Bug#970896: lintian times out while analyzing package
Package: lintian
Version: 2.95.0~bpo10+1
Severity: serious
Justification: fails to run properly
Trying to run lintian locally against src:mediawiki 1:1.35.0~rc.3-1 never
completed, I ^C'd the lintian command after 3+ hours.
A salsa CI run against a slightly older mediawiki package also failed
because it took more than an hour to run:
<https://salsa.debian.org/mediawiki-team/mediawiki/-/jobs/1024780>.
I don't know how to figure out if there's an infinite loop somewhere or
something specific to the size of mediawiki is causing problems, but I
really don't expect lintian to take this long.
Thanks,
-- Kunal
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.5
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.19.132-1.pvops.qubes.x86_64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (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 2.31.1-16
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 libcapture-tiny-perl 0.48-1
ii libclass-xsaccessor-perl 1.19-3+b2
ii libclone-perl 0.41-1+b1
ii libconfig-tiny-perl 2.23-1
ii libcpanel-json-xs-perl 4.09-1
ii libdata-dpath-perl 0.57-2
ii libdata-validate-domain-perl 0.10-1
ii libdevel-size-perl 0.82-1+b1
ii libdpkg-perl 1.19.7
ii libemail-address-xs-perl 1.04-1+b1
ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.08-1
ii libfile-find-rule-perl 0.34-1
ii libfont-ttf-perl 1.06-1
ii libhtml-html5-entities-perl 0.004-1
ii libipc-run3-perl 0.048-1
ii libjson-maybexs-perl 1.004000-1
ii liblist-compare-perl 0.53-1
ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.416-1+b4
ii liblist-utilsby-perl 0.11-1
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 libperlio-gzip-perl 0.19-1+b5
ii libproc-processtable-perl 0.56-1
ii libsereal-decoder-perl 4.005+ds-1+b1
ii libsereal-encoder-perl 4.005+ds-1+b1
ii libtext-glob-perl 0.10-1
ii libtext-levenshteinxs-perl 0.03-4+b6
ii libtext-markdown-discount-perl 0.11-3+b1
ii libtext-xslate-perl 3.5.6-1+b1
ii libtime-duration-perl 1.20-1
ii libtime-moment-perl 0.44-1+b1
ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-2+deb10u1
ii libtry-tiny-perl 0.30-1
ii libtype-tiny-perl 1.004004-1
ii libunicode-utf8-perl 0.62-1
ii liburi-perl 1.76-1
ii libxml-libxml-perl 2.0134+dfsg-1
ii libyaml-libyaml-perl 0.76+repack-1
ii lzip 1.21-3
ii lzop 1.03-4+b1
ii man-db 2.8.5-2
ii patchutils 0.3.4-2
ii perl [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.28.1-6+deb10u1
ii t1utils 1.41-3
ii unzip 6.0-23+deb10u1
ii xz-utils 5.2.4-1
lintian recommends no packages.
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn binutils-multiarch <none>
pn libtext-template-perl <none>
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