Package: lintian
Version: 2.117.0
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian.axhn@manchmal.in-ulm.de
Dear maintainer,
a few times too often I got annoyed by a "patch-not-forwarded-upstream"
warning from lintian where that wasn't actually sensible. Looking into
the lintian sources, then again into DEP-3, I realized lintian parses
the Origin: information, and people like previous-me could benefit if
lintian was a bit more clear about this.
So, I'm suggesting to enhance the Description with something like
If the patch was actually taken from upstream, prefix the Origin:
information with "upstream" or "backport", as documented in DEP-3
Kind regards,
Christoph
-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.42-3
ii bzip2 1.0.8-5+b2
ii diffstat 1.66-1
ii dpkg 1.22.5
ii dpkg-dev 1.22.5
ii file 1:5.45-3
ii gettext 0.21-14+b1
ii gpg 2.2.40-1.1+b1
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.6
ii iso-codes 4.16.0-1
ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.40+b5
ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.68-1
ii libberkeleydb-perl 0.64-2+b3
ii libcapture-tiny-perl 0.48-2
ii libclass-xsaccessor-perl 1.19-4+b3
ii libclone-perl 0.46-1+b2
ii libconfig-tiny-perl 2.30-1
ii libconst-fast-perl 0.014-2
ii libcpanel-json-xs-perl 4.37-1+b2
ii libdata-dpath-perl 0.59-1
ii libdata-validate-domain-perl 0.10-1.1
ii libdata-validate-uri-perl 0.07-3
ii libdevel-size-perl 0.83-2+b3
pn libdigest-sha-perl <none>
ii libdpkg-perl 1.22.5
ii libemail-address-xs-perl 1.05-1+b3
ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.09-2
ii libfile-find-rule-perl 0.34-3
ii libfont-ttf-perl 1.06-2
ii libhtml-html5-entities-perl 0.004-3
ii libhtml-tokeparser-simple-perl 3.16-4
ii libio-interactive-perl 1.025-1
ii libipc-run3-perl 0.049-1
ii libjson-maybexs-perl 1.004005-1
ii liblist-compare-perl 0.55-2
ii liblist-someutils-perl 0.59-1
ii liblist-utilsby-perl 0.12-2
ii libmldbm-perl 2.05-4
ii libmoo-perl 2.005005-1
ii libmoox-aliases-perl 0.001006-2
ii libnamespace-clean-perl 0.27-2
ii libpath-tiny-perl 0.144-1
ii libperlio-gzip-perl 0.20-1+b3
ii libperlio-utf8-strict-perl 0.010-1+b2
ii libproc-processtable-perl 0.636-1+b2
ii libregexp-wildcards-perl 1.05-3
ii libsereal-decoder-perl 5.004+ds-1+b2
ii libsereal-encoder-perl 5.004+ds-1+b2
ii libsort-versions-perl 1.62-3
ii libsyntax-keyword-try-perl 0.29-2
ii libterm-readkey-perl 2.38-2+b3
ii libtext-levenshteinxs-perl 0.03-5+b3
ii libtext-markdown-discount-perl 0.16-1+b2
ii libtext-xslate-perl 3.5.9-2
ii libtime-duration-perl 1.21-2
ii libtime-moment-perl 0.44-2+b3
ii libtimedate-perl 2.3300-2
ii libunicode-utf8-perl 0.62-2+b2
ii liburi-perl 5.27-1
ii libwww-mechanize-perl 2.18-1
ii libwww-perl 6.76-1
ii libxml-libxml-perl 2.0207+dfsg+really+2.0134-1+b3
ii libyaml-libyaml-perl 0.89+ds-1+b1
ii lzip [lzip-decompressor] 1.24.1-1
ii lzop 1.04-2
ii man-db 2.12.0-3
ii patchutils 0.4.2-1
ii perl [libencode-perl] 5.38.2-3.2
ii t1utils 1.41-4
ii unzip 6.0-28
ii xz-utils 5.6.0-0.2
lintian recommends no packages.
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn binutils-multiarch <none>
ii libtext-template-perl 1.61-1
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