Bug#459787: lintian doesn't accept origin and bugs field in binary packages
Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> writes:
> On Tue, 08 Jan 2008, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> It's probably worth noting here that there's no specification for
>> either in Policy, so they really are unknown in that sense. That won't
>> stop me from adding them to Lintian's list, since we added
>> Dm-Upload-Allowed and the Vcs-* fields without being in Policy, but we
>> really should document them in Policy as well.
>
> Note that Breaks suffers from the same problem.
Breaks will be in the next Policy release.
> I should also say that those should also be fixed IMO:
> I: dpkg source: non-standard-arch-in-source-relation kfreebsd-i386 [build-depends: libselinux1-dev (>= 1.28-4) [!hurd-i386 !kfreebsd-i386 !kfreebsd-amd64]]
> I: dpkg source: non-standard-arch-in-source-relation kfreebsd-amd64 [build-depends: libselinux1-dev (>= 1.28-4) [!hurd-i386 !kfreebsd-i386 !kfreebsd-amd64]]
>
> kfreebsd-i386, kfreebsd-amd64, armel are unofficial architectures which are
> mentioned in many cases.
That's the definition of non-standard architecture. Maybe the tag should
go away completely, but assuming that one buys the reason for having the
tag at all, it is correct in this case.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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