Re: Autogenerated -dbgsym packages made my package by REJECTed
On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 22:54:57 +0200, Magnus Holmgren wrote:
> lördag 29 oktober 2016 kl. 21:35:14 CEST skrev Ian Jackson:
> > Debian FTP Masters writes ("xen_4.8.0~rc3-0exp1_multi.changes REJECTED"):
> > > libxenstore3.0-dbgsym: lintian output: 'extended-description-is-empty ',
> > > automatically rejected package. libxen-4.8-dbgsym: lintian output:
> > > 'extended-description-is-empty ', automatically rejected package.
> > > xenstore-utils-dbgsym: lintian output: 'extended-description-is-empty ',
> > > automatically rejected package. xen-utils-4.8-dbgsym: lintian output:
> > > 'extended-description-is-empty ', automatically rejected package.
> > >
> > > ===
> > >
> > > Please feel free to respond to this email if you don't understand why
> > > your files were rejected, or if you upload new files which address our
> > > concerns.
> >
> > These .debs were generated automatically by debhelper. It is true
> > that they don't have extended descriptions, but I think that's
> > correct. None of the docs I could find on this new feature [1] seem
> > to cover this aspect.
>
> I was going to ask the same. Is the new ftp-master server running an old
> lintian? The changelog of lintian 2.5.31 says "Allow debug packages without an
> extended description.", and since they're generated automatically by debhelper
> without entries in debian/control, we are not supposed to be required to add
> such entries, are we?
>
Right, fasolo had jessie's lintian. Upgraded to jessie-backports now,
sorry for the inconvenience.
Cheers,
Julien
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