Bug#919162: lintian.d.o apears to report many failures twice

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

Chris Lamb:
> [Adding niels@thykier.net to CC]
> 
> Hi Ian,
> 
>> It seems that lintian.d.o lists some (all?) failures in a binary
>> package twice.
> […]
>>  * usr/bin/grub-editenv
>>  * usr/bin/grub-editenv
> […]
> 
>> I failed to find the raw reports anywhere so I can't see if these are
>> duplicated there
> 
> So I dug them out from /srv/lintian.debian.org/reports-directory/www/lintian.log.gz
> on lindsay.debian.org:
> 
> [...]
> 
> … so I think that this is something depper in the reporting system
> itself (and they are not emitted twice locally).
> 
> Unfortunately this is an area that I don't know very well at all so
> I'm not even sure where to start. Niels (CC'd), can you help point
> me at least in the right direction, perhaps?
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 

What you see is that grub-editenv have the tag twice because the tag
appears on different architectures (i386 vs. amd64).  The reporting
framework was never updated to include this information more smoothly
than simply adding the tag twice.

Thanks,
~Niels