#1147601 lintian: crashes in salsa-ci: Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/lintian/lib/Lintian/Check/ContinuousIntegration/Salsa.pm line 27.

#1147601#5
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2026-09-13 15:11:25 UTC
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The salsa-ci lintian job is crashing (for apparently all packages under
test) with

Can't locate Params/Util.pm in @INC (you may need to install the
Params::Util module) (@INC entries checked:
/usr/share/lintian/bin/../lib /etc/perl
/usr/local/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.42.3 /usr/local/share/perl/5.42.3
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.42 /usr/share/perl5
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl-base /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.42
/usr/share/perl/5.42 /usr/local/lib/site_perl) at
/usr/share/perl5/Sub/Exporter.pm line 9.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/Sub/Exporter.pm
line 9.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/Data/DPath.pm line 51.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/Data/DPath.pm line 51.
Compilation failed in require at
/usr/share/lintian/lib/Lintian/Check/ContinuousIntegration/Salsa.pm line 27.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at
/usr/share/lintian/lib/Lintian/Check/ContinuousIntegration/Salsa.pm line 27.
Compilation failed in require at
/usr/share/lintian/bin/../lib/Lintian/Group.pm line 260.

Example full log:
https://salsa.debian.org/rnpalmer-guest/influxdb-python/-/jobs/10295388

It wasn't happening yesterday, when the version of lintian used was
2.140.0, but I don't know what if any other packages also changed version:
https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/pandas/-/jobs/10291839

#1147601#10
Date:
2026-09-13 16:13:18 UTC
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Duplicate of #1147547 which is now fixed (this is not a bug in lintian).

All we need to do is wait for salsa CI to catch up.