Bug#1099787: lintian: package-installs-apt-preferences should be Pedantic, not Error
Package: lintian
Version: 2.126.0
Followup-For: Bug #1099787
X-Debbugs-Cc: martin-eric.racine@iki.fi,josh@joshtriplett.org
I checked #786533. Something doesn't add up.
1) Josh's bug report doesn't refer to any Policy item.
2) It also suggests that packages SHOULD NOT install any APT preference, but asks for Lintian to produce an Error. Typically MUST[NOT] would produce an Error, while SHOULD[NOT] would produce a Warning.
Martin-Éric
-- System Information:
Debian Release: forky/sid
APT prefers unstable-debug
APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 6.12.48+deb13-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=fi:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii appstream 1.1.0-1
ii binutils 2.45-7
ii bzip2 1.0.8-6
ii diffstat 1.67-1
ii dpkg 1.22.21
ii dpkg-dev 1.22.21
ii file 1:5.46-5
ii gettext 0.23.1-2+b1
ii gpg 2.4.8-3
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.6
ii iso-codes 4.18.0-1
ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.42
ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.68-1
ii libberkeleydb-perl 0.66-1
ii libcapture-tiny-perl 0.50-1
ii libclass-xsaccessor-perl 1.19-4+b5
ii libclone-perl 0.47-1+b1
ii libconfig-tiny-perl 2.30-1
ii libconst-fast-perl 0.014-2
ii libcpanel-json-xs-perl 4.39-2
ii libdata-dpath-perl 0.60-1
ii libdata-validate-domain-perl 0.15-1
ii libdata-validate-uri-perl 0.07-3
ii libdevel-size-perl 0.85-1
pn libdigest-sha-perl <none>
ii libdpkg-perl 1.22.21
ii libemail-address-xs-perl 1.05-1+b4
pn libencode-perl <none>
ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.09-2
ii libfile-find-rule-perl 0.34-4
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 1.027-1
ii libipc-run3-perl 0.049-1
ii libjson-maybexs-perl 1.004008-1
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 0.148-1
ii libperlio-gzip-perl 0.20-1+b4
ii libperlio-utf8-strict-perl 0.010-1+b3
ii libproc-processtable-perl 0.637-1
ii libregexp-wildcards-perl 1.05-3
ii libsereal-decoder-perl 5.004+ds-1+b3
ii libsereal-encoder-perl 5.004+ds-1+b3
ii libsort-versions-perl 1.62-3
ii libsyntax-keyword-try-perl 0.30-1+b1
ii libterm-readkey-perl 2.38-2+b4
ii libtext-levenshteinxs-perl 0.03-5+b4
ii libtext-markdown-discount-perl 0.18-1
ii libtext-xslate-perl 3.5.9-2+b1
ii libtime-duration-perl 1.21-2
ii libtime-moment-perl 0.44-2+b4
ii libtimedate-perl 2.3300-2
ii libunicode-utf8-perl 0.62-3
ii liburi-perl 5.30-1
ii libwww-mechanize-perl 2.19-1
ii libwww-perl 6.78-1
ii libxml-libxml-perl 2.0207+dfsg+really+2.0134-6
ii libyaml-libyaml-perl 0.903.0+ds-1
ii lzip [lzip-decompressor] 1.25-3
ii lzop 1.04-2
ii man-db 2.13.1-1
ii patchutils 0.4.2-1
ii perl [libversion-perl] 5.40.1-6
ii t1utils 1.41-4
ii unzip 6.0-29
ii xz-utils 5.8.1-1.1
lintian recommends no packages.
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn binutils-multiarch <none>
ii libtext-template-perl 1.61-1
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