Bug#954428: lintian 2.58.0 seems to not correctly suppress warnings/errors for udeb packages
Package: lintian
Version: 2.58.0
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
Lintian is reporting a number of spurious failures:
E: e2fsprogs-udeb udeb: debian-changelog-file-missing
E: e2fsprogs buildinfo: field-too-long Installed-Build-Depends (5090 chars > 5000)
E: e2fsprogs-udeb udeb: file-in-etc-not-marked-as-conffile etc/mke2fs.conf
E: e2fsprogs-udeb udeb: no-copyright-file
W: e2fsprogs-udeb udeb: binary-without-manpage sbin/badblocks
W: e2fsprogs-udeb udeb: binary-without-manpage sbin/e2fsck
W: e2fsprogs-udeb udeb: binary-without-manpage sbin/e2label
W: e2fsprogs-udeb udeb: binary-without-manpage sbin/e2mmpstatus
W: e2fsprogs-udeb udeb: binary-without-manpage sbin/fsck.ext2
W: e2fsprogs-udeb udeb: binary-without-manpage sbin/fsck.ext3
W: e2fsprogs-udeb udeb: binary-without-manpage sbin/fsck.ext4
W: e2fsprogs-udeb udeb: binary-without-manpage sbin/mke2fs
W: e2fsprogs-udeb udeb: binary-without-manpage sbin/mkfs.ext2
W: e2fsprogs-udeb udeb: binary-without-manpage sbin/mkfs.ext3
W: e2fsprogs-udeb udeb: binary-without-manpage sbin/mkfs.ext4
W: e2fsprogs-udeb udeb: binary-without-manpage sbin/resize2fs
W: e2fsprogs-udeb udeb: binary-without-manpage sbin/tune2fs
N: 5 tags overridden (2 errors, 3 info)
By *definition* udebs aren't supposed to have changelogs, copyright
files, or man pages.
(This was found when running sbuild, in a fully uptodate sid chroot last
night.)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (900, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 5.5.0-rc7-00153-gb22518177d26 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.34-4
ii bzip2 1.0.8-2
ii diffstat 1.63-1
ii dpkg 1.19.7
ii dpkg-dev 1.19.7
ii file 1:5.38-4
ii gettext 0.19.8.1-10
ii gpg 2.2.19-3
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.5
ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.36+b3
ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.68-1
ii libcapture-tiny-perl 0.48-1
ii libcgi-pm-perl 4.46-1
ii libclass-xsaccessor-perl 1.19-3+b3
ii libclone-perl 0.43-2
ii libdevel-size-perl 0.83-1+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 0.75-1
ii libipc-run-perl 20180523.0-2
ii libjson-maybexs-perl 1.004000-1
ii liblist-compare-perl 0.53-1
ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.416-1+b5
ii libmoo-perl 2.003006-1
ii libmoox-aliases-perl 0.001006-1
ii libnamespace-clean-perl 0.27-1
ii libpath-tiny-perl 0.108-1
ii libsereal-decoder-perl 4.011+ds-1
ii libsereal-encoder-perl 4.011+ds-1
ii libtext-levenshtein-perl 0.13-1
ii libtimedate-perl 2.3200-1
ii libtry-tiny-perl 0.30-1
ii libtype-tiny-perl 1.008001-2
ii liburi-perl 1.76-2
ii libxml-libxml-perl 2.0134+dfsg-2
ii libyaml-libyaml-perl 0.80+repack-2+b1
ii man-db 2.9.1-1
ii patchutils 0.3.4-2+b1
ii perl [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.30.0-9
ii t1utils 1.41-3
ii xz-utils 5.2.4-1+b1
Versions of packages lintian recommends:
ii libperlio-gzip-perl 0.19-1+b6
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
ii binutils-multiarch 2.34-4
ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.72-5
ii libtext-template-perl 1.58-1
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