Debian Bug report logs - #554688
lintian: Check for safe use of uscan in get-orig-source

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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: Jakub Wilk <[email protected]>

Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 23:18:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: moreinfo

Found in versions lintian/2.2.17, lintian/2.5.14

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Report forwarded to [email protected], [email protected], Debian Lintian Maintainers <[email protected]>:
Bug#554688; Package lintian. (Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:18:05 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

Acknowledgement sent to Jakub Wilk <[email protected]>:
New Bug report received and forwarded. Copy sent to [email protected], Debian Lintian Maintainers <[email protected]>. (Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:18:05 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

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From: Jakub Wilk <[email protected]>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]>
Subject: lintian: [new check] illegitimate use of uscan in get-orig-source
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:13:16 +0100
Package: lintian
Version: 2.2.17
Severity: wishlist

Without special precautions (like changing current working directory and 
using --destdir option) using uscan in the get-orig-source is likely to 
violate the Debian Policy requirements, i.e. it won't be possible to run 
invoke the target in any directory.

It would be nice if linitian detected some cases of such invalid use of 
uscan.

-- 
Jakub Wilk

Changed Bug title to '[new check] Verify safe use of uscan in get-orig-source' from 'lintian: [new check] illegitimate use of uscan in get-orig-source' Request was from Adam D. Barratt <[email protected]> to [email protected]. (Sat, 03 Apr 2010 16:12:17 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

Changed Bug submitter to 'Jakub Wilk <[email protected]>' from 'Jakub Wilk <[email protected]>' Request was from Jakub Wilk <[email protected]> to [email protected]. (Fri, 30 Sep 2011 12:42:04 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

Information forwarded to [email protected], Debian Lintian Maintainers <[email protected]>:
Bug#554688; Package lintian. (Wed, 28 Aug 2013 17:15:10 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

Acknowledgement sent to bastien ROUCARIES <[email protected]>:
Extra info received and forwarded to list. Copy sent to Debian Lintian Maintainers <[email protected]>. (Wed, 28 Aug 2013 17:15:10 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

Message #14 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: bastien ROUCARIES <[email protected]>
To: [email protected], Jakub Wilk <[email protected]>
Subject: [lintian] Do you have test case good/bad of this
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 19:11:56 +0200
Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.14
control: tags -1 + moreinfo

Do you have test case for this

Added tag(s) moreinfo. Request was from bastien ROUCARIES <[email protected]> to [email protected]. (Wed, 28 Aug 2013 17:15:10 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

Information forwarded to [email protected], Debian Lintian Maintainers <[email protected]>:
Bug#554688; Package lintian. (Wed, 20 Nov 2013 12:54:04 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

Message #19 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Jakub Wilk <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: bastien ROUCARIES <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Bug#554688: [new check] verify safe use of uscan in get-orig-source
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 13:51:06 +0100
* bastien ROUCARIES <[email protected]>, 2013-08-28, 19:11:
>Subject: [lintian] Do you have test case good/bad of this

Please keep in mind that BTS messages appear as emails in a crowded inbox, so 
the subject line can be a good place to put valuable context.

>Do you have test case for this

No, sorry.

-- 
Jakub Wilk

Information forwarded to [email protected], Debian Lintian Maintainers <[email protected]>:
Bug#554688; Package lintian. (Thu, 26 Oct 2017 08:33:03 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

Acknowledgement sent to Chris Lamb <[email protected]>:
Extra info received and forwarded to list. Copy sent to Debian Lintian Maintainers <[email protected]>. (Thu, 26 Oct 2017 08:33:03 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

Message #24 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Chris Lamb <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: Jakub Wilk <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [new check] Verify safe use of uscan in get-orig-source
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2017 09:31:19 +0100
Hi Jakub.

> Verify safe use of uscan in get-orig-source

I fear that this check would be too brittle to warrant inclusion in
Debian, unless there are specific problems we can reliably grep for.

Do you any particular examples of such regexes (or similar)? If not,
I believe we should close this issue.


Regards,

-- 
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Changed Bug title to 'lintian: Check for safe use of uscan in get-orig-source' from '[new check] Verify safe use of uscan in get-orig-source'. Request was from Chris Lamb <[email protected]> to [email protected]. (Mon, 29 Jan 2018 13:48:05 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

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