Debian Bug report logs - #1002503
lintian: Clarify all tags about missing Pre-Depends

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Package: lintian; Maintainer for lintian is Debian Lintian Maintainers <[email protected]>; Source for lintian is src:lintian (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: Marc Haber <[email protected]>

Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2021 11:57:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version lintian/2.114.0

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Report forwarded to [email protected], Debian Lintian Maintainers <[email protected]>:
Bug#1002503; Package lintian. (Thu, 23 Dec 2021 11:57:04 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Acknowledgement sent to Marc Haber <[email protected]>:
New Bug report received and forwarded. Copy sent to Debian Lintian Maintainers <[email protected]>. (Thu, 23 Dec 2021 11:57:04 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Message #5 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Marc Haber <[email protected]>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]>
Subject: false reports skip-systemd-native-flag-missing-pre-depends
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2021 12:54:53 +0100
Package: lintian
Version: 2.114.0
Severity: normal

Hi,

[208/5813]mh@drop:~/packages/ippl/build-area $ lintian ippl_1.4.14-12.2_amd64.deb
W: ippl: missing-systemd-service-for-init.d-script ippl [etc/init.d/ippl]
W: ippl: skip-systemd-native-flag-missing-pre-depends (does not satisfy init-system-helpers (>= 1.54~)) [postinst:19]
W: ippl: skip-systemd-native-flag-missing-pre-depends (does not satisfy init-system-helpers (>= 1.54~)) [prerm:5]
[209/5814]mh@drop:~/packages/ippl/build-area $ 

However, the Dependency IS there in the source and the binary package:

[209/5814]mh@drop:~/packages/ippl/build-area $ dpkg --ctrl-tarfile ippl_1.4.14-12.2_amd64.deb | tar --extract --to-stdout ./control | grep Depends
Depends: adduser (>> 3.51), logrotate, lsb-base (>= 3.0-6), init-system-helpers (>= 1.54~), libc6 (>= 2.32)
[210/5815]mh@drop:~/packages/ippl/build-area $

I think that's a false warning.

Greetings
Marc

-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.15.10-zgws1 (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_DIE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii  binutils                        2.37-10
ii  bzip2                           1.0.8-5
ii  diffstat                        1.64-1
ii  dpkg                            1.21.1
ii  dpkg-dev                        1.21.1
ii  file                            1:5.41-2
ii  gettext                         0.21-4
ii  gpg                             2.2.27-3
ii  intltool-debian                 0.35.0+20060710.5
ii  libapt-pkg-perl                 0.1.40
ii  libarchive-zip-perl             1.68-1
ii  libcapture-tiny-perl            0.48-1
ii  libclass-xsaccessor-perl        1.19-3+b7
ii  libclone-perl                   0.45-1+b1
ii  libconfig-tiny-perl             2.27-1
ii  libconst-fast-perl              0.014-1.1
ii  libcpanel-json-xs-perl          4.27-1
ii  libdata-dpath-perl              0.58-1
ii  libdata-validate-___domain-perl    0.10-1.1
ii  libdata-validate-uri-perl       0.07-1
ii  libdevel-size-perl              0.83-1+b2
pn  libdigest-sha-perl              <none>
ii  libdpkg-perl                    1.21.1
ii  libemail-address-xs-perl        1.04-1+b3
ii  libfile-basedir-perl            0.09-1
ii  libfile-find-rule-perl          0.34-1
ii  libfont-ttf-perl                1.06-1.1
ii  libhtml-html5-entities-perl     0.004-1.1
ii  libio-interactive-perl          1.023-1
ii  libio-prompt-tiny-perl          0.003-1
ii  libipc-run3-perl                0.048-2
ii  libjson-maybexs-perl            1.004003-1
ii  liblist-compare-perl            0.55-1
ii  liblist-someutils-perl          0.58-1
ii  liblist-utilsby-perl            0.11-1
ii  libmoo-perl                     2.005004-3
ii  libmoox-aliases-perl            0.001006-1.1
ii  libnamespace-clean-perl         0.27-1
ii  libpath-tiny-perl               0.120-1
ii  libperlio-gzip-perl             0.19-1+b7
ii  libperlio-utf8-strict-perl      0.008-1+b1
ii  libproc-processtable-perl       0.634-1
ii  libsereal-decoder-perl          4.018+ds-1+b1
ii  libsereal-encoder-perl          4.018+ds-1+b1
ii  libsort-versions-perl           1.62-1
ii  libsyntax-keyword-try-perl      0.26-1
ii  libterm-readkey-perl            2.38-1+b2
ii  libtext-glob-perl               0.11-2
ii  libtext-levenshteinxs-perl      0.03-4+b8
ii  libtext-markdown-discount-perl  0.13-1
ii  libtext-xslate-perl             3.5.9-1
ii  libtime-duration-perl           1.21-1
ii  libtime-moment-perl             0.44-1+b3
ii  libtimedate-perl                2.3300-2
ii  libunicode-utf8-perl            0.62-1+b2
ii  liburi-perl                     5.10-1
ii  libxml-libxml-perl              2.0134+dfsg-2+b1
ii  libyaml-libyaml-perl            0.83+ds-1
ii  lzip                            1.22-4
ii  lzop                            1.04-2
ii  man-db                          2.9.4-2
ii  patchutils                      0.4.2-1
ii  perl [libencode-perl]           5.32.1-6
ii  t1utils                         1.41-4
ii  unzip                           6.0-26
ii  xz-utils                        5.2.5-2

