Your message dated Mon, 16 Dec 2019 21:54:22 -0800 with message-id <cafhyt56seglwibeyzufk2n-46vue_u9hnm9erpu7ndsmvjf...@mail.gmail.com> and subject line Lintian profile format is different has caused the Debian Bug report #802718, regarding lintian: Blank lines in a vendor profile cause errors for valid lines to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: lintian Version: 2.5.30+deb8u4 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I created a vendor profile named main.profile with the following lines: #start of profile file Profile: test/main Extends: debian/main Disable-Tags: dir-or-file-in-opt #end of profile file I placed that file in the directory ~/.lintian/profiles/test then ran: lintian --profile test {path to a .deb file} The output was: Unknown field "disable-tags" in test/main (section 2) at /usr/bin/lintian line 979. If I remove the single blank line from the main.profile file, and run the lintian command again, the command succeeds. The vendor profile example given in section 2.5.2.3 of the lintian documentation has a blank line in it. Also given that the man page for lintian says the --tags-from-file and --suppress-tags-from-file options both ignore blank lines, I was expecting vendor profiles to do the same. I am assuming this is not the indended outcome, and is therefore a bug. In case it is of interest, I first discovered this on a system running debian wheezy, and lintian version 2.5.10.4 (the outcome was the same both on wheezy and jessie). -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.2 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
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--- Begin Message ---Hi DJ, > Yes, this is intentional behaviour. The profile must satisfy the format > of the "deb822" format. As Niels explained, the first paragraph in the profile format has special meaning and may not be interrupted with blank lines. The profile works as intended (although the error message could be improved). Closing this bug. Kind regards Felix Lechner
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