Subject: Re: Bug#1003456: marked as pending in lintian

From: Axel Beckert <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2022 23:06:05 +0200

Hi Ben,

Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/commit/192e15ae2eda7535622d44d2f3f382783b110ee5
> [...]
> 
> This didn't fix the issue.  It is still reproducible by building linux
> for amd64 and then running lintian over the resulting .changes file.
> 
> Running lintian over a single linux-image-<version>-amd64-dbg binary
> package also shows the issue, but requires "only" about 12 GB of VM and
> does complete on my development system.

Thanks for these details and for reopening!

Will also have a look at it.

Given that it is a debug package, I'll see if I can either

* find the cause by debugging the code,
* find the cause by bisecting, or
* reduce the amount of checks run against it as many
  make no sense for debug packages.

		Regards, Axel
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