Bug#655706: lintian: [checks/debconf] debconf-is-not-a-registry is pointing to none existing DP section (6.5.1)

Package: lintian Version: 2.5.4 Severity: normal Partial output from lintian -i: Refer to Debian Developer's Reference section 6.5.1 (Do not abuse debconf) and the debconf-devel(7) manual page for details. Section 6.5.1 doesn't exist. Debian ...

Message posted on the January 13th, 2012 - 6:50 AM ET

Bug#512210: lintian: [checks/po-debconf] Extend template check for updated strings

Package: lintian Version: 2.1.6 Severity: wishlist Tags: l10n http://people.debian.org/~codehelp/#debconf http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2009/01/msg00178.html I've been thinking about translation and debconf, partially due to my work on ...

Message posted on the January 18th, 2009 - 12:10 PM ET

Bug#516504: lintian: [checks/file-info] failing with error code 123

Package: lintian Version: 2.2.5 Severity: normal pm@thinkpad:~/deb/milter-greylist$ lintian -d milter-greylist_4.2~b1-1.dsc N: Lintian v2.2.5 N: Lintian root directory: /usr/share/lintian N: Configuration file: /etc/lintianrc N: Laboratory: N: ...

Message posted on the February 21st, 2009 - 5:40 PM ET

Bug#686813: unblock: lintian/2.5.10.2 (pre-approval)

This is a multi-part MIME message sent by reportbug. MIME-Version: 1.0 Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org Usertags: unblock Hi, I am considering to upload another minor release of Lintian ...

Message posted on the September 6th, 2012 - 4:50 AM ET

Bug#658971: lintian: exits 1 without any policy violations/errors/warnings checking epoptes

Package: lintian Version: 2.5.4 Severity: normal since epoptes 0.3.2, lintian will exit 1 when checking epoptes, but produces no policy violations or other warnings or errors... you can download the .dsc from your favorite debian mirror, and: ...

Message posted on the February 6th, 2012 - 7:40 PM ET

Bug#514497: lintian doesn't know about many virtual packages

Package: lintian Version: 2.2.1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Hi, The other day while reviewing a package I noticed it lacked a build dependency on a real package, instead of just relying on the virtual package. This made me consider gathering ...

Message posted on the February 7th, 2009 - 8:20 PM ET

Bug#639946: lintian: let's get rid of (most) *-debmake-* tags

Package: lintian Version: 2.5.2 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch debmake was removed from Debian before the lenny release. Lintian is carrying a few tags to detect debmake boilerplate, but only one of them (readme-debian-contains-debmake-template) ...

Message posted on the August 31st, 2011 - 6:00 PM ET

Bug#521257: Use of uninitialized value in bitwise or (|) at /usr/share/lintian/lib/Lintian/Command.pm line 308.

Package: lintian Version: 2.2.8 While checking the clamav packages (you can grab these from http://people.debian.org/~mt/clamav/) a few warnings where shown; I've repeated the process using -d, which results in the following output: ...

Message posted on the March 26th, 2009 - 4:30 AM ET

Bug#644021: [checks/{rules,debhelper}] parse continuation lines correctly

Package: lintian Version: 2.5.3 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch With the attached patch debian/rules parsers in checks/rules and checks/debhelper will parse continuation lines correctly. Jakub Wilk diff --git a/checks/debhelper ...

Message posted on the October 1st, 2011 - 4:20 PM ET

Notes from the DebConf Source Format BoF

After a discussion on IRC, I organized a BoF at DebConf10 to discuss new source formats, specifically 3.0 (git). Below are the notes from that discussion. I tried to take reasonably comprehensive notes, but I'm sure that I missed things. Other ...

Message posted on the August 10th, 2010 - 11:30 PM ET

Bug#529281: sbuild and the Distribution field in .changes

Hi, my thoughts on this: = sbuild side Apparently, sbuild is used by buildds and developers, with differing needs. There should be a switch to sbuild, which buildd calls but developers don’t, that enables Distribution overriding (for example ...

Message posted on the October 29th, 2011 - 12:40 PM ET

How can a non-DD join/help the debian-perl group?

I was watching the Debconf videos and noticed that there was a great interest in getting people involved in Debian development. I've always been resistant to join simply because it feels like there is a big barrier to entry. After watching the ...

Message posted on the September 15th, 2009 - 2:30 AM ET

Bug#688375: ntlmaps: diff for NMU version 0.9.9.0.1-11.2

tags 688375 + patch tags 688375 + pending thanks Dear maintainer, I've prepared an NMU for ntlmaps (versioned as 0.9.9.0.1-11.2) and uploaded it to DELAYED/2. Please feel free to tell me if I should delay it longer. Regards. .''`. Homepage: ...

Message posted on the October 2nd, 2012 - 12:20 PM ET

Report from the debconf11 sponsoring/mentors BoF.

This report started as a summary from the sponsorship BoF held during Debconf 11 in Banja Luka. The full video stream is available on [0]. These were the major points, as interpreted by Arno Töll and David Bremner. As it was being written ...

Message posted on the September 11th, 2011 - 7:50 AM ET

lintian checks debconf