Bug#885899: wrong-section-according-to-package-name for PAM modules
Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.66
Severity: normal
Lintian now wants me to change the section of my PAM module packages
to libs based on the package name. It looks like common practice in
the archive is a bit all over the place, and standardizing would be
great, but libs seems wrong to me. In general, libs is for packages
that will be automatically installed as shared library dependencies
from other packages, and essentially all PAM modules are installed
manually by the admin. This means that graphical package browsers like
aptitude are less useful with this change since the PAM modules are
buried in the giant libs bucket that few people will look at.
libpam-krb5 currently uses the admin section, and I think that's
reasonable. Perhaps Lintian should recommend that instead?
-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.14.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.29.1-12
ii bzip2 1.0.6-8.1
ii diffstat 1.61-1+b1
ii dpkg 1.19.0.4
ii file 1:5.32-1
ii gettext 0.19.8.1-4
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.4
ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.33
ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.60-1
ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.51-1
ii libclone-perl 0.39-1
ii libdpkg-perl 1.19.0.4
ii libemail-valid-perl 1.202-1
ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.07-1
ii libipc-run-perl 0.96-1
ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.416-1+b3
ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-12
ii libperl5.26 [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.26.1-3
ii libtext-levenshtein-perl 0.13-1
ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-2
ii liburi-perl 1.72-2
ii libxml-simple-perl 2.24-1
ii libyaml-libyaml-perl 0.63-2+b2
ii man-db 2.7.6.1-4
ii patchutils 0.3.4-2
ii perl 5.26.1-3
ii t1utils 1.41-2
ii xz-utils 5.2.2-1.3
Versions of packages lintian recommends:
pn libperlio-gzip-perl <none>
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn binutils-multiarch <none>
ii dpkg-dev 1.19.0.4
ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.72-3+b2
ii libtext-template-perl 1.47-1
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