Package: po4a Severity: minor Hi,
po4a's Debian Control parser[1] in SVN chokes on a control file (attached) that I believe has no syntax errors: """ $ PERL5LIB=po4a/ po4a-gettextize -f text -m checks/group-checks.desc -p po4a/po/group-checks.pot -o control=Info Unrecognized section: '# This is a source check, so we only run it once per group ' Unrecognized section: ' Note: This check is limited to packages created from the same source package. Full circular dependencies between binaries from different source packages is beyond the scope of Lintian. ' Unrecognized section: ' is neither Multi-Arch "same" nor "foreign". """ The first error is because the parser chokes on a "comment" in the file, and the source suggests this is due to a lack of support for these. It would be nice (but not needed) to have that. However, the last two errors I do not understand. David Prévot (taffit) also mentioned the following: """ 21:37 < taffit> Mmm, it also assumes a short description on the first line, followed by a long one in the following text, which is not the case in your file (might exist a setting for that) """ I had a brief look at the source, but I could not find such a setting. ~Niels [1] That is, -f text -o control=...
Check-Script: group-checks Author: Niels Thykier <ni...@thykier.net> Abbrev: gchck # This is a source check, so we only run it once per group Type: source Info: This script checks for some issues that may appear in packages built from the same source. This includes intra-source circular dependencies and intra-source priority checks. Tag: intra-source-package-circular-dependency Severity: normal Certainty: certain Info: The listed packages from the same source circularly depend (or pre-depend) on each other. This makes it difficult for tools to properly handle install/upgrade sequences. Furthermore this complicates automated removal of unused packages. . If possible, consider removing or reducing one of the depends. . Note: This check is limited to packages created from the same source package. Full circular dependencies between binaries from different source packages is beyond the scope of Lintian. Ref: policy 7.2 Tag: package-depends-on-lower-priority-package Severity: normal Certainty: certain Ref: policy 2.5, http://qa.debian.org/debcheck.php Info: The package depends on a package with lower priority than itself. . Note: This check is limited to packages created from the same source package. A full check of all dependencies built from different source packages is beyond the scope of Lintian. The depcheck service can do this. Tag: binaries-have-file-conflict Severity: normal Certainty: possible Experimental: no Info: The binaries appears to have overlapping files without proper conflicts relation. . Note the check is completely based on the file index for the packages. Possible known false-positives include dpkg-diverts in maintainer scripts. Tag: dependency-is-not-multi-archified Severity: normal Certainty: possible Info: The package is Multi-Arch "same", but it depends on a package that is neither Multi-Arch "same" nor "foreign". Ref: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MultiarchSpec
