1cmd: lintian --no-cfg --display-level '>=classification' --display-experimental --info --show-overrides '/tmp/debusine-fetch-exec-upload-pz3j5slf/knutclient-trinity_14.2.0~pre38-0ubuntu20.04.0+6.dsc' '/tmp/debusine-fetch-exec-upload-pz3j5slf/knutclient-trinity_14.2.0~pre38-0ubuntu20.04.0+6_ppc64el.deb' 2output (contains stderr only, stdout was captured): 3 4Files in working directory: 5lintian.txt 6-------------------- 7E: knutclient-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: knutclient-trinity: dir-or-file-in-opt opt/trinity/bin/ 20E: knutclient-trinity: dir-or-file-in-opt opt/trinity/bin/knutclient 21E: knutclient-trinity: dir-or-file-in-opt opt/trinity/share/ 22E: knutclient-trinity: dir-or-file-in-opt opt/trinity/share/applications/ 23E: knutclient-trinity: dir-or-file-in-opt opt/trinity/share/applications/tde/ 24E: knutclient-trinity: dir-or-file-in-opt opt/trinity/share/applications/tde/knutclient.desktop 25E: knutclient-trinity: dir-or-file-in-opt opt/trinity/share/apps/ 26E: knutclient-trinity: dir-or-file-in-opt opt/trinity/share/apps/knutclient/ 27E: knutclient-trinity: dir-or-file-in-opt opt/trinity/share/apps/knutclient/knutclientui.rc 28E: knutclient-trinity: dir-or-file-in-opt opt/trinity/share/apps/knutclient/pics/ 29E: knutclient-trinity: dir-or-file-in-opt opt/trinity/share/apps/knutclient/pics/knc_analog.png 30E: knutclient-trinity: dir-or-file-in-opt opt/trinity/share/apps/knutclient/pics/knc_batt.png 31E: knutclient-trinity: dir-or-file-in-opt opt/trinity/share/apps/knutclient/pics/knc_conn.png 32E: knutclient-trinity: dir-or-file-in-opt opt/trinity/share/apps/knutclient/pics/knc_dock.png 33E: knutclient-trinity: dir-or-file-in-opt 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knutclient-trinity: dir-or-file-in-opt opt/trinity/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/knutclient.mo 119E: knutclient-trinity: dir-or-file-in-opt opt/trinity/share/locale/pt_BR/ 120E: knutclient-trinity: dir-or-file-in-opt opt/trinity/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/ 121E: knutclient-trinity: dir-or-file-in-opt opt/trinity/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/knutclient.mo 122E: knutclient-trinity: dir-or-file-in-opt opt/trinity/share/locale/ru/ 123E: knutclient-trinity: dir-or-file-in-opt opt/trinity/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/ 124E: knutclient-trinity: dir-or-file-in-opt opt/trinity/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/knutclient.mo 125E: knutclient-trinity: dir-or-file-in-opt opt/trinity/share/locale/uk/ 126E: knutclient-trinity: dir-or-file-in-opt opt/trinity/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/ 127E: knutclient-trinity: dir-or-file-in-opt opt/trinity/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/knutclient.mo 128E: knutclient-trinity: dir-or-file-in-opt opt/trinity/share/man/ 129E: knutclient-trinity: dir-or-file-in-opt opt/trinity/share/man/man1/ 130E: knutclient-trinity: dir-or-file-in-opt opt/trinity/share/man/man1/knutclient.1 131E: knutclient-trinity source: epoch-changed-but-upstream-version-did-not-go-backwards 0.9.5-0ubuntu1 -> 4:14.2.0~pre38-0ubuntu20.04.0+6 132N: 133N: The previous version of this package had a different version epoch to 134N: the current version but the upstream version did not go "backwards". For 135N: example, the previous package version was "1:1.0-1" and the current 136N: version is "2:2.0-1". 137N: 138N: This was likely an accidental bump or addition of an epoch. 139N: 140N: Epochs exist to cope with changes to the upstream version numbering 141N: scheme. Whilst they are a powerful tool, increasing or adding an epoch 142N: has many downsides including causing issues with versioned dependencies, 143N: being misleading to users and being aesthetically unappealing. Whilst 144N: they should be avoided, valid reasons to add or increment the epoch 145N: include: 146N: 147N: - Upstream changed their versioning scheme in a way that makes the 148N: latest version lower than the previous one. 149N: - You need to permanently revert to a lower upstream version. 150N: 151N: Temporary revertions (eg. after an NMU) should use not modify or 152N: introduce an epoch - please use the CURRENT+reallyFORMER until you can 153N: upload the latest version again. 154N: 155N: If you are unsure whether you need to increase the epoch for a package, 156N: please consult the debian-devel mailing list. 157N: 158N: Severity: error 159N: 160N: Check: debian/changelog 161N: 162E: knutclient-trinity source: missing-build-dependency cdbs 163N: 164N: The package doesn't specify a build dependency on a package that is used 165N: in debian/rules. 