Hello,
Seeing that qa.debian.org is using version 2.114.123 of lintian, I
upgraded my lintian from its git tree, only to find that it seems I
cannot update my suppression rule according to the new output:
W: libbrlapi-dev: bad-whatis-entry [usr/share/man/man3/brlapi_authClientPacket_t.3.gz]
W: libbrlapi-dev: mismatched-override bad-whatis-entry [usr/share/man/man3/brlapi_*] [usr/share/lintian/overrides/libbrlapi-dev:2]
I did have updated this rule to include brackets:
bad-whatis-entry [usr/share/man/man3/brlapi_*]
but that doesn't seem to be working. I also tried to use escaping (which
had fixed things for the ${} case), but to no avail:
bad-whatis-entry \[usr/share/man/man3/brlapi_*\]
Lintian has recently been annoying enough that I'm unsure I'd continue
monitoring its output any more.
Samuel
unmerge 1003272 unmerge 1003353 unmerge 1007002 tag 1003272 + pending notfound 1003272 2.114.123 retitle 1003353 lintian: Override processing defective for square brackets and curly brackets notfound 1003353 2.114.0 severity 1007002 important notfound 1007002 2.114.123 tag 1007002 + wontfix kthxbye Hi again, I disagree that #1003272, #1003353 and #1007002 are the same bug. The former two are similar, but not identical and the latter was only the reason why the second one is showing up more often. Hence unmerging all three. Axel Beckert wrote in #1003272: And it actually fixed Tobias' issue. I can reproduce Tobias' issue with 2.114.0, but no more the current git HEAD (which is approximately 2.114.211, git commit 1c7bb81662e5e23a64fc272a008ddfc75c855537 or so). This is actually #1003353 which claims that processing of parentheses is broken, too, but actually only seems to be about brackets. This issue is still present in the current git HEAD. Will handle that one separately later. And #1007002 is only (!) about design decision to change nearly all tag formats involving file paths and line numbers. It has nothing to do with the other two real bugs and I have no idea why they have been merged. While I was (and still am) annoyed by these changes, I do value the goal behind it. I currently suspect that we're mostly through this migration and I do hope that no such mass-changes will ever be needed again. Especially since — as I wrote — the following will likely never happen without Felix working on Lintian: Since at least I will not revert such huge changes, I'll tag #1007002 as "wontfix" for now and downgrade it to its original severity. We can continue working on that bug report if we find someone who either will work on reverting all the related work (although I think, it's both, too late and also probably way too much work given all the other recent changes) or, probably much better, provide either a migration script or some code which also accepts the old override formats. In that case, I'd remove the "wontfix" again. (Sorry, Simon, I generally agree with #1007002, but we currently have way more severe issues with Lintian than #1007002. Hence I also didn't remove the confirmed tag.) Regards, Axel
Hi Andreas,
Andreas Beckmann wrote:
please explain what makes you think that this issue is present in
lintian 2.114.0 as currently in Debian Unstable.
The submitter clearly said he ran into it when he bumped his lintian
copy to git HEAD.
And as far as I can see that problem is only present if Lintian uses
Text::Glob for evaluating wildcards in overrides and that got
introduced 32 commits _AFTER_ the 2.114.0 release:
commit 139009d5a54225ebff4509ec37b979cb898c17fe
Author: Felix Lechner <felix.lechner@lease-up.com>
Date: Wed Dec 1 21:46:24 2021 -0800
Use Text::Glob to match hint contexts with override patterns.
Replaces a trusted homegrown routine.
Gbp-Dch: ignore
(No idea why this was marked "Gbp-Dch: Ignore" as it has quite some
impact, also on dependencies and build-dependencies. *grrr*)
And:
~/lintian/lintian → git describe 139009d5a54225ebff4509ec37b979cb898c17fe
2.114.0-32-g139009d5a
^^^^^^^^^^
Which is the reason why I marked this bug report as NOT being found in
2.114.0 a few days ago. (And now again.)