lintian recommends no packages.

Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn  binutils-multiarch     <none>
ii  libtext-template-perl  1.60-1

-- no debconf information



Reply sent to Marc Haber <[email protected]>:
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Bug acknowledged by developer. (Thu, 23 Dec 2021 12:03:04 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Message #10 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Marc Haber <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: false reports skip-systemd-native-flag-missing-pre-depends
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2021 12:58:02 +0100
On Thu, Dec 23, 2021 at 12:54:53PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> I think that's a false warning.

No, a false bug report. Sorry.

Greetings
Marc




Information forwarded to [email protected], Debian Lintian Maintainers <[email protected]>:
Bug#1002503; Package lintian. (Thu, 23 Dec 2021 12:24:02 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Acknowledgement sent to Felix Lechner <[email protected]>:
Extra info received and forwarded to list. Copy sent to Debian Lintian Maintainers <[email protected]>. (Thu, 23 Dec 2021 12:24:02 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Message #15 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Felix Lechner <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: Marc Haber <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Bug#1002503: false reports skip-systemd-native-flag-missing-pre-depends
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2021 04:18:00 -0800
Hi Marc,

On Thu, Dec 23, 2021 at 3:57 AM Marc Haber
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Depends: [...] init-system-helpers (>= 1.54~)

The tag is asking for Pre-Depends though, isn't it? [1][2]

> ippl_1.4.14-12.2_amd64.deb

I do not see a declaration for Pre-Depends in your control file. [3]

Is Lintian too strict?

Kind regards
Felix Lechner

[1] https://lintian.debian.org/tags/skip-systemd-native-flag-missing-pre-depends
[2] https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/blob/master/lib/Lintian/Check/Systemd/Native/Prerequisites.pm#L49
[3] https://tracker.debian.org/media/packages/i/ippl/control-1.4.14-12.2



Information forwarded to [email protected], Debian Lintian Maintainers <[email protected]>:
Bug#1002503; Package lintian. (Thu, 23 Dec 2021 12:27:03 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Acknowledgement sent to Felix Lechner <[email protected]>:
Extra info received and forwarded to list. Copy sent to Debian Lintian Maintainers <[email protected]>. (Thu, 23 Dec 2021 12:27:03 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Message #20 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Felix Lechner <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: Marc Haber <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Bug#1002503: false reports skip-systemd-native-flag-missing-pre-depends
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2021 04:23:35 -0800
Control: reopen -1
Control: retitle -1 lintian: Clarify all tags about missing Pre-Depends

Hi Marc,

On Thu, Dec 23, 2021 at 3:57 AM Marc Haber
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> No, a false bug report. Sorry.

Confusing tag descriptions are also bugs in Lintian! We strive to please all.

Note for later: This is about Depends vs Pre-Depends.

Kind regards
Felix Lechner



Bug reopened Request was from Felix Lechner <[email protected]> to [email protected]. (Thu, 23 Dec 2021 12:27:03 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Changed Bug title to 'lintian: Clarify all tags about missing Pre-Depends' from 'false reports skip-systemd-native-flag-missing-pre-depends'. Request was from Felix Lechner <[email protected]> to [email protected]. (Thu, 23 Dec 2021 12:27:03 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


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