Re: error messages in the raw lintian.log
Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net> writes:
> There are quite a lot of error messages in lintian.log:
> $ grep -v -E "^(X|O|W|N|I|E): " /org/lintian.debian.org/logs/lintian.log
> Argument "4\n4" isn't numeric in numeric lt (<) at
> /org/lintian.debian.org/root/checks/debhelper line 249.
> Argument "4\n4" isn't numeric in numeric lt (<) at
> /org/lintian.debian.org/root/checks/debhelper line 285.
> Use of uninitialized value in numeric lt (<) at
> /org/lintian.debian.org/root/checks/standards-version line 139.
> Use of uninitialized value in numeric lt (<) at
> /org/lintian.debian.org/root/checks/standards-version line 139.
> Argument "5\n# $Id: compat,v 1.3 2007-07-29 12:49:04 joostvb Exp $..."
> isn't numeric in numeric lt (<) at
> /org/lintian.debian.org/root/checks/debhelper line 249.
> Argument "5\n# $Id: compat,v 1.3 2007-07-29 12:49:04 joostvb Exp $..."
> isn't numeric in numeric lt (<) at
> /org/lintian.debian.org/root/checks/debhelper line 285.
> tar: d4x-2.5.7.1.orig/share/themes/gnome/popup/remove.png: implausibly
> old time stamp 1970-01-01 00:00:00
> Argument "4\n4" isn't numeric in numeric lt (<) at
> /org/lintian.debian.org/root/checks/debhelper line 249.
> Argument "4\n4" isn't numeric in numeric lt (<) at
> /org/lintian.debian.org/root/checks/debhelper line 285.
> tar: guile-1.8.5/build-aux/ltmain.sh: implausibly old time stamp
> 1970-01-01 00:00:00
> tar: guile-1.8.5/guile-readline/ltmain.sh: implausibly old time stamp
> 1970-01-01 00:00:00
>
> Have you considered redirecting them elsewhere, so they don't end up in
> the log?
Well, sending them to the log was an improvement so that we could find
them. However, a further improvement may be to use a separate log just
for them. There was some discussion a while back about whether it was
okay to just stick them in the log for now and we decided it was, but
there's really no reason why we can't have a separate stderr log.
(Raphael provided patches for all of those except the tar errors, I
think, so they should be fixed once Lintian on lintian.debian.org is
upgraded to 2.2.2.)
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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