1cmd: lintian --no-cfg --display-level '>=classification' --display-experimental --info --show-overrides '/tmp/debusine-fetch-exec-upload-o3astpax/knetload-trinity_14.2.0~pre25-0ubuntu20.04.0+8.dsc' '/tmp/debusine-fetch-exec-upload-o3astpax/knetload-trinity_14.2.0~pre25-0ubuntu20.04.0+8_ppc64el.deb' 2output (contains stderr only, stdout was captured): 3 4Files in working directory: 5lintian.txt 6-------------------- 7E: knetload-trinity: dir-or-file-in-opt opt/trinity/ 8N: 9N: Debian packages should not install into /opt, because it is reserved for 10N: add-on software. 11N: 12N: Refer to Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (/opt : Add-on application 13N: software packages) for details. 14N: 15N: Severity: error 16N: 17N: Check: files/hierarchy-standard 18N: 19E: knetload-trinity: dir-or-file-in-opt opt/trinity/bin/ 20E: knetload-trinity: dir-or-file-in-opt opt/trinity/bin/knetload 21E: knetload-trinity: dir-or-file-in-opt opt/trinity/share/ 22E: knetload-trinity: dir-or-file-in-opt 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For 176N: example, the previous package version was "1:1.0-1" and the current 177N: version is "2:2.0-1". 178N: 179N: This was likely an accidental bump or addition of an epoch. 180N: 181N: Epochs exist to cope with changes to the upstream version numbering 182N: scheme. Whilst they are a powerful tool, increasing or adding an epoch 183N: has many downsides including causing issues with versioned dependencies, 184N: being misleading to users and being aesthetically unappealing. Whilst 185N: they should be avoided, valid reasons to add or increment the epoch 186N: include: 187N: 188N: - Upstream changed their versioning scheme in a way that makes the 189N: latest version lower than the previous one. 190N: - You need to permanently revert to a lower upstream version. 191N: 192N: Temporary revertions (eg. after an NMU) should use not modify or 193N: introduce an epoch - please use the CURRENT+reallyFORMER until you can 194N: upload the latest version again. 195N: 196N: If you are unsure whether you need to increase the epoch for a package, 197N: please consult the debian-devel mailing list. 198N: 199N: Severity: error 200N: 201N: Check: debian/changelog 202N: 203E: knetload-trinity source: missing-build-dependency cdbs 204N: 205N: The package doesn't specify a build dependency on a package that is used 206N: in debian/rules. 207N: 208N: Lintian intentionally does not take into account transitive 209N: dependencies. Even if the package build-depends on some package that in 210N: turn depends on the needed package, an explicit build dependency should 211N: be added. Otherwise, a latent bug is created that will appear without 212N: warning if the other package is ever updated to change its dependencies. 213N: Even if this seems unlikely, please always add explicit build 214N: dependencies on every non-essential, non-build-essential package that is 215N: used directly during the build. 216N: 217N: Refer to Debian Policy Manual section 4.2 (Package relationships) for 218N: details. 219N: 220N: Severity: error 221N: 222N: Check: debian/rules 223N: 224W: knetload-trinity source: ancient-standards-version 3.8.4 (released 2010-01-27) (current is 4.5.0) 225N: 226N: The source package refers to a Standards-Version that has been obsolete 227N: for more than two years. Please update your package to latest Policy and 228N: set this control field appropriately. 229N: 230N: If the package is already compliant with the current standards, you 231N: don't have to re-upload the package just to adjust the Standards-Version 232N: control field. However, please remember to update this field next time 233N: you upload the package. 234N: 235N: See /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.txt.gz in the 236N: debian-policy package for a summary of changes in newer versions of 237N: Policy. 238N: 239N: Refer to 240N: https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.html for 241N: details. 242N: 243N: Severity: warning 244N: 245N: Check: fields/standards-version 246N: 247W: knetload-trinity source: binary-nmu-debian-revision-in-source 4:14.2.0~pre25-0ubuntu20.04.0+8 248N: 249N: The version number of your source package ends in +b and a number or has 250N: a Debian revision containing three parts. These version numbers are used 251N: by binary NMUs and should not be used as the source version. (The +b 252N: form is the current standard; the three-part version number now 253N: obsolete.) 254N: 255N: Refer to Debian Developer's Reference section 5.10.2.1 (Recompilation or 256N: binary-only NMU) for details. 