Hi Florian,
2015-05-29 18:53 GMT+02:00 Florian Weimer <f...@deneb.enyo.de>:
> * Sébastien KALT:
>
> > For some time now I have this error on my Sid laptop when launching
> debsecan
> > (the output is in the attached debsecan.txt file) :
> >
> > $ debsecan --suite sid
> > [...]
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> > File "/usr/bin/debsecan", line 1380, in <module>
> > rate_system(target, options, fetch_data(options, config), history)
> > File "/usr/bin/debsecan", line 1297, in rate_system
> > for pkg in packages:
> > File "/usr/bin/debsecan", line 131, in __iter__
> > self.raiseSyntaxError("expected package field, got " + `line`)
> > File "/usr/bin/debsecan", line 155, in raiseSyntaxError
> > raise ParseError(self.name , lineno, msg)
> > __main__.ParseError: expected package field, got '#Vcs-Git:
> > git://git.debian.org/collab-maint/livret.git\n'
> >
> > This error appeared on may 22.
>
> I don't see this in the Packages files for sid. Can you grep for the
> string "livret" in your /var/lib/dpkg/status file and show the
> surrounding package entry?
>
This package was installed from a .deb downloaded from the developper's
website, so it's not included in Debian archives.
So it's not a bug, it's a problem with the package.
> The debsecan error message is certainly worthy of improvement, but
> there isn't much debsecan do if this file does not match the expected
> syntax.
>
I'll forward the information to the developper.
I'm sorry for the false report.
Regards,
Sébastien
