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.
Please refer to Debian Developer's Reference section 6.2.2 for details.
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This package provides an ELF binary that lacks the "read-only relocation" link flag. This package was likely not built with the default Debian compiler flags defined by dpkg-buildflags. If built using dpkg-buildflags directly, be sure to import LDFLAGS. Please refer to https://wiki.debian.org/Hardening for details. Visibility: warning Show-Always: no Check: binaries/hardening
[opt/trinity/bin/knutclient]
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. Visibility: warning Show-Always: no 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. Please refer to Debian Policy Manual section 2.4 for details. Visibility: warning Show-Always: no Check: fields/section
This is the compressor format used for the control.tar tarball. Visibility: classification Show-Always: no Check: deb-format This tag is a classification. There is no issue in your package.
This is the compressor format used for the data.tar tarball. Visibility: classification Show-Always: no Check: deb-format This tag is a classification. There is no issue in your package.
The maintainer scripts of the package contain one or more auto-generated shell snippets inserted by the listed debhelper tool. Visibility: classification Show-Always: no Check: maintainer-scripts/generated This tag is a classification. There is no issue in your package.
This person is a contact in the named group for this package. Visibility: classification Show-Always: no Check: fields/mail-address Renamed from: maintainer uploader This tag is a classification. There is no issue in your package.
[postinst]
[postrm]
The package is maintained by an individual according to the maintainer/uploaders fields in the debian/control file. Visibility: classification Show-Always: no Check: fields/vcs This tag is a classification. There is no issue in your package.
[Trinity]
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. Visibility: error Show-Always: no Check: debian/changelog
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.) Please refer to Debian Developer's Reference section 5.10.2.1 for details. Visibility: warning Show-Always: no Check: fields/version
The code in debian/rules requires a prerequisite that is not presently listed in the package's Build-Depends. In the special case of Python, affected packages should Build-Depend on one of python3, python3-all, python3-dev, or python3-all-dev. Which one depends on whether a package supports multiple Python versions, and also whether the package builds Python modules or uses Python only as part of the build process. Packages that depend on a specific Python version may build-depend on any appropriate pythonX.Y or pythonX.Y-dev package instead. The condition you see in the context is not a recommendation on what to add. If you see a list, more than likely only one member is needed to make this tag go away. You probably also do not need the :any multiarch acceptor, if you see one. Please refer to Debian Policy Manual section 4.2 for details. Visibility: error Show-Always: no Check: debian/rules Renamed from: missing-build-dependency missing-python-build-dependency
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". Visibility: warning Show-Always: no Check: debian/changelog
A field in debian/control has an extension prefix but is also known without it. Extension prefixes like XS-* or XC-* allow experimental fields to propagate to the right place when packages are built with dpkg. In this case, however, the field is also known without the prefix. In all likelihood the field was permanently adopted, and dpkg learned how to deal with it. Please consider removing the extension prefix for the field name. Visibility: info Show-Always: no Check: debian/control/field/adopted Renamed from: xc-package-type-in-debian-control xs-testsuite-field-in-debian-control xs-vcs-field-in-debian-control
[debian/control:5]
This source package is not Debian-native but it does not have a debian/watch file. This file is used for automatic detection of new upstream versions by the Debian External Health Status project and other project infrastructure. If this package is maintained upstream, please consider adding a debian/watch file to detect new releases. If the package is not maintained upstream or if upstream uses a distribution mechanism that cannot be meaningfully monitored by uscan and the Debian External Health Status project, please consider adding a debian/watch file containing only comments documenting the situation. Please refer to Debian Policy Manual section 4.11 and the uscan(1) manual page for details. Visibility: info Show-Always: no Check: debian/watch
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. Visibility: info Show-Always: no Check: debian/rules/dh-sequencer
The source package refers to a Standards-Version older than the one that was current at the time the package was created (according to the timestamp of the latest debian/changelog entry). Please consider updating the package to current Policy and setting 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. Please refer to https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.html for details. Visibility: info Show-Always: no Check: fields/standards-version
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. Please refer to https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/ for details. Visibility: pedantic Show-Always: no Check: debian/copyright/dep5
[debian/copyright]
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. Please refer to the debhelper(7) manual page for details. Visibility: pedantic Show-Always: no Check: debhelper
The field Rules-Requires-Root is missing from the file debian/control. Over time, Debian has sucessively narrowed the steps for which elevated privileges are required. It speeds up the building of installation packages in the archive. Eventually, Debian will switch the default archive-wide behaviour to expedite the build process further. Please declare explicitly that the sources do not require root privileges. You can use the setting Rules-Requires-Root: no in the source stanza of debian/control, but please verify with diffoscope(1) that the installation packages produced are in fact identical. Please refer to /usr/share/doc/dpkg/rootless-builds.txt.gz, Debian Policy Manual section 4.9.2, and Debian Policy Manual section 5.6.31 for details. Visibility: pedantic Show-Always: no Check: debian/control/field/rules-requires-root Renamed from: rules-requires-root-missing
[debian/control]
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
Visibility: pedantic
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Check: debian/trailing-whitespace
Renamed from: file-contains-trailing-whitespace
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. Please refer to https://dep-team.pages.debian.net/deps/dep12/ and https://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamMetadata for details. Visibility: pedantic Show-Always: no Check: debian/upstream/metadata This tag is experimental.