257N: 258N: Severity: warning 259N: 260N: Check: fields/version 261N: 262W: knetload-trinity: copyright-refers-to-versionless-license-file usr/share/common-licenses/GPL 263N: 264N: The copyright file refers to the versionless symlink in 265N: /usr/share/common-licenses for the full text of the GPL, LGPL, or GFDL 266N: license, but the package does not appear to allow distribution under 267N: later versions of the license. This symlink will change with each 268N: release of a new version of the license and may therefore point to a 269N: different version than the package is released under. debian/copyright 270N: should instead refers to the specific version of the license that the 271N: package references. 272N: 273N: For example, if the package says something like "you can redistribute it 274N: and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as 275N: published by the Free Software Foundation; version 2 dated June, 1991," 276N: the debian/copyright file should refer to 277N: /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2, not /GPL. 278N: 279N: Severity: warning 280N: 281N: Check: debian/copyright 282N: 283W: knetload-trinity source: debhelper-but-no-misc-depends knetload-trinity 284N: 285N: The source package uses debhelper, but it does not include 286N: ${misc:Depends} in the given binary package's debian/control entry. Any 287N: debhelper command may add dependencies to ${misc:Depends} that are 288N: required for the work that it does, so recommended best practice is to 289N: always add ${misc:Depends} to the dependencies of each binary package if 290N: debhelper is in use. 291N: 292N: Refer to the debhelper(7) manual page for details. 293N: 294N: Severity: warning 295N: 296N: Check: debhelper 297N: 298W: knetload-trinity source: debian-source-options-has-custom-compression-settings compression = "xz" (line 2) 299N: 300N: The debian/source/options file for this package specifies a custom 301N: compression level or algorithm. 302N: 303N: Whilst higher levels may reduce the size of big files, they have the 304N: side effect of consuming a lot of memory during both compression and 305N: extraction. This can not only also waste time unnecessarily, it can 306N: cause packages to FTBFS or even fail to install in resource-constrained 307N: environments or architectures. 308N: 309N: Please remove the call and let dpkg-deb(1) select suitable defaults. 310N: 311N: Refer to https://bugs.debian.org/829100 and the dpkg-deb(1) manual page 312N: for details. 313N: 314N: Severity: warning 315N: 316N: Check: debian/source-dir 317N: 318W: knetload-trinity source: debian-source-options-has-custom-compression-settings compression-level = 9 (line 3) 319W: knetload-trinity: description-synopsis-starts-with-article 320N: 321N: The first line of the "Description:" should omit any initial indefinite 322N: or definite article: "a", "an", or "the". A good heuristic is that it 323N: should be possible to substitute the package name and synopsis into this 324N: formula: 325N: 326N: The package name provides {a,an,the,some} synopsis. 327N: 328N: Refer to Debian Developer's Reference section 6.2.2 (The package 329N: synopsis, or short description) for details. 330N: 331N: Severity: warning 332N: 333N: Check: fields/description 334N: 335W: knetload-trinity source: epoch-change-without-comment 2.3-3.1ubuntu0 -> 4:14.2.0~pre25-0ubuntu20.04.0+8 336N: 337N: The previous version of this package had a different version epoch (eg. 338N: 2:1.0-1) to the current version but there's no reference to this in the 339N: changelog entry. 340N: 341N: Epochs exist to cope with changes to the upstream version numbering 342N: scheme. Whilst they are a powerful tool, increasing or adding an epoch 343N: has many downsides including causing issues with versioned dependencies, 344N: being misleading to users and being aesthetically unappealing. Whilst 345N: they should be avoided, valid reasons to add or increment the epoch 346N: include: 347N: 348N: - Upstream changed their versioning scheme in a way that makes the 349N: latest version lower than the previous one. 350N: - You need to permanently revert to a lower upstream version. 351N: 352N: Temporary revertions (eg. after an NMU) should use not modify or 353N: introduce an epoch - please use the CURRENT+reallyFORMER until you can 354N: upload the latest version again. 355N: 356N: If you are unsure whether you need to increase the epoch for a package, 357N: please consult the debian-devel mailing list. 358N: 359N: Lintian looks in this version's changelog entry for the phrase "epoch". 360N: 361N: Severity: warning 362N: 363N: Check: debian/changelog 364N: 365W: knetload-trinity: hardening-no-relro opt/trinity/bin/knetload 366N: 367N: This package provides an ELF binary that lacks the "read-only 368N: relocation" link flag. This package was likely not built with the 369N: default Debian compiler flags defined by dpkg-buildflags. If built using 370N: dpkg-buildflags directly, be sure to import LDFLAGS. 