Bug#387166: lintian: Failed to identify Priorities error: Policy 2.5.
Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.24
Severity: important
A recent upload of QOF included two new packages. The main library is
dependent on at least one of these new packages being installed and is
Priority: optional. However, I inadvertently put the two new packages as
Priority: extra and lintian did NOT complain. When the upload was made,
the two new binaries raised a Debcheck error:
Binary Package: libqof1 (Version: 0.7.1-1)
Priority
According to Policy Section 2.5: Priorities packages MUST NOT depend on
packages with lower priority values (excluding build-time dependencies).
In order to ensure this, the priorities of one or more packages must be
adjusted.
Package is optional and has a Depends on libqof-backend-qsf0 (within
libqof-backend-qsf0 | libqof-backend-sqlite0) which is extra on mips.
etc.
I have since built and my sponsor has uploaded 0.7.1-2 which corrects
the settings in the debian/control file for qof before the Debcheck
becomes an RC bug. Despite the Debcheck page being created, the online
lintian page indicates no lintian errors in 0.7.1-1.
Lintian should make sure that errors like this are caught in future
because 2.5 is a 'must' in Policy.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-1-amd64-k8
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.17-2 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii diffstat 1.43-1 produces graph of changes introduc
ii dpkg-dev 1.13.22 package building tools for Debian
ii file 4.17-3 Determines file type using "magic"
ii gettext 0.15-2 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii libparse-debianchangelog 1.0-1 parse Debian changelogs and output
ii man-db 2.4.3-3 The on-line manual pager
ii perl [libdigest-md5-perl 5.8.8-6.1 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
lintian recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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