So please refrain from marking this specific bug report as found in
2.114.0 again unless you have a really good reason to do so. Thanks in
advance!
Regards, Axel
Hello, Bug #1003353 in lintian reported by you has been fixed in the Git repository and is awaiting an upload. You can see the commit message below and you can check the diff of the fix at: https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/commit/f258329316d2882f9acee2eb32f0f9f4a24bd197 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Replace unfitting Text::Glob with more flexible Regexp::Wildcards Write a match_glob() function which emulates Text::Glob's match_glob() preconfigured for Lintian's needs, put it into Lintian::Utils and allow to export it from there. The mentioned preconfiguration for just using the "Jokers" set of Regexp::Wildcards fixes the issues with brackets in overrides which Lintian had since the introduction of Text::Glob in commit 139009d5a54225ebff4509ec37b979cb898c17fe. Closes: #1003353 This also allows us to remove one item from the exception list for Perl::Critic's Variables::ProhibitPackageVars policy as we no more need to configure Text::Glob every time (!) when we call match_glob(). Also update the dependencies accordingly. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ (this message was generated automatically) -- Greetings https://bugs.debian.org/1003353
Hi Samuel,
Samuel Thibault wrote:
Cause was the switch of was this commit from 6 months ago:
commit 139009d5a54225ebff4509ec37b979cb898c17fe
Author: Felix Lechner <felix.lechner@lease-up.com>
Date: Wed Dec 1 21:46:24 2021 -0800
Use Text::Glob to match hint contexts with override patterns.
Replaces a trusted homegrown routine.
Gbp-Dch: ignore
I neither understand why you would replace something "trusted" and
additionally not even plan to mention such a invasive commit in the
changelog.
And because Text::Glob also interprets brackets (and curly braces) and
you can't disable that, such issues were just waiting to happen.
And together with the brackets using "pointed hints" concept
introduced at around the same time, this caused really havoc.
*nod* JFYI, in case you didn't notice it (it happend months after your
bug report), but there was an "O: lintian" WNPP bug report in the
meantime: https://bugs.debian.org/1012289
So I'm now trying to clean up the shattered remains which the previous
(recent) Lintian maintainer(s) left behind.
For now I'm trying to get a current lintian version back into Testing,
i.e. I'm concentrating on RC and important bugs as well as bugs which
are annoying and easy to fix, e.g. those with a patch or MR.
At least the lintian internal test suite is no more failing. Although
it likely has some false negatives as it seems that the test suite is
no more able to run more than one check in one test. And running a
test against multiple checks at the same time seems critical to write
tests for issues like this one. Meh.
Anyway, my feature branch for this bug report is
https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/commits/brackets-in-overrides-rc-bug-1003353
but I will likely force-push that branch some more times, so the
commit message in
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1003353#50 might
become stale soon while I refine the commit before that (which
contains a test for this bug), but the patch will likely stay valid.
You also might get further such mails when I force-push new histories
in that feature branch. I hope you don't mind, but I wanted to publish
what I already have.
