Re: lintian info message

[cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

Michael Wiedmann <mw@miwie.in-berlin.de> wrote:
>In creating an unofficial Debian Package on a Potato system I get the
>following lintian info message, which I don't know how to get rid of:
>
>$ lintian -iIv PACKAGE.dsc
>...
>I: PACKAGE source: unknown-field-in-dsc format
>...
>
>Checking the deb-file alone produces no info message so I supsect the
>following line in the dsc-file:
>
>Format: 1.0
>
>But I don't know how this lines find it's way into the dsc-file and how
>to avoid it. Any hints are appreciated.

It's not a bug in your package, but a bug in lintian; the Format: field
was introduced in dpkg 1.6.13. The warning was eliminated in lintian
1.11.3:

lintian (1.11.3) unstable; urgency=low

  * Added 'Format' field to dsc file checks
    New dpkg versions seem to write a Format version to dsc files, lintian
    flagged them as an unknown field.
  [...]

 -- Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <shaleh@debian.org>  Fri,  1 Sep 2000 15:35:03 -0700

Try upgrading to the version of lintian in unstable (which has generally
better checks anyway). It should install cleanly on potato systems.

-- 
Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]