Bug#284662: marked as done (lintian: spurious manpage-has-bad-whatis-entry warnings when first line is a comment)
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Subject: lintian: spurious manpage-has-bad-whatis-entry warnings when first line is a
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Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.3
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One of my packages, pvm, contains several manpages of the form
.\" $Id: pvmd.1,v 1.1 1996/09/23 21:50:26 pvmsrc Exp $
.so man1/pvmd3.1
This triggers a flurry of lintian warnings (one for each man page) of
the form
W: pvm-dev: manpage-has-bad-whatis-entry usr/share/man/man3/pvmfsetcontext.3.gz
W: pvm-dev: manpage-has-bad-whatis-entry usr/share/man/man3/pvmfupkmesg.3.gz
W: pvm-dev: manpage-has-bad-whatis-entry usr/share/man/man3/pvm_pkmesgbody.3.gz
W: pvm-dev: manpage-has-bad-whatis-entry usr/share/man/man3/pvmfpack.3.gz
To me, it looks like this is because lintian only looks at the first
line to check for ".so". A reasonable workaround would probably simply
be skipping the first line if it is a comment, and check the second
line instead.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8.1
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.15-5 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii diffstat 1.35-1 produces graph of changes introduc
ii file 4.10-3 Determines file type using "magic"
ii gettext 0.14.1-6 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii man-db 2.4.2-19 The on-line manual pager
ii perl [libdigest-md5-perl] 5.8.4-4 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
-- no debconf information
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Subject: Bug#284662: fixed in lintian 1.23.6
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Source: lintian
Source-Version: 1.23.6
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
lintian, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
lintian_1.23.6.dsc
to pool/main/l/lintian/lintian_1.23.6.dsc
lintian_1.23.6.tar.gz
to pool/main/l/lintian/lintian_1.23.6.tar.gz
lintian_1.23.6_all.deb
to pool/main/l/lintian/lintian_1.23.6_all.deb
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to 284662@bugs.debian.org,
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Format: 1.7
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 05:40:13 +0100
Source: lintian
Binary: lintian
Architecture: source all
Version: 1.23.6
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian Lintian Maintainers <lintian-maint@debian.org>
Changed-By: Debian Lintian Maintainers <lintian-maint@debian.org>
Description:
lintian - Debian package checker
Closes: 200171 244830 245883 258824 259227 284662 284728 285335 286681
Changes:
lintian (1.23.6) unstable; urgency=low
.
The "Let's see if I can upload myself now" release, made by Marc, Frank and
Colin, uploaded by Jeroen.
.
* checks/description
+ [HE] Warn if the short description start with an article or a capital
letter. Patch by Tobias Toedter <t.toedter@gmx.net>, thanks. (Closes:
#258824)
* checks/fields:
+ [HE] Warn if the debian revision has three parts, as this is the sign of
a binary NMU. New check's name is binary-nmu-debian-revision-in-source.
(Closes: #244830)
+ [HE] Warn if people use the Bugs field to refer to the Debian BTS, the
new check is called redundant-bugs-field. (Closes: #245883)
* checks/files:
+ [HE] Check that .desktop files are placed in /usr/share/applications.
This seems to be the standard place for those files that are used
to create menus. The check is called desktop-file-in-wrong-dir.
(Closes: #200171)
* checks/manpages:
+ [HE] Don't compare the manpage filename extension and the content of
.TH case-sensitive. Report + patch by Jay Berkenbilt <ejb@ql.org>,
thanks. (Closes: #285335)
+ [HE] Emit binary-without-english-manpage if a package only provides
translated manpages for a binary. (Closes: #259227)
+ [HE] Skip all comment lines when checking for .so links in manpages.
Thanks for the report and fix suggestion to Steinar H. Gunderson
<sgunderson@bigfoot.com>. (Closes: #284662)
* checks/md5sums:
+ [HE] Strip off ./ at the beginning of the filenames in md5sums
files (this seems to happen on some systems, though we don't know
how). (Closes: #284728)
* checks/standards-version:
+ [CW] By definition, udebs aren't required to conform to policy, so
don't issue no-standards-version-field for them. (If they happen to
have a Standards-Version field anyway, we still check that it's
valid.)
.
* lib/Lab.pm, frontend/lintian:
SECURITY (CAN-2004-1000):
+ [FL] Overhaul lab directory handling. This also fixes the issue
of removing a lab that never was created (Closes: #286681)
Files:
d7d7da4d3bf9e489da7174cf95dc8bbf 802 devel optional lintian_1.23.6.dsc
039d5def803533ebcba3abe6656649e5 255150 devel optional lintian_1.23.6.tar.gz
58c3979171d3751b04cafec7246038eb 221236 devel optional lintian_1.23.6_all.deb
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