Bug#840998: lintian: False positives for ancient-autotools-helper-file with debhelper compat level 10
Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.48
Severity: normal
Hi,
with a package with very old upstream files, I got the following
lintian error-level tags since converting the package to debhelper and
source format "3.0 (quilt)" -- where I of course removed all patches
touching files which get updated via the implicit dh_autoreconf call
anyways:
E: ccze source: ancient-autotools-helper-file config.guess 2002-07-09
N:
N: The referenced file has a time stamp older than year 2004 and the
N: package does not build-depend on autotools-dev or automake and therefore
N: apparently does not update it. This usually means that the source
N: package will not build correctly on all currently released
N: architectures.
N:
N: For packages using debhelper, the tools from the dh-autoreconf package
N: should handle this issue. cdbs will automatically update these files if
N: autotools-dev is installed during build, but the build dependency on
N: autotools-dev is still necessary.
N:
N: Otherwise, read /usr/share/doc/autotools-dev/README.Debian.gz (from the
N: autotools-dev package) for information on how to fix this problem.
N:
N: Severity: important, Certainty: possible
N:
N: Check: cruft, Type: source
N:
E: ccze source: ancient-autotools-helper-file config.sub 2002-07-03
If I add an explicit dh-autoreconf buil-dependency, these errors
vanish. But the dependency on "debhelper (>= 10)" and debian/compat =
10 already imply that.
So this smells a lot like a false positive to me. (I'd though
appreciate some confirmation before I start trying to make up a patch
for this. :-)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (980, 'unstable-debug'), (600, 'testing'), (111, 'buildd-unstable'), (111, 'buildd-experimental'), (110, 'experimental'), (105, 'experimental-debug')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.8.0-rc5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.27-8
ii bzip2 1.0.6-8
ii diffstat 1.61-1
ii file 1:5.28-4
ii gettext 0.19.8.1-1
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.4
ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.29+b6
ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.59-1
ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1
ii libclone-perl 0.38-2+b1
ii libdigest-sha-perl 5.96-1+b1
ii libdpkg-perl 1.18.10
ii libemail-valid-perl 1.202-1
ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.07-1
ii libipc-run-perl 0.94-1
ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.416-1+b1
ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-11
ii libperl5.24 [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.24.1~rc3-3
ii libtext-levenshtein-perl 0.13-1
ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-2
ii liburi-perl 1.71-1
ii libyaml-libyaml-perl 0.63-1+b1
ii man-db 2.7.5-1
ii patchutils 0.3.4-1
ii perl 5.24.1~rc3-3
ii t1utils 1.39-2
ii xz-utils 5.2.2-1.2
Versions of packages lintian recommends:
ii dpkg 1.18.10
ii libautodie-perl 2.29-2
ii libperlio-gzip-perl 0.19-1+b2
ii perl 5.24.1~rc3-3
ii perl-modules-5.24 [libautodie-perl] 5.24.1~rc3-3
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
ii binutils-multiarch 2.27-8
ii dpkg-dev 1.18.10
ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.72-2+b1
ii libtext-template-perl 1.46-1
-- no debconf information
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