Bug#802964: lintian: mentions-deprecated-usr-lib-perl5-directory check should skip debian/patches

[Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>]

Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.38
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

lintian reports for man2html:

  X: man2html source: mentions-deprecated-usr-lib-perl5-directory 010-aux-debian.patch

which refers to debian patch that actually removes usage of /usr/lib/perl5 from
some upstream file:

  $ grep -A 4 usr/lib/perl5 010-aux-debian.patch
  -   <LI><TT>-M /usr/man:/usr/X11R6/man:/usr/lib/perl5/man find</TT>
  -   <LI><TT>/local/gcc/man/man1/gperf.1</TT>
  +   <LI><TT>-M /usr/share/man:/opt/man:/usr/local/share/man find</TT>
  +   <LI><TT>/usr/share/man/man1/gperf.1</TT>
   </UL>

In my opinion lintian either should skip checking patches or should
check the lines added in the patch (i.e. those starting with +).

Regards,
robert


-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (200, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 4.2.0-1-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii  binutils                       2.25.1-7
ii  bzip2                          1.0.6-8
ii  diffstat                       1.60-1
ii  file                           1:5.25-2
ii  gettext                        0.19.6-1
ii  hardening-includes             2.7
ii  intltool-debian                0.35.0+20060710.4
ii  libapt-pkg-perl                0.1.29+b3
ii  libarchive-zip-perl            1.53-1
ii  libclass-accessor-perl         0.34-1
ii  libclone-perl                  0.38-1
ii  libdpkg-perl                   1.18.3
ii  libemail-valid-perl            1.197-1
ii  libfile-basedir-perl           0.07-1
ii  libipc-run-perl                0.94-1
ii  liblist-moreutils-perl         0.413-1
ii  libparse-debianchangelog-perl  1.2.0-8
ii  libtext-levenshtein-perl       0.13-1
ii  libtimedate-perl               2.3000-2
ii  liburi-perl                    1.69-1
ii  man-db                         2.7.4-1
ii  patchutils                     0.3.4-1
ii  perl [libdigest-sha-perl]      5.20.2-6
ii  t1utils                        1.38-4
ii  xz-utils                       5.1.1alpha+20120614-2.1

Versions of packages lintian recommends:
ii  dpkg                            1.18.3
pn  libperlio-gzip-perl             <none>
ii  perl                            5.20.2-6
ii  perl-modules [libautodie-perl]  5.20.2-6

Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn  binutils-multiarch     <none>
ii  dpkg-dev               1.18.3
ii  libhtml-parser-perl    3.71-2
ii  libtext-template-perl  1.46-1
ii  libyaml-perl           1.13-1

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