Package: lintian Version: 2.5.103 Severity: normal When trying to run the lintian testsuite, I got several test failures:
Failed tests (6) tests::binaries-missing-depends-on-numpy-abi tests::debhelper-dh-quilt-addon-but-quilt-source-format tests::debhelper-dh-quilt-addon-but-quilt-source-format-unrel tests::debhelper-dh-with-quilt tests::rules-including-deprecated-makefiles tests::rules-missing-targets-with-known-includes Looking at the log, these seem to fail without certain packages installed. I'm not sure if the bug is that those tests lack Test-Depends, or in some cases if the tests shouldn't be trying to build. For example, rules-missing-targets-with-known-includes fails due to missing /usr/share/javahelper/java-vars.mk: tests::rules-missing-targets-with-known-includes: ---- START BUILD LOG tests::rules-missing-targets-with-known-includes: dpkg-buildpackage: info: source package rules-missing-targets-with-known-includes tests::rules-missing-targets-with-known-includes: dpkg-buildpackage: info: source version 1.0 tests::rules-missing-targets-with-known-includes: dpkg-buildpackage: info: source distribution unstable tests::rules-missing-targets-with-known-includes: dpkg-buildpackage: info: source changed by Debian Lintian Maintainers <lintian-ma...@debian.org> tests::rules-missing-targets-with-known-includes: dpkg-source -iNEVER_MATCH_ANYTHING -INEVER_MATCH_ANYTHING --auto-commit --before-build rules-missing-targets-with-known-includes-1.0 tests::rules-missing-targets-with-known-includes: dpkg-buildpackage: info: host architecture amd64 tests::rules-missing-targets-with-known-includes: dpkg-source: warning: --auto-commit is not a valid option for Dpkg::Source::Package::V1 tests::rules-missing-targets-with-known-includes: debian/rules clean tests::rules-missing-targets-with-known-includes: debian/rules:5: /usr/share/javahelper/java-vars.mk: No such file or directory tests::rules-missing-targets-with-known-includes: make: *** No rule to make target '/usr/share/javahelper/java-vars.mk'. Stop. tests::rules-missing-targets-with-known-includes: dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules clean subprocess returned exit status 2 tests::rules-missing-targets-with-known-includes: ---- END BUILD LOG error tests::rules-missing-targets-with-known-includes: internal error: cd /home/josh/src/lintian/debian/test-out/tests/rules-missing-targets-with-known-includes/rules-missing-targets-with-known-includes-1.0 && dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc -d -iNEVER_MATCH_ANYTHING -INEVER_MATCH_ANYTHING --source-option=--auto-commit >/home/josh/src/lintian/debian/test-out/tests/rules-missing-targets-with-known-includes/build.rules-missing-targets-with-known-includes 2>&1 at t/runtests line 466. And rules-including-deprecated-makefiles fails due to missing /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/simple-patchsys.mk: tests::rules-including-deprecated-makefiles: ---- START BUILD LOG tests::rules-including-deprecated-makefiles: dpkg-buildpackage: info: source package rules-including-deprecated-makefiles tests::rules-including-deprecated-makefiles: dpkg-buildpackage: info: source version 1.0 tests::rules-including-deprecated-makefiles: dpkg-buildpackage: info: source distribution unstable tests::rules-including-deprecated-makefiles: dpkg-buildpackage: info: source changed by Debian Lintian Maintainers <lintian-ma...@debian.org> tests::rules-including-deprecated-makefiles: dpkg-source -iNEVER_MATCH_ANYTHING -INEVER_MATCH_ANYTHING --auto-commit --before-build rules-including-deprecated-makefiles-1.0 tests::rules-including-deprecated-makefiles: dpkg-buildpackage: info: host architecture amd64 tests::rules-including-deprecated-makefiles: dpkg-source: warning: --auto-commit is not a valid option for Dpkg::Source::Package::V1 tests::rules-including-deprecated-makefiles: debian/rules clean tests::rules-including-deprecated-makefiles: debian/rules:4: /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/simple-patchsys.mk: No such file or directory tests::rules-including-deprecated-makefiles: make: *** No rule to make target '/usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/simple-patchsys.mk'. Stop. tests::rules-including-deprecated-makefiles: dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules clean subprocess returned exit status 2 tests::rules-including-deprecated-makefiles: ---- END BUILD LOG error tests::rules-including-deprecated-makefiles: internal error: cd /home/josh/src/lintian/debian/test-out/tests/rules-including-deprecated-makefiles/rules-including-deprecated-makefiles-1.0 && dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc -d -iNEVER_MATCH_ANYTHING -INEVER_MATCH_ANYTHING --source-option=--auto-commit >/home/josh/src/lintian/debian/test-out/tests/rules-including-deprecated-makefiles/build.rules-including-deprecated-makefiles 2>&1 at t/runtests line 466. Should these tests use Test-Depends, or for some of these tests should lintian just build a source package and check that without trying to build binary packages? -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.18.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.31.1-5 ii bzip2 1.0.6-9 ii diffstat 1.61-1+b1 ii dpkg 1.19.0.5+b1 ii file 1:5.34-2 ii gettext 0.19.8.1-7 ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.4 ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.34 ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.64-1 ii libcgi-pm-perl 4.40-1 ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.51-1 ii libclone-perl 0.39-1 ii libdpkg-perl 1.19.0.5 ii libemail-valid-perl 1.202-1 ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.08-1 ii libipc-run-perl 20180523.0-1 ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.416-1+b3 ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-12 ii libtext-levenshtein-perl 0.13-1 ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-2 ii liburi-perl 1.74-1 ii libxml-simple-perl 2.25-1 ii libyaml-libyaml-perl 0.74+repack-1 ii man-db 2.8.4-2 ii patchutils 0.3.4-2 ii perl [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.26.2-7 ii t1utils 1.41-2 ii xz-utils 5.2.2-1.3 Versions of packages lintian recommends: pn libperlio-gzip-perl <none> Versions of packages lintian suggests: pn binutils-multiarch <none> ii dpkg-dev 1.19.0.5 ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.72-3+b2 ii libtext-template-perl 1.53-1 -- no debconf information