Bug#534940: lintian: inconsistent reporting of affected files
Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> writes:
> I guess I am biting the bullet now. It turns out that with the
> pre-sorting stuff, some of the checks (e.g. checks/binaries) now modify
> the list when they add their "./" prefix, causing other checks (e.g.
> checks/shared-libs) to fail.
> I have made the following patches on the infra-513663 branch and I
> intend to apply them on the master branch as well. The patches will
> remove ./ and / prefixes on file names in some of the checks. If I
> missed any checks let me know.
> I chose the "\.?/"-less prefix for two reasons; I believed most of our
> checks does not use it (particularly checks/files, which is rather huge)
> and secondly because Lintian::Collect tends to return the file names
> without this prefix.
Thank you for doing this! I'm in favor, and had just been holding off due
to the amount of work involved.
We will probably want to bump the minor version for this change, since it
will break a few existing overrides that will need the obvious updates.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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