Re: Lintian check for d/upstream files (Was: another source of URLs for DUCK: debian/upstream)

[Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu>]

Hi Simon,

On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 02:56:08PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi Simon,
> 
> On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 05:09:37PM +0200, Simon Kainz wrote:
> > Am 2013-08-23 13:39, schrieb Andreas Tille:
> > >>Otherwise I'd gladly help working on a lintian module.
> > >I have never written any lintian check so some kind of kickstart would
> > >be great.
> > >
> > Hi!
> > 
> > I wrote a _very basic_ lintian check, available here:
> > 
> > http://familiekainz.at/deb/lintian/metadata.tgz
> 
> That's very cool!  Thanks for your effort!

I have found some issue which is not found by the lintian check.
Please have a look at

   git://git.debian.org/git/debian-med/r-cran-ggplot2.git 

which contains an d/upstream file with the line


Cite-as:<a href="http://home.imf.au.dk/jensen/software/gfan/gfan.html";>Gfan, a software system for Gröbner fans and tropical varieties</a>


This is wrong YAML syntax since the separator between key and value is

   ": "

and the space is lacking in the line above.  I might add that in the
beginning the yaml files were parsed using Perl and later I did the
parsing with Python and when doing so I detected several instances of
this syntax issue.  So I assume that the Perl YAML implementation is not
as strict as it should be here - which leads to the consequence that
lintian will not detect it.

I would be very happy if you could inject this check into the lintian
test.

Kind regards

       Andreas.

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