Subject: Bug#884502 closed by Chris Lamb <[email-masked]> (Re: lintian: Pedantic check for packages modifying files outside of debian/)

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Subject: Re: lintian: Pedantic check for packages modifying files outside of debian/
From: Chris Lamb <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2018 13:32:11 +0530

Version: 2.2.0

Hi,

> The package has modified files outside the debian/ directory (not tracked
> using patches).

I believe this is direct-changes-in-diff-but-no-patch-system.

Regards,

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Subject: lintian: pedantic warnings for additional QA checks
From: Lucas Nussbaum <[email-masked]>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2015 15:04:19 +0100

Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.39
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

In the thread https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2015/12/msg00383.html, and specifically in
https://lists.debian.org/[email-masked]

there was a discussion about adding several pedantic warnings for:
qa-comaint_but_no_vcs.txt
qa-format_10.txt (3153 packages) (probably below than pedantic)
qa-helper_classic_debhelper.txt (3647 packages) (probably below than pedantic)
qa-helper_not_debhelper.txt (144 packages)
qa-patch_dpatch.txt (170 packages)
qa-patch_modified-files-outside-debian.txt (1156 packages)
qa-patch_more_than_one.txt (201 packages)
qa-patch_other.txt (51 packages)
qa-patch_quilt.txt (445 packages)
qa-patch_simple-patchsys.txt (129 packages)
qa-vcs_but_not_git_or_svn.txt (290 packages) (probably below than pedantic)
qa-vcs_more_than_one_declared_vcs.txt (1 package)

I'm not copying/summaryzing the discussion as it's still ongoing on -devel@.

- Lucas

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (400, 'stable'), (300, 'unstable'), (150, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386, armhf

Kernel: Linux 4.3.0-rc7-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii  binutils                       2.25.90.20151209-1
ii  bzip2                          1.0.6-8
ii  diffstat                       1.60-1
ii  file                           1:5.25-2
ii  gettext                        0.19.6-1
ii  hardening-includes             2.8+nmu2
ii  intltool-debian                0.35.0+20060710.4
ii  libapt-pkg-perl                0.1.29+b4
ii  libarchive-zip-perl            1.55-1
ii  libclass-accessor-perl         0.34-1
ii  libclone-perl                  0.38-1
ii  libdpkg-perl                   1.18.3
ii  libemail-valid-perl            1.198-1
ii  libfile-basedir-perl           0.07-1
ii  libipc-run-perl                0.94-1
ii  liblist-moreutils-perl         0.413-1
ii  libparse-debianchangelog-perl  1.2.0-8
ii  libtext-levenshtein-perl       0.13-1
ii  libtimedate-perl               2.3000-2
ii  liburi-perl                    1.69-1
ii  man-db                         2.7.5-1
ii  patchutils                     0.3.4-1
ii  perl [libdigest-sha-perl]      5.20.2-6
ii  t1utils                        1.38-4
ii  xz-utils                       5.1.1alpha+20120614-2.1

Versions of packages lintian recommends:
ii  dpkg                            1.18.3
ii  libperlio-gzip-perl             0.19-1
ii  perl                            5.20.2-6
ii  perl-modules [libautodie-perl]  5.20.2-6

Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn  binutils-multiarch     <none>
ii  dpkg-dev               1.18.3
ii  libhtml-parser-perl    3.71-2
ii  libtext-template-perl  1.46-1
ii  libyaml-perl           1.15-1

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