Package: lintian Version: 2.9.1 Severity: normal Tags: patch Dear Maintainer,
/usr/lib/python*/dist-packages/*.pth files currently trigger lintian error tag: unknown-file-in-python-module-directory *.pth should not be unknown. They are well-documented by the Python specification[1] and this location is exactly where they belong. Legitimate uses of this file exist in the archive. python- testing.mysqld[2] and python-input-pad[3] override this tag with the phrase "false positive". The vast majority (>150) of others including python- matplotlib and python-gobject-2 simply ignore this lintian error as they deploy pth files[4]. There few important cases of this lintian error being raised including: - debdry deploying 'control' - python-cf deploying 'delme.nc' - python-django-ranged-response deploying 'db.sqlite3' - python3-csvkit deploying 'stdin_out.csv' One could argue that the use of *.pth files should be discouraged. Installing a package which deploys a *.pth can change the global python environment. In this case a new tag (perhaps with lower severity) would be more appropriate which warns the packager to carefully check the file's contents and consider removing it. A more relevant tag describing the position is less likely to be ignored than a general error which says this Python-specification-compliant file is 'unknown'. A new tag would be more appropriate than changing this tag because there are legitimate and important instances of the existing tag as-is. Best Regards, Stewart Ferguson [1] https://docs.python.org/3/library/site.html [2] https://sources.debian.org/src/python-testing.mysqld/1.4.0-3/debian/python3-testing.mysqld.lintian-overrides/ [3] https://sources.debian.org/src/input-pad/1.0.3-3/debian/python-input-pad.lintian-overrides/ [4] https://lintian.debian.org/tags/unknown-file-in-python-module-directory.html -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.31.1-15 ii bzip2 1.0.6-9 ii diffstat 1.62-1 ii dpkg 1.19.5 ii dpkg-dev 1.19.5 ii file 1:5.35-2 ii gettext 0.19.8.1-9 ii gpg 2.2.12-1 ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.5 ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.34+b1 ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.64-1 ii libcapture-tiny-perl 0.48-1 ii libcgi-pm-perl 4.40-1 ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.51-1 ii libclone-perl 0.41-1+b1 pn libdigest-sha-perl <none> ii libdpkg-perl 1.19.5 ii libemail-valid-perl 1.202-1 ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.08-1 ii libio-async-perl 0.72-1 ii libipc-run-perl 20180523.0-1 ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.416-1+b4 ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-13 ii libpath-tiny-perl 0.108-1 ii libtext-levenshtein-perl 0.13-1 ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-2 ii libtry-tiny-perl 0.30-1 ii liburi-perl 1.76-1 ii libxml-simple-perl 2.25-1 ii libyaml-libyaml-perl 0.76+repack-1 ii man-db 2.8.5-2 ii patchutils 0.3.4-2 ii perl 5.28.1-4 ii t1utils 1.41-3 ii xz-utils 5.2.4-1 Versions of packages lintian recommends: ii libperlio-gzip-perl 0.19-1+b5 Versions of packages lintian suggests: pn binutils-multiarch <none> ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.72-3+b3 ii libtext-template-perl 1.54-1 -- no debconf information
From d63a53132f8aa87895f38cddee932b93f7d4f218 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stewart Ferguson <s...@ferg.aero> Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2019 19:51:20 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Allowing *pth files in python dist-packages --- data/files/allowed-python-files | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/data/files/allowed-python-files b/data/files/allowed-python-files index e55d096c9..edaba07d9 100644 --- a/data/files/allowed-python-files +++ b/data/files/allowed-python-files @@ -4,3 +4,4 @@ \.egg-info$ \.so$ \.py[ic]?$ +\.pth$ -- 2.20.1
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