Bug#401049: marked as done (lintian: possible false positive newer-debconf-templates on exim4)
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- To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
- Subject: lintian: possible false positive newer-debconf-templates on exim4
- From: Marc Haber <mh+debian-bugs@zugschlus.de>
- Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 15:52:55 +0100
- Message-id: <20061130145255.15455.85856.reportbug@nechayev.zugschlus.de>
Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.26
Severity: normal
Hi,
I am not sure whether this is a bug in lintian or in some other
package or even in mine. Please help in sorting this out.
In the latest exim4 package, I ran debconf-updatepo (which didn't
change anything) and built the package. Lintian, run on the .dsc file,
complains newer-debconf-templates. I am reasonably sure that I didn't
touch the templates in weeks.
ircd-hybrid suffers from the same issues, as reported on IRC.
>From what I figured out, this is what happens (in the exim4 case again):
The lintian check in /usr/share/lintian/checks/po-debconf uses
intltool-update, which produces a test.pot which differs from
templates.pot only in comments and POT-Creation-Date.
Lintian then proceeds to use msgcmp on test.pot and templates.pot,
which prints a truckload of "this message is untranslated" and
"warning: this message is not used" to /dev/null and exits non-zero.
Lintian in turn uses the non-zero exit code to tag the package
"newer-debconf-templates".
I suspect this is a false positive and am going to ignore this warning
when uploading exim4 until this bug has been commented on.
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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Source: lintian
Source-Version: 1.23.27
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_1.23.27.dsc
to pool/main/l/lintian/lintian_1.23.27.dsc
lintian_1.23.27.tar.gz
to pool/main/l/lintian/lintian_1.23.27.tar.gz
lintian_1.23.27_all.deb
to pool/main/l/lintian/lintian_1.23.27_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 400957@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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Format: 1.7
Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2006 11:06:33 -0800
Source: lintian
Binary: lintian
Architecture: source all
Version: 1.23.27
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: 399392 399456 399525 399857 400338 400342 400957 401070 401442
Changes:
lintian (1.23.27) unstable; urgency=low
.
The "we haven't run this against the whole archive in a while" release
.
* checks/binaries{.desc,}:
+ [RA] Tag unrecognized ELF binaries as apparently corrupted rather
than failing with a note that binutils-multiarch is required. Some
packages have had ELF binaries recognized by file but unreadable.
Reported by Bill Allombert. (Closes: #399456)
* checks/infofiles:
+ [RA] Don't consider /usr/share/infon to be an info directory.
Reported by Joachim Breitner. (Closes: #399857)
* checks/md5sums:
+ [RA] Also don't complain about missing md5sums for files in
/var/lib/ispell as they're changed after installation. Thanks,
Agustin Martin. (Closes: #401070)
* checks/po-debconf:
+ [RA] gettext 0.16's msgcmp requires --use-untranslated when checking
for newer templates than PO files or it gives false positives for
every package. Thanks, Damyan Ivanov. (Closes: #400957)
+ [RA] Don't consider directories to be stray template files even if
named template. Thanks, Thomas Huriaux. (Closes: #401442)
* checks/shared-libs:
+ [RA] Don't report shlib-with-non-pic-code unless we're sure that
we're looking at a shared library. Otherwise, we get many false
positives on some platforms where text relocations are normal for
binaries. Reported by Bill Allombert. (Closes: #399525)
.
* collection/file-info:
+ [RA] Unescape non-ASCII characters escaped by tar before running
file on the resulting filename. Otherwise, file can't find the
file, exits with an error, and lintian aborts. Reported by Bill
Allombert. (Closes: #399392)
* collection/objdump-info:
+ [RA] Include unrecognized format errors from objdump in the output
rather than aborting; some packages contain apparently corrupt ELF
binaries.
.
* debian/control:
+ [RA] Depend on gettext 0.16 or later for --use-untranslated.
.
* lib/Lab.pm:
+ [RA] Preserve the old package lists when setting up a static lab so
that the unpack programs can build a list of changed packages and
incremental mode works. Thanks, Bill Allmobert. (Closes: #400342)
.
* unpack/list-udebpkg:
+ [RA] Handle compressed udeb Packages files. Thanks, Bill
Allombert. (Closes: #400338)
Files:
f91f96e9758cba9b9c6c4f842f08268d 803 devel optional lintian_1.23.27.dsc
dda6326f56efa9a18e7ed114c51bb7e8 323703 devel optional lintian_1.23.27.tar.gz
e0b2067dc6f20dffa6589fc672a5f2d9 274618 devel optional lintian_1.23.27_all.deb
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