Bug#521257: Use of uninitialized value in bitwise or (|) at /usr/share/lintian/lib/Lintian/Command.pm line 308.
Michael Tautschnig <mt@debian.org> writes:
> 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.
Oh, okay. That makes sense now.
> No sorry, that doesn't fix the problem, actually it seems it didn't
> change anything.
I think what we need to know is what file was attempting to process and
failed. I'm trying to figure out the best way of doing that. Something
is being passed to the file command that it doesn't like and that's
causing it to exit with an error. If we can figure out what that thing
is, we should be able to sort out what to do about it.
Similar to Raphael, I can't duplicate the problem by running lintian on
the files from the URL that you gave in the initial bug report. It works
fine for me. Could you check to see what version of file that you have?
If it produced any errors to stderr, that would be useful, but from your
output it doesn't seem to be producing any error messages at all, just
failing with a non-zero exit status. Which is very strange.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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