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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