[debhelper-devel] Bug#885785: automatically created packages (-dbgsym) should not be rejected by lintian

[Niels Thykier]

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Matthias Klose:
> Package: debhelper,lintian
> Severity: serious
> Tags: sid buster
> 
> The last gcc-8 upload was automatically rejected with
> 
> E: libgomp-plugin-nvptx1-dbgsym: usr-share-doc-symlink-to-foreign-package
> libgomp-plugin-nvptx1
> E: gcc-8-offload-nvptx-dbgsym: usr-share-doc-symlink-to-foreign-package
> gcc-8-offload-nvptx
> 
> These are automatically generated packages by dehelper. I don't think that there
> should be automatic rejections for automatically generated packages at all.
> 

That lintian warning suggests that libgomp-plugin-nvptx1 +
gcc-8-offload-nvptx are not listed in the debian/control file of the
source package you uploaded.  If that is the case, dak will/should
reject the package anyway in a later control check as the upload then
includes binaries not related to the source package.

I am aware that the d/control of gcc-8 in subversion does list these,
but please confirm that the control file of the uploaded package lists
these two packages.

Thanks,
~Niels