Bug#877142: lintian: tried to issue unknown tag example-script-uses-deprecated-nodejs-location at /srv/lintian.debian.org/lintian/checks/scripts.pm line 227.

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.53
Severity: serious

Hi,

lintian is currently unable to process the following 3 packages due to
a bug in lintian:

[2017-09-29T00:01:46]:   [lintian] error processing node-argparse/1.0.7-1 (time: 1.540s)
[2017-09-29T00:01:47]:   [lintian] error processing node-commander/2.4.0-1 (time: 1.426s)
[2017-09-29T00:01:49]:   [lintian] error processing node-get/1.1.5+ds1-2 (time: 1.478s)


The error is:

"""
N: Processing binary package node-get (version 1.1.5+ds1-2, arch all) ...
C: node-get binary (1.1.5+ds1-2) [all]: no-ctrl-scripts
I: node-get binary (1.1.5+ds1-2) [all]: extended-description-is-probably-too-short
W: node-get binary (1.1.5+ds1-2) [all]: wrong-section-according-to-package-name node-get => javascript
W: node-get binary (1.1.5+ds1-2) [all]: package-contains-timestamped-gzip usr/share/doc/node-get/buildinfo_all.gz
tried to issue unknown tag example-script-uses-deprecated-nodejs-location at /srv/lintian.debian.org/lintian/checks/scripts.pm line 227.
internal error: cannot run scripts check on package binary:node-get/1.1.5+ds1-2/all
warning: skipping check of binary:node-get/1.1.5+ds1-2/all
"""

(The same error occurs for all 3 binaries AFAICT).

This bug may prevent new uploads of these affected packages (as I
recall, the FTP master's reject uploads where lintian fails).
Accordingly, I have filed it as a serious bug.

Thanks,
~Niels