The extended description contains a "Homepage" pseudo-field following the old Developer's Reference recommendation. As of 1.14.6, dpkg now supports Homepage as a regular field in debian/control. This pseudo-field should be moved from the extended description to the fields for the relevant source or binary packages. Severity: warning Check: fields/description
The first line of the "Description:" should omit any initial
indefinite or definite article: "a", "an", or "the". A good heuristic
is that it should be possible to substitute the package name and
synopsis into this formula:
The package name provides {a,an,the,some} synopsis.
Refer to Debian Developer's Reference section 6.2.2 (The package
synopsis, or short description) for details.
Severity: warning
Check: fields/description
The icon has a size that differs from the size specified by the name of the directory under which it was installed. The icon was probably mistakenly installed into the wrong directory. Severity: warning Check: desktop/icons
A file is not valid UTF-8. Debian has used UTF-8 for many years. Support for national encodings is being phased out. This file probably appears to users in mangled characters (also called mojibake). Packaging control files must be encoded in valid UTF-8. Please convert the file to UTF-8 using iconv or a similar tool. Severity: warning Check: files/encoding Renamed from: national-encoding-in-text-file debian-changelog-file-uses-obsolete-national-encoding debian-control-file-uses-obsolete-national-encoding debian-copyright-file-uses-obsolete-national-encoding debian-news-file-uses-obsolete-national-encoding debian-tests-control-uses-national-encoding doc-base-file-uses-obsolete-national-encoding national-encoding-in-debconf-template national-encoding-in-manpage
The package activates the ldconfig trigger even though no shared libraries are installed in a directory controlled by the dynamic library loader. Note this may be triggered by a bug in debhelper, that causes it to auto-generate an ldconfig trigger for packages that do not need it. Refer to Debian Policy Manual section 8.1.1 (ldconfig) and Bug#204975 for details. Severity: warning Check: shared-libs
The package declares a relationship with itself. This is not very useful except in the case of a package Conflicting with itself if its package name doubles as a virtual package. Severity: warning Check: fields/package-relations
The "Section:" field in this package's control file is not one of the sections in use on the ftp archive. Valid sections are currently admin, comm, cli-mono, database, debug, devel, doc, editors, electronics, embedded, fonts, games, gnome, gnu-r, gnustep, graphics, hamradio, haskell, httpd, interpreters, java, javascript, kde, libdevel, libs, lisp, localization, kernel, mail, math, misc, net, news, ocaml, oldlibs, otherosfs, perl, php, python, ruby, rust, science, shells, sound, tex, text, utils, vcs, video, web, x11, xfce, zope. The section name should be preceded by "non-free/" if the package is in the non-free archive area, and by "contrib/" if the package is in the contrib archive area. Refer to Debian Policy Manual section 2.4 (Sections) for details. Severity: warning Check: fields/section
You should avoid the use of first person ("I will do this..." or "We
recommend..."). The computer is not a person and the description does
not speak for the maintainer or maintainers. Instead, use a more
neutral construction and try to rephrase into factual statements about
the package.
For example, rather than saying "I don't recommend this package if you
are short on memory," say something like "this package is not suitable
for low-memory systems."
