Package: lintian Version: 2.3.4 Severity: normal Hi, Without changing anything in my package, lintian find that one of the manpages is not in gzip form, whereas it is really. The package is yaz_4.0.2-1 that I uploaded to unstable a few days ago. It was working correctly, no problem with lintian. I tried to create yaz_4.0.2-2, identically, in order to upload it to unstable. Lintian find a warning and an error: vdanjean@eyak:~/debian/mainteneur/yaz/build-area$ lintian yaz_4.0.2-1_amd64.deb vdanjean@eyak:~/debian/mainteneur/yaz/build-area$ lintian yaz_4.0.2-2_amd64.deb W: yaz: gz-file-not-gzip usr/share/man/man7/bib1-attr.7.gz E: yaz: manpage-not-compressed-with-gzip usr/share/man/man7/bib1-attr.7.gz Looking into the contents of the two packages (extracted with "dpkg -x ..."), I find: - both usr/share/man/man7/bib1-attr.7.gz are readable with zless but give binary data when inspected with less (normal behavior) - "file" does not correctly identify the type of usr/share/man/man7/bib1-attr.7.gz in the second package vdanjean@eyak:~/debian/mainteneur/yaz/build-area$ file yaz-*/usr/share/man/man7/bib1-attr.7.gz yaz-4.0.2-1/usr/share/man/man7/bib1-attr.7.gz: gzip compressed data, from Unix, max compression yaz-4.0.2-2/usr/share/man/man7/bib1-attr.7.gz: Minix filesystem, V1, 45669 zones - when building step-by-step yaz-4.0.2-2, usr/share/man/man7/bib1-attr.7.gz is compressed from a plain file by dh_compress - plain text of the two manpages are similar (only the date changes as it is generated) vdanjean@eyak:~/debian/mainteneur/yaz/build-area$ zdiff yaz_*/usr/share/man/man7/bib1-attr.7.gz 5c5 < .\" Date: 03/30/2010 --- > .\" Date: 04/10/2010 10c10 < .TH "BIB\-1 ATTRIBUTE SET" "7" "03/30/2010" "YAZ 4.0.2" "[FIXME: manual]" --- > .TH "BIB\-1 ATTRIBUTE SET" "7" "04/10/2010" "YAZ 4.0.2" "[FIXME: manual]" I'm not really sure where the bug really is (file ? lintian ? dh_compress ?) but as it seems that this is a valid gzip file and I'm not sure lintian use "file" to identify the format, I'm reporting against lintian. For now, I'm adding an override. I'm attaching the problematic manpage (the one from yaz-4.0.2-2) Regards -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers oldstable APT policy: (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.20.1-5 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii diffstat 1.47-1 produces graph of changes introduc ii dpkg-dev 1.15.5.6 Debian package development tools ii file 5.04-2 Determines file type using "magic" ii gettext 0.17-10 GNU Internationalization utilities ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.24 Perl interface to libapt-pkg ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1 Perl module that automatically gen ii libipc-run-perl 0.89-1 Perl module for running processes ii libparse-debianchangel 1.1.1-2 parse Debian changelogs and output ii libtimedate-perl 1.2000-1 collection of modules to manipulat ii liburi-perl 1.54-1 module to manipulate and access UR ii locales 2.11-0exp6 Embedded GNU C Library: National L ii man-db 2.5.7-2 on-line manual pager ii perl [libdigest-sha-pe 5.10.1-11 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction lintian recommends no packages. Versions of packages lintian suggests: ii binutils-multiarch 2.20.1-5 Binary utilities that support mult ii libtext-template-perl 1.45-1 Text::Template perl module ii man-db 2.5.7-2 on-line manual pager -- no debconf information
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