Package: lintian Version: 2.5.49 Severity: normal Hi,
with both versions of lintian on jessie/jessie-backports (I think since a stable update of jessie itself) I get an error on checking most of my packages: # export LINTIAN_DEBUG=1; lintian -IE --pedantic /var/cache/pbuilder/result/ckport*.changes warning: the authors of lintian do not recommend running it with root privileges! N: Using dpkg-source to unpack ckport cp: cannot stat '/tmp/temp-lintian-lab-icMThgdBt5/pool/c/ckport/ckport_0.1~rc1-6_source/ckport_0.1~rc1.orig.tar.gz': No such file or directory dpkg-source: error: cp /tmp/temp-lintian-lab-icMThgdBt5/pool/c/ckport/ckport_0.1~rc1-6_source/ckport_0.1~rc1.orig.tar.gz to /tmp/temp-lintian-lab-icMThgdBt5/pool/c/ckport/ckport_0.1~rc1-6_source/ckport_0.1~rc1.orig.tar.gz gave error exit status 1 internal error: dpkg-source -x failed with status 2 at /usr/share/lintian/collection/unpacked line 71. warning: collect info unpacked about package ckport failed warning: skipping check of source package ckport So to reproduce it, here it is eg enough to: dget http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/pool/main/c/ckport/ckport_0.1~rc1-6.dsc pbuilder --build ckport_0.1~rc1-6.dsc lintian ckport_0.1~rc1-6_amd64.changes My /tmp is also correct: root@srv1:/tmp# ls -ld /tmp drwxrwxrwt 9 root root 4096 Dez 30 15:50 /tmp root@srv1:/tmp# ls -ld `mktemp -d` drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Dez 30 15:51 /tmp/tmp.XfY9dkVIVz -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.6 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.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 2.25-5 ii bzip2 1.0.6-7+b3 ii diffstat 1.58-1 ii file 1:5.22+15-2+deb8u2 ii gettext 0.19.3-2 ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.29+b2 ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.39-1 ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1 ii libclone-perl 0.37-1+b1 ii libdpkg-perl 1.17.27 ii libemail-valid-perl 1.195-1 ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.03-1 ii libipc-run-perl 0.92-1 ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.33-2+b1 ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-1.1 ii libtext-levenshtein-perl 0.11-1 ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-2 ii liburi-perl 1.64-1 ii libyaml-libyaml-perl 0.41-6 ii man-db 2.7.0.2-5 ii patchutils 0.3.3-1 ii perl [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.20.2-3+deb8u6 ii t1utils 1.38-4 ii xz-utils 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2+b3 Versions of packages lintian recommends: ii dpkg 1.17.27 ii libperlio-gzip-perl 0.18-3+b1 ii perl 5.20.2-3+deb8u6 ii perl-modules [libautodie-perl] 5.20.2-3+deb8u6 Versions of packages lintian suggests: ii binutils-multiarch 2.25-5 ii dpkg-dev 1.17.27 ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.71-1+b3 ii libtext-template-perl 1.46-1 -- no debconf information