Severity: info
Check: fields/description
The copyright file refers to the versionless symlink in /usr/share/common-licenses for the full text of the GPL, LGPL, or GFDL license. This symlink is updated to point to the latest version of the license when a new one is released. The package appears to allow relicensing under later versions of its license, so this is legally consistent, but it implies that Debian will relicense the package under later versions of those licenses as they're released. It is normally better to point to the version of the license the package references in its license statement. For example, if the package says something like "you may redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version", the debian/copyright file should refer to /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2, not /GPL. For packages released under the same terms as Perl, Perl references the GPL version 1, so point to /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-1. Severity: pedantic Check: debian/copyright
The copyright file contains the incomplete Debian packaging copyright boilerplate from older versions of dh_make. (C) alone is not considered a valid copyright notice in some countries. The word Copyright or the © symbol should be used instead or in addition to (C). Copyright notices like this are, in any country that's a signatory to the Berne Convention, not required to claim copyright on a work, but their presence may allow claiming additional damages should a copyright case go to court. If you provide a notice, you may as well provide one that's legally recognized in a broader range of countries. Severity: pedantic Check: debian/copyright
The file is installed into a location that repeats the given path segment. An example would be /usr/lib/lib or /usr/share/myprogram/share. More often than not this is unintended. Refer to Bug#950052 and Bug#950027 for details. Severity: pedantic Check: files/hierarchy/path-segments
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The previous version of this package had a different version epoch to the current version but the upstream version did not go "backwards". For example, the previous package version was "1:1.0-1" and the current version is "2:2.0-1". This was likely an accidental bump or addition of an epoch. Epochs exist to cope with changes to the upstream version numbering scheme. Whilst they are a powerful tool, increasing or adding an epoch has many downsides including causing issues with versioned dependencies, being misleading to users and being aesthetically unappealing. Whilst they should be avoided, valid reasons to add or increment the epoch include: - Upstream changed their versioning scheme in a way that makes the latest version lower than the previous one. - You need to permanently revert to a lower upstream version. Temporary revertions (eg. after an NMU) should use not modify or introduce an epoch - please use the CURRENT+reallyFORMER until you can upload the latest version again. If you are unsure whether you need to increase the epoch for a package, please consult the debian-devel mailing list. Severity: error Check: debian/changelog
The package doesn't specify a build dependency on a package that is used in debian/rules. Lintian intentionally does not take into account transitive dependencies. Even if the package build-depends on some package that in turn depends on the needed package, an explicit build dependency should be added. Otherwise, a latent bug is created that will appear without warning if the other package is ever updated to change its dependencies. Even if this seems unlikely, please always add explicit build dependencies on every non-essential, non-build-essential package that is used directly during the build. Refer to Debian Policy Manual section 4.2 (Package relationships) for details. Severity: error Check: debian/rules
The source package refers to a Standards-Version that has been obsolete for more than two years. Please update your package to latest Policy and set this control field appropriately. If the package is already compliant with the current standards, you don't have to re-upload the package just to adjust the Standards-Version control field. However, please remember to update this field next time you upload the package. See /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.txt.gz in the debian-policy package for a summary of changes in newer versions of Policy. Refer to https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.html for details. Severity: warning Check: fields/standards-version
The version number of your source package ends in +b and a number or has a Debian revision containing three parts. These version numbers are used by binary NMUs and should not be used as the source version. (The +b form is the current standard; the three-part version number now obsolete.) Refer to Debian Developer's Reference section 5.10.2.1 (Recompilation or binary-only NMU) for details. Severity: warning Check: fields/version
The previous version of this package had a different version epoch (eg. 2:1.0-1) to the current version but there's no reference to this in the changelog entry. Epochs exist to cope with changes to the upstream version numbering scheme. Whilst they are a powerful tool, increasing or adding an epoch has many downsides including causing issues with versioned dependencies, being misleading to users and being aesthetically unappealing. Whilst they should be avoided, valid reasons to add or increment the epoch include: - Upstream changed their versioning scheme in a way that makes the latest version lower than the previous one. - You need to permanently revert to a lower upstream version. Temporary revertions (eg. after an NMU) should use not modify or introduce an epoch - please use the CURRENT+reallyFORMER until you can upload the latest version again. If you are unsure whether you need to increase the epoch for a package, please consult the debian-devel mailing list. Lintian looks in this version's changelog entry for the phrase "epoch". Severity: warning Check: debian/changelog
