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Bug#682941: lintian: Unhelpful croak message 'Missing Severity field for HASH(0x...)'



Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.10
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

refering to /usr/share/lintian/lib/Lintian/Tag/Info.pm ll.88

    croak "Missing Tag field" unless $self->{'tag'};
    $tagname = $self->{'tag'};
    croak "Missing Severity field for $tag" unless $self->{'severity'};
    croak "Missing Certainity field for $tag" unless $self->{'certainty'};

Since $tag is a hash reference, an error message created in the third
or fourth line is not helping. Did you mean $tagname?

Mean reason was a broken external plugin so you'll probably not
encounter that in regular lintian installations. Feel free to lower
the priority.

    Christoph

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.23 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii  binutils                       2.22-6.1
ii  bzip2                          1.0.6-3
ii  diffstat                       1.55-3
ii  file                           5.11-2
ii  gettext                        0.18.1.1-9
ii  hardening-includes             2.2
ii  intltool-debian                0.35.0+20060710.1
ii  libapt-pkg-perl                0.1.26+b1
ii  libarchive-zip-perl            1.30-6
ii  libc-bin                       2.13-33
ii  libclass-accessor-perl         0.34-1
ii  libclone-perl                  0.31-1+b2
ii  libdigest-sha-perl             5.71-1
ii  libdpkg-perl                   1.16.4.3
ii  libemail-valid-perl            0.190-1
ii  libipc-run-perl                0.91-1
ii  libparse-debianchangelog-perl  1.2.0-1
ii  libtimedate-perl               1.2000-1
ii  liburi-perl                    1.60-1
ii  locales                        2.13-33
ii  man-db                         2.6.2-1
ii  patchutils                     0.3.2-1.1
ii  perl [libdigest-sha-perl]      5.14.2-12

lintian recommends no packages.

Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn  binutils-multiarch     <none>
ii  dpkg-dev               1.16.4.3
ii  libhtml-parser-perl    3.69-2
pn  libperlio-gzip-perl    <none>
pn  libtext-template-perl  <none>
ii  lzma                   9.22-2
ii  man-db                 2.6.2-1
ii  xz-utils [lzma]        5.1.1alpha+20120614-1

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