Bug#878515: lintian: Use of uninitialized value $parts[0] in string eq at …/checks/fields.pm line 512. / Use of uninitialized value $parts[-1] in string ne at …/checks/fields.pm lines 521 and 537.
Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.55
Severity: normal
Control: found -1 2.5.30+deb8u4
More less by accident (via gdebi) I checked a propietary .deb with
lintian on the jessie-running laptop of a family member. And lintian
threw these Perl warnings:
On Jessie (2.5.30+deb8u4):
Use of uninitialized value $parts[0] in string eq at /usr/share/lintian/checks/fields.pm line 541.
Use of uninitialized value $parts[-1] in string ne at /usr/share/lintian/checks/fields.pm line 550.
And in the end gdebi told me: "Lintian finished with exit status 1f"
On Sid (2.5.55) I was still able to reproduce at least very similar
Perl warnings:
Use of uninitialized value $parts[0] in string eq at /usr/share/lintian/checks/fields.pm line 512.
Use of uninitialized value $parts[-1] in string ne at /usr/share/lintian/checks/fields.pm line 521.
Use of uninitialized value $parts[-1] in string eq at /usr/share/lintian/checks/fields.pm line 537.
Here, lintian exited with return code 1.
I'm quite sure I can't share the .deb (as I suspect that it contains
cryptographic keys), but I'll try to figure out the exact reason for the
warnings and find a patch. (I.e. this bug report is primarily to
document the findings as of now.)
But the .deb is definitely a really bad example of how not to package
stuff. Summary of emitted tag severities:
1 P:
8 I:
19 E:
31 W:
Full list with stripped package and file names and Perl warnings in
surrounding context (lintian 2.5.55):
E: <packagename>: arch-independent-package-contains-binary-or-object usr/bin/<bin>
I: <packagename>: spelling-error-in-binary usr/bin/<bin> occured occurred
I: <packagename>: spelling-error-in-binary usr/bin/<bin> specifiy specify
I: <packagename>: spelling-error-in-binary usr/bin/<bin> TRANSFERED TRANSFERRED
I: <packagename>: spelling-error-in-binary usr/bin/<bin> perfom perform
E: <packagename>: binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath usr/bin/<bin> /usr/local/lib/<only-part-of-the-package-name>
E: <packagename>: embedded-library usr/bin/<bin>: curl
E: <packagename>: arch-independent-package-contains-binary-or-object usr/lib/<only-part-of-the-package-name>/libavcodec.so.52
I: <packagename>: spelling-error-in-binary usr/lib/<only-part-of-the-package-name>/libavcodec.so.52 precission precision
I: <packagename>: spelling-error-in-binary usr/lib/<only-part-of-the-package-name>/libavcodec.so.52 inofficial unofficial
I: <packagename>: spelling-error-in-binary usr/lib/<only-part-of-the-package-name>/libavcodec.so.52 convertion conversion
E: <packagename>: embedded-library usr/lib/<only-part-of-the-package-name>/libavcodec.so.52: libavcodec
E: <packagename>: embedded-library usr/lib/<only-part-of-the-package-name>/libavcodec.so.52: libavutil
E: <packagename>: arch-independent-package-contains-binary-or-object usr/lib/<only-part-of-the-package-name>/libavformat.so.52
E: <packagename>: arch-independent-package-contains-binary-or-object usr/lib/<only-part-of-the-package-name>/libavutil.so.49
W: <packagename>: missing-depends-line
P: <packagename>: no-upstream-changelog
E: <packagename>: debian-changelog-file-missing
E: <packagename>: no-copyright-file
E: <packagename>: description-too-short <bin>
E: <packagename>: extended-description-is-empty
Use of uninitialized value $parts[0] in string eq at /usr/share/lintian/checks/fields.pm line 512.
Use of uninitialized value $parts[-1] in string ne at /usr/share/lintian/checks/fields.pm line 521.
W: <packagename>: unknown-section
Use of uninitialized value $parts[-1] in string eq at /usr/share/lintian/checks/fields.pm line 537.