This is the debhelper compat level used specified by this package. Visibility: classification Show-Always: no 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. Visibility: classification Show-Always: no Check: debhelper This tag is a classification. There is no issue in your package.
[debian/rules]
This person is a contact in the named group for this package. Visibility: classification Show-Always: no Check: fields/mail-address Renamed from: maintainer uploader This tag is a classification. There is no issue in your package.
The number of patches according to the debian/patches/series file. Visibility: classification Show-Always: no Check: debian/patches/count This tag is a classification. There is no issue in your package.
The package is maintained by an individual according to the maintainer/uploaders fields in the debian/control file. Visibility: classification Show-Always: no 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"). Visibility: classification Show-Always: no Check: debian/patches This tag is a classification. There is no issue in your package.
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The standards version of the package according to Standards-Version field in the debian/control file. Visibility: classification Show-Always: no Check: fields/standards-version This tag is a classification. There is no issue in your package.
[Trinity]
Lintian run for knutclient-trinity package.
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| Source package | knutclient-trinity_4:14.2.0~pre38-0ubuntu22.04.0+6 |
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| System tar | system.tar.xz |
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| Package upload | knutclient-trinity_4:14.2.0~pre38-0ubuntu22.04.0+6 |
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| Lintian report | lintian: knutclient-trinity | |
| Lintian report | lintian: knutclient-trinity | |
| Debug log | debusine:work-request-debug-logs |
Work requests that must be completed before this one can run.
| 259628 | 23 hours, 31 minutes | Worker | sbuild: knutclient-trinity_4:14.2.0~pre38-0ubuntu22.04.0+6 (amd64) | Completed | Success |
This work request is not required by any other one.
Internal collection: workflow-259621
backend: unshare build_architecture: amd64 environment: debian/match:codename=jammy exclude_tags: [] fail_on_severity: error include_tags: [] input: binary_artifacts: - internal@collections/name:build-amd64 source_artifact: 818754@artifacts output: {} target_distribution: debian:jammy
backend: unshare build_architecture: amd64 environment: debian/match:codename=jammy exclude_tags: [] fail_on_severity: error include_tags: [] input: binary_artifacts: - internal@collections/name:build-amd64 source_artifact: 818754@artifacts output: {} target_distribution: debian:jammy task_configuration: 1021
provided: - task:group:debusine::Admins - task:group:debusine::TDE-Owners - task:scope:debusine - task:source-package:knutclient-trinity - task:workspace:debusine:trinity-testing required: - worker:executor:unshare - worker:task:worker:lintian:version:1 - worker:type:external
configuration_context: jammy environment_id: 27656 input_binary_artifacts_ids: - 825892 input_source_artifact_id: 818754 parameter_summary: knutclient-trinity_4:14.2.0~pre38-0ubuntu22.04.0+6 runtime_context: binary-all+binary-any+source:jammy subject: knutclient-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": 236595200, "cpu_time": 236, "duration": 62, "cpu_count": 32, "disk_space": 1135988736, "available_memory": 67418435584, "available_disk_space": 33709219840 } }