166N: 167N: Lintian intentionally does not take into account transitive 168N: dependencies. Even if the package build-depends on some package that in 169N: turn depends on the needed package, an explicit build dependency should 170N: be added. Otherwise, a latent bug is created that will appear without 171N: warning if the other package is ever updated to change its dependencies. 172N: Even if this seems unlikely, please always add explicit build 173N: dependencies on every non-essential, non-build-essential package that is 174N: used directly during the build. 175N: 176N: Refer to Debian Policy Manual section 4.2 (Package relationships) for 177N: details. 178N: 179N: Severity: error 180N: 181N: Check: debian/rules 182N: 183W: knutclient-trinity source: ancient-standards-version 3.8.4 (released 2010-01-27) (current is 4.5.0) 184N: 185N: The source package refers to a Standards-Version that has been obsolete 186N: for more than two years. Please update your package to latest Policy and 187N: set this control field appropriately. 188N: 189N: If the package is already compliant with the current standards, you 190N: don't have to re-upload the package just to adjust the Standards-Version 191N: control field. However, please remember to update this field next time 192N: you upload the package. 193N: 194N: See /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.txt.gz in the 195N: debian-policy package for a summary of changes in newer versions of 196N: Policy. 197N: 198N: Refer to 199N: https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.html for 200N: details. 201N: 202N: Severity: warning 203N: 204N: Check: fields/standards-version 205N: 206W: knutclient-trinity source: binary-nmu-debian-revision-in-source 4:14.2.0~pre38-0ubuntu20.04.0+6 207N: 208N: The version number of your source package ends in +b and a number or has 209N: a Debian revision containing three parts. These version numbers are used 210N: by binary NMUs and should not be used as the source version. (The +b 211N: form is the current standard; the three-part version number now 212N: obsolete.) 213N: 214N: Refer to Debian Developer's Reference section 5.10.2.1 (Recompilation or 215N: binary-only NMU) for details. 216N: 217N: Severity: warning 218N: 219N: Check: fields/version 220N: 221W: knutclient-trinity source: debian-source-options-has-custom-compression-settings compression = "xz" (line 2) 222N: 223N: The debian/source/options file for this package specifies a custom 224N: compression level or algorithm. 225N: 226N: Whilst higher levels may reduce the size of big files, they have the 227N: side effect of consuming a lot of memory during both compression and 228N: extraction. This can not only also waste time unnecessarily, it can 229N: cause packages to FTBFS or even fail to install in resource-constrained 230N: environments or architectures. 231N: 232N: Please remove the call and let dpkg-deb(1) select suitable defaults. 233N: 234N: Refer to https://bugs.debian.org/829100 and the dpkg-deb(1) manual page 235N: for details. 236N: 237N: Severity: warning 238N: 239N: Check: debian/source-dir 240N: 241W: knutclient-trinity source: debian-source-options-has-custom-compression-settings compression-level = 9 (line 3) 242W: knutclient-trinity: description-synopsis-starts-with-article 243N: 244N: The first line of the "Description:" should omit any initial indefinite 245N: or definite article: "a", "an", or "the". A good heuristic is that it 246N: should be possible to substitute the package name and synopsis into this 247N: formula: 248N: 249N: The package name provides {a,an,the,some} synopsis. 250N: 251N: Refer to Debian Developer's Reference section 6.2.2 (The package 252N: synopsis, or short description) for details. 253N: 254N: Severity: warning 255N: 256N: Check: fields/description 257N: 258W: knutclient-trinity source: epoch-change-without-comment 0.9.5-0ubuntu1 -> 4:14.2.0~pre38-0ubuntu20.04.0+6 259N: 260N: The previous version of this package had a different version epoch (eg. 261N: 2:1.0-1) to the current version but there's no reference to this in the 262N: changelog entry. 263N: 264N: Epochs exist to cope with changes to the upstream version numbering 265N: scheme. Whilst they are a powerful tool, increasing or adding an epoch 266N: has many downsides including causing issues with versioned dependencies, 267N: being misleading to users and being aesthetically unappealing. Whilst 268N: they should be avoided, valid reasons to add or increment the epoch 269N: include: 270N: 271N: - Upstream changed their versioning scheme in a way that makes the 272N: latest version lower than the previous one. 273N: - You need to permanently revert to a lower upstream version. 