Re: Bug#607293: 75 unreported RC bugs, (mostly?) fixable by rebuilding / could lintian please prevent such packages from being uploaded in future?

["Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>]

On Fri, 2010-12-17 at 23:31 +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote:
> On 12331 March 1977, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
[...]
> >>   w3m http://lintian.debian.org/tags/install-info-used-in-maintainer-script.html | awk '/[(]binary[)]$/ {print $1}'
> > if you want the list of tags used by ftp-master to
> > auto-reject packages, you need to convince them, not us.
[...]
> But lintian could sure go already and make this E, its "Severity:
> normal, Certainty: possible" a Warning now.And Certainty only possible,
> does that mean we get false-positives?

Yep.  lintian's shell-script parsing isn't really very smart.  In this
case, after removing comments, we simply look for "\binstall-info\b"
occurring anywhere within a line.

Most of the time this will probably be explicit calls to install-info
but it would also catch things like

	if [ old dpkg version ]; then
		install-info blah
	fi

or

	foo-script > install-info

The latter is probably quite unlikely in maintainer scripts and there
are probably better examples of FPs, but they're the couple that
immediately came to mind.

Regards,

Adam