Package: lintian Version: 2.5.51 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
I was updating one of my packages today and received the testsuite-autopkgtest- missing information warning from lintian. This appears to have been added due to https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=859467. This is very good, because there isn't a testsuite in my package, and thanks to the prompt I will now provide one (I keep forgetting to check if this is one of the packages for which I haven't done it yet). However, reading the information about the warning, it sounds like lintian will only be checking if there is a Testsuite field in debian/control (I have not tested this). Unfortunately, this field is optional (it is added automatically by dpkg-source version 1.17.11 or later) and lintian would give false positives in cases where a testsuite is provided, but not declared in debian/control. A more reliable way to check if a testsuite is provided, is to look for a control file in the debian/tests directory. Or if I am wrong about lintian, and it already checks there too, then the description for the lintian tag should be updated. Regards, Ross -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers yakkety-updates APT policy: (500, 'yakkety-updates'), (500, 'yakkety-security'), (500, 'yakkety'), (100, 'yakkety-backports') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.4.0-24-generic (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)
