Bug#563059: lintian: native package detection does not work on initial release
Andreas Beckmann <debian@abeckmann.de> writes:
> I just experienced a spurious lintian warning (watch file missing) on a
> newly created local native package with version (0.0.1). The warning
> disappears if I add a second revision (0.0.2) to debian/changelog, so
> native detection does not work for either (0.0.1) or the initial release
> of a native package (exactly one entry in debian/changelog).
Are you sure that the package was built native and that you didn't have
any stray file named *.orig.tar.gz around when you built it that fooled
dpkg-buildpackage into making it non-native? The Lintian code doesn't pay
attention to the version number since that's not, in the archive system,
what makes a package native or not. It checks for the existence of a
*.diff.gz file in the associated source package.
If this is reproducible, the contents of the *.dsc file for which Lintian
does this would be very interesting.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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