Commit 9904e258 from Andrius Merkys updated the archive sections at
the time of writing, but the process should be automated.

Lintian does not presently utilize any network resources, and while
that may change in the future, it would be the wrong way forward. It
makes no sense for Lintian to query the archive for valid sections for
every invocation.

Ideally, the file from FTP Master that is described below would be
packaged and backported as needed. It is probably not updated often. I
asked Ganneff about this on #debian-ftp but have not heard back. Maybe
it could also be packaged together with other Debian data, such as
policy versions, which are being worked on in this bug:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=968154#52

Packaging such data for Debian is also found in other areas, for
example in 'dns-root-data'.

An alternative would be update ./data in our repo for each new
release, but that data remains static for each release. We keep
scripts for such updates in ./private. Contributions are welcome.

Kind regards
Felix  Lechner
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Hi

yesterday I created two new sections, one for go (#847520) and one for
raku (#816693) (AKA perl6).

And while I was on it, I followed the suggestion from #739934 and
created a file that contains a dump of all sections known to the
archive, together with their short and long descriptions. The initial
value of those descriptions has been taken from the packages.debian.org
code, so should be something well known and used.
That file is in the 822 format, with stanzas with 3 keys each, Section,
Description and Longdesc, like

- --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
Section: tex
Description: TeX
Longdesc: The famous typesetting software and related programs.

Section: text
Description: Text Processing
Longdesc: Utilities to format and print text documents.
- --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

This file is now available from
https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/sections.822 and will
automatically be kept in sync with the archive.

- --
bye, Joerg

Hello,

I agree.

I completely support packaging sections.822 into some data package so as
lintian and possibly other tools could read it without using network.

If packaging sections.822 is not an option, this alternative could work.
I used the following command in 9904e258:

curl -sSL https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/sections.822 \
| grep ^Section: | cut -d ' ' -f 2 | grep -v / \
| sort > data/fields/archive-sections

Best,
Andrius

Hello,

Bug #973308 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/70e887c6a66857a24c19c1ea538f228e7c8134df
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Automate importing of Debian archive sections

private/refresh-data now also updates data/fields/archive-sections
based on https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/sections.822

Also remove the "manually maintained" boilerplate in
data/fields/archive-sections. (Actually automatically removed by
calling private/refresh-data. No other changes in there.)

Also update Lintian::Check::Fields::Section to use
Lintian::Data::Archive::Section instead of loading the data file as
generic keyword file.

Closes: #973308

Code loosely based on Lintian::Data::Archive::AutoRejection.

Thanks: Andrius Merkys
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-- 
Greetings

https://bugs.debian.org/973308

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 973308@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
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org)
Format: 1.8
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2022 02:56:42 +0200
Source: lintian
Architecture: source
Version: 2.115.2
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Lintian Maintainers <lintian-maint@debian.org>
Changed-By: Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>
Closes: 880701 970275 973308 1000610 1009679
Changes:
 lintian (2.115.2) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   The "FFP (Fixing False Positives)" Release.
 .
   [ Axel Beckert ]
   * Automate importing of Debian archive sections. Thanks to Andrius
     Merkys. (Closes: #973308)
   * Make more testsuite scripts being able to simply run under "prove -l".
   * Move libio-prompt-tiny-perl dependency to debian/tests/control.
     Cherry-picked from Ubuntu's patches. (LP: #1959004)
   * Recognise Mac OS X icons (.icns), SQLite files (.sqlite and .sqlite3)
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   * Allow HTML files in /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/. (Closes: #970275)
     Thanks to Simon McVittie, Daniel Kahn Gillmor and Unit193!
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   * Also check dh level for missing-build-dependency-for-dh-addon, not
     just for missing-build-dependency-for-dh_-command. (Closes: #1000610)
   * Retroactively mention commit fcaded19 in debian/changelog entry of
     2.115.0 as it was erroneously marked with "Gbp-Dch: Ignore".
 .
   [ Guillem Jover ]
   * data/fields/name_section_mappings: Add golang section (Closes:
     #880701)
 .
   [ Rafael Laboissière ]
   * Ignore files /var/lib/ocaml/lintian/*.info in test for
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