Bug#951513: lintian: test failures in Ubuntu
Hello,
this seems to be the Ubuntu patch...
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/468998013/lintian_2.56.0_2.56.0ubuntu1.diff.gz
G.
On Mon, 17 Feb 2020 09:24:15 -0800 Felix Lechner <felix.lechner@lease-up.com> wrote:
> Hi Gianfranco,
>
> On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 8:57 AM Gianfranco Costamagna
> <locutusofborg@debian.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hello, looks like we are getting strange failures since some releases
>
> Classification tags are now enabled for all tests. Details are in
>
> https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/commit/0a5668a89c3381bd9495c03cd2636175aec7997a
>
> and many surrounding commits. The tags are not triggering (or not
> being shown). The ubuntu profile can suppress tags, but that does not
> seem to be the case here. I'll have to update my Ubuntu chroot and
> take a look.
>
> > Do you know why we are hitting those?
>
> At this point, no. It would be unusual, however, for such a
> malfunction to present only in a general false-positive test
> ('odd-inputs'). Most tests are specific to a particular check (and
> only run that check). They should show more specific failures. The
> affected checks are deb-format, control-files, and fields/vcs. Do you
> see any other test failures in
> debian/test-out/eval/tags/checks/$check?
>
> The missing tag no-ctrl-scripts from the control-files check, in
> particular, looks like it could have been caused by the more recent
>
> https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/commit/767d86920c6213a255d0025d07dcdf34bdede6e5
>
> Are you sure the tag no-ctrl-scripts did in fact disappear prior to
> version 2.53 (which is when that commit was released)?
>
> > This happened since 2.49.0
>
> Thank you for the information. It will be helpful when tracking down
> the issues raised.
>
> Kind regards
> Felix Lechner
>
>
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