Re: Lintian check for d/upstream files (Was: another source of URLs for DUCK: debian/upstream)
Hi Simon,
On Mon, Dec 02, 2013 at 02:45:30PM +0100, Simon Kainz wrote:
> >>> 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
>
> Sorry, i didn't find d/upstream in the repo specified. Are your sure
> this is the correct repo?
> I simple git clone'd the url above.
Uhhm, that's true. I probably mixed something up. However, ...
> > 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>
apt-get source gfan
will bring you an example which shows the problem described below.
> > 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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