Bug#774381: lintian: False positives for binary-control-field-duplicates-source
On 02/01/15 08:18, Niels Thykier wrote:
> Control: tags -1 moreinfo
>
> On 2015-01-01 22:13, Riley wrote:
>> Package: lintian
>> Version: 2.5.30+deb8u3
>> Severity: normal
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> The lintian tag "binary-control-field-duplicates-source" reports an error when
>> there is a duplicate of the "section" field. However, it is often necessary to
>> duplicate the section field. For example:
>>
>> Package: libxyz0
>> Section: libs
>>
>> Package: libxyz-common
>> Section: libs
>>
>> Package: libxyz-dev
>> Section: libdevel
>>
>> Package: libxyz-doc
>> Section: doc
>>
>>
>> I propose that this tag not be output for the section tag.
>>
>> Yours sincerely,
>>
>> Riley Baird
>>
>> [...]
>>
>
> Hi,
>
> I believe you might misunderstand the tag. The case you describe do not
> trigger this tag. Instead, what you have is probably:
>
> """
> *Source*: libxyz
> Section: libs
>
> Package: libxyz0
> Section: libs
> """
>
> By default, the Section field will copied into the Binary paragraph *if*
> the binary paragraph does not have it. As the Binary paragraph has a
> Section field with identical value to the one in *Source* it is
> therefore redundant. That is what this tag warns about.
>
> ~Niels
You're exactly right. Thanks for finding the error.
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