Bug#491296: lintian: 1.24.2 makes a *lot* of noise
severity 491296 normal
thanks
Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> writes:
> Package: lintian
> Version: 1.24.2
> Severity: serious
Um, no.
> $ lintian ../xorg-server_1.4.2-2_i386.changes |wc -l
> 1438
A fair chunk of that with 1.4.2-1 at least is:
E: xserver-xorg-core: unstripped-binary-or-object ./usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libGLcore.so
Is Lintian wrong about this? Do those files need to be left unstripped
for some reason?
> This is just not bearable. I get one warning for every Makefile.in in
> the package (see #471263),
I believe this is a bug in the package which you should fix and Lintian is
correct. (This is particularly the case with the 3.0 format, where those
changes will end up as a monster patch combined with any other changes
made directly in the package.)
I'll be more explicit about that now and tag 471263 as wontfix; there are
some edge cases for which we may change Lintian's behavior, but the basic
point of not having the autotools regeneration diff outside the patch
system is a place where I don't think Lintian should change.
> and one for every line deemed too long in debian/copyright for every
> binary package. Please turn the noise down, at least by default.
Why don't you just rewrap the license that you currently have wrapped at
90 columns?
I may be missing something, but it really is looking like you're
complaining that Lintian is noisy when run on a buggy package, rather than
just fixing the (minor) bugs that it's detecting.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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