274N: 275N: Temporary revertions (eg. after an NMU) should use not modify or 276N: introduce an epoch - please use the CURRENT+reallyFORMER until you can 277N: upload the latest version again. 278N: 279N: If you are unsure whether you need to increase the epoch for a package, 280N: please consult the debian-devel mailing list. 281N: 282N: Lintian looks in this version's changelog entry for the phrase "epoch". 283N: 284N: Severity: warning 285N: 286N: Check: debian/changelog 287N: 288W: knutclient-trinity: hardening-no-relro opt/trinity/bin/knutclient 289N: 290N: This package provides an ELF binary that lacks the "read-only 291N: relocation" link flag. This package was likely not built with the 292N: default Debian compiler flags defined by dpkg-buildflags. If built using 293N: dpkg-buildflags directly, be sure to import LDFLAGS. 294N: 295N: Refer to https://wiki.debian.org/Hardening for details. 296N: 297N: Severity: warning 298N: 299N: Check: binaries 300N: 301W: knutclient-trinity: package-relation-with-self breaks: knutclient-trinity (<< 4:14.0.0~) 302N: 303N: The package declares a relationship with itself. This is not very useful 304N: except in the case of a package Conflicting with itself if its package 305N: name doubles as a virtual package. 306N: 307N: Severity: warning 308N: 309N: Check: fields/package-relations 310N: 311W: knutclient-trinity: unknown-section tde 312N: 313N: The "Section:" field in this package's control file is not one of the 314N: sections in use on the ftp archive. Valid sections are currently admin, 315N: comm, cli-mono, database, debug, devel, doc, editors, electronics, 316N: embedded, fonts, games, gnome, gnu-r, gnustep, graphics, hamradio, 317N: haskell, httpd, interpreters, java, javascript, kde, libdevel, libs, 318N: lisp, localization, kernel, mail, math, misc, net, news, ocaml, oldlibs, 319N: otherosfs, perl, php, python, ruby, rust, science, shells, sound, tex, 320N: text, utils, vcs, video, web, x11, xfce, zope. 321N: 322N: The section name should be preceded by "non-free/" if the package is in 323N: the non-free archive area, and by "contrib/" if the package is in the 324N: contrib archive area. 325N: 326N: Refer to Debian Policy Manual section 2.4 (Sections) for details. 327N: 328N: Severity: warning 329N: 330N: Check: fields/section 331N: 332I: knutclient-trinity source: debian-watch-file-is-missing 333N: 334N: This source package is not Debian-native but it does not have a 335N: debian/watch file. This file is used for automatic detection of new 336N: upstream versions by the Debian External Health Status project and other 337N: project infrastructure. If this package is maintained upstream, please 338N: consider adding a debian/watch file to detect new releases. 339N: 340N: If the package is not maintained upstream or if upstream uses a 341N: distribution mechanism that cannot be meaningfully monitored by uscan 342N: and the Debian External Health Status project, please consider adding a 343N: debian/watch file containing only comments documenting the situation. 344N: 345N: Refer to Debian Policy Manual section 4.11 (Optional upstream source 346N: location: debian/watch) and the uscan(1) manual page for details. 347N: 348N: Severity: info 349N: 350N: Check: debian/watch 351N: 352I: knutclient-trinity source: no-dh-sequencer 353N: 354N: This package does not use the dh sequencer in debian/rules. 355N: 356N: While maintainers may use a variety of build systems, this one is by far 357N: the most popular. 358N: 359N: Maintainers are strongly encouraged to use the dh sequencer in new 360N: packages and convert existing ones when appropriate. 361N: 362N: Severity: info 363N: 364N: Check: debian/rules/dh-sequencer 365N: 366I: knutclient-trinity: spelling-error-in-binary opt/trinity/bin/knutclient Availabled Available 367N: 368N: Lintian found a spelling error in the given binary. Lintian has a list 369N: of common misspellings that it looks for. It does not have a dictionary 370N: like a spelling checker does. 371N: 372N: If the string containing the spelling error is translated with the help 373N: of gettext or a similar tool, please fix the error in the translations 374N: as well as the English text to avoid making the translations fuzzy. With 375N: gettext, for example, this means you should also fix the spelling 376N: mistake in the corresponding msgids in the *.po files. 