Bug#234545: False warning caused by hard links
Package: lintian
Version: 1.22.10
Severity: normal
Tags: sid
Lintian is returning the following errors on the e2fsprogs packages.
The package-contains-hardlink is a warning, but the hardlinks are
triggerring a number of errors which seems to indicate that lintian is
no longer following the hard links when checking md5sums or when
checking for the existence of a manpage. (The e2fsprogs when
installed does have manpages for e2fsck and mke2fs, and debsums
reports no errors, further confirming that lintian is flagging false
positives.)
This did not use to be a problem, so I believe this was a recently
introduced bug in the lintian in sid.
- Ted
W: uuid-dev: package-contains-hardlink usr/share/man/man3/uuid_generate_random.3.gz
W: uuid-dev: package-contains-hardlink usr/share/man/man3/uuid_generate_time.3.gz
E: uuid-dev: md5sums-lists-nonexisting-file usr/share/man/man3/uuid_generate_random.3.gz
E: uuid-dev: md5sums-lists-nonexisting-file usr/share/man/man3/uuid_generate_time.3.gz
E: e2fsprogs: binary-without-manpage e2fsck
E: e2fsprogs: binary-without-manpage mke2fs
W: e2fsprogs: package-contains-hardlink sbin/mkfs.ext2
W: e2fsprogs: package-contains-hardlink sbin/mkfs.ext3
W: e2fsprogs: package-contains-hardlink sbin/fsck.ext2
W: e2fsprogs: package-contains-hardlink sbin/fsck.ext3
W: e2fsprogs: package-contains-hardlink sbin/e2label
W: e2fsprogs: package-contains-hardlink sbin/tune2fs
W: e2fsprogs: package-contains-hardlink usr/share/man/man8/mke2fs.8.gz
W: e2fsprogs: package-contains-hardlink usr/share/man/man8/mkfs.ext3.8.gz
W: e2fsprogs: package-contains-hardlink usr/share/man/man8/e2fsck.8.gz
W: e2fsprogs: package-contains-hardlink usr/share/man/man8/fsck.ext2.8.gz
E: e2fsprogs: md5sums-lists-nonexisting-file usr/share/man/man8/mke2fs.8.gz
E: e2fsprogs: md5sums-lists-nonexisting-file sbin/fsck.ext2
E: e2fsprogs: md5sums-lists-nonexisting-file sbin/fsck.ext3
E: e2fsprogs: md5sums-lists-nonexisting-file sbin/mkfs.ext3
E: e2fsprogs: md5sums-lists-nonexisting-file usr/share/man/man8/mkfs.ext3.8.gz
E: e2fsprogs: md5sums-lists-nonexisting-file sbin/e2label
E: e2fsprogs: md5sums-lists-nonexisting-file usr/share/man/man8/e2fsck.8.gz
E: e2fsprogs: md5sums-lists-nonexisting-file sbin/mkfs.ext2
E: e2fsprogs: md5sums-lists-nonexisting-file sbin/tune2fs
E: e2fsprogs: md5sums-lists-nonexisting-file usr/share/man/man8/fsck.ext2.8.gz
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (800, 'unstable'), (750, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.3
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.14.90.0.7-5 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii diffstat 1.34-1 produces graph of changes introduc
ii file 4.07-2 Determines file type using "magic"
ii man-db 2.4.2-9 The on-line manual pager
ii perl 5.8.3-2 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
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