Regards, Axel
Hello, Bug #1003353 in lintian reported by you has been fixed in the Git repository and is awaiting an upload. You can see the commit message below and you can check the diff of the fix at: https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/commit/91b36bc14ea6d011b4107bb21b2a80c18aa0586f ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Replace unfitting Text::Glob with more flexible Regexp::Wildcards Write a match_glob() function which emulates Text::Glob's match_glob() preconfigured for Lintian's needs, put it into Lintian::Utils and allow to export it from there. The mentioned preconfiguration for just using the "Jokers" set of Regexp::Wildcards fixes the issues with brackets in overrides which Lintian had since the introduction of Text::Glob in commit 139009d5a54225ebff4509ec37b979cb898c17fe. Closes: #1003353 This also allows us to remove one item from the exception list for Perl::Critic's Variables::ProhibitPackageVars policy as we no more need to configure Text::Glob every time (!) when we call match_glob(). Also update the dependencies accordingly. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ (this message was generated automatically) -- Greetings https://bugs.debian.org/1003353
Control: tag -1 sid The BTS does not understand made up versions (i.e. versions not in the archive), so this bug shows up e.g. as a RC bug in stable. So limiting this bug with an incorrect version to sid+ was the smaller lie ... Andreas
Hi Andreas, Andreas Beckmann wrote: Yes, I'm aware of that. Ah! I wasn't aware of that. Thanks for the explanation. I mostly consider these non-official versions to be informational for humans. Didn't expect such an impact. Well, I prefer the tagging much more than the wrong version, even if it's the same lie. That way there's more information in there for us humans. And yes, that weird versioning the previous maintainers started and even claim that it is semantic versioning despite it's not semantic versioning (https://semver.org/) at all, will likely be killed, once I understand how lintian.d.o works (or not) nowadays. Regards, Axel
Hello, Bug #1003353 in lintian reported by you has been fixed in the Git repository and is awaiting an upload. You can see the commit message below and you can check the diff of the fix at: https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/commit/91b36bc14ea6d011b4107bb21b2a80c18aa0586f ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Replace unfitting Text::Glob with more flexible Regexp::Wildcards Write a match_glob() function which emulates Text::Glob's match_glob() preconfigured for Lintian's needs, put it into Lintian::Utils and allow to export it from there. The mentioned preconfiguration for just using the "Jokers" set of Regexp::Wildcards fixes the issues with brackets in overrides which Lintian had since the introduction of Text::Glob in commit 139009d5a54225ebff4509ec37b979cb898c17fe. Closes: #1003353 This also allows us to remove one item from the exception list for Perl::Critic's Variables::ProhibitPackageVars policy as we no more need to configure Text::Glob every time (!) when we call match_glob(). Also update the dependencies accordingly. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ (this message was generated automatically) -- Greetings https://bugs.debian.org/1003353
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
lintian, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to 1003353@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org> (supplier of updated lintian package)
(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
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Format: 1.8
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2022 13:23:02 +0200
Source: lintian
Architecture: source
Version: 2.115.0
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Lintian Maintainers <lintian-maint@debian.org>
Changed-By: Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>
Closes: 657390 932634 941656 963099 989381 995286 996740 999768 999810 1000234 1000977 1001655 1002828 1003131 1003272 1003353 1003456 1003668 1003817 1003913 1003941 1004231 1004239 1004240 1004660 1005046 1005184 1005762 1006390 1006859 1007140 1007257 1012090
Changes:
lintian (2.115.0) unstable; urgency=medium
.
The Lintian Resurrection Release.
.
* Summary of tag changes:
+ Added:
- alien-tag
- chown-with-dot
- conflicting-test-fields
- declare-python-versions-for-test
- drop-python-version-declaration
- invalid-override-restriction
- missing-prerequisite-for-pyproject-backend
- old-devhelp-standard
- stray-devhelp-documentation
- test-leaves-python-version-untested
- uses-poetry-cli
+ Removed:
- crossing-screens
- debhelper-compatibility-level-not-a-number
- debian-tests-control-and-control-autodep8
- exclusive-runtime-tests-field
- package-contains-devhelp-file-without-symlink
.
[ Axel Beckert ]
* Adopting Lintian. (Changes #1012289 from ITA to pure RFH.)
+ Remove Chris Lamb from Uploaders (see #1012289) and re-add myself.
* Workarounds until
https://github.com/Perl-Critic/Perl-Critic/issues/925 is fixed:
+ Replace all occurrences of "Copyright ©" with "Copyright (C)" again.
+ Remove unnecessary usage of UTF-8 from bin/lintian.
+ Replace UTF-8 characters in mostly Copyright comments.
+ Replace UTF-8 characters in code with \N{…}.
