Bug#383203: lintian has a hard coded path prefix for the --dist option
Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.8
Severity: important
lintian has a hard coded path prefix for the --dist option
lintian -V
Lintian v1.23.8
lintian --allow-root --show-overrides -viI --dist /var/local/packages/dists/custom/main
N: Setting up lab in /tmp/V7FwttCogR ...
internal error: No packages file /dists//var/local/packages/dists/custom/main//binary-i386/Packages
internal error: cannot create binary package list
LINTIAN_DIST="/var/local/packages/dists/custom/main" lintian
--allow-root --show-overrides -viIa
N: Setting up lab in /tmp/q7kevgePYf ...
internal error: No packages file /dists//var/local/packages/dists/custom/main//binary-i386/Packages
internal error: cannot create binary package list
ls -l /var/local/packages/dists/custom/main/binary-i386
total 72
-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 53041 2006-08-15 00:21 Packages
-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 15381 2006-08-15 00:21 Packages.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 78 2006-08-03 14:42 Release
lintian allways tacks on a '/dists/' prefix to the searched path and
fails.
lintian shouldn't force the end user to keep there local repository
under /dists/.
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-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (470, 'testing'), (460, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-3-686
Locale: LANG=en_CA, LC_CTYPE=en_CA (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.15-6 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii diffstat 1.39-1 produces graph of changes introduc
ii file 4.12-1 Determines file type using "magic"
ii gettext 0.14.4-2 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii intltool-debian 0.30+20040213 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii man-db 2.4.2-21 The on-line manual pager
hi perl [libdigest-md5-perl 5.8.4-8sarge4.1 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
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