On 2011-12-07 21:32, Nicholas Bamber wrote: > Package: lintian > Version: 2.5.4 > Severity: minor > > Dear Maintainer, >
Hi, > * What led up to the situation? > I have script that generates a private Debian package, > builds it and runs lintian on the resulting changes file. > I changed the name of the generated package in the test script > and forgot that the test script needed to be updated. Is it possible to get one package/changes that emits this issue I can test against along with invocation example? > This led to an utterly bizarre error message: > > "Package name and type must be defined at /usr/bin/lintian line 1692" > I have identified the source of the error message, but I am not quite sure how it got there. > I understand that lintian runs on a layered approach and that the > error was finally spotted deep in the code. It would be nice if the arguments > were sanity checked right at the beginning as the message then would > be immediately obvious. > > [...] :) ~Niels -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