W: <packagename>: non-standard-dir-perm usr/ 0777 != 0755
W: <packagename>: non-standard-dir-perm usr/bin/ 0777 != 0755
W: <packagename>: non-standard-executable-perm usr/bin/<bin> 0777 != 0755
W: <packagename>: non-standard-dir-perm usr/lib/ 0777 != 0755
W: <packagename>: non-standard-dir-perm usr/lib/<only-part-of-the-package-name>/ 0777 != 0755
W: <packagename>: non-standard-executable-perm usr/lib/<only-part-of-the-package-name>/libavcodec.so 0777 != 0755
W: <packagename>: non-standard-executable-perm usr/lib/<only-part-of-the-package-name>/libavcodec.so.52 0777 != 0755
W: <packagename>: non-standard-executable-perm usr/lib/<only-part-of-the-package-name>/libavformat.so 0777 != 0755
W: <packagename>: non-standard-executable-perm usr/lib/<only-part-of-the-package-name>/libavformat.so.52 0777 != 0755
W: <packagename>: non-standard-executable-perm usr/lib/<only-part-of-the-package-name>/libavutil.so 0777 != 0755
W: <packagename>: non-standard-executable-perm usr/lib/<only-part-of-the-package-name>/libavutil.so.49 0777 != 0755
W: <packagename>: non-standard-dir-perm usr/share/ 0777 != 0755
W: <packagename>: non-standard-dir-perm usr/share/doc/ 0777 != 0755
W: <packagename>: non-standard-dir-perm usr/share/doc/<only-part-of-the-package-name>/ 0777 != 0755
E: <packagename>: executable-in-usr-share-doc usr/share/doc/<only-part-of-the-package-name>/changelog.Debian.gz 0777
W: <packagename>: non-standard-executable-perm usr/share/doc/<only-part-of-the-package-name>/changelog.Debian.gz 0777 != 0755
W: <packagename>: non-standard-dir-perm usr/share/locale/ 0777 != 0755
W: <packagename>: non-standard-dir-perm usr/share/locale/de/ 0777 != 0755
W: <packagename>: non-standard-dir-perm usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/ 0777 != 0755
W: <packagename>: non-standard-executable-perm usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/<lib>.mo 0777 != 0755
W: <packagename>: non-standard-executable-perm usr/share/locale/<locale-ish>_de.qm 0777 != 0755
W: <packagename>: non-standard-executable-perm usr/share/locale/<locale-ish>_en.qm 0777 != 0755
W: <packagename>: binary-without-manpage usr/bin/<bin>
I: <packagename>: no-md5sums-control-file
W: <packagename>: executable-not-elf-or-script usr/lib/<only-part-of-the-package-name>/libavcodec.so
W: <packagename>: executable-not-elf-or-script usr/share/doc/<only-part-of-the-package-name>/changelog.Debian.gz
W: <packagename>: executable-not-elf-or-script usr/share/locale/<locale-ish>_de.qm
W: <packagename>: executable-not-elf-or-script usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/<lib>.mo
W: <packagename>: executable-not-elf-or-script usr/share/locale/<locale-ish>_en.qm
W: <packagename>: executable-not-elf-or-script usr/lib/<only-part-of-the-package-name>/libavutil.so
W: <packagename>: executable-not-elf-or-script usr/lib/<only-part-of-the-package-name>/libavformat.so
E: <packagename>: shlib-with-non-pic-code usr/lib/<only-part-of-the-package-name>/libavcodec.so.52
E: <packagename>: shlib-with-executable-bit usr/lib/<only-part-of-the-package-name>/libavcodec.so.52 0777
E: <packagename>: shlib-with-non-pic-code usr/lib/<only-part-of-the-package-name>/libavformat.so.52
E: <packagename>: shlib-with-executable-bit usr/lib/<only-part-of-the-package-name>/libavformat.so.52 0777
E: <packagename>: shlib-with-non-pic-code usr/lib/<only-part-of-the-package-name>/libavutil.so.49
E: <packagename>: shlib-with-executable-bit usr/lib/<only-part-of-the-package-name>/libavutil.so.49 0777
-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (600, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (110, 'experimental'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'buildd-experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.13.0-rc7-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.29.1-4
ii bzip2 1.0.6-8.1
ii diffstat 1.61-1+b1
ii dpkg 1.18.24
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 1.59-1
ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1
ii libclone-perl 0.38-2+b2
ii libdigest-sha-perl 5.98-1
ii libdpkg-perl 1.18.24
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] 5.26.0-8
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 2.7.6.1-2
ii patchutils 0.3.4-2
ii perl 5.26.0-8
ii t1utils 1.40-2
ii xz-utils 5.2.2-1.3
Versions of packages lintian recommends:
ii libperlio-gzip-perl 0.19-1+b4
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
ii binutils-multiarch 2.29.1-4
ii dpkg-dev 1.18.24
ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.72-3+b2
ii libtext-template-perl 1.47-1
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