Bug#521257: Use of uninitialized value in bitwise or (|) at /usr/share/lintian/lib/Lintian/Command.pm line 308.
Raphael Geissert <atomo64+debian@gmail.com> writes:
> I just reproduced it on a clean sid chroot. file 5.00-1 is installed, and
> the culprit are...
> unpacked/test/.split/split.clam.ole.docaa: ERROR: Can't read SAT
> unpacked/test/.split/split.clam.pptaa: ERROR: Can't read SAT
>
> I reported this against file as #521772, and made sure the parsing of tar's
> output is fine by comparing the output of what file-info pipes to file,
> both outputs are byte-per-byte identical.
Oh, good catch.
Hm, we should probably work around that somehow in Lintian, but I'm not at
all sure how. I suppose we could catch error exit status from file and
not abort, just do... something with it. Ignore it or something.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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