[debhelper-devel] Bug#884152: lintian: report about mismatches between the Build-IDs field and the content of /usr/lib/debug/

[Paul Wise]

On Tue, 12 Dec 2017 06:46:00 +0000 Niels Thykier wrote:

> I am moving this to debhelper.  A maintainer does not and cannot
> influence this. The bug has to be fixed in debhelper and a lintian tag
> would simply serve to annoy people about a bug they cannot fix.

I still think this needs to be checked in lintian for several reasons:

To quantify the problem. I found a few manually when running
find-dbgsym-packages but I'm definitely not going to check everything.

To discover which packages need rebuilding after the debhelper bug is
fixed and to encourage maintainers to do uploads to fix the issue,
since the release team doesn't seem to like to do binNMUs for
debhelper bugs related to debug symbols (see #882051).

To catch any packages not doing standard things; creating Build-Ids
outside of debhelper and doing it wrong or doing things in overrides
that break the list of Buildd-Ids etc.

To catch any future debhelper bugs that might cause this issue.

-- 
bye,
pabs

https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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