25 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 02:37:57PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Steve McIntyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Package: lintian Version: N/A Severity: wishlist It would be really useful if lintian could count the errors and warnings that have been suppressed by the use of overrides, then provide

Bug#452804: Please add a summary of errors/warnings suppressed by overrides

2007-11-25 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 03:02:46PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Steve McIntyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Russ, Possibly, but probably not. I'd prefer it to be on by default, rather than needing an extra option if possible. Output something like the last line of: tack:~/debian/linhdd