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.

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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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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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⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋ pollo@debian.org / veronneau.org
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Hi,

* Louis-Philippe V�ronneau <pollo@debian.org> [2025-05-22 09:43]:

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

Here it is: gcc-h8300-hms

https://udd.debian.org/lintian/?packages=gcc-h8300-hms&lt_overridden=on

Here is the rules files, it removes the obsolete libtool files and run dh_autoreconf:

https://salsa.debian.org/debian-lego-team/gcc-h8300-hms/-/blob/master/debian/rules?ref_type=heads#L29

In lintian, it checks the dependency on libtool | dh-autoreconf:

https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/blob/master/lib/Lintian/Check/BuildSystems/Autotools/Libtool.pm#L66

But as debhelper depends on dh-autoreconf, this would be a redondant dependency.

I however have no idea on how the check could be changed.

Nicolas.

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