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Re: Lintian for new packages



On Fri, Jan 24, 2025 at 10:00:10AM +0000, Arif Ali wrote:
> Hi mentors,
> 
> I am working on an ITP [1] for avocado, and have an interest in this
> package for testing framework for sosreport, which is a package I am
> maintaining.
> 
> However, currently it has various lintian errors, which I am working
> through with upstream at the moment.
> 
> We are very close, but want to see where we stand on some of the items.
> 
> like some of the following rules are of my concern, as these may take time
> to resolve upstream, and some commands just are helper commands, and don't
> really make sense for man pages.

Helper commands that shouldn't be run by a human probably belong in
libexec, not in $PATH.

>    - executable-in-usr-lib
>    - repeated-path-segment
>    - no-manual-page
> 
> I am already fixing with upstream 2 key items from lintian (see below), and
> have raised with upstream, and won't be uploading before these 2 items as
> we could have potential issues, especially with python3.13 support issues
> with deprecated libs.
> 
>    - uses-deprecated-python-stdlib
>    - bash-term-in-posix-shell (already resolved upstream)
> 
> I am keen to get through the initial package in, and can work on the 3
> first bullet points over time while I work with upstream, thoughts?

Sorry, what is your actual question?

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