Bug#795070: Lintian complains about oui.idx and iab.idx

[Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>]

Control: tag -1 + moreinfo

Hi,

Bastien ROUCARIES wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 11:58 AM, Vincent Bernat <bernat@debian.org> wrote:
> > Lintian complains about oui.idx and iab.idx:
> >
> > E: python3-netaddr: package-install-ieee-data usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/netaddr/eui/oui.idx
> > E: python3-netaddr: package-install-ieee-data usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/netaddr/eui/iab.idx
> >
> > The ieee-data package doesn't offer those files, only the textual
> > versions. I don't know if the format of those files are standard.

Which ones? the .idx ones or the textual format ones?

> > I generate them at compile-time from oui.txt and iab.txt.

Can they be generated in maintainer scripts instead?

> I think the good way to do depend on ieee-data a register a
> dpkg-trigger regenerating each time ieee-data change.

Yep, that'd be the best way from my point of view.

> Please change it using a mowe in order to change the file atomically.

The main reason for this tag is to have _one_ single source of this
data in Debian. We currently have about a dozen of it and some of it
are really ancient. This also affects the same in data different
formats than the original one.

arpwatch e.g. seems to use also its own format (which is the reason I
haven't fixed it there despite I was the last QA uploader of it).

		Regards, Axel
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