Package: pkg-perl-tools,lintian Version: lintian/2.17.0 Severity: important File: /usr/share/lintian/checks/pkg-perl/vcs.desc
Since recently, probably since lintian 2.17.0, lintian bails out as follows for me: /usr/share/lintian/checks/pkg-perl/vcs.desc does not have exactly one paragraph Lintian::CheckScript::new("Lintian::CheckScript", "/usr/share/lintian/checks", "pkg-perl/vcs") called at /usr/share/perl5/Lintian/Profile.pm line 630 Lintian::Profile::_parse_check(Lintian::Profile=HASH(0x563355ad1b68), "pkg-perl/vcs", "/usr/share/lintian/checks") called at /usr/share/perl5/Lintian/Profile.pm line 621 Lintian::Profile::_load_check(Lintian::Profile=HASH(0x563355ad1b68), "pkg-perl/main", "pkg-perl/vcs") called at /usr/share/perl5/Lintian/Profile.pm line 490 Lintian::Profile::__ANON__("enable-tags-from-check", "pkg-perl/vcs") called at /usr/share/perl5/Lintian/Profile.pm line 532 Lintian::Profile::_enable_tags_from_field(Lintian::Profile=HASH(0x563355ad1b68), "pkg-perl/main", HASH(0x563355ed4908), "enable-tags-from-check", CODE(0x5633561ed6a0), 1) called at /usr/share/perl5/Lintian/Profile.pm line 510 Lintian::Profile::_read_profile_tags(Lintian::Profile=HASH(0x563355ad1b68), "pkg-perl/main", HASH(0x563355ed4908)) called at /usr/share/perl5/Lintian/Profile.pm line 409 Lintian::Profile::_read_profile(Lintian::Profile=HASH(0x563355ad1b68), "/usr/share/lintian/profiles/pkg-perl/main.profile") called at /usr/share/perl5/Lintian/Profile.pm line 180 Lintian::Profile::new("Lintian::Profile", "pkg-perl", ARRAY(0x563353d63ae0), HASH(0x56335409c268)) called at /usr/bin/lintian line 216 dplint::load_profile("pkg-perl") called at /usr/share/lintian/commands/lintian.pm line 1435 eval {...} called at /usr/share/lintian/commands/lintian.pm line 1435 main::load_profile_and_configure_tags() called at /usr/share/lintian/commands/lintian.pm line 653 main::main() called at /usr/bin/lintian line 46 eval {...} called at /usr/bin/lintian line 46 main::__ANON__("/usr/share/lintian/commands/lintian.pm") called at /usr/bin/lintian line 115 dplint::run_tool("/usr/bin/lintian", "lintian") called at /usr/bin/lintian line 291 dplint::main() called at /usr/bin/lintian line 362 The first line is probably the relevant one: /usr/share/lintian/checks/pkg-perl/vcs.desc does not have exactly one paragraph And indeed, if I remove or comment out the line LINTIAN_PROFILE=pkg-perl from my .lintianrc, the issue is gone, but so are debian-perl-team-specific tests. I suspect this is related to this change in 2.17.0: * Store tags is separate, small files under ./tags. But if so, I'm not sure if breaking lintian profiles was really planned, so I'm filing this against both, lintian and pkg-perl-tools and X-Debbugs-Cc'ing Felix Lechner. -- System Information: Debian Release: bullseye/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (600, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (110, 'experimental'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'buildd-experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages pkg-perl-tools depends on: ii curl 7.65.1-1 ii debhelper 12.3 ii devscripts 2.19.6 ii dh-make-perl 0.106 ii git 1:2.23.0~rc1-1 ii git-buildpackage 0.9.14 ii libdatetime-perl 2:1.51-1 ii libdpkg-perl 1.19.7 ii libgit-repository-perl 1.323-1 ii libgitlab-api-v4-perl 0.20-1 ii libipc-run-perl 20180523.0-1 ii libjson-xs-perl 4.020-1 ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-13 ii libproc-invokeeditor-perl 1.13-1 ii librt-client-rest-perl 1:0.56-1 ii libtry-tiny-perl 0.30-1 ii libutf8-all-perl 0.024-1 ii lintian 2.17.0 ii openssh-client [ssh-client] 1:8.0p1-4 ii perl 5.28.1-6 ii pristine-tar 1.46 ii quilt 0.65-3 Versions of packages pkg-perl-tools recommends: ii autodep8 0.18 ii autopkgtest 5.10 ii libconfig-model-dpkg-perl 2.125 ii libconfig-model-perl 2.136-1 ii libdebian-copyright-perl 0.2-4 ii libfile-slurp-perl 9999.27-1 ii libmime-lite-perl 3.030-2 ii libmodule-inspector-perl 1.05-2 ii libnet-github-perl 0.95-1 ii libparallel-forkmanager-perl 2.02-1 ii libsoap-lite-perl 1.27-1 ii libterm-readline-gnu-perl 1.36-2 ii libwww-mechanize-perl 1.91-2 ii libyaml-libyaml-perl 0.79+repack-2 ii lintian 2.17.0 ii myrepos [mr] 1.20180726 ii sensible-utils 0.0.12 Versions of packages pkg-perl-tools suggests: ii bc 1.07.1-2+b2 ii cdbs 0.4.159 ii duck 0.13 ii moreutils 0.63-1 ii perl-depends 2016.1029+git8f67695-1 ii python3 3.7.3-1 ii python3-launchpadlib 1.10.7-1 -- no debconf information