> Michael Tautschnig <mt@debian.org> writes: > > > I've just checked and I think both the file one can download from the > > bugreport and my local copy here _do_ have a newline, but my methods for > > checking that might not be as effective. Anyway, I've attached a freshly > > generated index file, this time gzipped to make sure my mail agent > > doesnt harm it and I've also BCC'ed Russ to avoid any extra loops. > > Yup. There's a trailing newline -- that wasn't the problem. > > I'm a little disturbed by the degree to which the spacing indentation > changes in your index. That in and of itself shouldn't cause Lintian any > problems, but I don't understand why it's happening. It doesn't do this > for me when I run tar -tvf on a source tarball, and the manipulations that > Lintian does shouldn't change the spacing of the columns. I'm not sure if > that's perhaps a sign of some other issue or just nothing. > Ok, what happens here if I just do a plain tar -tvf is that indentation increases whenever the file size doesn't fit into that particular column anymore, like this: -rw------- michael/staff 895232 2009-03-23 17:22 clamav-0.95/database/daily.cvd -rw------- michael/staff 20091559 2009-02-15 22:47 clamav-0.95/database/main.cvd That seems sensible to me, it's just that the index file apparently has a different sorting of the entries, therefore the indentation feels strange. > I *think* I might have fixed your problem, though. Could you try the > following patch against your /usr/share/lintian directory and see if it > makes the problem go away? (Although if this did fix it, I don't know why > the problem wasn't reproducible.) > [...] No sorry, that doesn't fix the problem, actually it seems it didn't change anything. Best, Michael
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