Bug#774381: marked as done (lintian: False positives for binary-control-field-duplicates-source)
Your message dated Sat, 03 Jan 2015 09:44:35 +0100
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and subject line Re: Bug#774381: lintian: False positives for binary-control-field-duplicates-source
has caused the Debian Bug report #774381,
regarding lintian: False positives for binary-control-field-duplicates-source
to be marked as done.
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Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.30+deb8u3
Severity: normal
Hi,
The lintian tag "binary-control-field-duplicates-source" reports an error when
there is a duplicate of the "section" field. However, it is often necessary to
duplicate the section field. For example:
Package: libxyz0
Section: libs
Package: libxyz-common
Section: libs
Package: libxyz-dev
Section: libdevel
Package: libxyz-doc
Section: doc
I propose that this tag not be output for the section tag.
Yours sincerely,
Riley Baird
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 3.13-1-686-pae (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.24.90.20141209-1
ii bzip2 1.0.6-7+b2
ii diffstat 1.58-1
ii file 1:5.20-2
ii gettext 0.19.3-2
ii hardening-includes 2.7
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1
ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.29+b2
ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.39-1
ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1
ii libclone-perl 0.37-1+b1
ii libdpkg-perl 1.17.22
ii libemail-valid-perl 1.195-1
ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.03-1
ii libipc-run-perl 0.92-1
ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.33-2+b1
ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-1.1
ii libtext-levenshtein-perl 0.11-1
ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-2
ii liburi-perl 1.64-1
ii man-db 2.7.0.2-4
ii patchutils 0.3.3-1
ii perl [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.20.1-3
ii t1utils 1.38-3
Versions of packages lintian recommends:
ii libautodie-perl 2.25-1
ii libperlio-gzip-perl 0.18-3+b1
ii perl 5.20.1-3
ii perl-modules [libautodie-perl] 5.20.1-3
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn binutils-multiarch <none>
ii dpkg-dev 1.17.22
ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.71-1+b3
ii libtext-template-perl 1.46-1
pn libyaml-perl <none>
ii xz-utils 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2+b3
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--- Begin Message ---
On 2015-01-01 22:38, Riley Baird wrote:
> On 02/01/15 08:18, Niels Thykier wrote:
>> Control: tags -1 moreinfo
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I believe you might misunderstand the tag. The case you describe do not
>> trigger this tag. Instead, what you have is probably:
>>
>> """
>> *Source*: libxyz
>> Section: libs
>>
>> Package: libxyz0
>> Section: libs
>> """
>>
>> By default, the Section field will copied into the Binary paragraph *if*
>> the binary paragraph does not have it. As the Binary paragraph has a
>> Section field with identical value to the one in *Source* it is
>> therefore redundant. That is what this tag warns about.
>>
>> ~Niels
>
> You're exactly right. Thanks for finding the error.
>
>
You are welcome, :)
Thanks for the follow-up, I will close the bug now.
~Niels
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