Hello,
this could be due to an incomplete fix for bug #999768 or maybe it
is caused by some other bug.
Anyway, I have:
$ grep -n Ruby-Versions debian/control
9:XS-Ruby-Versions: all
16:XB-Ruby-Versions: ${ruby:Versions}
in my package ('apt-listbugs').
Running "lintian -EviIL +pedantic" on the .changes file generates
the following reports:
N:
W: apt-listbugs source: unknown-field Ruby-Versions
N:
N: See the Policy Manual for a list of the possible fields in a package
N: control files.
N:
N: Please refer to Binary package control files – DEBIAN/control (Section
N: 5.3) in the Debian Policy Manual and Debian source control files – .dsc
N: (Section 5.4) in the Debian Policy Manual for details.
N:
N: Visibility: warning
N: Show-Always: no
N: Check: fields/unknown
N: Renamed from: unknown-field-in-dsc unknown-field-in-control
N:
N:
I: apt-listbugs source: adopted-extended-field (in section for apt-listbugs) XB-Ruby-Versions [debian/control:16]
N:
N: A field in debian/control has an extension prefix but is also known
N: without it.
N:
N: Extension prefixes like XS-* or XC-* allow experimental fields to
N: propagate to the right place when packages are built with dpkg. In this
N: case, however, the field is also known without the prefix. In all
N: likelihood the field was permanently adopted, and dpkg learned how to deal
N: with it.
N:
N: Please consider removing the extension prefix for the field name.
N:
N: Visibility: info
N: Show-Always: no
N: Check: debian/control/field/adopted
N: Renamed from: xc-package-type-in-debian-control
N: xs-testsuite-field-in-debian-control xs-vcs-field-in-debian-control
N:
Both reports look wrong, since I have no plain 'Ruby-Versions'
field in my package source, and 'XB-Ruby-Versions' has not been
adopted, thus requiring the 'XB-' prefix.
Please fix this bug in lintian.
Thanks for your time and patience!
On Fri, 12 Aug 2022 18:03:50 +0200 Francesco Poli (wintermute) wrote: [...] This bug is still present in the lintian version currently in sid. Please fix it.
On Sun, 9 Oct 2022 19:29:30 +0200 Francesco Poli wrote: [...] Hello again, XS-Ruby-Versions and XB-Ruby-Versions are now deprecated, see the changelog entry for package [gem2deb/2.1]. [gem2deb/2.1]: <https://tracker.debian.org/news/1392420/accepted-gem2deb-21-source-into-unstable/> As a consequence, I think that lintian should no longer point out that either of those two fields is adopted (which is not the case), but, if anything, it should point out that those two fields are deprecated and need to be dropped... Do you agree? Please let me know. Thanks for your time and patience. Bye (and Season's Greetings!).
Hello, The latest release tried to fix this completely. But even then, I can't see this with older release either. https://udd.debian.org/lintian-tag/unknown-field?affected=yes does not list even a single package with Ruby-Versions. I took an example of src:hiera package which has XB-Ruby-Versions declared and I do not see this hint being emitted in the lintian run with version 2.138.0, at the time of writing this mail. See https://udd.debian.org/lintian/?email1=&email2=&email3=&packages=hiera&ignpackages=&format=html<_error=on<_warning=on<_information=on<_pedantic=on<_experimental=on<_overridden=on&lintian_tag=#all So I think this got fixed at some point, unsure of the timeline. Hence, I am closing this bug. If you are still able to reproduce this, please re-open this bug. Thank you for reporting, Nilesh
Control: found -1 lintian/2.138.0 Hi, thanks for following up on this bug report. Maybe I am misinterpreting what you mean, but I see the complaint `adopted-extended-field` being emitted by `lintian/2.138.0` for package `src:hiera`. And it seems to me that it is [emitted] for a number of other packages having `XB-Ruby-Versions` set in their control file. For instance, packages `batalert`, `bio-vcf`, `fontcustom`, many `ruby-*` package, and so forth... [emitted]: <https://udd.debian.org/lintian-tag/adopted-extended-field?affected=yes> It seems that `lintian/2.138.0` runs are still able to emit the complaint `adopted-extended-field`, when finding field `XB-Ruby-Versions` in the control file. As I [said], I think that lintian should now point out that the two fields `XS-Ruby-Versions` and `XB-Ruby-Versions` are deprecated and need to be dropped... [said]: <https://bugs.debian.org/1017064#17> Do you agree?
