Package: lintian Version: 1.23.8 Severity: minor Unfortunately, I cannot see which packages caused this behaviour, but in any case, lintian shouldn't normally emit warnings on stderr, but rather detect and make it a lintian warning.
We should probably also make harness put these warnings in the lintian.log or something, or make lintian frontend itself capture stderr and turn that into a generic W: makes-lintian-barf <error> warnings. This is the full list of a full lintian run on unstable: dpkg-source: warning: wordtrans-1.1pre13/debian/rules is not a plain file WARNING: It seems that none of the files in POTFILES.in contain marked strings WARNING: It seems that none of the files in POTFILES.in contain marked strings WARNING: It seems that none of the files in POTFILES.in contain marked strings internal error: Failed opening changelog internal error: cannot run nmu check on package fireflier warning: file `../countrylist' extension `' is unknown; will try C error while opening "../countrylist" for reading: No such file or directory WARNING: It seems that none of the files in POTFILES.in contain marked strings WARNING: It seems that none of the files in POTFILES.in contain marked strings can't open ./../../tzsetup.templates: No such file or directory at /home/jeroen/root/usr/share/intltool-debian/intltool-extract line 200. can't open ./../../apt-setup.templates: No such file or directory at /home/jeroen/root/usr/share/intltool-debian/intltool-extract line 200. error while opening "../tzsetup.templates.h" for reading: No such file or directory WARNING: It seems that none of the files in POTFILES.in contain marked strings Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /home/jeroen/lintian.debian.org/lintian-current/checks/manpages line 284. internal error: collect info objdump-info about package samba-dbg: 256 internal error: collect info objdump-info about package libvibrant6-dbg: 256 internal error: collect info objdump-info about package libswfdec-dev: 256 internal error: collect info objdump-info about package libqof-0.5.0-1-dbg: 256 internal error: collect info objdump-info about package libopencdk8-dbg: 256 internal error: collect info objdump-info about package libogre4-dbg: 256 internal error: collect info objdump-info about package liboggz1-dbg: 256 internal error: collect info objdump-info about package libncbi6-dbg: 256 internal error: collect info objdump-info about package libgtk2.0-0-dbg: 256 internal error: collect info objdump-info about package libgnutls11-dbg: 256 internal error: collect info objdump-info about package libgnomeui-dbg: 256 internal error: collect info objdump-info about package libglib2.0-0-dbg: 256 internal error: collect info objdump-info about package libgfccore-2.0-0-dbg: 256 internal error: collect info objdump-info about package libgcrypt11-dbg: 256 internal error: collect info objdump-info about package libgail-dbg: 256 internal error: collect info objdump-info about package libfontconfig1-dbg: 256 internal error: collect info objdump-info about package libfltk1.1c102-dbg: 256 internal error: collect info objdump-info about package libcurl3-dbg: 256 internal error: collect info objdump-info about package libc6-dbg: 256 internal error: collect info objdump-info about package libatspi-dbg: 256 internal error: collect info objdump-info about package libatk1.0-dbg: 256 Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /home/jeroen/lintian.debian.org/lintian-current/checks/manpages line 284. Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /home/jeroen/lintian.debian.org/lintian-current/checks/manpages line 291. Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /home/jeroen/lintian.debian.org/lintian-current/checks/manpages line 284. Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /home/jeroen/lintian.debian.org/lintian-current/checks/manpages line 284. internal error: collect info objdump-info about package freeglut3-dbg: 256 file: corrupted section header size. internal error: xargs for file exited with code 31488 internal error: collect info file-info about package e3: 256 internal error: collect info objdump-info about package amd64-libs-dev: 256 --Jeroen -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-686 Locale: LANG=nl_NL.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=nl_NL.UTF-8 (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C) Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.15-5 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii diffstat 1.35-1 produces graph of changes introduc ii file 4.12-1 Determines file type using "magic" ii gettext 0.14.1-7 GNU Internationalization utilities ii intltool-debian 0.30+20040213 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf ii man-db 2.4.2-21 The on-line manual pager ii perl [libdigest-md5-perl] 5.8.4-6 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction -- no debconf information -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
