• Bug#1102136: lintian: Lintian emits ancient-libtool even when using dh_

    From Nicolas Schodet@21:1/5 to All on Sat Apr 5 16:40:02 2025
    Package: lintian
    Version: 2.116.3
    Severity: normal

    Hello,

    Lintian checks whether the package build depends on libtool or
    dh-autoreconf, but this is no longer needed as dh depends on
    dh-autoreconf now.

    I remove the obsolete files in the clean rules and use dh_autoreconf,
    but lintian can not see it as the obsolete files are still present in
    sources.

    Thanks,

    Nicolas.

    -- System Information:
    Debian Release: 12.10
    APT prefers stable-updates
    APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
    Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
    Foreign Architectures: i386

    Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-32-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
    Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en
    Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
    Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
    LSM: AppArmor: enabled

    Versions of packages lintian depends on:
    ii binutils 2.40-2
    ii bzip2 1.0.8-5+b1
    ii diffstat 1.65-1
    ii dpkg 1.21.22
    ii dpkg-dev 1.21.22
    ii file 1:5.44-3
    ii gettext 0.21-12
    ii gpg 2.2.40-1.1
    ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.6
    ii iso-codes 4.15.0-1
    ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.40+b2
    ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.68-1
    ii libberkeleydb-perl 0.64-2+b1
    ii libcapture-tiny-perl 0.48-2
    ii libclass-xsaccessor-perl 1.19-4+b1
    ii libclone-perl 0.46-1
    ii libconfig-tiny-perl 2.28-2
    ii libconst-fast-perl 0.014-2
    ii libcpanel-json-xs-perl 4.35-1
    ii libdata-dpath-perl 0.58-2
    ii libdata-validate-domain-perl 0.10-1.1
    ii libdata-validate-uri-perl 0.07-2
    ii libdevel-size-perl 0.83-2+b1
    pn libdigest-sha-perl <none>
    ii libdpkg-perl 1.21.22
    ii libemail-address-xs-perl 1.05-1+b1
    ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.09-2
    ii libfile-find-rule-perl 0.34-3
    ii libfont-ttf-perl 1.06-2
    ii libhtml-html5-entities-perl 0.004-3
    ii libhtml-tokeparser-simple-perl 3.16-4
    ii libio-interactive-perl 1.023-2
    ii libipc-run3-perl 0.048-3
    ii libjson-maybexs-perl 1.004004-1
    ii liblist-compare-perl 0.55-2
    ii liblist-someutils-perl 0.59-1
    ii liblist-utilsby-perl 0.12-2
    ii libmldbm-perl 2.05-4
    ii libmoo-perl 2.005005-1
    ii libmoox-aliases-perl 0.001006-2
    ii libnamespace-clean-perl 0.27-2
    ii libpath-tiny-perl 0.144-1
    ii libperlio-gzip-perl 0.20-1+b1
    ii libperlio-utf8-strict-perl 0.010-1
    ii libproc-processtable-perl 0.634-1+b2
    ii libregexp-wildcards-perl 1.05-3
    ii libsereal-decoder-perl 5.003+ds-1
    ii libsereal-encoder-perl 5.003+ds-1
    ii libsort-versions-perl 1.62-3
    ii libsyntax-keyword-try-perl 0.28-1
    ii libterm-readkey-perl 2.38-2+b1
    ii libtext-levenshteinxs-perl 0.03-5+b1
    ii libtext-markdown-discount-perl 0.16-1
    ii libtext-xslate-perl 3.5.9-1+b2
    ii libtime-duration-perl 1.21-2
    ii libtime-moment-perl 0.44-2+b1
    ii libtimedate-perl 2.3300-2
    ii libunicode-utf8-perl 0.62-2
    ii liburi-perl 5.17-1
    ii libwww-mechanize-perl 2.16-1
    ii libwww-perl 6.68-1
    ii libxml-libxml-perl 2.0207+dfsg+really+2.0134-1+b1
    ii libyaml-libyaml-perl 0.86+ds-1
    ii lzip [lzip-decompressor] 1.23-5
    ii lzop 1.04-2
    ii man-db 2.11.2-2
    ii patchutils 0.4.2-1
    ii perl [libencode-perl] 5.36.0-7+deb12u1
    ii t1utils 1.41-4
    ii unzip 6.0-28
    ii xz-utils 5.4.1-0.2

    lintian recommends no packages.

    Versions of packages lintian suggests:
    pn binutils-multiarch <none>
    ii libtext-template-perl 1.61-1

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  • From =?UTF-8?Q?Louis-Philippe_V=C3=A9ron@21:1/5 to All on Thu May 22 15:50:01 2025
    tags 1102136 + moreinfo
    thanks

    Hello,

    Thanks for reporting this bug. I'll need more info to make a change, as
    I'm not familiar enough with this issue.

    Could you point me to a package or give me concrete examples of when the
    tag should not be emitted?

    Cheers,

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    ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Louis-Philippe Véronneau
    ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋ pollo@debian.org / veronneau.org
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