371N: 372N: Refer to https://wiki.debian.org/Hardening for details. 373N: 374N: Severity: warning 375N: 376N: Check: binaries 377N: 378W: knetload-trinity: menu-item-creates-new-section Apps/System usr/share/menu/knetload-trinity:6 379N: 380N: The menu item has a line that specifies an unknown section or uses a 381N: section that is intended only as a menu root, not as a section that 382N: applications should use directly. Check the spelling of the section and 383N: check the section against the list in the menu policy. (The menu 384N: sections changed as of June of 2007.) 385N: 386N: Refer to The Debian Menu sub-policy section 2.1 (Preferred menu 387N: structure) for details. 388N: 389N: Severity: warning 390N: 391N: Check: menu-format 392N: 393W: knetload-trinity: menu-item-uses-apps-section usr/share/menu/knetload-trinity:6 394N: 395N: The menu item has a line that specifies a section under "Apps". This 396N: section has been moved to "Applications". 397N: 398N: Refer to The Debian Menu sub-policy section 2.1 (Preferred menu 399N: structure) for details. 400N: 401N: Severity: warning 402N: 403N: Check: menu-format 404N: 405W: knetload-trinity: package-relation-with-self breaks: knetload-trinity (<< 4:14.0.0~) 406N: 407N: The package declares a relationship with itself. This is not very useful 408N: except in the case of a package Conflicting with itself if its package 409N: name doubles as a virtual package. 410N: 411N: Severity: warning 412N: 413N: Check: fields/package-relations 414N: 415W: knetload-trinity: unknown-section tde 416N: 417N: The "Section:" field in this package's control file is not one of the 418N: sections in use on the ftp archive. Valid sections are currently admin, 419N: comm, cli-mono, database, debug, devel, doc, editors, electronics, 420N: embedded, fonts, games, gnome, gnu-r, gnustep, graphics, hamradio, 421N: haskell, httpd, interpreters, java, javascript, kde, libdevel, libs, 422N: lisp, localization, kernel, mail, math, misc, net, news, ocaml, oldlibs, 423N: otherosfs, perl, php, python, ruby, rust, science, shells, sound, tex, 424N: text, utils, vcs, video, web, x11, xfce, zope. 425N: 426N: The section name should be preceded by "non-free/" if the package is in 427N: the non-free archive area, and by "contrib/" if the package is in the 428N: contrib archive area. 429N: 430N: Refer to Debian Policy Manual section 2.4 (Sections) for details. 431N: 432N: Severity: warning 433N: 434N: Check: fields/section 435N: 436I: knetload-trinity source: binary-control-field-duplicates-source field "section" in package knetload-trinity 437N: 438N: In debian/control, this field for a binary package duplicates the value 439N: inherited from the source package paragraph. This doesn't hurt anything, 440N: but you may want to take advantage of the inheritance and set the value 441N: in only one place. It prevents missing duplicate places that need to be 442N: fixed if the value ever changes. 443N: 444N: Severity: info 445N: 446N: Check: debian/control 447N: 448I: knetload-trinity source: debian-watch-file-is-missing 449N: 450N: This source package is not Debian-native but it does not have a 451N: debian/watch file. This file is used for automatic detection of new 452N: upstream versions by the Debian External Health Status project and other 453N: project infrastructure. If this package is maintained upstream, please 454N: consider adding a debian/watch file to detect new releases. 455N: 456N: If the package is not maintained upstream or if upstream uses a 457N: distribution mechanism that cannot be meaningfully monitored by uscan 458N: and the Debian External Health Status project, please consider adding a 459N: debian/watch file containing only comments documenting the situation. 460N: 461N: Refer to Debian Policy Manual section 4.11 (Optional upstream source 462N: location: debian/watch) and the uscan(1) manual page for details. 463N: 464N: Severity: info 465N: 466N: Check: debian/watch 467N: 468I: knetload-trinity source: no-dh-sequencer 469N: 470N: This package does not use the dh sequencer in debian/rules. 471N: 472N: While maintainers may use a variety of build systems, this one is by far 473N: the most popular. 474N: 475N: Maintainers are strongly encouraged to use the dh sequencer in new 476N: packages and convert existing ones when appropriate. 477N: 478N: Severity: info 479N: 480N: Check: debian/rules/dh-sequencer 481N: 482I: knetload-trinity source: testsuite-autopkgtest-missing 483N: 484N: This package does not declare a test suite. 