Bug#829635: lintian: FTBFS: dpkg-source: error: syntax error in .../debian/tests/control
Source: lintian
Version: 2.5.45
Severity: serious
Justification: fails to build from source
lintian FTBFS when built against dpkg-dev_1.18.9, because the following
tests fail:
* tests::testsuite-control-not-file
| dpkg-buildpackage: info: source package testsuite-control-not-file
| dpkg-buildpackage: info: source version 1.0
| dpkg-buildpackage: info: source distribution unstable
| dpkg-buildpackage: info: source changed by Debian Lintian Maintainers <lintian-maint@debian.org>
| dpkg-source -iNEVER_MATCH_ANYTHING -INEVER_MATCH_ANYTHING --auto-commit --before-build testsuite-control-not-file-1.0
| dpkg-buildpackage: info: host architecture i386
| dpkg-source: error: test control debian/tests/control is not a regular file
| dpkg-buildpackage: error: dpkg-source -iNEVER_MATCH_ANYTHING -INEVER_MATCH_ANYTHING --auto-commit --before-build testsuite-control-not-file-1.0 gave error exit status 255
* tests::testsuite-control-syntax
| dpkg-buildpackage: info: source package testsuite-control-syntax
| dpkg-buildpackage: info: source version 1.0
| dpkg-buildpackage: info: source distribution unstable
| dpkg-buildpackage: info: source changed by Debian Lintian Maintainers <lintian-maint@debian.org>
| dpkg-source -iNEVER_MATCH_ANYTHING -INEVER_MATCH_ANYTHING --auto-commit --before-build testsuite-control-syntax-1.0
| dpkg-buildpackage: info: host architecture i386
| dpkg-source: error: syntax error in testsuite-control-syntax-1.0/debian/tests/control at line 1: line with unknown format (not field-colon-value)
| dpkg-buildpackage: error: dpkg-source -iNEVER_MATCH_ANYTHING -INEVER_MATCH_ANYTHING --auto-commit --before-build testsuite-control-syntax-1.0 gave error exit status 25
* tests::testsuite-general:
| dpkg-buildpackage: info: source package testsuite-general
| dpkg-buildpackage: info: source version 1.0
| dpkg-buildpackage: info: source distribution unstable
| dpkg-buildpackage: info: source changed by Debian Lintian Maintainers <lintian-maint@debian.org>
| dpkg-source -iNEVER_MATCH_ANYTHING -INEVER_MATCH_ANYTHING --auto-commit --before-build testsuite-general-1.0
| dpkg-buildpackage: info: host architecture i386
| dpkg-source: error: syntax error in testsuite-general-1.0/debian/tests/control at line 26: block lacks either Tests or Test-Command fields
| dpkg-buildpackage: error: dpkg-source -iNEVER_MATCH_ANYTHING -INEVER_MATCH_ANYTHING --auto-commit --before-build testsuite-general-1.0 gave error exit status 25
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Jakub Wilk
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