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

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Subject: Bug#682941: lintian: Unhelpful croak message 'Missing Severity field for HASH(0x...)'
From: Christoph Biedl <debian.axhn@manchmal.in-ulm.de>
Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2012 22:26:35 +0200
Message-id: <[🔎] 1343593286@msgid.manchmal.in-ulm.de>
Reply-to: Christoph Biedl <debian.axhn@manchmal.in-ulm.de>, 682941@bugs.debian.org
In-reply-to: <[🔎] 5012510F.9080000@thykier.net>
References: <[🔎] 1343375368@msgid.manchmal.in-ulm.de> <[🔎] 5012510F.9080000@thykier.net>

Niels Thykier wrote...

> Thanks for spotting this, it has been fixed in a75087f (in case you want
> to backport it).

Thanks for the prompt fix.

> Is the source for this third-party plugin available online?  I am
> curious about how installs itself, what it uses and such.

No, it's purpose was to enforce some site-specific policies. Since the
lintian API documentation is better hidden than my capabilities to
find it, these check constantly break after an lintian upgrade.

    Christoph

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