Bug#651332: lintian: unhelpful message if changes file not present
On 2011-12-07 21:32, Nicholas Bamber wrote:
> Package: lintian
> Version: 2.5.4
> Severity: minor
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
Hi,
> * What led up to the situation?
> I have script that generates a private Debian package,
> builds it and runs lintian on the resulting changes file.
> I changed the name of the generated package in the test script
> and forgot that the test script needed to be updated.
Is it possible to get one package/changes that emits this issue I can
test against along with invocation example?
> This led to an utterly bizarre error message:
>
> "Package name and type must be defined at /usr/bin/lintian line 1692"
>
I have identified the source of the error message, but I am not quite
sure how it got there.
> I understand that lintian runs on a layered approach and that the
> error was finally spotted deep in the code. It would be nice if the arguments
> were sanity checked right at the beginning as the message then would
> be immediately obvious.
>
> [...]
:)
~Niels
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