Re: lintian usage and inconsistence problem
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 9:57 AM, T o n g <mlist4suntong@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Jan 2014 07:34:20 +0100, Niels Thykier wrote:
>
>>>> $ lintian -EviIL +pedantic --color auto --display-experimental
>>>> ../*.dsc
>>>> [...]
>>>> I.e., when I invoke lintian manually, I didn't see problems reported
>>>> by debuild.
>>>
>>> Lintian can check both source packages (*.dsc) or binary packages
>>> (*.deb). By running it on the .dsc file, you only see the results of
>>> source checks.
>>>
>>> The solution to this is to invoke lintian on the .changes file.
>>> As a consequence it will do both source and binary checks....
>>>
>> Bonus hint: you can often omit the package argument for lintian, when
>> you run it from the unpacked source tree. ...
>
> Thanks everyone for your helps.
>
> I run my above lintian with and without "../*.changes", but the results
> are all the same. They all are the same as that of "../*.dsc". I.e.,
> still missing info.
>
> Any ideas?
>
If you are on stable, do you have the version of lintian from
backports installed?
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Regards,
Jordan Metzmeier
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