A file is not valid UTF-8. Debian has used UTF-8 for many years. Support for national encodings is being phased out. This file probably appears to users in mangled characters (also called mojibake). Packaging control files must be encoded in valid UTF-8. Please convert the file to UTF-8 using iconv or a similar tool. Severity: warning Check: files/encoding Renamed from: national-encoding-in-text-file debian-changelog-file-uses-obsolete-national-encoding debian-control-file-uses-obsolete-national-encoding debian-copyright-file-uses-obsolete-national-encoding debian-news-file-uses-obsolete-national-encoding debian-tests-control-uses-national-encoding doc-base-file-uses-obsolete-national-encoding national-encoding-in-debconf-template national-encoding-in-manpage
When you NMU a package, that fact should be mentioned on the first line in the changelog entry. Use the words "NMU" or "Non-maintainer upload" (case insensitive). Maybe you didn't intend this upload to be a NMU, in that case, please double-check that the most recent entry in the changelog is byte-for-byte identical to the maintainer or one of the uploaders. If this is a local package (not intended for Debian), you can suppress this warning by putting "local" in the version number or "local package" on the first line of the changelog entry. Refer to Debian Developer's Reference section 5.11.3 (Using the DELAYED/ queue) for details. Severity: warning Check: nmu Renamed from: changelog-should-mention-nmu
A source NMU should have a Debian revision of "-x.x" (or "+nmuX" for a native package). This is to prevent stealing version numbers from the maintainer. Maybe you didn't intend this upload to be a NMU, in that case, please double-check that the most recent entry in the changelog is byte-for-byte identical to the maintainer or one of the uploaders. If this is a local package (not intended for Debian), you can suppress this warning by putting "local" in the version number or "local package" on the first line of the changelog entry. Refer to Debian Developer's Reference section 5.11.2 (NMUs and debian/changelog) for details. Severity: warning Check: nmu
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This package does not use the dh sequencer in debian/rules. While maintainers may use a variety of build systems, this one is by far the most popular. Maintainers are strongly encouraged to use the dh sequencer in new packages and convert existing ones when appropriate. Severity: info Check: debian/rules/dh-sequencer
The version= line in the debian/watch file in this package declares an older version. Please upgrade when you have a chance. Refer to the uscan(1) manual page for details. Severity: info Check: debian/watch/standard
Based on the content of the maintainer and uploader fields this package is co-maintained but there are no Vcs-* fields. It is recommended that shared maintenance of packages are co-ordinated via a revision control system. Severity: pedantic Check: fields/vcs Renamed from: co-maintained-package-with-no-vcs-headers
This package does not use a machine-readable debian/copyright file. This format makes it easier to review licenses and can be easily parsed by Lintian. Refer to https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/ for details. Severity: pedantic Check: debian/copyright/dep5
This non-native package lacks a Homepage field. If the package has an upstream home page that contains useful information or resources for the end user, consider adding a Homepage control field to debian/control. Refer to Debian Policy Manual section 5.6.23 (Homepage) for details. Severity: pedantic Check: fields/homepage
This package uses a debhelper compatibility level that is no longer recommended. Please consider using the recommended level. For most packages, the best way to set the compatibility level is to specify debhelper-compat (= X) as a Build-Depends in debian/control. You can also use the debian/compat file or export DH_COMPAT in debian/rules. If no level is selected debhelper defaults to level 1, which is deprecated. Refer to the debhelper(7) manual page for details. Severity: pedantic Check: debhelper
The debian/control file is missing an explicit Rules-Requires-Root field. Traditionally, Debian packages have required root privileges for some debian/rules target requiring a split between build and binary targets. This makes the builds slower due to the increased amount of invocations as well as the overhead of fakeroot itself. Please specify (eg.) Rules-Requires-Root: no in the debian/control source stanza, but packagers should verify using diffoscope(1) that the binaries built with this field present are identical. Refer to /usr/share/doc/dpkg-dev/rootless-builds.txt.gz, Debian Policy Manual section 4.9.2 (debian/rules and Rules-Requires-Root), and Debian Policy Manual section 5.6.31 (Rules-Requires-Root) for details. Severity: pedantic Check: debian/control Renamed from: rules-requires-root-missing
This file contains lines with trailing whitespace characters.
Whilst often harmless and unsightly, such extra whitespaces can also
cause tools to interpret the whitespace characters literally. The tool
diff(1) does not like them, either. They are best avoided.
Some of these problems can be hard to track down.
Whitespace at the end of lines may be removed with the following:
$ sed -i -e 's@[[:space:]]*$@@g' debian/control debian/changelog
If you use Emacs, you can also use "M-x wh-cl" (whitespace-cleanup).
However, if you wish to only remove trailing spaces and leave trailing
tabs (eg. for Makefiles), you can use the following code snippet:
$ sed -i -e 's@[ ]*$@@g' debian/rules
To remove empty lines from the end of a file, you can use:
$ sed -i -e :a -e '/^\n*$/{$d;N;};/\n$/ba' debian/rules
Severity: pedantic
Check: debian/trailing-whitespace
Renamed from: file-contains-trailing-whitespace
This watch file does not specify a means to verify the upstream tarball using a cryptographic signature. If upstream distributions provides such signatures, please use the pgpsigurlmangle options in this watch file's opts= to generate the URL of an upstream GPG signature. This signature is automatically downloaded and verified against a keyring stored in debian/upstream/signing-key.asc Of course, not all upstreams provide such signatures but you could request them as a way of verifying that no third party has modified the code after its release (projects such as phpmyadmin, unrealircd, and proftpd have suffered from this kind of attack). Refer to the uscan(1) manual page for details. Severity: pedantic Check: debian/watch Renamed from: debian-watch-may-check-gpg-signature This tag is experimental.
