[Bug 1894431] Re: debuild runs lintian twice

[Reuben Thomas]

On further investigation, what actually seems to happen is that lintian
is run twice: once by dpkg-buildpackage, and once by debuild. Thus, the
full incantation required is:

  debuild -us -uc --check-option="--profile=debian" --lintian-opts
--profile debian

The reason I didn't notice is that omitting the second set (so that
lintian run by debuild gives an error) does not cause debuild to exit
with an error.

In any case, I guess lintian should not be run twice.

** Summary changed:

- "debuild --lintian-opts ..." doesn't work: options are not passed to lintian
+ debuild runs lintian twice

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Title:
  debuild runs lintian twice

Status in devscripts package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  When building a Debian package on Ubuntu, it's necessary to use "--
  profile debian" with lintian.

  When using debuild, it should be possible to pass options to lintian
  with "--lintian-opts". However, these seem to be ignored currently:
  when lintian is run, options passed with --lintian-opts are not given
  to lintian.

  As a workaround, one can use the dpkg-buildpackage option "--check-
  option", thus:

    debuild -us -uc --check-option="--profile=debian"

  The --profile option is then passed to lintian (note the "="; it would
  also be possible to use the more verbose "--check-option=--profile
  --check-option=debian").

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
  Package: devscripts 2.20.2ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-42.46-generic 5.4.44
  Uname: Linux 5.4.0-42-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.8
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
  CurrentDesktop: GNOME
  Date: Sun Sep  6 13:17:45 2020
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-12-23 (258 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20190805)
  SourcePackage: devscripts
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to focal on 2020-08-29 (7 days ago)

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