Package: lintian Version: 2.117.0 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation? I'm packaging python-pyelftools 0.31 and lintian fails due to files used for testing, because of non-utf8 characters. * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? I followed the usual process of importing a new upstream version. I uploaded the packaging state to https://salsa.debian.org/debian/python- pyelftools. * What was the outcome of this action? The build succeeds, but the subsequent lintian run fails with: E: python-pyelftools source: unpack-message-for-orig python- pyelftools_0.31.orig.tar.gz . Output from 'readelf --all --wide pyelftools-0.31/test/testfiles_for_unittests/dwarf_phantombytes.elf' is not valid UTF-8 * What outcome did you expect instead? I'm not sure: either lintian wouldn't care whether output is utf-8 or perhaps readelf shouldn't emit 8-bit characters. -- System Information: Debian Release: trixie/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 6.6.15-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.42-4 ii bzip2 1.0.8-5.1 ii diffstat 1.66-1 ii dpkg 1.22.4 ii dpkg-dev 1.22.4 ii file 1:5.45-2+b1 ii gettext 0.21-14+b1 ii gpg 2.2.40-1.1+b1 ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.6 ii iso-codes 4.16.0-1 ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.40+b3 ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.68-1 ii libberkeleydb-perl 0.64-2+b2 ii libcapture-tiny-perl 0.48-2 ii libclass-xsaccessor-perl 1.19-4+b2 ii libclone-perl 0.46-1+b1 ii libconfig-tiny-perl 2.30-1 ii libconst-fast-perl 0.014-2 ii libcpanel-json-xs-perl 4.37-1+b1 ii libdata-dpath-perl 0.59-1 ii libdata-validate-domain-perl 0.10-1.1 ii libdata-validate-uri-perl 0.07-3 ii libdevel-size-perl 0.83-2+b2 pn libdigest-sha-perl <none> ii libdpkg-perl 1.22.4 ii libemail-address-xs-perl 1.05-1+b2 ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.09-2 ii libfile-find-rule-perl 0.34-3 ii libfont-ttf-perl 1.06-2 ii libhtml-html5-entities-perl 0.004-3 ii libhtml-tokeparser-simple-perl 3.16-4 ii libio-interactive-perl 1.025-1 ii libipc-run3-perl 0.049-1 ii libjson-maybexs-perl 1.004005-1 ii liblist-compare-perl 0.55-2 ii liblist-someutils-perl 0.59-1 ii liblist-utilsby-perl 0.12-2 ii libmldbm-perl 2.05-4 ii libmoo-perl 2.005005-1 ii libmoox-aliases-perl 0.001006-2 ii libnamespace-clean-perl 0.27-2 ii libpath-tiny-perl 0.144-1 ii libperlio-gzip-perl 0.20-1+b2 ii libperlio-utf8-strict-perl 0.010-1+b1 ii libproc-processtable-perl 0.636-1+b1 ii libregexp-wildcards-perl 1.05-3 ii libsereal-decoder-perl 5.004+ds-1+b1 ii libsereal-encoder-perl 5.004+ds-1+b1 ii libsort-versions-perl 1.62-3 ii libsyntax-keyword-try-perl 0.29-1+b1 ii libterm-readkey-perl 2.38-2+b2 ii libtext-levenshteinxs-perl 0.03-5+b2 ii libtext-markdown-discount-perl 0.16-1+b1 ii libtext-xslate-perl 3.5.9-1+b3 ii libtime-duration-perl 1.21-2 ii libtime-moment-perl 0.44-2+b2 ii libtimedate-perl 2.3300-2 ii libunicode-utf8-perl 0.62-2+b1 ii liburi-perl 5.27-1 ii libwww-mechanize-perl 2.18-1 ii libwww-perl 6.77-1 ii libxml-libxml-perl 2.0207+dfsg+really+2.0134-1+b2 ii libyaml-libyaml-perl 0.89+ds-1 ii lzip [lzip-decompressor] 1.24.1-1 ii lzop 1.04-2 ii man-db 2.12.0-3 ii patchutils 0.4.2-1 ii perl [libencode-perl] 5.38.2-3 ii t1utils 1.41-4 ii unzip 6.0-28 ii xz-utils 5.6.1+really5.4.5-1 lintian recommends no packages. Versions of packages lintian suggests: pn binutils-multiarch <none> ii libtext-template-perl 1.61-1 -- no debconf information