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Bug#797178: Error in lintian HTML output



Am 28.08.2015 um 11:33 schrieb Jakub Wilk:
> On debian-qa, Charles Plessy wrote:
> >tracker.d.o indicates 14 Lintian warnings for the last-align package, 
> >but I can not find them on lintian.d.o.  Is that a bug ?
> >
> >https://lintian.debian.org/full/debian-med-packaging@lists.alioth.debian.org.html
> 
> Sounds like a bug in Lintian reporting.

Hi Jakub, hi Charles,

I can confirm the bug in Lintian's HTML output and might add a clue in
order to find and fix the bug.

I've stumbled across that nearly empty output in my own lintian page as
well, it only listed "bsdgames" as having lintian issues. However, in
reality there were more packages with lintian warnings.

I've now discovered how to "fix" this: Lintian seems to use the
maintainer's name for collecting the HTML output. If the name differs
between packages, lintian silently discards those reports with other
names, although the e-mail address stays the same.

In my case, I've recently changed my name in the bsdgames package from
"Tobias Quathamer" to "Dr. Tobias Quathamer", both times using toddy@d.o
as the e-mail address. After the upload, lintian.d.o correctly lists all
my packages with issues.

The same is true for the page of the Debian Med packaging team: The only
package listed on their lintian page has the maintainer name of
"Debian-Med Packaging Team". All other packages with lintian issues that
I have checked use the maintainer name "Debian Med Packaging Team" (note
the missing hyphen).

It seems to me that this is the reason why those reports are not listed
on the page. I guess a trivial workaround would be to upload the package
"pondus" with the new maintainer name "Debian Med Packaging Team" (i.e.
without the hyphen).

Regards,
Tobias


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