Bug#468927: lintian: Should not rely on dpkg-source's output ...
Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.45
Severity: important
The dpkg team is heavily refactoring dpkg-source and while using the new
version on my system, I discovered that it broke lintian because the output
messages got changed (and also -q will quiet all messages, not only warnings).
The problem is the following:
internal error: dpkg-source didn't report unpack directory
internal error: could not unpack package to desired level: No such file or directory
The bug is in /usr/share/lintian/unpack/unpack-srcpkg-l2:
| my $IN = FileHandle->new;
| pipeline_open($IN, sub {
| my $ret=exec 'dpkg-source', '-q', '-x', 'dsc';
| $ret;
| }) or fail("cannot run dpkg-source: $!");
|
| while (<$IN>) {
| chop;
| $unpack_dir = $1
| if (/^dpkg-source: extracting [^\s]+ in (\S+)/);
| }
| close($IN) or fail("error occured during execution of dpkg-source in $base_dir: $!");
| $unpack_dir or fail("dpkg-source didn't report unpack directory");
I really suggest you to add a supplementary parameter to the dpkg-source
invocation to explicitely specify the directory name where you want to
unpack it.
dpkg-source -q -x dsc unpacked
Note however that dpkg-source will exit if 'unpacked' exists. Thus you should
probably remove it before calling dpkg-source (if it exists that is).
Hopefully you can fix that in the next upload so that once the new dpkg-source
hits unstable people already have a fixed lintian. :)
Cheers,
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.18.1~cvs20080103-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii diffstat 1.45-2 produces graph of changes introduc
ii dpkg-dev 1.14.17 package building tools for Debian
ii file 4.23-2 Determines file type using "magic"
ii gettext 0.17-2 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii libparse-debianchan 1.1.1-2 parse Debian changelogs and output
ii liburi-perl 1.35.dfsg.1-1 Manipulates and accesses URI strin
ii man-db 2.5.1-2 on-line manual pager
ii perl [libdigest-md5 5.8.8-12 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
lintian recommends no packages.
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