Bug#993955: marked as done (lintian: Offers incorrect/harmful advice regarding usrmerge)
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regarding lintian: Offers incorrect/harmful advice regarding usrmerge
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Package: lintian
Version: 2.105.0
Severity: serious
Justification: unsuitable for release in the release maanger's opinion
X-Debbugs-Cc: stuart@debian.org
Dear Maintainer,
Following up on a conversation in #debian-qa, the current wording of the
classification tag "unmerged-usr" is problematic:
C: unmerged-usr
N:
N: The named file is being installed in a legacy location. Modern Debian systems install this file under /usr.
N:
N: Please move this file to a suitable place under the "merged /usr" scheme. Please consult the provided
N: references as to where that might be.
N:
N: Please refer to https://wiki.debian.org/UsrMerge, https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg/MergedUsr, Bug#978636,
N: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2020/11/#00232, https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2020/12/#00386,
N: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2019/03/msg00001.html, https://rusty.ozlabs.org/?p=236,
N: https://www.linux-magazine.com/Issues/2019/228/Debian-usr-Merge, https://lwn.net/Articles/773342/, and
N: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/TheCaseForTheUsrMerge/ for details.
N:
N: Visibility: classification
N: Show-Always: no
N: Check: files/hierarchy/merged-usr
N: This tag is a classification. There is no issue in your package.
As noted in the discussion, there are two problems here:
* The advice "Please move this file" contradicts the emerging consensus on the
correct way to handle the transition. There has been a long discussion on
debian-devel about this where more details can be found. This consensus may
well change, of course, and then we would want lintian to be opinionated...
but the advice given in the tag is contrary to the current position.
* The tag is self-contradictory, offering both an instruction to act and
also saying "There is no issue in your package."
As indicated by a member of the Release Team in the discussion in #debian-qa,
the first of these points is a serious problem for the bookworm development
cycle and needs fixing. This bug is filed with serious severity in accordance
with the BTS definition of serious: "in the release manager's opinion, makes
the package unsuitable for release" [1].
[1] https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#severities
Classification tags not shown by default but will still pop up and for
a problem such as this may cause significant issues with bullseye→bookworm
upgrades, it's important to get right.
I'm filing this as a bug so that it doesn't accidentally get forgotten and
to keep this change out of testing.
regards
Stuart
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: lintian
Source-Version: 2.106.0
Done: Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
lintian, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to 993955@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org> (supplier of updated lintian package)
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Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2021 09:55:19 +0000
Source: lintian
Architecture: source
Version: 2.106.0
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Lintian Maintainers <lintian-maint@debian.org>
Changed-By: Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>
Closes: 993758 993908 993955 993975 994088
Changes:
lintian (2.106.0) unstable; urgency=medium
.
* Summary of tag changes:
+ Added:
- file-included-already
- source-ships-excluded-file
- superfluous-file-pattern
+ Removed:
- copyright-excludes-files-in-native-package
- source-includes-file-in-files-excluded
- unused-file-paragraph-in-dep5-copyright
- wildcard-matches-nothing-in-dep5-copyright
.
[ Felix Lechner ]
* Drop recommendation to implement usr-merge for individual packages.
(Closes: #993955)
* Use default output width of 80 characters. (Closes: #993908)
* Issue homepage-in-binary-package only when there is none in the source.
(Closes: #993975)
* Implement Files-Included field in DEP-5 copyright files.
(Closes: #993758)
* Parse path to source .dsc using a more robust method. (Closes: #994088)
.
[ gregor herrmann ]
* Refresh data/fields/perl-provides.
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