Bug#968067: lintian: .lintianrc setting "color = always" ignored when output piped to another process
Package: lintian
Version: 2.88.0
Severity: minor
X-Debbugs-Cc: Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>
Since 2.88.0, lintian's output is no more colored when e.g. being called
from debuild (and hence piped through "tee") despite my ~/.lintianrc
says:
color = always
Downgrading lintian to 2.87.0 from testing fixes this issue.
Example output:
~/fping/fping → debuild -uc -us -j64
[…]
dh_builddeb
dpkg-deb: building package 'fping' in '../fping_5.0-1_amd64.deb'.
dpkg-deb: building package 'fping-dbgsym' in '../fping-dbgsym_5.0-1_amd64.deb'.
dpkg-genbuildinfo
dpkg-genchanges >../fping_5.0-1_amd64.changes
dpkg-genchanges: info: including full source code in upload
dpkg-source -i --after-build .
dpkg-buildpackage: info: full upload (original source is included)
Now running lintian -iIE --pedantic fping_5.0-1_amd64.changes ...
W: fping: changelog-news-debian-mismatch Distribution UNRELEASED != unstable
N:
N: The latest entries in the Debian changelog file and NEWS.Debian file are
N: for the same version but the given field doesn't match. The changelog
N: information is canonical and the NEWS.Debian information is ignored, but
N: it may be confusing to users to have them be different.
N:
N: Severity: warning
N:
N: Check: debian/changelog
N:
Finished running lintian.
debuild -uc -us -j64 10.32s user 2.19s system 92% cpu 13.567 total
Depending on the version of lintian the tag name
("changelog-news-debian-mismatch") is colored yellow or white (on a
black terminal). It should be yellow with the above mentioned setting.
Another example with which I was able to reproduce this:
~/fping/fping → lintian ../fping_5.0-1_amd64.changes | cat
W: fping: changelog-news-debian-mismatch Distribution UNRELEASED != unstable
It suffices to have this minimal ~/.lintianrc to reproduce this issue:
---snip---
color = always
---snap---
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (600, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (110, 'experimental'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'buildd-experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 5.7.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.35-1
ii bzip2 1.0.8-4
ii clzip 1.11-8
ii diffstat 1.63-1
ii dpkg 1.20.5
ii dpkg-dev 1.20.5
ii file 1:5.38-5
ii gettext 0.19.8.1-10
ii gpg 2.2.20-1
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 libclass-xsaccessor-perl 1.19-3+b5
ii libclone-perl 0.45-1
ii libconfig-tiny-perl 2.24-1
ii libcpanel-json-xs-perl 4.19-1
ii libdata-dpath-perl 0.58-1
ii libdata-validate-domain-perl 0.10-1
ii libdevel-size-perl 0.83-1+b1
ii libdigest-sha-perl 6.02-1+b2
ii libdpkg-perl 1.20.5
ii libemail-address-xs-perl 1.04-1+b2
ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.08-1
ii libfile-find-rule-perl 0.34-1
ii libfont-ttf-perl 1.06-1
ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.72-5
ii libio-async-loop-epoll-perl 0.21-1
ii libio-async-perl 0.77-3
ii libipc-run3-perl 0.048-2
ii libjson-maybexs-perl 1.004002-1
ii liblist-compare-perl 0.53-1
ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.416-1+b5
ii liblist-utilsby-perl 0.11-1
ii libmoo-perl 2.004000-1
ii libmoox-aliases-perl 0.001006-1
ii libnamespace-clean-perl 0.27-1
ii libpath-tiny-perl 0.114-1
ii libperlio-gzip-perl 0.19-1+b6
ii libsereal-decoder-perl 4.018+ds-1
ii libsereal-encoder-perl 4.018+ds-1
ii libtext-levenshteinxs-perl 0.03-4+b7
ii libtext-xslate-perl 3.5.8-1
ii libtime-duration-perl 1.21-1
ii libtime-moment-perl 0.44-1+b2
ii libtimedate-perl 2.3300-1
ii libtry-tiny-perl 0.30-1
ii libtype-tiny-perl 1.010002-1
ii libunicode-utf8-perl 0.62-1+b1
ii liburi-perl 1.76-2
ii libxml-libxml-perl 2.0134+dfsg-2
ii libxml-writer-perl 0.625-1
ii libyaml-libyaml-perl 0.82+repack-1
ii lzip 1.21-7
ii man-db 2.9.3-2
ii patchutils 0.4.2-1
ii perl [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.30.3-4
ii t1utils 1.41-4
ii xz-utils 5.2.4-1+b1
lintian recommends no packages.
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
ii binutils-multiarch 2.35-1
ii libtext-template-perl 1.59-1
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