Bug#998115: marked as done (lintian: false positive: "unknown-field Description" in source package)
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has caused the Debian Bug report #998115,
regarding lintian: false positive: "unknown-field Description" in source package
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Package: lintian
Version: 2.110.0
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: void@rittich.net
Adding a "Description" field in the source section of a control file
will cause lintian to issue the error "source: unknown-field Description".
The Debian Policy Manual [1] states that "in a source or binary control
file, the Description field contains a description of the binary package
[...]". Furthermore, deb-substvars allows to reference the description
field of the source package, using the variables ${source:Synopsis} and
${source:Extended-Description} [2]. Hence, adding a description to a
source package should be allowed. This field can be used to avoid
repetitions in the control file, as done by the abseil package [3],
which displays the said error message [4].
I would suggest to remove this warning for the "Description" field in
the source section.
[1]:
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-f-description
[2]:
https://manpages.debian.org/bullseye/dpkg-dev/deb-substvars.5.en.html#source:Synopsis
[3]: https://sources.debian.org/src/abseil/0~20200923.3-3/debian/control/
[4]: https://lintian.debian.org/sources/abseil
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Hi,
On Sat, Oct 30, 2021 at 7:45 AM Hannah Rittich <void@rittich.net> wrote:
>
> the bug report should be closed.
Closing.
Thank you for using Lintian!
Kind regards
Felix Lechner
P.S. Mattia, thanks for helping Hannah!
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