* Remove literal unicode character U+0334 COMBINING TILDE OVERLAY which
likely had been added accidentally. (Triggered by the symptoms of
https://github.com/Perl-Critic/Perl-Critic/issues/925, but permanent.)
* Update copyright years in debian/copyright.
* Run perltidy over lib, bin/lintian, private/refresh-perl-provides,
private/runtests and several files in t/scripts/.
* data/…/perl-provides updated by running "debian/rules
refresh-perl-provides".
* Add Felix Lechner to debian/copyright based on copyright statements
elsewhere. Thanks for all your contributions!
* Update t/recipes/README: "debian/rules runtests" → "private/runtests"
* Follow module renaming: Perl::Critic::Freenode → Perl::…::Community.
* t/s…/h…/tag-coverage.t: Replace "$ENV{'LINTIAN_BASE'}" with
"$ENV{'LINTIAN_BASE'} // '.'" to be able to run it with "prove -l".
* init.d-general check: Avoid relying on line numbers in #DEBHELPER#
replacement code.
* very-long-line-length-in-source-file: Ignore files listed in new data
file binary-file-extensions. (Closes: #1005046)
* Fix false positives for adopted-extended-field with X- prefixed
fields. (Closes: #999768)
+ Empty hints files seem to require a Test-Against field in desc.
* Update own source lintian-overrides for "pointed hints".
+ Make them work with old and new lintian versions by using wildcards.
* Rename README.developers to have a proper file suffix (.pod).
* Switch syntax marker of README.developers.pod from "perl" to "pod".
* Documentation update: Replace directory "frontend/" with "bin/".
* Fix a bunch of "Use of uninitialized value $_ in concatenation"
warnings when running tests with "prove -l" directly.
* README.developers.pod: Explain the difference between check and test.
* lintian(1): Drop mentioning of never existing --no-overrides option.
* Replace unfitting Text::Glob with more flexible Regexp::Wildcards
(Closes: #1003353)
+ Add unit test for Lintian::Util::match_glob. The current testsuite
does not seem to be able to cover such a case.
* Declare compliance with Debian Policy 4.6.1. (No changes needed.)
* Refresh data using private/refresh-data. Skip unreleased policy though
for now.
* Fix "Use of uninitialized value $step in concatenation" in
Lintian::Version which showed up as unrecognized tag (!) when running
the test suite on the git repo already tagged for a release.
* debian/gbp.conf: Declare so far used tag format so that gbp uses it.
* Add lintian override for very-long-line-length-in-source-file in
Lintian::Check::Cruft as well as test-leaves-python-version-untested.
* Use versioned Breaks instead of Conflicts against lzd, see #1001655.
Thanks Lintian for reporting ;-) and Paul Gevers for the sanity check!
.
[ Felix Lechner ]
* Refresh manual references.
* Use Text::Glob to match hint contexts with override patterns. Replaces
a trusted homegrown routine. (Closes: #1003272)
* Refresh list of available Debhelper commands.
* Refresh list of installable fonts.
* Generate section references for Lintian manual from repo; point to
website.
* Accept globbing patterns in profiles when enabling and disabling
checks or tags.
* Refresh data sources in parallel.
* Add the New Maintainer's Guide to the list of quotable authorities.
* Eliminate unpredictable output in the check siles/privacy-breach.
* Honor the environment variable NO_COLOR as specified in
https://no-color.org/.
* More attempts to eliminate unpredictable output in the check
files/privacy-breach.
* Drop the tag debian-tests-control-and-control-autodep8.
* Set authority references apart from other data sources.
* Provide rudimentary Emacs integration. (See: #968758)
* Associate Emacs modules with the 'editors' archive section.
* Recognize /usr/bin/raku as a known interpreter for scripts. (Closes:
#1002828)
* Do not depend on any particular Lzip implementation. (Closes:
#1001655)
* Exempt installables designated as documentation from warning about new
Python2 packages. (Closes: #995286)
* Update citations in two tags. (Closes: #1003131)
* Drop version requirement from
skip-systemd-native-flag-missing-pre-depends. (See: #1003271)
* Import new CSS style sheet from the website.
