Package: lintian Version: 2.4.1 Severity: minor If debian/changelog is a symlink, lintian fails with internal errors: $ apt-get source hello [snip] $ cd hello-2.5/ $ mkdir debian/source $ echo '3.0 (quilt)' > debian/source/format $ mv debian/changelog debian/changelog.old $ ln -sf changelog.old debian/changelog $ dpkg-buildpackage -S [snip] $ lintian ../hello_2.5-1.dsc W: hello source: changelog-is-symlink Can't call method "data" on an undefined value at /usr/share/lintian/checks/nmu line 56, <FORMAT> line 1. internal error: cannot run nmu check on package hello warning: skipping check of source package hello internal error: control invoked in wrong directory -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (900, 'unstable'), (500, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-3-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.20.51.20100518-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii diffstat 1.47-1 produces graph of changes introduc ii dpkg-dev 1.15.7.2 Debian package development tools ii file 5.04-2 Determines file type using "magic" ii gettext 0.18-1 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-per 0.34-1 Perl module that automatically gen ii libipc-run-perl 0.89-1 Perl module for running processes ii libparse-debianchange 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 2.10.2-8 Embedded GNU C Library: National L ii man-db 2.5.7-3 on-line manual pagerii perl [libdigest-sha-p 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 2.5.7-3 on-line manual pager -- debconf-show failed -- Jakub Wilk
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