Bug#401046: please make lintian easier to debug
Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.26
Severity: wishlist
Hi,
I am currently investigating a persistent newer-debconf-templates
warning in exim4. This has shown to be incredibly frustrating.
* --debug does not give remotely helpful information
* the lab is removed immediately
* there is no option to have lintian keep the temporary lab
* manually creating a static lab and unpacking the package there does
not give a directory called debfiles, which the po-debconf checks are
working in.
Am now on my wit's end in finding out what the newer-debconf-templates
test does on what data to find out what it doesn't like in my package.
Greetings
Marc
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18.3-zgsrv
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.17-3 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii diffstat 1.43-2 produces graph of changes introduc
ii dpkg-dev 1.13.24 package building tools for Debian
ii file 4.17-4 Determines file type using "magic"
ii gettext 0.15-3 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii libparse-debianchangel 1.0-1 parse Debian changelogs and output
ii man-db 2.4.3-5 The on-line manual pager
ii perl [libdigest-md5-pe 5.8.8-6.1 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
lintian recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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