On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 22:05 +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 13:13 -0700, C.J. Adams-Collier wrote: > > Hey folks. I keep getting perl module errors in sid. Here's a patch > > that fixes it. > > Thanks for taking the time to report this issue, and especially for > providing a patch. My pleasure. Thank you for your prompt response. > However, the code should never be producing the string "pædantic", nor > can I find any occurrence of that string in the source tree. We should > be fixing whatever is causing that output, rather than patching around > it. True. I should have mentioned that part of the patch was a joke. I've attached a clean version sans pædantic humor. > Would it be possible to get some more details on exactly what you're > doing when the error occurs, and how to reproduce it? Of course. During runs of debuild -uc -us, I was receiving many lines of perl warnings that the $serverity variable was being used with the eq operator when it was undefined. > Thanks, > > Adam My pleasure, C.J.
--- /usr/share/lintian/lib/Tags.pm 2009-07-09 09:11:20.000000000 -0700
+++ /tmp/Tags.pm 2009-07-31 14:17:49.000000000 -0700
@@ -323,7 +323,7 @@
my $level;
# Pedantic is just a pseudo severity, skip level checks
- if ($severity eq 'pedantic') {
+ if ($severity && $severity eq 'pedantic') {
$level = 1 ;
} elsif ($severity and $certainty) {
$level = $display_level{$severity}{$certainty};
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