377N: 378N: You can often find the word in the source code by running: 379N: 380N: grep -rw <word> <source-tree> 381N: 382N: This tag may produce false positives for words that contain non-ASCII 383N: characters due to limitations in strings. 384N: 385N: Severity: info 386N: 387N: Check: binaries 388N: 389I: knutclient-trinity: spelling-error-in-binary opt/trinity/bin/knutclient conection connection 390I: knutclient-trinity source: testsuite-autopkgtest-missing 391N: 392N: This package does not declare a test suite. 393N: 394N: Having a test suite aids with automated quality assurance of the archive 395N: outside of your package. For example, if your package has a test suite 396N: it is possible to re-run that test suite when any of your package's 397N: dependencies have a new version and check whether that update causes 398N: problems for your package. 399N: 400N: In addition, since May 2018 these tests now influence migration from 401N: unstable to testing: 402N: 403N: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2018/05/msg00001.html 404N: 405N: Please add a debian/tests/control file to your package to declare a 406N: testsuite, but please make sure to only add autopkgtests if they provide 407N: meaningful coverage of your package. 408N: 409N: Refer to https://ci.debian.net/doc/ for details. 410N: 411N: Severity: info 412N: 413N: Check: testsuite 414N: 415P: knutclient-trinity source: file-contains-trailing-whitespace debian/changelog (line 249) 416N: 417N: This file appears to contain one or more lines with trailing whitespace 418N: characters. 419N: 420N: Whilst typically harmless and merely unsightly, they can often cause 421N: difficult-to-spot issues where tools interpret the whitespace characters 422N: literally as well as introduce unnecessary diff(1) noise. They are thus 423N: best avoided in their entirity. 424N: 425N: Whitespace at the end of lines may be removed with the following: 426N: 427N: $ sed -i -e 's@[[:space:]]*$@@g' debian/control debian/changelog 428N: 429N: If you use Emacs, you can also use "M-x wh-cl" (whitespace-cleanup). 430N: 431N: However, if you wish to only remove trailing spaces and leave trailing 432N: tabs (eg. for Makefiles), you can use the following code snippet: 433N: 434N: $ sed -i -e 's@[ ]*$@@g' debian/rules 435N: 436N: To remove empty lines from the end of a file, you can use: 437N: 438N: $ sed -i -e :a -e '/^\n*$/{$d;N;};/\n$/ba' debian/rules 439N: 440N: Severity: pedantic 441N: 442N: Check: cruft 443N: 444P: knutclient-trinity source: no-dep5-copyright 445N: 446N: This package does not use a machine-readable debian/copyright file. 447N: 448N: This format makes it easier to review licenses and can be easily parsed 449N: by Lintian. 450N: 451N: Refer to 452N: https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/ for 453N: details. 454N: 455N: Severity: pedantic 456N: 457N: Check: debian/copyright 458N: 459P: knutclient-trinity source: package-uses-old-debhelper-compat-version 10 460N: 461N: The debhelper compatibility version used by this package is marked as 462N: not recommended by the debhelper developer. You may consider using a 463N: recommended compatibility version. 464N: 465N: The compatibility version can be set by specifying debhelper-compat (= 466N: 12) in your package's Build-Depends, by the legacy debian/compat file or 467N: even by setting and exporting DH_COMPAT in debian/rules. If it is not 468N: set in either place, debhelper defaults to the deprecated compatibility 469N: version 1. 470N: 471N: Refer to the debhelper(7) manual page for details. 472N: 473N: Severity: pedantic 474N: 475N: Check: debhelper 476N: 477P: knutclient-trinity source: rules-requires-root-missing 478N: 479N: The debian/control file is missing an explicit Rules-Requires-Root 480N: field. 481N: 482N: Traditionally, Debian packages have required root privileges for some 483N: debian/rules target requiring a split between build and binary targets. 484N: This makes the builds slower due to the increased amount of invocations 485N: as well as the overhead of fakeroot itself. 486N: 487N: Please specify (eg.) Rules-Requires-Root: no in the debian/control 488N: source stanza, but packagers should verify using diffoscope(1) that the 489N: binaries built with this field present are identical. 490N: 491N: Refer to /usr/share/doc/dpkg-dev/rootless-builds.txt.gz, Debian Policy 492N: Manual section 4.9.2 (debian/rules and Rules-Requires-Root), and Debian 493N: Policy Manual section 5.6.31 (Rules-Requires-Root) for details. 