lintian: r994 - in trunk: checks debian
Author: he
Date: 2007-11-29 14:11:53 +0100 (Thu, 29 Nov 2007)
New Revision: 994
Modified:
trunk/checks/fields
trunk/checks/fields.desc
trunk/debian/changelog
Log:
+ [HE] Check for Section field in source packages, for which it
is mandatory. Joerg Jaspert made me do this.
Modified: trunk/checks/fields
===================================================================
--- trunk/checks/fields 2007-11-29 12:07:36 UTC (rev 993)
+++ trunk/checks/fields 2007-11-29 13:11:53 UTC (rev 994)
@@ -284,7 +284,7 @@
#---- Section
if (not open (FH, '<', "fields/section")) {
- tag "no-section-field", "" if $type eq "binary";
+ tag "no-section-field", "";
} else {
my $section = <FH>;
close FH;
Modified: trunk/checks/fields.desc
===================================================================
--- trunk/checks/fields.desc 2007-11-29 12:07:36 UTC (rev 993)
+++ trunk/checks/fields.desc 2007-11-29 13:11:53 UTC (rev 994)
@@ -232,9 +232,9 @@
Type: warning
Info: The package does not have a `Section:' field in its control file.
.
- The Section field can be included in a binary package by passing
- the -is or -isp flags to dpkg-gencontrol when building the package.
- The field is optional in binary packages.
+ The field is mandatory for source packages and optional for binary
+ packages, which use the source package's value as default is nothing
+ else is specified.
Ref: policy 5.3
Tag: unknown-section
Modified: trunk/debian/changelog
===================================================================
--- trunk/debian/changelog 2007-11-29 12:07:36 UTC (rev 993)
+++ trunk/debian/changelog 2007-11-29 13:11:53 UTC (rev 994)
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@
'python-package-should-be-section-python',
'perl-package-should-be-section-perl'. Ideas shamelessy
stolen from linda. (Closes: #452839)
+ + [HE] Check for Section field in source packages, for which it
+ is mandatory. Joerg Jaspert made me do this.
* debian/control:
+ [TK] Add Vcs-* fields to point to Lintian's repository.
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