Lintian checking ARB packages

Niels Thykier niels at thykier.net
Tue Dec 25 08:36:17 UTC 2012


On 2012-12-25 09:00, Bhavani Shankar R wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 8:49 PM, Bhavani Shankar R <bhavi at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> [...]
> 
> Hi Niels,
> 
> I have tried to integrate extras prefix check. Updated branch here:
> 
> lp:~bhavi/ubuntu-app-review-board/lintian-arb_profile
> 
> when I try to run the check on a sample package I get
> 
> E: nudge: arb-app-installs-files-outside-opt
> usr/share/pyshared/nudge_lib/nudgeconfig.py
> E: nudge: arb-app-have-no-files-in-opt
> tried to issue unknown tag arb-app-has-disallowed-file at
> /usr/share/perl5/Lintian/Tags.pm line 241.
> internal error: cannot run ubuntu/arb/arb-check-bin check on package nudge
> warning: skipping check of binary package nudge
> 
> Please suggest and kindly bear with my mistakes as this is my first
> experiment with lintian
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 

In [r2], the tag names are spelled with dashes ("-") in the .desc file,
but the check uses spaces for the last many dashes.  :)

~Niels


[r2]
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~bhavi/ubuntu-app-review-board/lintian-arb_profile/revision/2



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