Bug#658971: lintian: exits 1 without any policy violations/errors/warnings checking epoptes

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

clone 658971 -1
tags 658971 pending
retitle -1 lintian: false-positive python-depends-but-no-python-helper
owner -1 Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
thanks

Hi,

On 2012-02-07 01:53, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> * Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org>, 2012-02-06, 16:28:
>> since epoptes 0.3.2, lintian will exit 1 when checking epoptes, but
>> produces no policy violations or other warnings or errors... you can
>> download the .dsc from your favorite debian mirror, and:
>>
>> lintian epoptes_0.4.2-1.dsc ; echo $?
>> 1
> 
> Apparently this is because of this tag, which would be an error if it
> weren't experimental:
> 
> X: epoptes source: python-depends-but-no-python-helper epoptes
> epoptes-client
> 

Fixed that part in git.

> (Also, it's a false positive.)
> 

But not this because I did not see why it is a false-positive.  Jakub,
this part is all yours.  :)

> So it's probably a bug in lintian, which was latent until very recently,
> because we hadn't tags with such property.
> 

~Niels