Package: lintian Version: 2.2.17ubuntu1 Severity: important
When I'm running lintian on a certain custom built .deb package (ghostscript_8.64-5_i386.deb) then lintian sometimes just fails without any error message with error code 141. $ lintian --check --allow-root --show-overrides -i -b ghostscript_8.64-5_i386.deb >lintian.txt $ echo $? 141 In this case "lintian.txt" is empty. However, sometimes (every thrid attempt or so) lintian works on this package. The deb package was built using cowdancer. I've uploaded it here: http://www.mayastudios.com/ghostscript_8.64-5_i386.deb I'm not sure whether this is a problem of cowdancer or any other package as all other packages I'm building with cowdancer just work fine. But in any case I think it's a good idea to display some kind of error message in this case (or fix this bug as sometimes lintian just works with this package). Btw: I know I'm using Ubuntu (9.10) but I don't think this is a Ubuntu specific error. If someone using Debian could just check whether this problem appears at his/her system as well it'll be nice. Regards Sebastian -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers karmic-updates APT policy: (500, 'karmic-updates'), (500, 'karmic-security'), (500, 'karmic') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to de_DE.UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.20-0ubuntu2 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii diffstat 1.47-1 produces graph of changes introduc ii dpkg-dev 1.15.4ubuntu2 Debian package development tools ii file 5.03-1ubuntu1 Determines file type using "magic" ii gettext 0.17-8ubuntu2 GNU Internationalization utilities ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.23build1 Perl interface to libapt-pkg ii libclass-accessor-per 0.33-1 Automated accessor generator ii libipc-run-perl 0.82-1 Perl module for running processes ii libparse-debianchange 1.1.1-2ubuntu1 parse Debian changelogs and output ii libtimedate-perl 1.1600-9 Time and date functions for Perl ii liburi-perl 1.37+dfsg-1ubuntu1 Manipulates and accesses URI strin ii man-db 2.5.6-2 on-line manual pager ii perl [libdigest-sha-p 5.10.0-24ubuntu4 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction lintian recommends no packages. Versions of packages lintian suggests: pn binutils-multiarch <none> (no description available) pn libtext-template-perl <none> (no description available) ii man-db 2.5.6-2 on-line manual pager -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
