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- To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
 
- Subject: Line length is not a good indicator for javascript files being not in preferred way of modification
 
- From: Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer <lisandro@debian.org>
 
- Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 23:03:15 -0300
 
- Message-id: <144504739587.14582.2555161544953057980.reportbug@luna.lisandropm.com.ar>
 
Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.38
Severity: important
Hi! While packaging Qt5 I had quite a lot of false positives because lintian
considers javascript with long lines as a prebuilt one.
As an example, in qtwebkit-opensource-src's
Source/WebInspectorUI/UserInterface/ActivateButtonNavigationItem.js::272
  WebInspector.ActivateButtonNavigationItem.prototype.__proto__ = WebInspector.ButtonNavigationItem.prototype;
It's a pretty valid line.
I'm getting two errors, possibly related: source-contains-prebuilt-javascript-object and
source-is-missing. Both of them are false.
The complete list in the above mentioned src package would be:
P: qtwebkit-opensource-src source: source-contains-prebuilt-javascript-object Source/WebInspectorUI/UserInterface/ActivateButtonNavigationItem.js line length is 272 characters (>256)
E: qtwebkit-opensource-src source: source-is-missing Source/WebInspectorUI/UserInterface/ActivateButtonNavigationItem.js
P: qtwebkit-opensource-src source: source-contains-prebuilt-javascript-object Source/WebInspectorUI/UserInterface/ConsoleMessageImpl.js line length is 260 characters (>256)
E: qtwebkit-opensource-src source: source-is-missing Source/WebInspectorUI/UserInterface/ConsoleMessageImpl.js
P: qtwebkit-opensource-src source: source-contains-prebuilt-javascript-object Source/WebInspectorUI/UserInterface/DOMTree.js line length is 283 characters (>256)
E: qtwebkit-opensource-src source: source-is-missing Source/WebInspectorUI/UserInterface/DOMTree.js
P: qtwebkit-opensource-src source: source-contains-prebuilt-javascript-object Source/WebInspectorUI/UserInterface/DebuggerSidebarPanel.js line length is 266 characters (>256)
E: qtwebkit-opensource-src source: source-is-missing Source/WebInspectorUI/UserInterface/DebuggerSidebarPanel.js
P: qtwebkit-opensource-src source: source-contains-prebuilt-javascript-object Source/WebInspectorUI/UserInterface/InspectorBackendCommands.js line length is 362 characters (>256)
E: qtwebkit-opensource-src source: source-is-missing Source/WebInspectorUI/UserInterface/InspectorBackendCommands.js
P: qtwebkit-opensource-src source: source-contains-prebuilt-javascript-object Source/WebInspectorUI/UserInterface/LogContentView.js line length is 325 characters (>256)
E: qtwebkit-opensource-src source: source-is-missing Source/WebInspectorUI/UserInterface/LogContentView.js
P: qtwebkit-opensource-src source: source-contains-prebuilt-javascript-object Source/WebInspectorUI/UserInterface/ProfileView.js line length is 284 characters (>256)
E: qtwebkit-opensource-src source: source-is-missing Source/WebInspectorUI/UserInterface/ProfileView.js
P: qtwebkit-opensource-src source: source-contains-prebuilt-javascript-object Source/WebInspectorUI/UserInterface/ResourceSidebarPanel.js line length is 520 characters (>256)
E: qtwebkit-opensource-src source: source-is-missing Source/WebInspectorUI/UserInterface/ResourceSidebarPanel.js
All of them false positives.
So I think this is not a good measurement tool :-/
Kinds regards, Lisandro.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=es_AR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_AR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii  binutils                       2.25.1-6
ii  bzip2                          1.0.6-8
ii  diffstat                       1.60-1
ii  file                           1:5.25-2
ii  gettext                        0.19.6-1
ii  hardening-includes             2.7
ii  intltool-debian                0.35.0+20060710.4
ii  libapt-pkg-perl                0.1.29+b3
ii  libarchive-zip-perl            1.53-1
ii  libclass-accessor-perl         0.34-1
ii  libclone-perl                  0.38-1
ii  libdpkg-perl                   1.18.3
ii  libemail-valid-perl            1.196-1
ii  libfile-basedir-perl           0.07-1
ii  libipc-run-perl                0.94-1
ii  liblist-moreutils-perl         0.413-1
ii  libparse-debianchangelog-perl  1.2.0-8
ii  libtext-levenshtein-perl       0.13-1
ii  libtimedate-perl               2.3000-2
ii  liburi-perl                    1.69-1
ii  man-db                         2.7.4-1
ii  patchutils                     0.3.4-1
ii  perl [libdigest-sha-perl]      5.20.2-6
ii  t1utils                        1.38-4
ii  xz-utils                       5.1.1alpha+20120614-2.1
Versions of packages lintian recommends:
ii  dpkg                            1.18.3
pn  libperlio-gzip-perl             <none>
ii  perl                            5.20.2-6
ii  perl-modules [libautodie-perl]  5.20.2-6
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn  binutils-multiarch     <none>
ii  dpkg-dev               1.18.3
ii  libhtml-parser-perl    3.71-2
ii  libtext-template-perl  1.46-1
ii  libyaml-perl           1.13-1
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