Bug#887428: lintian: Use of uninitialized value in string ne at /usr/share/perl5/Lintian/Collect/Package.pm line 579

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

On Tue, 16 Jan 2018 21:10:53 +0530 Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi Hilmar, 
> 
> > I'm building a package. After the build is done, lintian is called and 
> > writes a lot of these messages:
> 
> But what is the package called..? :) How might I reproduce this? 
> 
> 
> Regards, 
> 
> -- 
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> 

This bug appears to be reproducible on lindsay.d.o:

"""
linday.d.o $ grep 'Use of uninitialized ' lintian.log -c
4148
"""

(In case you are missing material for debugging)

Thanks,
~Niels