Dear Maintainer, When doing a QA revision over the package "gox", I received the warning: W: gox source: unknown-field Go-Import-Path However, the right field name is XS-Go-Import-Path, not Go-Import-Path. The field is present in debian/control on gox: XS-Go-Import-Path: github.com/mitchellh/gox If the XS-Go-Import-Path filed is removed, the following message is shown: I: gox source: missing-xs-go-import-path-for-golang-package The Debian bug #984719 explains how much the XS-Go-Import-Path field is needed. Regards, Eriberto
Hi, I can confirm this issue for lintian 2.116.0 against src:piuparts as it is in git or unstable.
Hi, Holger Levsen wrote: I can confirm as well. Unfortunately this is not as trivial to fix properly as it seems: A) Lintian currently doesn't seem to make a difference between the fields in the .dsc file and those in the debian/control file. But especially these XS-* fields exactly need that differentiation. B) If I add Autobuild, Go-Import-Path, and Ruby-Versions to data/common/source-fields, the test suite shows that then these lintian tags would fire although they shouldn't (according to the test suite): adopted-extended-field (in section for source) XS-Go-Import-Path adopted-extended-field (in section for source) XS-Autobuild So for now I have no idea except for hardcoding these three inside the source function in lib/Lintian/Check/Fields/Unknown.pm. But this feels wrong. This though might lead to false negatives if someone uses e.g. Go-Import-Path without the "XS-" prefix in debian/control. What would be worse: The current false positives or the potential false negatives? I assume that any potential false negative on these three fields will cause package breakage at build time (wrong Ruby versions, some Go stuff not working, non-free packages not autobuilding, etc.), so that we can cope with them. Cloning this bug report to document that we need a rewrite of Lintian::Check::Fields::Unknown and module dependencies to distinguish between .dsc fields and debian/control fields with a common subset. And maybe with the one set being calculated from the other set by stripping the XS- prefix. Regards, Axel
Hi, Holger Levsen wrote: I can confirm as well. Unfortunately this is not as trivial to fix properly as it seems: A) Lintian currently doesn't seem to make a difference between the fields in the .dsc file and those in the debian/control file. But especially these XS-* fields exactly need that differentiation. B) If I add Autobuild, Go-Import-Path, and Ruby-Versions to data/common/source-fields, the test suite shows that then these lintian tags would fire although they shouldn't (according to the test suite): adopted-extended-field (in section for source) XS-Go-Import-Path adopted-extended-field (in section for source) XS-Autobuild So for now I have no idea except for hardcoding these three inside the source function in lib/Lintian/Check/Fields/Unknown.pm. But this feels wrong. This though might lead to false negatives if someone uses e.g. Go-Import-Path without the "XS-" prefix in debian/control. What would be worse: The current false positives or the potential false negatives? I assume that any potential false negative on these three fields will cause package breakage at build time (wrong Ruby versions, some Go stuff not working, non-free packages not autobuilding, etc.), so that we can cope with them. Cloning this bug report to document that we need a rewrite of Lintian::Check::Fields::Unknown and module dependencies to distinguish between .dsc fields and debian/control fields with a common subset. And maybe with the one set being calculated from the other set by stripping the XS- prefix. Regards, Axel
Hello, Bug #1029471 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/97b9e042c06487b27b383a5ee010fb1788e77731 (this message was generated automatically) -- Greetings https://bugs.debian.org/1029471
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
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Format: 1.8
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:29:41 -0400
Source: lintian
Architecture: source
Version: 2.139.0
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Lintian Maintainers <lintian-maint@debian.org>
Changed-By: Louis-Philippe Véronneau <pollo@debian.org>
Closes: 1013414 1029471 1140147 1140893 1141065 1141228 1141908 1142332 1142627 1142809
Changes:
lintian (2.139.0) unstable; urgency=medium
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[ Nilesh Patra ]
* d/control: Drop ${misc:Depends} from Depends
* Move d/lintian-overrides -> d/lintian.lintian-overrides
* New tag: binary-contains-insecure-defaultgodebug-settings
(Closes: #1141908)
* tests(use-godebug): Add test to test against
`binary-contains-defaultgodebug-options`
* Add golang-go as a test-dep both for build and autopkgtest
* New tag: xs-go-import-path-differs-from-module-path
* tests(differing-golang-xs-go-import-path): Add test to test against
`xs-go-import-path-differs-from-module-path`
* Golang::ImportPath - consider first path in case of multiple
`XS-Go-Import-Path`
* tests(golang-xs-go-import-path-multiple): Add test to check
`xs-go-import-path-differs-from-module-path` against multiple go import
paths
* tests(differing-golang-xs-go-import-path): Drop bogus Go-Import-Path in
d/control.in
* Bump severity of `xs-go-import-path-differs-from-module-path` to `info`
* Rename `sub all` to `sub all_entries` in lib sources
* Replace `->all` calls with `->all_entries` in Checks, docs and tests
* Update `single_binary` to be provided by sequencers and debhelper itself
(Closes: #1140893)
* Update phpcomposer to be provided by dh-sequence-phpcomposer
(Closes: #1142809)
* Update phppear to be provided by dh-sequence-phppear
* tests(appstream-metadata-license-hang): Add test to check against hang due
to missing `expand_entities` set to `0` (test against: #1142332)
* Lintian::Check::Fields::Maintainer::Team - Update team email address for
go team
* Lintian::Check::Fields::Maintainer - Improve check for
`no-human-maintainers` to instead parse email and check hosts instead of
checking raw maintainer strings
* Add new tag wrong-package-mail-alias to flag instances of packages using
wrong packages.debian.org alias (Closes: #1142627)
* tests(fields-wrong-package-email-alias): Add test for tag
wrong-package-mail-alias
* Lintian::Check::Fields::Unknown - Drop prefix starting with X (XS-*,
XSBC-* etc) as the fields in `.dsc` strips them off
(Closes: #1029471, #1013414)
* tests(fields-unknown-autobuild-unrel): Add test to ensure XS-Autobuild
does not spawn unknown-field (to test against #1013414)
* source-fields: Update downstream fields with full prefix
(Closes: #1141065)
* Check for `__fentry__` for profiling options as well
* tests(binaries-general): Also add a test to compile with `-mno-fentry` on
amd64 to continue testing against `mcount`
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[ Simon McVittie ]
* t: Make a test package more realistic
* Remove gobject-introspection-package-missing-depends-on-gir-depends tag
* Avoid typelib-missing-gir-depends with debhelper compat level 14
(Closes: #1140147)
* Add tests for #1140147
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[ Benjamin Drung ]
* Disable unnecessary-team-upload and nmu-in-changelog tags in ubuntu/main
profile
* Use distro-info-data in changes-file/known-dists (Closes: #1141228)
(LP: #1012459)
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[ Nicholas Guriev ]
* Do not fail at version guessing when Git binary is unavailable
* Do not fail spellintian on empty stdin
* Implement dpkg-build-api-level and debian-rules-defines-dpkg-build-api
tags
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[ Nikolas Nyby ]
* Fix typos in CONTRIBUTING.md
* XML parser: Disable external entity expansion. (Closes: #1142332)
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[ Louis-Philippe Véronneau ]
* d/control: debputy is a transitionnal package, use dh-debputy instead
* new tag 'puppet-module-but-not-dh-puppet'
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