Bug#401046: please make lintian easier to debug
Marc Haber <mh+debian-bugs@zugschlus.de> writes:
> 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.
Well, I can at least answer that question -- it's a
non-backward-compatible change in msgcmp in the gettext that was just
uploaded to unstable that causes it to consider all debconf templates to
be newer. I'll hopefully upload a fix shortly.
> * --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.
I'll take a look at this. Yeah, I've had a hard time figuring out how to
debug these sorts of problems as well.
Thank you for the suggestions!
(And in general, feel free to mail the lintian list to ask for help with
diagnosing these sorts of problems if the package is available somewhere
public. I may not have time to get to it, but I often do, and it's
usually fairly fast for me to figure out what's going on.)
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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