Bug#1003353: lintian: Cannot use brackets in suppression rules?
Package: lintian
Version: 2.114.123
Severity: normal
Hello,
Seeing that qa.debian.org is using version 2.114.123 of lintian, I
upgraded my lintian from its git tree, only to find that it seems I
cannot update my suppression rule according to the new output:
W: libbrlapi-dev: bad-whatis-entry [usr/share/man/man3/brlapi_authClientPacket_t.3.gz]
W: libbrlapi-dev: mismatched-override bad-whatis-entry [usr/share/man/man3/brlapi_*] [usr/share/lintian/overrides/libbrlapi-dev:2]
I did have updated this rule to include brackets:
bad-whatis-entry [usr/share/man/man3/brlapi_*]
but that doesn't seem to be working. I also tried to use escaping (which
had fixed things for the ${} case), but to no avail:
bad-whatis-entry \[usr/share/man/man3/brlapi_*\]
Lintian has recently been annoying enough that I'm unsure I'd continue
monitoring its output any more.
Samuel
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'proposed-updates-debug'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'oldstable-proposed-updates-debug'), (500, 'oldstable-proposed-updates'), (500, 'oldoldstable'), (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'buildd-experimental'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 5.15.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.37-10.1
ii bzip2 1.0.8-5
ii diffstat 1.64-1
ii dpkg 1.21.1
ii dpkg-dev 1.21.1
ii file 1:5.41-2
ii gettext 0.21-4
ii gpg 2.2.27-2
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.5
ii iso-codes 4.8.0-1
ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.40
ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.68-1
ii libcapture-tiny-perl 0.48-1
ii libclass-xsaccessor-perl 1.19-3+b7
ii libclone-perl 0.45-1+b1
ii libconfig-tiny-perl 2.27-1
ii libconst-fast-perl 0.014-1.1
ii libcpanel-json-xs-perl 4.27-1
ii libdata-dpath-perl 0.58-1
ii libdata-validate-domain-perl 0.10-1.1
ii libdata-validate-uri-perl 0.07-1
ii libdevel-size-perl 0.83-1+b2
pn libdigest-sha-perl <none>
ii libdpkg-perl 1.21.1
ii libemail-address-xs-perl 1.04-1+b3
ii libencode-perl 3.16-1
ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.09-1
ii libfile-find-rule-perl 0.34-1
ii libfont-ttf-perl 1.06-1.1
ii libhtml-html5-entities-perl 0.004-1.1
ii libhtml-tokeparser-simple-perl 3.16-4
ii libio-interactive-perl 1.023-1
ii libio-prompt-tiny-perl 0.003-1
ii libipc-run3-perl 0.048-2
ii libjson-maybexs-perl 1.004003-1
ii liblist-compare-perl 0.55-1
ii liblist-someutils-perl 0.58-1
ii liblist-utilsby-perl 0.11-1
ii libmoo-perl 2.005004-3
ii libmoox-aliases-perl 0.001006-1.1
ii libnamespace-clean-perl 0.27-1
ii libpath-tiny-perl 0.120-1
ii libperlio-gzip-perl 0.19-1+b7
ii libperlio-utf8-strict-perl 0.008-1+b1
ii libproc-processtable-perl 0.634-1
ii libsereal-decoder-perl 4.018+ds-1+b1
ii libsereal-encoder-perl 4.018+ds-1+b1
ii libsort-versions-perl 1.62-1
ii libsyntax-keyword-try-perl 0.26-1
ii libterm-readkey-perl 2.38-1+b2
ii libtext-glob-perl 0.11-2
ii libtext-levenshteinxs-perl 0.03-4+b8
ii libtext-markdown-discount-perl 0.13-1
ii libtext-xslate-perl 3.5.9-1
ii libtime-duration-perl 1.21-1
ii libtime-moment-perl 0.44-1+b3
ii libtimedate-perl 2.3300-2
ii libunicode-utf8-perl 0.62-1+b2
ii liburi-perl 5.10-1
ii libwww-mechanize-perl 2.06-1
ii libwww-perl 6.60-1
ii libxml-libxml-perl 2.0134+dfsg-2+b1
ii libyaml-libyaml-perl 0.83+ds-1
ii lzip [lzip-decompressor] 1.22-5
ii lzop 1.04-2
ii man-db 2.9.4-4
ii patchutils 0.4.2-1
ii perl [libencode-perl] 5.32.1-6
ii t1utils 1.41-4
ii unzip 6.0-26
ii xz-utils 5.2.5-2
lintian recommends no packages.
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn binutils-multiarch <none>
ii libtext-template-perl 1.60-1
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