Control: reopen -1 Control: found -1 lintian/2.139.0 D'oh! You are indeed right. I did not look properly here and was looking at the wrong tag. It is reproducible even in the latest upload. The attempt to unify source and binary control fields is leading to all of this. Yes, but please file a separate bug report for this. Best, Nilesh
On Wed, 5 Aug 2026 10:12:49 +0530 Nilesh Patra wrote: [...] Done, it's bug [#1145776]. Bye! [#1145776]: <https://bugs.debian.org/1145776>
Hello, Bug #1017064 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/ae29752b8813b9e677aaca212e63dce05b02aeb6 This is similar to the fix done for the fields of the source stanza in https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/commit/97b9e042c06487b27b383a5ee010fb1788e77731 https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/commit/ac93c6a22e ------------------------------------------------------------------------ (this message was generated automatically) -- Greetings https://bugs.debian.org/1017064
Hello, Bug #1017064 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/ae29752b8813b9e677aaca212e63dce05b02aeb6 This is similar to the fix done for the fields of the source stanza in https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/commit/97b9e042c06487b27b383a5ee010fb1788e77731 https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/commit/ac93c6a22e ------------------------------------------------------------------------ (this message was generated automatically) -- Greetings https://bugs.debian.org/1017064
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
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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 1017064@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
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Louis-Philippe Véronneau <pollo@debian.org> (supplier of updated lintian package)
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Format: 1.8
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2026 12:38:47 -0400
Source: lintian
Architecture: source
Version: 2.141.0
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Lintian Maintainers <lintian-maint@debian.org>
Changed-By: Louis-Philippe Véronneau <pollo@debian.org>
Closes: 1017064 1145776 1147142 1147187 1147483
Changes:
lintian (2.141.0) unstable; urgency=medium
.
[ Louis-Philippe Véronneau ]
* Remove deprecated XS-Python-Version and X-Python-Version fields
.
[ Nilesh Patra ]
* Lintian::Screen::Python::Egg::Metadata - Do not check for `WHEEL` in
`dist-info` (Closes: #1147187)
* Lintian::Check::Documentation - Drop `dist-info` related files from
`NOT_DOCUMENTATION_FILE_REGEXES` and fix condition for exclusion of these.
Thanks to Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@debian.org>
* Rename Golang/ImportPath.pm -> Golang/ModulePath.pm to incorporate for
more module path related checks
* new tags: "go-library-package-does-not-include-version" and
"go-source-package-does-not-include-version" (Closes: #1147142)
* new tag: deprecated-debian-control-field (Closes: #1145776)
* Change severity level of `no-dep5-copyright` to `warning` (Closes:
#1147483)
* Unknown.pm, data: Add XB- prefixes for binary stanza fields in `data/` and
remove XB-* prefix in known binary fields checking for unknown fields
(Closes: #1017064)
* tags/tests/checks: Minor fixes in URLs (See: #1146466)
.
[ Scott Talbert ]
* Add more GHC path exclusions to RPATH check
.
[ Lucas Nussbaum ]
* Trim spelling text with builtin::trim
* Remove unused ELF section header fields
* Drop bignum for the ELF section Size decoding
.
[ Sylvestre Ledru ]
* Precompile the provider regexes for Javascript/Embedded.pm, Php/Embedded.pm
and Php/Pear/Embedded.pm.
* Documentation.pm: match the file name lists as compiled regexes
* Spelling.pm: gate the multi-word corrections on a single regex
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