Bug#1017064: lintian: incorrectly complains about adopted-extended-field XB-Ruby-Versions

[Francesco Poli]

Control: found -1 lintian/2.138.0


On Wed, 5 Aug 2026 00:06:26 +0530 Nilesh Patra wrote:

> Hello,

Hi, thanks for following up on this bug report.

> 
> > this could be due to an incomplete fix for bug #999768 or maybe it
> > is caused by some other bug.  
> 
> The latest release tried to fix this completely. But even then, I can't see 
> this with
> older release either.
> 
> https://udd.debian.org/lintian-tag/unknown-field?affected=yes does not list 
> even a single
> package with Ruby-Versions.
> 
> I took an example of src:hiera package which has XB-Ruby-Versions declared 
> and I do not
> see this hint being emitted in the lintian run with version 2.138.0, at the 
> time of
> writing this mail.
> 
> See 
> https://udd.debian.org/lintian/?email1=&email2=&email3=&packages=hiera&ignpackages=&format=html&lt_error=on&lt_warning=on&lt_information=on&lt_pedantic=on&lt_experimental=on&lt_overridden=on&lintian_tag=#all

Maybe I am misinterpreting what you mean, but I see the complaint 
`adopted-extended-field` being emitted by `lintian/2.138.0` for package 
`src:hiera`.

And it seems to me that it is [emitted] for a number of other packages
having `XB-Ruby-Versions` set in their control file. For instance,
packages `batalert`, `bio-vcf`, `fontcustom`, many `ruby-*` package,
and so forth...

[emitted]: 
<https://udd.debian.org/lintian-tag/adopted-extended-field?affected=yes>

> 
> So I think this got fixed at some point, unsure of the timeline.
> Hence, I am closing this bug.
> 
> If you are still able to reproduce this, please re-open this bug.

It seems that `lintian/2.138.0` runs are still able to emit the
complaint `adopted-extended-field`, when finding field
`XB-Ruby-Versions` in the control file.

As I [said], I think that lintian should now point out that the two
fields `XS-Ruby-Versions` and `XB-Ruby-Versions` are deprecated and
need to be dropped...

[said]: <https://bugs.debian.org/1017064#17>

Do you agree?


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