Bug#951650: lintian: should emit rules-requires-root-explicitly in more cases
Package: lintian
Version: 2.52.0~bpo10+1
Severity: normal
Hi,
The code for rules-requires-root-explicitly is:
# Check Rules-Requires-Root
if (defined(my $r3 = $processable->source_field('rules-requires-root'))) {
if ($r3 eq 'no') {
$self->tag('rules-does-not-require-root');
} elsif ($r3 eq 'binary-targets') {
$self->tag('rules-requires-root-explicitly');
}
} else {
$self->tag('rules-requires-root-missing');
}
That does not match
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-f-rules-requires-root,
which allows Rules-Requires-Root to take other values than
binary-targets (see the discussion about keywords in Policy).
In that case, the tag should also be emitted.
An example of package for which that fails is libcap2_2.27-1, which
specifies:
Rules-Requires-Root: dpkg/target-subcommand
- Lucas
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.3
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 5.3.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_DK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (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 2.31.1-16
ii bzip2 1.0.6-9.2~deb10u1
ii diffstat 1.62-1
ii dpkg 1.19.7
ii dpkg-dev 1.19.7
ii file 1:5.35-4+deb10u1
ii gettext 0.19.8.1-9
ii gpg 2.2.12-1+deb10u1
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.5
ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.34+b1
ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.64-1
ii libberkeleydb-perl 0.55-2
ii libcapture-tiny-perl 0.48-1
ii libcgi-pm-perl 4.40-1
ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.51-1
ii libclass-xsaccessor-perl 1.19-3+b2
ii libclone-perl 0.41-1+b1
ii libdpkg-perl 1.19.7
ii libemail-valid-perl 1.202-1
ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.08-1
ii libfile-find-rule-perl 0.34-1
ii libfont-ttf-perl 1.06-1
ii libio-async-loop-epoll-perl 0.20-1
ii libio-async-perl 0.72-1
ii libipc-run-perl 20180523.0-1
ii libjson-perl 4.02000-1
ii liblist-compare-perl 0.53-1
ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.416-1+b4
ii libmldbm-perl 2.05-2
ii libmoo-perl 2.003004-2
ii libmoox-aliases-perl 0.001006-1
ii libnamespace-clean-perl 0.27-1
ii libpath-tiny-perl 0.108-1
ii libtext-levenshtein-perl 0.13-1
ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-2+deb10u1
ii libtry-tiny-perl 0.30-1
ii libtype-tiny-perl 1.004004-1
ii liburi-perl 1.76-1
ii libxml-libxml-perl 2.0134+dfsg-1
ii libyaml-libyaml-perl 0.76+repack-1
ii man-db 2.8.5-2
ii patchutils 0.3.4-2
ii perl [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.28.1-6
ii t1utils 1.41-3
ii xz-utils 5.2.4-1
Versions of packages lintian recommends:
ii libperlio-gzip-perl 0.19-1+b5
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
ii binutils-multiarch 2.31.1-16
ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.72-3+b3
ii libtext-template-perl 1.55-1
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