Subject: devscripts: dcmd --buildinfo is not documented

From: Eberhard Beilharz <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2018 10:42:06 +0200

Package: devscripts
Version: 2.16.2ubuntu3
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 12.1

dcmd supports .buildinfo files since version 2.16.1 (bug #774554), however this
isn't documented anywhere on the man page and so it looks to the user that it
isn't implemented at all. The man page should mention that dcmd has a
--buildinfo parameter that selects .buildinfo files.

-- Package-specific info:

--- /etc/devscripts.conf ---

--- ~/.devscripts ---
Not present

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers xenial-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'xenial-updates'), (500, 'xenial-security'), (500, 'xenial'), (100, 'xenial-backports')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.13.0-38-generic (SMP w/8 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 devscripts depends on:
ii  dpkg-dev     1.18.4ubuntu1.4
ii  libc6        2.23-0ubuntu10
ii  perl         5.22.1-9ubuntu0.2
pn  python3:any  <none>

Versions of packages devscripts recommends:
ii  apt                    1.2.26
ii  at                     3.1.18-2ubuntu1
ii  curl                   7.47.0-1ubuntu2.7
ii  dctrl-tools            2.24-2
ii  dput                   0.9.6.4ubuntu3
ii  fakeroot               1.20.2-1ubuntu1
ii  file                   1:5.25-2ubuntu1
ii  gnupg                  1.4.20-1ubuntu3.1
ii  gnupg2                 2.1.11-6ubuntu2
ii  libdistro-info-perl    0.14build1
ii  libencode-locale-perl  1.05-1
ii  liburi-perl            1.71-1
ii  libwww-perl            6.15-1
ii  lintian                2.5.43ubuntu0.1
ii  man-db                 2.7.5-1
ii  patch                  2.7.5-1
ii  patchutils             0.3.4-1
ii  python3-debian         0.1.27ubuntu2
ii  python3-magic          1:5.25-2ubuntu1
ii  sensible-utils         0.0.9ubuntu0.16.04.1
ii  strace                 4.11-1ubuntu3
ii  unzip                  6.0-20ubuntu1
ii  wdiff                  1.2.2-1build1
ii  wget                   1.17.1-1ubuntu1.3
ii  xz-utils               5.1.1alpha+20120614-2ubuntu2

Versions of packages devscripts suggests:
ii  build-essential              12.1ubuntu2
pn  cvs-buildpackage             <none>
ii  debian-keyring               2016.01.20
pn  devscripts-el                <none>
pn  diffoscope                   <none>
pn  dose-extra                   <none>
ii  equivs                       2.0.9+nmu1
pn  gnuplot                      <none>
ii  gpgv                         1.4.20-1ubuntu3.1
ii  libauthen-sasl-perl          2.1600-1
ii  libfile-desktopentry-perl    0.22-1
ii  liblwp-protocol-https-perl   6.06-2
ii  libnet-smtp-ssl-perl         1.03-1
pn  libsoap-lite-perl            <none>
ii  libterm-size-perl            0.207-1build3
ii  libtimedate-perl             2.3000-2
pn  libyaml-syck-perl            <none>
ii  mailutils [mailx]            1:2.99.99-1ubuntu2
ii  mozilla-devscripts           0.44
pn  mutt                         <none>
ii  openssh-client [ssh-client]  1:7.2p2-4ubuntu2.4
ii  s-nail [mailx]               14.8.6-1
pn  svn-buildpackage             <none>
pn  w3m                          <none>

-- no debconf information

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From: "Adam D. Barratt" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2018 23:21:31 +0100

> Justification: Policy 12.1

This got fixed already, but for the record a policy "should" is
unlikely to ever qualify for a Release Critical severity (i.e. >=
serious). A manpage missing an option like this definitely doesn't.

Regards,

Adam