Bug#521257: Use of uninitialized value in bitwise or (|) at /usr/share/lintian/lib/Lintian/Command.pm line 308.
Russ Allbery wrote:
> Raphael Geissert 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.
>
If we switch to File::Libmagic we could handle those error more
conveniently :)
Cheers,
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Raphael Geissert - Debian Maintainer
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