Debian Bug report logs - #815234
lintian: Detect Rdata files with embedded code

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

Reported by: Daniel Pocock <[email protected]>

Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2016 11:33:06 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: moreinfo

Found in version lintian/2.5.41

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Report forwarded to [email protected], Debian Lintian Maintainers <[email protected]>:
Bug#815234; Package lintian. (Sat, 20 Feb 2016 11:33:09 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

Acknowledgement sent to Daniel Pocock <[email protected]>:
New Bug report received and forwarded. Copy sent to Debian Lintian Maintainers <[email protected]>. (Sat, 20 Feb 2016 11:33:09 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

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

package: lintian
version: 2.5.41
severity: wishlist

Many R modules (packages named r-cran-*) contain some data files with
names like

*.rda
*.Rda
*.rdata
*.Rdata

This file format can contain data or code.

A lintian check should try to determine if any code is embedded in the
file and if so, emit an error, as this would never be acceptable in Debian.

FTP masters explain the issue here:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2013/09/msg00332.html

Information forwarded to [email protected], Debian Lintian Maintainers <[email protected]>:
Bug#815234; Package lintian. (Tue, 18 Jul 2017 10:03:03 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]>. (Tue, 18 Jul 2017 10:03:03 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

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

Hi Daniel,

> detect Rdata files with embedded code

FYI as a halfway house, lintian can warn about "r-data-without-readme-source".


Regards,

-- 
      ,''`.
     : :'  :     Chris Lamb, Debian Project Leader
     `. `'`      [email protected] / chris-lamb.co.uk
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Changed Bug title to 'lintian: Detect Rdata files with embedded code' from 'detect Rdata files with embedded code'. Request was from Chris Lamb <[email protected]> to [email protected]. (Mon, 29 Jan 2018 13:49:01 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

Information forwarded to [email protected], Debian Lintian Maintainers <[email protected]>:
Bug#815234; Package lintian. (Tue, 30 Jan 2018 08:06:05 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

Message #17 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

tags 815234 + moreinfo
thanks

> determine if any code is embedded in the file 

So, how does one do this? :)


Regards,

-- 
      ,''`.
     : :'  :     Chris Lamb
     `. `'`      [email protected] / chris-lamb.co.uk
       `-

Added tag(s) moreinfo. Request was from Chris Lamb <[email protected]> to [email protected]. (Tue, 30 Jan 2018 08:06:11 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

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Bug#815234; Package lintian. (Tue, 30 Jan 2018 08:24:03 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

Acknowledgement sent to Daniel Pocock <[email protected]>:
Extra info received and forwarded to list. Copy sent to Debian Lintian Maintainers <[email protected]>. (Tue, 30 Jan 2018 08:24:03 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

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


On 30/01/18 09:03, Chris Lamb wrote:
> tags 815234 + moreinfo
> thanks
> 
>> determine if any code is embedded in the file 
> 
> So, how does one do this? :)
> 

Asking the GSoC applicants?  Do we have a tag for bugs that provide an
interesting challenge like this?

Information forwarded to [email protected], Debian Lintian Maintainers <[email protected]>:
Bug#815234; Package lintian. (Sun, 18 Feb 2018 19:57:04 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

Acknowledgement sent to [email protected]:
Extra info received and forwarded to list. Copy sent to Debian Lintian Maintainers <[email protected]>. (Sun, 18 Feb 2018 19:57:04 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

Information forwarded to [email protected], Debian Lintian Maintainers <[email protected]>:
Bug#815234; Package lintian. (Thu, 22 Feb 2018 11:03:13 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

Acknowledgement sent to Dylan Aïssi <[email protected]>:
Extra info received and forwarded to list. Copy sent to Debian Lintian Maintainers <[email protected]>. (Thu, 22 Feb 2018 11:03:13 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

Message #34 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

Hi Chris,

On Tue, 30 Jan 2018 13:33:28 +0530 Chris Lamb <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > determine if any code is embedded in the file
>
> So, how does one do this? :)
>

Not sure but maybe this [1] could be useful here.


Best,
Dylan


[1] http://search.cpan.org/dist/Statistics-R-IO/

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Debian Bug report logs - #815234 lintian: Detect Rdata files with embedded code

Debian Bug report logs - #815234
lintian: Detect Rdata files with embedded code