Bug#1079715: source-is-missing false positive for patch with 'ELF' in its header
Package: lintian
Version: 2.118.0
Severity: normal
A patch that starts with:
From: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2021 17:46:48 +0100
Subject: btf_encoder: Match ftrace addresses within ELF functions
is reported by file as:
unified diff output text, 1st line "From: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>", 2nd line "Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2021 17:46:48 +0100", 3rd line "Subject: btf_encoder: Match ftrace addresses within ELF functions", ASCII text
which satisifies the test:
if ($item->file_type =~ m{\bELF\b}x) {
in Lintian/Check/Files/SourceMissing.pm, resulting in a false
source-is-missing error (and a source-contains-prebuilt-binary
pedantic note, but I can quite happily ignore that).
Please use a stricter regex that will only match file output for ELF
binaries.
Ben.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
APT prefers unstable-debug
APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'oldstable-security'), (500, 'oldoldstable-updates'), (500, 'oldoldstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental')
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Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 6.9.11-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.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 2.42.90.20240720-2
ii bzip2 1.0.8-5.1
ii diffstat 1.66-1
ii dpkg 1.22.9
ii dpkg-dev 1.22.9
ii file 1:5.45-3
ii gettext 0.22.5-2
ii gpg 2.2.43-8
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.6
ii iso-codes 4.16.0-1
ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.40+b5
ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.68-1
ii libberkeleydb-perl 0.64-2+b3
ii libcapture-tiny-perl 0.48-2
ii libclass-xsaccessor-perl 1.19-4+b3
ii libclone-perl 0.46-1+b2
ii libconfig-tiny-perl 2.30-1
ii libconst-fast-perl 0.014-2
ii libcpanel-json-xs-perl 4.38-1
ii libdata-dpath-perl 0.59-1
ii libdata-validate-domain-perl 0.10-1.1
ii libdata-validate-uri-perl 0.07-3
ii libdevel-size-perl 0.84-1
pn libdigest-sha-perl <none>
ii libdpkg-perl 1.22.9
ii libemail-address-xs-perl 1.05-1+b3
ii libencode-perl 3.21-1+b1
ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.09-2
ii libfile-find-rule-perl 0.34-3
ii libfont-ttf-perl 1.06-2
ii libhtml-html5-entities-perl 0.004-3
ii libhtml-tokeparser-simple-perl 3.16-4
ii libio-interactive-perl 1.025-1
ii libipc-run3-perl 0.049-1
ii libjson-maybexs-perl 1.004005-1
ii liblist-compare-perl 0.55-2
ii liblist-someutils-perl 0.59-1
ii liblist-utilsby-perl 0.12-2
ii libmldbm-perl 2.05-4
ii libmoo-perl 2.005005-1
ii libmoox-aliases-perl 0.001006-2
ii libnamespace-clean-perl 0.27-2
ii libpath-tiny-perl 0.146-1
ii libperlio-gzip-perl 0.20-1+b3
ii libperlio-utf8-strict-perl 0.010-1+b2
ii libproc-processtable-perl 0.636-1+b2
ii libregexp-wildcards-perl 1.05-3
ii libsereal-decoder-perl 5.004+ds-1+b2
ii libsereal-encoder-perl 5.004+ds-1+b2
ii libsort-versions-perl 1.62-3
ii libsyntax-keyword-try-perl 0.29-2
ii libterm-readkey-perl 2.38-2+b3
ii libtext-levenshteinxs-perl 0.03-5+b3
ii libtext-markdown-discount-perl 0.16-1+b2
ii libtext-xslate-perl 3.5.9-2
ii libtime-duration-perl 1.21-2
ii libtime-moment-perl 0.44-2+b3
ii libtimedate-perl 2.3300-2
ii libunicode-utf8-perl 0.62-2+b2
ii liburi-perl 5.28-1
ii libwww-mechanize-perl 2.18-1
ii libwww-perl 6.77-1
ii libxml-libxml-perl 2.0207+dfsg+really+2.0134-4
ii libyaml-libyaml-perl 0.89+ds-1+b1
ii lzip [lzip-decompressor] 1.24.1-2
ii lzop 1.04-2
ii man-db 2.12.1-2
ii patchutils 0.4.2-1
ii perl [libencode-perl] 5.38.2-5
ii t1utils 1.41-4
ii unzip 6.0-28
ii xz-utils 5.6.2-2
lintian recommends no packages.
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
ii binutils-multiarch 2.42.90.20240720-2
ii libtext-template-perl 1.61-1
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