Dear maintainer,

I have filed a bug report against a package that do not provide
an empty extended description [1]. After that i checked the tracker
page [2] and i noticed that the lintian warning was not emitted
despite this tag is active (but doesn't catch anything ATM) [3].

I don't know internals of lintian, if I made some mistakes please
feel free to close this report.
Sorry in advance for the noise.

Thanks for your work.


[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=880001
[2] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/binutils
[3] https://lintian.debian.org/tags/extended-description-is-empty.htm

retitle 880004 extended-description-is-empty doesn't catch debug packages
thanks

Hi s3v,

Thanks for the report. I note that these are -dbg packages. From
the source:

            # Ignore debug packages with empty "extended" description
            # "debug symbols for pkg foo" is generally descriptive
            # enough.

In addition, these -dbg packages should disappear "soon" due to automatic
debug packages:

https://wiki.debian.org/AutomaticDebugPackages

Not at all! Well spotted - please keep looking for other problems :)


Regards,

Thanks for your quick reply.

Yes, this makes sense.

This issue was spotted after attempting to translate descriptions of binutils *-dbg
packages by using DDTSS.
Packages with empty extended description are not handled properly by DDTSS and
fetching them causes some troubles (translation interface is quite broken). For
reference, see [1] and [2] (login required).
Maybe the assumption that packages with empty long description would never reach
the archive was made.

I clone&reassign this bug so that @l10n-devel folks will be informed about this
problem.

I will do it (after digging more in deep before opening something else :) ).


Thanks again!


[1] https://ddtp2.debian.net/ddtss/index.cgi/it/translate/binutils-mips-linux-gnu-dbg
[2] https://ddtp2.debian.net/ddtss/index.cgi/fr/translate/libbinutils-dbg