This source package is not Debian-native but it does not have a debian/upstream/metadata file. The Upstream MEtadata GAthered with YAml (UMEGAYA) project is an effort to collect meta-information about upstream projects from any source package. This file is in YAML format and it is used in to feed the data in the UltimateDebianDatabase. For example, it can contains the way the authors want their software be cited in publications and some bibliographic references about the software. Please add a debian/upstream/metadata file. Refer to https://dep-team.pages.debian.net/deps/dep12/ and https://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamMetadata for details. Severity: pedantic Check: debian/upstream/metadata This tag is experimental.
This is the debhelper compat level used specified by this package. Severity: classification Check: debhelper This tag is a classification. There is no issue in your package.
This is the build system that Lintian believes the package is using. Severity: classification Check: debhelper This tag is a classification. There is no issue in your package.
The watch file uses this version standard. The currently known watch file versions are 2, 3 and 4. Version 1 means it was undeclared. Refer to the uscan(1) manual page for details. Severity: classification Check: debian/watch/standard This tag is a classification. There is no issue in your package.
The number of patches according to the debian/patches/series file. Severity: classification Check: debian/patches/count This tag is a classification. There is no issue in your package.
The package is co-maintained but not team-maintained according to the maintainer/uploaders fields in the debian/control file. Severity: classification Check: fields/vcs This tag is a classification. There is no issue in your package.
This package uses the specified patch system (eg. "quilt" or "dpatch"). Severity: classification Check: debian/patches This tag is a classification. There is no issue in your package.
This is the source format declared in the package. Severity: classification Check: debian/source-dir This tag is a classification. There is no issue in your package.
The standards version of the package according to Standards-Version field in the debian/control file. Severity: classification Check: fields/standards-version This tag is a classification. There is no issue in your package.
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Lintian run for kbfx-trinity package.
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| Source package | kbfx-trinity_4:14.2.0~pre43-0debian11.0.0+6 |
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| System tar | system.tar.xz |
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| Package upload | kbfx-trinity_4:14.2.0~pre43-0debian11.0.0+6 |
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| Lintian report | lintian: kbfx-trinity, kbfx-trinity-dbgsym | |
| Lintian report | lintian: kbfx-trinity | |
| Debug log | debusine:work-request-debug-logs |
Work requests that must be completed before this one can run.
| 203915 | 1 week, 3 days | Worker | sbuild: kbfx-trinity_4:14.2.0~pre43-0debian11.0.0+6 (amd64) | Completed | Success |
This work request is not required by any other one.
Internal collection: workflow-203900
backend: unshare build_architecture: amd64 environment: debian/match:codename=bullseye exclude_tags: [] fail_on_severity: error include_tags: [] input: binary_artifacts: - internal@collections/name:build-amd64 source_artifact: 678837@artifacts output: {} target_distribution: debian:bullseye
backend: unshare build_architecture: amd64 environment: debian/match:codename=bullseye exclude_tags: [] fail_on_severity: error include_tags: [] input: binary_artifacts: - internal@collections/name:build-amd64 source_artifact: 678837@artifacts output: {} target_distribution: debian:bullseye task_configuration: 1021
provided: - task:group:debusine::Admins - task:group:debusine::TDE-Owners - task:scope:debusine - task:source-package:kbfx-trinity - task:workspace:debusine:trinity-testing required: - worker:executor:unshare - worker:task:worker:lintian:version:1 - worker:type:external
configuration_context: bullseye environment_id: 27514 input_binary_artifacts_ids: - 700502 input_source_artifact_id: 678837 parameter_summary: kbfx-trinity_4:14.2.0~pre43-0debian11.0.0+6 runtime_context: binary-all+binary-any+source:bullseye subject: kbfx-trinity
{ "step": "lintian-amd64", "display_name": "Lintian for amd64+all+source" }
{ "on_success": [ { "action": "update-collection-with-artifacts", "variables": null, "collection": "internal@collections", "name_template": "lintian-amd64", "artifact_filters": { "category": "debian:lintian" } } ] }
{ "runtime_statistics": { "memory": 252254208, "cpu_time": 360, "duration": 39, "cpu_count": 12, "disk_space": 4381581312, "available_memory": 16606613504, "available_disk_space": 8303308800 } }