Bug#765311: lintian: strange warning messages building experimental Common Lisp implementation package

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

On 2014-10-14 02:38, Faheem Mitha wrote:
> Package: lintian
> Version: 2.5.28~bpo70+1
> Severity: minor
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 

Hi,

> When building an experimental CL implementation, namely
> https://github.com/drmeister/clasp with the Debian packaging at
> https://bitbucket.org/faheem/clasp-debian
> 

Do you have a recompiled version of the package, we can use for testing
purposes?
  If not possible, can you provide a detailed file listing of all
packages (debs, source tars etc) that includes the permission string
from tar.  E.g. something like:

  tar vtf lintian_2.5.28.tar.xz
  dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile lintian_2.5.28_all.deb | tar vtf -
  ar p lintian_2.5.28_all.deb control.tar.gz | tar vztf -

> I get the following odd messages. I've not seen them before. They may
> not be anything of interest, in which case, please close the issue.
> 

Half of them are warnings from Perl that usually is a sign of a code
error (a la "missing" null guards in other languages).

> If you want further details, let me know.
> 
> Now running lintian...
> [...]
> 
>                                             Regards, Faheem
> [...]
> 
> 

Could you provide the full log, I got a feeling that several error
messages are missing that might help us understand what went wrong.

~Niels