Bug#580789: lintian: [checks/cruft.desc] PATCH: Improve documentation
Package: lintian
Version: 2.4.1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
command:
$ echo "W: ifhp source: ancient-libtool ltmain.sh 1.4.3" | lintian-info
Readd:
W: ifhp source: ancient-libtool ltmain.sh 1.4.3
N:
N: The referenced file seems to be from a libtool version older than
N: 1.5.2-2. This might lead to build errors on some newer architectures
N: not known to this libtool.
N:
>> N: Please ask your upstream maintainer to re-libtoolize the package or do
>> N: it yourself in case there is no active upstream anymore. Beware that
N: might mean you need to update autoconf, too, if you use a very old
N: version there as well.
N:
N: If you have not updated the file but fixed architecture-specific
N: issues with minimal patches and verified that it builds correctly
N: please override this tag. lintian will not be able to verify that.
SUGGESTION
The following patch suggest action to take how to re-libtoolize the
sources.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_DK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.20.1-8 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii diffstat 1.47-1 produces graph of changes introduc
ii dpkg-dev 1.15.7.1 Debian package development tools
ii file 5.04-2 Determines file type using "magic"
ii gettext 0.17-11 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.24 Perl interface to libapt-pkg
ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1 Perl module that automatically gen
ii libipc-run-perl 0.89-1 Perl module for running processes
ii libparse-debianchangel 1.1.1-2 parse Debian changelogs and output
ii libtimedate-perl 1.2000-1 collection of modules to manipulat
ii liburi-perl 1.54-1 module to manipulate and access UR
ii locales 2.10.2-6 Embedded GNU C Library: National L
ii man-db 2.5.7-2 on-line manual pager
ii perl [libdigest-sha-pe 5.10.1-12 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
lintian recommends no packages.
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn binutils-multiarch <none> (no description available)
ii libtext-template-perl 1.45-1 Text::Template perl module
ii man-db 2.5.7-2 on-line manual pager
-- no debconf information
>From 473ed8845e4e7b685eb66e507663a8473ed2ca46 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>
Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 19:07:05 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] checks/cruft.desc: add instruction how to diy libtoolize
Organization: Private
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Signed-off-by: Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>
---
checks/cruft.desc | 14 ++++++++++----
1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/checks/cruft.desc b/checks/cruft.desc
index ccb925f..3e5ebd0 100644
--- a/checks/cruft.desc
+++ b/checks/cruft.desc
@@ -379,13 +379,19 @@ Info: The referenced file seems to be from a libtool version
newer architectures not known to this libtool.
.
Please ask your upstream maintainer to re-libtoolize the
- package or do it yourself in case there is no active upstream
- anymore. Beware that might mean you need to update autoconf, too,
- if you use a very old version there as well.
+ package or in case there is no active upstream, do it yourself:
+ .
+ libtoolize --copy --force --install
+ .
+
+ Note: with very old packages you may see message suggesting '...add
+ the contents of... *.m4' but do *not* follow the advice, but the last
+ line that usually suggest modifying configure.in; and rerun
+ libtoolize. Beware that might mean you need to update autoconf, too.
.
If you have not updated the file but fixed architecture-specific
issues with minimal patches and verified that it builds correctly
- please override this tag. lintian will not be able to verify that.
+ please override this tag. Lintian will not be able to verify that.
Tag: source-contains-prebuilt-binary
Severity: pedantic
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