Bug#963519: lintian: false positive: latex2rtf: source-is-missing latex2rtf

[Felix Lechner <felix.lechner@lease-up.com>]

Hi Chris,

On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 2:33 PM Chris Lawrence <lawrencc@debian.org> wrote:
>
> The latex2rtf binary is built by a Makefile, without a source file
> specifically called latex2rtf.c
>
> it's a false positive

That's not possible (or there is a misunderstanding). The tag
source-is-missing operates on source packages. It does not seek
sources for executables shipped in installation packages. Did you
perhaps include the executable in your source package?

As an aside, I can not duplicate your report with the version in unstable:

% ./frontend/lintian /mirror/debian/pool/main/l/latex2rtf/*.dsc
/mirror/debian/pool/main/l/latex2rtf/latex2rtf_2.3.16-1+b1_amd64.deb
W: latex2rtf: national-encoding usr/share/latex2rtf/cfg/direct.cfg
W: latex2rtf: national-encoding usr/share/latex2rtf/cfg/icelandic.cfg
W: latex2rtf source: package-uses-deprecated-debhelper-compat-version 9
I: latex2rtf: hardening-no-bindnow usr/bin/latex2rtf
I: latex2rtf: spelling-error-in-copyright Coypright Copyright
I: latex2rtf source: testsuite-autopkgtest-missing
I: latex2rtf source: unused-license-paragraph-in-dep5-copyright bsd-3
(paragraph at line 46)
P: latex2rtf source: insecure-copyright-format-uri
http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/
P: latex2rtf source: rules-requires-root-missing
P: latex2rtf source: trailing-whitespace debian/changelog (line 246)

Kind regards
Felix Lechner