* Recognize dh-sequence-sphinxdoc as a valid prerequisite for
dh_sphinxdoc. (Closes: #999810)
* Tolerate multiarch acceptors in prerequisites for Debhelper commands
and addons. (Closes: #1000234)
* Issue yet more pointed hints.
* Recognize pybuild-plugin-pyproject as a valid prerequisite for the
python3 Debhelper plugin. (Closes: #1003668)
* Exempt bullseye backports from changelog-file-missing-explicit-entry.
(Closes: #941656)
* Mask long source lines in autotools-generated files. (Closes: #996740)
* Turn embedded-library into a classification tag. (Closes: #932634)
* Require the targets build-arch and build-indep in debian/rules.
(Closes: #657390)
* Do not insist on a particular name for unversioned links to a shared
library. (Closes: #963099)
* Exempt the names of Debian folks associated with a package from
spelling checks. (Closes: #989381)
* Require py3version invocation consistent with presence of
X-Python3-Version in d/control. (See: #1001677)
* Exempt CGI scripts from executable-in-usr-lib. (Closes: #1003941)
* CGI scripts can be ELF executables. (See: #1003941)
* Exempt Python's .dist-info and .egg-info folders everywhere from
documentation-outside-usr-share. (Closes: #1003913)
* Flag an outdated Debian copyright just once; use the most recent
year. (Closes: #1003817)
* Implement '--no-show-overrides'; honor it for overrides and masks
alike. (See: #1004240)
* Allow the command-line option '--no-info' to reverse 'info=yes' in the
configuration file. (Closes: #1004240)
* Elide manual references to ancient Lintian versions; use modern
examples. (Closes: #1004231)
* Deprecate --no-tag-display-limit for '--tag-display-limit 0'; update
documentation. (Closes: #1004239)
* Also provide a default output width for
lintian-annotate-hints. (Closes: #1004660)
* Mask examples in tests from
package-does-not-install-examples. (Closes: #1005184)
* Recognize Java 18 in unstable, and Java 19 as otherwise
available. (Closes: #1005762)
* Leave default Java bytecode version at 56. (See: #1005762)
* Adjust documentation reference to manual page for dh_make. (Closes:
#1006390)
* Warn about devhelp index files that use version 1. (Closes: #1006859)
* Store ELF information from readelf in an MLDBM database. (Closes:
#1003456)
* Issue pedantic hint for dot in 'chown user.group' instead of a
colon. (Closes: #1007140)
* Upgrade missing-systemd-timer-for-cron-script to warning; no longer
experimental. (Closes: #1007257)
.
[ Ryan Finnie ]
* Provide a constant citation for
systemd-service-file-uses-nobody-or-nogroup. (Closes: !385)
.
[ Louis-Philippe Véronneau ]
* Check that tests pulling in all Python versions also query which ones
are available. (Closes: !361)
* Add new Python tags for pyproject.toml build backends according to
PEP-517. (Closes: !384)
* Rename 'python3-flit' to 'flit', as there is no 'python3-flit'
package. (Closes: !386)
.
[ Daniel Kahn Gillmor ]
* Correct lintian-annotate-hints manpage.
.
[ Simon McVittie ]
* Silence a very widespread false positive for detached debug symbols.
(Closes: #1000977, !387)
.
[ Simon Quigley ]
* Add "kinetic" as a known Ubuntu distribution. (Closes: !392)
.
[ xiao sheng wen(肖盛文) ]
* Add riscv64 support (Closes: #1012090, !394)
.
[ Damyan Ivanov ]
* Update releases.json data for Debian policy releases (4.6.1 added;
closes: !393)
.
[ Paul Wise ]
* Add more obsolete domains for former source code hosting services.
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