Package: lintian Version: 2.5.10.2 Severity: serious A sysvinit upload has been rejected by the archive because of the tag maintainer-script-removes-device-files (see below). This lintian check is in error; the maintainer script removes /dev/shm, which is not a device file. Furthermore, the code already exists in the version of sysvinit that's currently in testing and unstable, so something has changed in how this autoreject is being applied at package upload time.
Since this is treated as a non-overrideable lintian reject by the ftp
archive, I'm marking this bug serious because it's blocking valid packages
from being uploaded; false positives in non-overridable archive rejects are
a serious problem. If you think this should be fixed in the archive's tag
set instead of in lintian, feel free to reassign to ftp.debian.org.
In the meantime I will be hacking the maintainer script code to trick
lintian so the upload can proceed.
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Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 12:47:30 +0000
From: Debian FTP Masters <ftpmas...@ftp-master.debian.org>
To: Debian sysvinit maintainers <pkg-sysvinit-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org>,
Steve Langasek <vor...@debian.org>
Subject: sysvinit_2.88dsf-33_i386.changes REJECTED
initscripts: lintian output: 'maintainer-script-removes-device-files
postinst:364', automatically rejected package.
initscripts: lintian output: 'maintainer-script-removes-device-files
postinst:382', automatically rejected package.
initscripts: lintian output: 'maintainer-script-removes-device-files
postinst:398', automatically rejected package.
initscripts: lintian output: 'maintainer-script-removes-device-files
postinst:418', automatically rejected package.
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Please feel free to respond to this email if you don't understand why
your files were rejected, or if you upload new files which address our
concerns.
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