Bug#904573: qa.debian.org: lintian.d.o reports spurious errors

[Nicolas Braud-Santoni <nicolas@braud-santoni.eu>]

Package: qa.debian.org
Severity: important

Dear QA team,

lintian.debian.org reports a source-is-missing error against a package I
co-maintain, nyx [0]. However, Lintian does not report the issue on my
development machine, and the file in question does not exist in the source
tarball.

Would it be possible for someone to check out why lintian.d.o reports
spurious errors?  This severely limits its usefulness.  :(

For information, here are some information about my lintian version and
how I checked the error was indeed spurious :

> $ apt-cache policy lintian
> lintian:
>   Installed: 2.5.93
>   Candidate: 2.5.93
>   Version table:
>  *** 2.5.93 990
>         990 http://localhost:3142/debian buster/main amd64 Packages
>         500 http://localhost:3142/debian sid/main amd64 Packages
>         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
> 
> $ lintian -iI --show-overrides /opt/deb/buildarea/nyx_2.0.4-5.dsc 
> I: nyx source: testsuite-autopkgtest-missing
> N: 
> N:    This package does not declare a test suite. Having a test suite helps
> N:    with automated QA in response to changes in the archive. For example, if
> N:    your package has a test suite, it is possible to re-execute that test
> N:    suite when any of the package dependencies has a new version and check
> N:    whether that update caused problems for your package.
> N:    
> N:    To declare a test suite, please add a debian/tests/control file to your
> N:    package.
> N:    
> N:    For more information on how to add functional tests to your package,
> N:    browse to https://ci.debian.net/doc/.
> N:    
> N:    Severity: wishlist, Certainty: certain
> N:    
> N:    Check: testsuite, Type: source
> N: 
> 
> $ tar -tf /opt/deb/buildarea/nyx_2.0.4.orig.tar.gz | grep -F min.js
> [No result]


Best,

  nicoo

[0]: https://lintian.debian.org/maintainer/dererk@debian.org.html#nyx

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.16.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)