Package: lintian Version: 2.104.0 Severity: important Hello!
While checking the apt-listbugs package (which I maintain), I experienced an awkward lintian behavior: $ lintian -viF apt-listbugs_0.1.35~rc3_amd64.changes N: Using profile debian/ftp-master-auto-reject. N: Starting on group apt-listbugs/0.1.35~rc3 Warning in group apt-listbugs/0.1.35~rc3: Use of uninitialized value in string eq at /usr/share/lintian/checks/fields/package-relations.pm line 129. Warning in group apt-listbugs/0.1.35~rc3: Use of uninitialized value in string eq at /usr/share/lintian/checks/fields/package-relations.pm line 129. [...] N: Finished processing group apt-listbugs/0.1.35~rc3 with the warning repeated 188 times. If I enable more checks with: $ lintian -EviIL +pedantic apt-listbugs_0.1.35~rc3_amd64.changes I get the same 188 warnings and two false positives: E: apt-listbugs: alternates-not-allowed Depends N: E: alternates-not-allowed N: N: Only the "Depends", "Recommends", "Suggests" and "Pre-Depends" fields N: may specify alternate dependencies using the "|" symbol. N: N: Refer to Debian Policy Manual section 7.1 (Syntax of relationship N: fields) for details. N: N: Severity: error N: N: Check: fields/package-relations N: E: apt-listbugs: alternates-not-allowed Suggests I _think_ that these two complaints are false positives, since the [debian/control] file has not changed since version 0.1.34 and the same file has been previously (on December the 5th, 2020) checked by the same version 2.104.0 of lintian, without any complaint. And I cannot understand what's wrong with the debian/control file. But of course, I may be wrong: if this is the case, then please help me understand... [debian/control]: <https://tracker.debian.org/media/packages/a/apt-listbugs/control-0.1.34> Is this new awkward behavior of lintian caused by some recent Perl package upgrade in sid? Among the lintian dependencies, I see the following changed versions: libicu67:amd64 (67.1-4) -> (67.1-5) libxml2:amd64 (2.9.10+dfsg-6.3) -> (2.9.10+dfsg-6.3+b1) liblist-moreutils-perl (0.416-1+b6) -> (0.430-1) and nothing else, it seems. Please investigate and fix this issue. Thanks for your time! Bye. -- System Information: Debian Release: bullseye/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 5.9.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C), LANGUAGE=en_US:en Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.35.1-4 ii bzip2 1.0.8-4 ii diffstat 1.63-1 ii dpkg 1.20.5 ii dpkg-dev 1.20.5 ii file 1:5.39-3 ii gettext 0.19.8.1-10 ii gpg 2.2.20-1 ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.5 ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.36+b4 ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.68-1 ii libcapture-tiny-perl 0.48-1 ii libclass-xsaccessor-perl 1.19-3+b6 ii libclone-perl 0.45-1+b1 ii libconfig-tiny-perl 2.24-1 ii libcpanel-json-xs-perl 4.25-1+b1 ii libdata-dpath-perl 0.58-1 ii libdata-validate-domain-perl 0.10-1 ii libdevel-size-perl 0.83-1+b2 ii libdpkg-perl 1.20.5 ii libemail-address-xs-perl 1.04-1+b3 ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.08-1 ii libfile-find-rule-perl 0.34-1 ii libfont-ttf-perl 1.06-1 ii libhtml-html5-entities-perl 0.004-1 ii libipc-run3-perl 0.048-2 ii libjson-maybexs-perl 1.004003-1 ii liblist-compare-perl 0.55-1 ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.430-1 ii liblist-utilsby-perl 0.11-1 ii libmoo-perl 2.004004-1 ii libmoox-aliases-perl 0.001006-1 ii libnamespace-clean-perl 0.27-1 ii libpath-tiny-perl 0.114-1 ii libperlio-gzip-perl 0.19-1+b7 ii libproc-processtable-perl 0.59-2+b1 ii libsereal-decoder-perl 4.018+ds-1+b1 ii libsereal-encoder-perl 4.018+ds-1+b1 ii libtext-glob-perl 0.11-1 ii libtext-levenshteinxs-perl 0.03-4+b8 ii libtext-markdown-discount-perl 0.12-1+b1 ii libtext-xslate-perl 3.5.8-1+b1 ii libtime-duration-perl 1.21-1 ii libtime-moment-perl 0.44-1+b3 ii libtimedate-perl 2.3300-1 ii libtry-tiny-perl 0.30-1 ii libtype-tiny-perl 1.012000-1 ii libunicode-utf8-perl 0.62-1+b2 ii liburi-perl 5.05-1 ii libxml-libxml-perl 2.0134+dfsg-2+b1 ii libyaml-libyaml-perl 0.82+repack-1+b1 ii lzip 1.21-8 ii lzop 1.04-2 ii man-db 2.9.3-2 ii patchutils 0.4.2-1 ii perl [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.32.0-6 ii t1utils 1.41-4 ii unzip 6.0-25 ii xz-utils 5.2.4-1+b1 lintian recommends no packages. Versions of packages lintian suggests: pn binutils-multiarch <none> pn libtext-template-perl <none> -- no debconf information