494N: 495N: Severity: pedantic 496N: 497N: Check: debian/control 498N: 499X: knutclient-trinity source: upstream-metadata-file-is-missing 500N: 501N: This source package is not Debian-native but it does not have a 502N: debian/upstream/metadata file. 503N: 504N: The Upstream MEtadata GAthered with YAml (UMEGAYA) project is an effort 505N: to collect meta-information about upstream projects from any source 506N: package. This file is in YAML format and it is used in to feed the data 507N: in the UltimateDebianDatabase. For example, it can contains the way the 508N: authors want their software be cited in publications and some 509N: bibliographic references about the software. 510N: 511N: Please add a debian/upstream/metadata file. 512N: 513N: Refer to https://dep-team.pages.debian.net/deps/dep12/ and 514N: https://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamMetadata for details. 515N: 516N: Severity: pedantic 517N: 518N: Check: debian/upstream/metadata 519N: 520N: This tag is experimental. Please file a bug report if the tag seems 521N: wrong. 522N: 523C: knutclient-trinity: control-tarball-compression-format xz 524N: 525N: This is the compressor format used for the control.tar tarball. 526N: 527N: Severity: classification 528N: 529N: Check: deb-format 530N: 531N: This tag is a classification. There is no issue in your package. 532N: 533C: knutclient-trinity: ctrl-script postinst 534N: 535N: This package has one or more maintainer scripts (or other executable 536N: control files). 537N: 538N: This flags any control file with the executable bit set. 539N: 540N: Severity: classification 541N: 542N: Check: control-files 543N: 544N: This tag is a classification. There is no issue in your package. 545N: 546C: knutclient-trinity: ctrl-script postrm 547C: knutclient-trinity: data-tarball-compression-format xz 548N: 549N: This is the compressor format used for the data.tar tarball. 550N: 551N: Severity: classification 552N: 553N: Check: deb-format 554N: 555N: This tag is a classification. There is no issue in your package. 556N: 557C: knutclient-trinity: debhelper-autoscript-in-maintainer-scripts dh_installmenu/12.10ubuntu1 558N: 559N: The maintainer scripts of the package contain one or more auto-generated 560N: shell snippets inserted by the listed debhelper tool. 561N: 562N: Severity: classification 563N: 564N: Check: maintainer-scripts/generated 565N: 566N: This tag is a classification. There is no issue in your package. 567N: 568C: knutclient-trinity source: debhelper-compat-level 10 569N: 570N: This is the debhelper compat level used specified by this package. 571N: 572N: Severity: classification 573N: 574N: Check: debhelper 575N: 576N: This tag is a classification. There is no issue in your package. 577N: 578C: knutclient-trinity source: debian-build-system cdbs-with-debhelper.mk 579N: 580N: This is the build system that Lintian believes the package is using. 581N: 582N: Severity: classification 583N: 584N: Check: debhelper 585N: 586N: This tag is a classification. There is no issue in your package. 587N: 588C: knutclient-trinity: maintainer-script-interpreter control/postinst /bin/sh 589N: 590N: Interpreter used in maintainer script or ELF 591N: 592N: Severity: classification 593N: 594N: Check: scripts 595N: 596N: This tag is a classification. There is no issue in your package. 597N: 598C: knutclient-trinity: maintainer-script-interpreter control/postrm /bin/sh 599C: knutclient-trinity source: package-is-maintained-by-individual 600N: 601N: The package is maintained by an individual according to the 602N: maintainer/uploaders fields in the debian/control file. 603N: 604N: Severity: classification 605N: 606N: Check: fields/vcs 607N: 608N: This tag is a classification. There is no issue in your package. 609N: 610C: knutclient-trinity: package-is-maintained-by-individual 611C: knutclient-trinity source: patch-system quilt 612N: 613N: This package uses the specified patch system (eg. "quilt" or "dpatch"). 614N: 615N: Severity: classification 616N: 617N: Check: patch-systems 618N: 619N: This tag is a classification. There is no issue in your package. 620N: 621C: knutclient-trinity source: source-format 3.0 (quilt) 622N: 623N: This is the source format declared in the package. 624N: 625N: Severity: classification 626N: 627N: Check: debian/source-dir 628N: 629N: This tag is a classification. There is no issue in your package. 630N: 631C: knutclient-trinity source: standards-version 3.8.4 632N: 633N: The standards version of the package according to Standards-Version 634N: field in the debian/control file. 635N: 636N: Severity: classification 637N: 638N: Check: fields/standards-version 639N: 640N: This tag is a classification. There is no issue in your package. 641N: 642 643--------------------