485N: 486N: Having a test suite aids with automated quality assurance of the archive 487N: outside of your package. For example, if your package has a test suite 488N: it is possible to re-run that test suite when any of your package's 489N: dependencies have a new version and check whether that update causes 490N: problems for your package. 491N: 492N: In addition, since May 2018 these tests now influence migration from 493N: unstable to testing: 494N: 495N: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2018/05/msg00001.html 496N: 497N: Please add a debian/tests/control file to your package to declare a 498N: testsuite, but please make sure to only add autopkgtests if they provide 499N: meaningful coverage of your package. 500N: 501N: Refer to https://ci.debian.net/doc/ for details. 502N: 503N: Severity: info 504N: 505N: Check: testsuite 506N: 507P: knetload-trinity source: file-contains-trailing-whitespace debian/changelog (line 50) 508N: 509N: This file appears to contain one or more lines with trailing whitespace 510N: characters. 511N: 512N: Whilst typically harmless and merely unsightly, they can often cause 513N: difficult-to-spot issues where tools interpret the whitespace characters 514N: literally as well as introduce unnecessary diff(1) noise. They are thus 515N: best avoided in their entirity. 516N: 517N: Whitespace at the end of lines may be removed with the following: 518N: 519N: $ sed -i -e 's@[[:space:]]*$@@g' debian/control debian/changelog 520N: 521N: If you use Emacs, you can also use "M-x wh-cl" (whitespace-cleanup). 522N: 523N: However, if you wish to only remove trailing spaces and leave trailing 524N: tabs (eg. for Makefiles), you can use the following code snippet: 525N: 526N: $ sed -i -e 's@[ ]*$@@g' debian/rules 527N: 528N: To remove empty lines from the end of a file, you can use: 529N: 530N: $ sed -i -e :a -e '/^\n*$/{$d;N;};/\n$/ba' debian/rules 531N: 532N: Severity: pedantic 533N: 534N: Check: cruft 535N: 536P: knetload-trinity source: file-contains-trailing-whitespace debian/changelog (line 59) 537P: knetload-trinity source: file-contains-trailing-whitespace debian/changelog (line 61) 538P: knetload-trinity source: file-contains-trailing-whitespace debian/changelog (line 63) 539P: knetload-trinity source: file-contains-trailing-whitespace debian/changelog (line 73) 540P: knetload-trinity source: file-contains-trailing-whitespace debian/changelog (line 81) 541P: knetload-trinity source: no-dep5-copyright 542N: 543N: This package does not use a machine-readable debian/copyright file. 544N: 545N: This format makes it easier to review licenses and can be easily parsed 546N: by Lintian. 547N: 548N: Refer to 549N: https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/ for 550N: details. 551N: 552N: Severity: pedantic 553N: 554N: Check: debian/copyright 555N: 556P: knetload-trinity source: no-homepage-field 557N: 558N: This non-native package lacks a Homepage field. If the package has an 559N: upstream home page that contains useful information or resources for the 560N: end user, consider adding a Homepage control field to debian/control. 561N: 562N: Refer to Debian Policy Manual section 5.6.23 (Homepage) for details. 563N: 564N: Severity: pedantic 565N: 566N: Check: fields/homepage 567N: 568P: knetload-trinity source: package-uses-old-debhelper-compat-version 10 569N: 570N: The debhelper compatibility version used by this package is marked as 571N: not recommended by the debhelper developer. You may consider using a 572N: recommended compatibility version. 573N: 574N: The compatibility version can be set by specifying debhelper-compat (= 575N: 12) in your package's Build-Depends, by the legacy debian/compat file or 576N: even by setting and exporting DH_COMPAT in debian/rules. If it is not 577N: set in either place, debhelper defaults to the deprecated compatibility 578N: version 1. 579N: 580N: Refer to the debhelper(7) manual page for details. 581N: 582N: Severity: pedantic 583N: 584N: Check: debhelper 585N: 586P: knetload-trinity source: rules-requires-root-missing 587N: 588N: The debian/control file is missing an explicit Rules-Requires-Root 589N: field. 590N: 591N: Traditionally, Debian packages have required root privileges for some 592N: debian/rules target requiring a split between build and binary targets. 593N: This makes the builds slower due to the increased amount of invocations 594N: as well as the overhead of fakeroot itself. 595N: 596N: Please specify (eg.) Rules-Requires-Root: no in the debian/control 597N: source stanza, but packagers should verify using diffoscope(1) that the 598N: binaries built with this field present are identical. 599N: 600N: Refer to /usr/share/doc/dpkg-dev/rootless-builds.txt.gz, Debian Policy 601N: Manual section 4.9.2 (debian/rules and Rules-Requires-Root), and Debian 602N: Policy Manual section 5.6.31 (Rules-Requires-Root) for details. 