Debian Bug report logs - #847318
lintian: should be aware of kali's differences

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: lintian: should be aware of kali's differences

Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2016 11:01:44 +0100

Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.49
Severity: wishlist
User: devel@kali.org
Usertags: origin-kali

I would love if lintian could stop emitting unwanted errors/warnings
in Kali Linux. In particular now that debuild fails when lintian fails
(see #847168).

At the very least, I want to get rid of the
"bad-distribution-in-changes-file" error that I always get.
The allowed distribution values are:
- kali-dev
- kali-rolling
- kali-experimental
- kali-bleeding-edge

Then Kali does not have the concept of maintainer and NMU. We frequently
do one-off upload and do not update the Maintainer/Uploaders fields which
tends to trigger those warnings too:
- changelog-should-mention-nmu
- source-nmu-has-incorrect-version-number

Can we disable those too?

You can obviously rely on vendor data but it would be nice if the presence
of the "kali" string in the version would also trigger the special rules
above since I often build Kali source packages in a Debian environment.
This would cover forked packages but not native packages. Is there a way to
mark a source package as being targeted for a specific distribution?
I guess you could map back a known distribution name in debian/changelog to a
vendor...

FYI in a Kali system/chroot you have this:

$ cat /etc/dpkg/origins/default 
Vendor: Kali
Vendor-URL: http://www.kali.org/
Parent: debian
Bugs: http://bugs.kali.org
$ cat /etc/os-release 
PRETTY_NAME="Kali GNU/Linux Rolling"
NAME="Kali GNU/Linux"
ID=kali
VERSION="2016.2"
VERSION_ID="2016.2"
ID_LIKE=debian
ANSI_COLOR="1;31"
HOME_URL="http://www.kali.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="http://forums.kali.org/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="http://bugs.kali.org/"

Thank you!

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.8.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.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                          2.27.51.20161201-1
ii  bzip2                             1.0.6-8
ii  diffstat                          1.61-1
ii  file                              1:5.29-1
ii  gettext                           0.19.8.1-1
ii  intltool-debian                   0.35.0+20060710.4
ii  libapt-pkg-perl                   0.1.30
ii  libarchive-zip-perl               1.59-1
ii  libclass-accessor-perl            0.34-1
ii  libclone-perl                     0.38-2+b1
ii  libdpkg-perl                      1.18.15
ii  libemail-valid-perl               1.202-1
ii  libfile-basedir-perl              0.07-1
ii  libipc-run-perl                   0.94-1
ii  liblist-moreutils-perl            0.416-1+b1
ii  libparse-debianchangelog-perl     1.2.0-11
ii  libperl5.24 [libdigest-sha-perl]  5.24.1~rc4-1
ii  libtext-levenshtein-perl          0.13-1
ii  libtimedate-perl                  2.3000-2
ii  liburi-perl                       1.71-1
ii  libyaml-libyaml-perl              0.63-1+b1
ii  man-db                            2.7.5-2
ii  patchutils                        0.3.4-2
ii  perl                              5.24.1~rc4-1
ii  t1utils                           1.39-2
ii  xz-utils                          5.2.2-1.2

Versions of packages lintian recommends:
ii  dpkg                                 1.18.15
ii  libperlio-gzip-perl                  0.19-1+b2
ii  perl                                 5.24.1~rc4-1
ii  perl-modules-5.22 [libautodie-perl]  5.22.2-5
ii  perl-modules-5.24 [libautodie-perl]  5.24.1~rc4-1

Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn  binutils-multiarch     <none>
ii  dpkg-dev               1.18.15
ii  libhtml-parser-perl    3.72-3
ii  libtext-template-perl  1.46-1

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Message #12 received at 847318-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>

To: 847318-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#847318: fixed in lintian 2.5.50

Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2016 16:33:31 +0000

Source: lintian
Source-Version: 2.5.50

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
lintian, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 847318@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> (supplier of updated lintian package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org)


