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Package: lintian
Version: 1.22.8
Severity: wishlist
Hi,
Currently the manpage says:
EXIT STATUS
0 No policy violations (errors) detected. (There might
have been warnings, though.)
1 Policy violations detected.
2 Lintian run-time error. An error message is sent to
stderr.
It would be nice to have an option similar to gcc's -Werror.
With that option, lintian would return non-zero (maybe 3) if any
warning was found. This would be useful in scripts that build
packages and then call lintian, if one wants to make them abort
in that case.
Of course that can be done by parsing the output, but that does not
seem like The Right Way, as it is more fragile and lowlevel.
For the option name, one could pick -Werror like gcc, but it does not
fit with lintian (GNU) style. Maybe -w, --fail-on-warnings ?
-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux blanche 2.4.19 #2 Sat Mar 1 18:19:36 CET 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.13.90.0.18-1.7 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii diffstat 1.32-1 produces graph of changes introduc
ii file 3.40-1.1 Determines file type using "magic"
ii man-db 2.4.1-6 The on-line manual pager
ii perl 5.6.1-8.2 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
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Source: lintian
Source-Version: 1.23.26
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_1.23.26.dsc
to pool/main/l/lintian/lintian_1.23.26.dsc
lintian_1.23.26.tar.gz
to pool/main/l/lintian/lintian_1.23.26.tar.gz
lintian_1.23.26_all.deb
to pool/main/l/lintian/lintian_1.23.26_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 189656@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (supplier of updated lintian package)
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Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 17:21:22 -0800
Source: lintian
Binary: lintian
Architecture: source all
Version: 1.23.26
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian Lintian Maintainers <lintian-maint@debian.org>
Changed-By: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Description:
lintian - Debian package checker
Closes: 97502 133027 189656 190897 289723 322244 332770 360227 380286 387360 389070 393975 394104 394419 394720 395028 395468 396278 398670 399245
Changes:
lintian (1.23.26) unstable; urgency=low
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* checks/binaries{.desc,}:
+ [RA] Add a policy reference for unstripped-binary-or-object.
Thanks, Bas Wijnen. (Closes: #394419)
+ [RA] Add a special exception to the shared library dependency check
for the dynamic loader itself.
* checks/changelog-file.desc:
+ [RA] Downgrade to a warning several errors with changelog files,
including compression and a text version of HTML changelogs, that
are only shoulds in Policy. (Closes: #289723)
+ [RA] Cleaned up language and use of unbalanced single quotes in
numerous descriptions.
* checks/control-file{.desc,}:
+ [RA] Diagnose a control file that creates binary packages in a
different archive category from the source package or the other
binary packages. Idea from Yann Dirson. (Closes: #394720)
+ [RA] Close opened files.
+ [RA] Add info-level check for Section in the source section of the
control file. (Closes: #322244)
* checks/cruft{.desc,}:
+ [RA] Tighten the timestamp check on config.{sub,guess} to look for
files dated 2004 or newer, since that's when x86_64 was added.
Increase to an error at the request of Ryan Murray since we already
suppress this warning of config.{guess,sub} are modified by the
Debian patch or if the package build-depends on autotools-dev.
(Closes: #190897)
* checks/debconf{.desc,}:
+ [RA] Take into account comma escaping when checking the number of
translated choices. Reported by Frans Pop. (Closes: #395028)
+ [RA] Only require debconf be loaded in the postinst script if a
config script exists. Reported by Josselin Mouette.
+ [RA] Require pre-depends on debconf if debconf is used in the
preinst script. Update the long description to deprecate only
depending on debconf and falling back on another configuration
system. Reported by Josselin Mouette. (Closes: #395468)
+ [RA] Warn of debconf notes displayed with low or medium priority,
with an exception for Policy-required device file warnings. Based
on a patch by Thomas Huriaux. (Closes: #389070)
+ [RA] Close files after opening them, fixing incorrect line numbers
when reporting problems with config scripts.
* checks/debdiff{.desc,}:
+ [RA] Check for creation of ~ and .xxx.swp backup files in the Debian
diff, but only at the info level for now since they cause no harm.
(Closes: #332770)
* checks/fields{.desc,}:
+ [RA] Clarify in missing-build-dependency why lintian does not take
into account transitive build dependencies. (Closes: #393975)
+ [RA] Avoid Perl warning when diagnosing a Python-Version of the form
"all, >= 2.4". Thanks, Thijs Kinkhorst. (Closes: #394104)
+ [RA] Teach the debian/rules parsing about make conditionals and
don't require build dependencies for lines encountered inside a
conditional (in other words, assume people using conditionals know
what they're doing). Fixes a false positive due to the unusual
arch-specific build dependencies for openoffice.org, reported by
Rene Engelhard. (Closes: #380286)
* checks/files{.desc,}:
+ [RA] Check for vim .swp files in the package.
+ [RA] Split the warning for NFS temporary files into a separate tag
from the warning for editor backup files.
* checks/infofiles:
+ [RA] Close opened files.
+ [RA] debhelper no longer adds a --section flag to install-info, so
don't warn about any install-info invocation without --section.
Instead, check each info file for INFO-DIR-SECTION and diagnose
calling install-info without --section if any info file is missing
this information. (Closes: #97502, #398670)
+ [RA] Checks for the compression and suffixes of info files were not
being run due to a mistake in specifying either /usr/info or
/usr/share/info as an info directory. Re-enable them.
* checks/md5sums{.desc,}:
+ [RA] Add a tag for a missing md5sums control file, but only at info
level, at least for now. (Closes: #133027)
+ [RA] Do better syntax checking of the md5sums control file and
report malformed lines as a tag rather than aborting lintian.
+ [RA] Downgrade file-missing-in-md5sums to a warning since it doesn't
break the package or debsums and may be intentional.
* checks/menu.desc:
+ [RA] Remove stray commas in Ref strings since the reporting code
considers commas to be separating two different references.
* checks/menu-format{.desc,}:
+ [RA] Support the sux, gksu, and kdesu wrappers in menu commands as
well as su-to-root. (Closes: #360227)
+ [RA] Fix tag name for menu-icon-cannot-be-parsed. Thanks, Bill
Allombert. (Closes: #399245)
* checks/po-debconf{.desc,}:
+ [RA] Check for misnamed PO files in debian/po, which cause
translations to be merged into the template with the wrong names and
not found. Based on a patch by Thomas Huriaux. (Closes: #387360)
* checks/shared-libs:
+ [RA] Calling ldconfig is also required for libraries installed in
various subdirectories of its standard search path based on hardware
capabilities. Reported by Aurelien Jarno. (Closes: #396278)
.
* debian/rules:
+ [RA] Exclude testset/diffs/binary.c~ from dh_clean.
.
* frontend/lintian:
+ [RA] Add --fail-on-warning option to exit with non-zero status if
any warnings were found. Thanks, Daniel Bonniot. (Closes: #189656)
.
* man/lintian.1:
+ [RA] Document --fail-on-warning.
Files:
cda4e08aaf178b646cc6ce23bc1c30a0 803 devel optional lintian_1.23.26.dsc
15742add8a98724dc3aba2357db88ce9 322262 devel optional lintian_1.23.26.tar.gz
d87b2eee380fc9c8670ca44a69af93e0 273294 devel optional lintian_1.23.26_all.deb
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