603N: 604N: Severity: pedantic 605N: 606N: Check: debian/control 607N: 608X: knetload-trinity source: upstream-metadata-file-is-missing 609N: 610N: This source package is not Debian-native but it does not have a 611N: debian/upstream/metadata file. 612N: 613N: The Upstream MEtadata GAthered with YAml (UMEGAYA) project is an effort 614N: to collect meta-information about upstream projects from any source 615N: package. This file is in YAML format and it is used in to feed the data 616N: in the UltimateDebianDatabase. For example, it can contains the way the 617N: authors want their software be cited in publications and some 618N: bibliographic references about the software. 619N: 620N: Please add a debian/upstream/metadata file. 621N: 622N: Refer to https://dep-team.pages.debian.net/deps/dep12/ and 623N: https://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamMetadata for details. 624N: 625N: Severity: pedantic 626N: 627N: Check: debian/upstream/metadata 628N: 629N: This tag is experimental. Please file a bug report if the tag seems 630N: wrong. 631N: 632C: knetload-trinity: control-tarball-compression-format xz 633N: 634N: This is the compressor format used for the control.tar tarball. 635N: 636N: Severity: classification 637N: 638N: Check: deb-format 639N: 640N: This tag is a classification. There is no issue in your package. 641N: 642C: knetload-trinity: ctrl-script postinst 643N: 644N: This package has one or more maintainer scripts (or other executable 645N: control files). 646N: 647N: This flags any control file with the executable bit set. 648N: 649N: Severity: classification 650N: 651N: Check: control-files 652N: 653N: This tag is a classification. There is no issue in your package. 654N: 655C: knetload-trinity: ctrl-script postrm 656C: knetload-trinity: data-tarball-compression-format xz 657N: 658N: This is the compressor format used for the data.tar tarball. 659N: 660N: Severity: classification 661N: 662N: Check: deb-format 663N: 664N: This tag is a classification. There is no issue in your package. 665N: 666C: knetload-trinity: debhelper-autoscript-in-maintainer-scripts dh_installmenu/12.10ubuntu1 667N: 668N: The maintainer scripts of the package contain one or more auto-generated 669N: shell snippets inserted by the listed debhelper tool. 670N: 671N: Severity: classification 672N: 673N: Check: maintainer-scripts/generated 674N: 675N: This tag is a classification. There is no issue in your package. 676N: 677C: knetload-trinity source: debhelper-compat-level 10 678N: 679N: This is the debhelper compat level used specified by this package. 680N: 681N: Severity: classification 682N: 683N: Check: debhelper 684N: 685N: This tag is a classification. There is no issue in your package. 686N: 687C: knetload-trinity source: debian-build-system cdbs-with-debhelper.mk 688N: 689N: This is the build system that Lintian believes the package is using. 690N: 691N: Severity: classification 692N: 693N: Check: debhelper 694N: 695N: This tag is a classification. There is no issue in your package. 696N: 697C: knetload-trinity: maintainer-script-interpreter control/postinst /bin/sh 698N: 699N: Interpreter used in maintainer script or ELF 700N: 701N: Severity: classification 702N: 703N: Check: scripts 704N: 705N: This tag is a classification. There is no issue in your package. 706N: 707C: knetload-trinity: maintainer-script-interpreter control/postrm /bin/sh 708C: knetload-trinity source: package-is-maintained-by-individual 709N: 710N: The package is maintained by an individual according to the 711N: maintainer/uploaders fields in the debian/control file. 712N: 713N: Severity: classification 714N: 715N: Check: fields/vcs 716N: 717N: This tag is a classification. There is no issue in your package. 718N: 719C: knetload-trinity: package-is-maintained-by-individual 720C: knetload-trinity source: patch-system quilt 721N: 722N: This package uses the specified patch system (eg. "quilt" or "dpatch"). 723N: 724N: Severity: classification 725N: 726N: Check: patch-systems 727N: 728N: This tag is a classification. There is no issue in your package. 729N: 730C: knetload-trinity source: source-format 3.0 (quilt) 731N: 732N: This is the source format declared in the package. 733N: 734N: Severity: classification 735N: 736N: Check: debian/source-dir 737N: 738N: This tag is a classification. There is no issue in your package. 739N: 740C: knetload-trinity source: standards-version 3.8.4 741N: 742N: The standards version of the package according to Standards-Version 743N: field in the debian/control file. 744N: 745N: Severity: classification 746N: 747N: Check: fields/standards-version 748N: 749N: This tag is a classification. There is no issue in your package. 750N: 751 752--------------------