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Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2016 16:07:20 +0000
Source: lintian
Binary: lintian
Architecture: source
Version: 2.5.50
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Lintian Maintainers <lintian-maint@debian.org>
Changed-By: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
Description:
 lintian    - Debian package checker
Closes: 685029 740161 743599 801760 818962 829744 834867 839822 842781 843406 843595 844903 845201 847318 847535 847558
Changes:
 lintian (2.5.50) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Summary of tag changes:
     + Added:
       - invalid-value-in-built-using-field
       - license-problem-convert-utf-code
       - new-package-should-not-package-python2-module
       - php-script-but-no-php-cli-dep
       - php-script-with-unusual-interpreter
     + Removed:
       - php-script-but-no-phpX-cli-dep
 .
   * checks/binaries.{desc,pm}:
     + [NT] Handle RUNPATH like we handle RPATH.  (Closes: #844903)
     + [NT] Update hardening-no-pie description to reflect that
       PIE is on by default in Debian.
   * checks/cruft.desc:
     + [BR] Detect utf convert non free code.
       (Closes: #843595)
   * checks/deb-format.pm:
     + [NT] Permit uncompressed {control,data}.tar members plus xz
       compressed control.tar files in deb files.  Thanks to
       Guillem Jover for the report.  (Closes: #834867)
   * checks/debhelper.pm:
     + [BR] Apply patch from Yann Soubeyrand :
       "Allow debhelper "--with" addons to be quoted".
       (Closes: #839822)
   * checks/files.{desc,pm}:
     + [NT] Check for invalid clauses in "Built-Using" fields.  Thanks to
       Andrey Rahmatullin for the suggestion.  (Closes: #847558)
     + [NT] Apply patch from Josh Triplett to add new sections to
       descriptions.
   * checks/files.desc:
     + [NT] Document that we no longer accept "virtual packages"
       for deliberately empty packages.  If your package receives
       an "empty-binary-package" tag, please replace the use of
       "virtual package".
   * checks/{files,scripts}.pm:
     + [NT] Apply patch from Josh Triplett to exclude files under
       /usr/share/cargo/registry/ from a few checks as that directory
       contains unmodified upstream sources.  (Closes: #845201)
   * checks/manpages.pm:
     + [JW, NT] Fix false negative manpage-named-after-build-path
       for packages built by sbuild.  (Closes: #801760)
   * checks/scripts.{desc,pm}:
     + [JW, NT] Apply patch from Antonio Ospite that updates the
       test for php scripts without a php-cli dependency.  Thanks
       to Ondřej Surý for the report and Mathieu Parent for the
       initial patch.  (Closes: #818962)
     + [CL, NT] Warn about new source packages providing a python2
       package as EOL for python2 is expected in 2020, which is
       before buster's expected EOL.  (Closes: #829744)
 .
   * collection/objdump-info.desc:
     + [NT] Bump version due to RUNPATH collection.
 .
   * commands/lintian:
     + [NT] Deprecate --fail-on-warnings, which will be removed in
       Debian/buster.
 .
   * data/binaries/embedded-libs:
     + [BR] Allow openssl1.0 as source package.  (Closes: #843406).
   * data/debhelper/dh_commands-manual:
     + [NT] Apply patch from Piotr Ożarowski that ensure that
       consumers of dh_python2 Build-Depends on dh-python.
       (Closes: #740161)
   * data/fields/archive-sections:
     + [NT] Apply patch from Josh Triplett to add javascript and
       rust sections.  (Closes: #847535)
   * data/files/privacy-breaker-websites:
     + [BR] Detect more logos.
   * data/scripts/interpreters:
     + [NT] Apply patch from Antonio Ospite to correct a false
       positive warning for python scripts using python2 in the
       shebang line.  Thanks to Per Andersson for the report and
       Luca Boccassi for the initial patch for solving this.
       (Closes: #743599)
   * data/spelling/corrections:
     + [PW] Add more corrections.
   * data/spelling/corrections-case:
     + [EG] Correct spelling of Lua (Closes: #842781)
 .
   * helpers/coll/objdump-info-helper:
     + [NT] Extract RUNPATH from binaries as well.
 .
   * lib/Lintian/Collect/Binary.pm:
     + [NT] Expose RUNPATH when set in the binary.
     + [NT] Remove "virtual package" from the list of phrases
       marking a package as a meta-package.  Thanks to Stuart
       Prescott for the report.  (Closes: #685029)
 .
   * profiles/kali/main.profile:
     + [NT] Add a profile for Kali Linux.  Thanks to Raphaël
       Hertzog for the report.  (Closes: #847318)
 .
   * vendors/kali/main/data/changes-file/known-dists:
     + [NT] Add data file for Kali Linux.
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