Debian Bug report logs - #547631
lintian does not work due to "Undefined subroutine &main::delimiter"

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Taku YASUI <tach@debian.org>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: lintian does not work due to "Undefined subroutine &main::delimiter"

Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:48:58 +0900

Package: lintian
Version: 2.2.15
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

lintian makes following errors and it does not work completely.

% lintian -i libtwitter-ruby_0.3.1-3_amd64.changes
Undefined subroutine &main::delimiter called at /usr/bin/lintian line 687.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30.2-k8 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii  binutils              2.19.91.20090910-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii  diffstat              1.47-1             produces graph of changes introduc
ii  dpkg-dev              1.15.4             Debian package development tools
ii  file                  5.03-1             Determines file type using "magic"
ii  gettext               0.17-8             GNU Internationalization utilities
ii  intltool-debian       0.35.0+20060710.1  Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii  libapt-pkg-perl       0.1.24             Perl interface to libapt-pkg
ii  libipc-run-perl       0.84-1             Perl module for running processes
ii  libparse-debianchange 1.1.1-2            parse Debian changelogs and output
ii  libtimedate-perl      1.1600-9           Time and date functions for Perl
ii  liburi-perl           1.37+dfsg-1        Manipulates and accesses URI strin
ii  man-db                2.5.6-2            on-line manual pager
ii  perl [libdigest-sha-p 5.10.0-25          Larry Wall's Practical Extraction

lintian recommends no packages.

Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn  binutils-multiarch            <none>     (no description available)
ii  libtext-template-perl         1.45-1     Text::Template perl module
ii  man-db                        2.5.6-2    on-line manual pager

-- no debconf information

Message #10 received at 547631@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>

To: 547628@bugs.debian.org, 547631@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#547628: libclass-accessor-perl: breaks lintian

Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 11:08:53 +0200

JFTR: #547631 and #547628 address the same problem.

gregor, not yet reassigning/merging/affecting/whatever due to lack of
        time for investigation
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Message #15 received at 547631@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>

To: 547628@bugs.debian.org

Cc: 547631@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#547628: libclass-accessor-perl: breaks lintian

Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:46:37 +0300

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On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 11:08:53AM +0200, gregor herrmann wrote:
> JFTR: #547631 and #547628 address the same problem.

Lintian::Output uses multiple inheritance, and Class::Accessor introduced
an import subroutine in 0.34 that wins over Exporter::import().

I'm attaching a patch for lintian that should fix this.
Not sure if Class::Accessor actually did anything wrong here.
-- 
Niko Tyni   ntyni@debian.org

[0001-Make-Lintian-Output-work-with-Class-Accessor-0.34.patch (text/x-diff, attachment)]

Message #20 received at 547631@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Francesco Paolo Lovergine <frankie@debian.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <547631@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: Re: does not work due to "Undefined subroutine &main::delimiter"

Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:29:28 +0200

Package: lintian
Version: 2.2.15
Severity: normal

s/delimiter/$Lintian::Output::GLOBAL->delimiter/ at line 696.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii  binutils              2.19.91.20090910-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii  diffstat              1.47-1             produces graph of changes introduc
ii  dpkg-dev              1.15.4             Debian package development tools
ii  file                  5.03-1             Determines file type using "magic"
ii  gettext               0.17-8             GNU Internationalization utilities
ii  intltool-debian       0.35.0+20060710.1  Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii  libapt-pkg-perl       0.1.24             Perl interface to libapt-pkg
ii  libipc-run-perl       0.84-1             Perl module for running processes
ii  libparse-debianchange 1.1.1-2            parse Debian changelogs and output
ii  libtimedate-perl      1.1600-9           Time and date functions for Perl
ii  liburi-perl           1.37+dfsg-1        Manipulates and accesses URI strin
ii  man-db                2.5.6-2            on-line manual pager
ii  perl [libdigest-sha-p 5.10.0-25          Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

lintian recommends no packages.

Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn  binutils-multiarch            <none>     (no description available)
pn  libtext-template-perl         <none>     (no description available)
ii  man-db                        2.5.6-2    on-line manual pager

-- no debconf information

-- debsums errors found:
debsums: changed file /usr/bin/lintian (from lintian package)

Message #25 received at 547631@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>

To: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>, 547631@bugs.debian.org

Cc: 547628@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#547631: Bug#547628: libclass-accessor-perl: breaks lintian

Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:41:05 +0200

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On Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:46:37 +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:

> > JFTR: #547631 and #547628 address the same problem.
> Lintian::Output uses multiple inheritance, and Class::Accessor introduced
> an import subroutine in 0.34 that wins over Exporter::import().
> I'm attaching a patch for lintian that should fix this.

Cool, thanks a lot!

> Not sure if Class::Accessor actually did anything wrong here.

It's also my impression that this is supposed to be fixed on the
lintian side.

For libclass-accessor-perl I've been thinking about adding
Breaks: lintian (<= 2.2.16~)
to keep the package away from not-yet-upgraded systems before lintian
gets upgraded.

/*
lintian is at 2.2.15 now, and
2.2.15 <= 2.2.16~ <= 2.2.16
*/

Does that sound helpful?

Cheers,
gregor 
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Message #30 received at 547631@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Jonathan Yu <jonathan.i.yu@gmail.com>

To: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>, 547628@bugs.debian.org

Cc: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>, 547631@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#547628: Bug#547631: Bug#547628: libclass-accessor-perl: breaks lintian

Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 11:01:02 -0400

On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 10:41 AM, gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:46:37 +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
>
>> > JFTR: #547631 and #547628 address the same problem.
>> Lintian::Output uses multiple inheritance, and Class::Accessor introduced
>> an import subroutine in 0.34 that wins over Exporter::import().
>> I'm attaching a patch for lintian that should fix this.
>
> Cool, thanks a lot!
>
>> Not sure if Class::Accessor actually did anything wrong here.
>
> It's also my impression that this is supposed to be fixed on the
> lintian side.
Agreed.
>
> For libclass-accessor-perl I've been thinking about adding
> Breaks: lintian (<= 2.2.16~)
> to keep the package away from not-yet-upgraded systems before lintian
> gets upgraded.
I would disagree with the idea of coupling a (seemingly) unrelated
package with something else like lintian -- I'm not sure if this
version of class-accessor also breaks other packages which should be
noted by Breaks, but for which a bug report has not yet been filed.

However, this does seem like an appropriate solution, at least in the
case of such a popular package as lintian. I fear that other packages
that exhibit similar behaviour may be missed, however, if they are
less popular. I'm guessing we'd really have no way of knowing without
a full rebuild of everything.

I apologize for not noting these issues in a NEWS file, so perhaps we
should do that as well, so that users of DarkPAN or GreyPAN packages
that depend on this behaviour (and also those of less popular packages
for which we have not yet received FTBFS bugs) will know what
happened, too.
>
> /*
> lintian is at 2.2.15 now, and
> 2.2.15 <= 2.2.16~ <= 2.2.16
> */
>
> Does that sound helpful?
>
> Cheers,
> gregor
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Message #39 received at 547631@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>

To: "Niko Tyni" <ntyni@debian.org>

Cc: <547631@bugs.debian.org>, <547628@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: Re: Bug#547631: Bug#547628: libclass-accessor-perl: breaks lintian

Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:12:59 +0100

Niko Tyni wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 11:08:53AM +0200, gregor herrmann wrote:
>> JFTR: #547631 and #547628 address the same problem.
> 
> Lintian::Output uses multiple inheritance, and Class::Accessor
> introduced an import subroutine in 0.34 that wins over
> Exporter::import(). 
> 
> I'm attaching a patch for lintian that should fix this.
> Not sure if Class::Accessor actually did anything wrong here.

Thanks; applied.

Regards,

Adam

Message #44 received at 547631-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: adam@adam-barratt.org.uk (Adam D. Barratt)

To: 547631-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#547631: fixed in lintian 2.2.16

Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:10:51 +0000

Source: lintian
Source-Version: 2.2.16

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
lintian, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

lintian_2.2.16.dsc
  to pool/main/l/lintian/lintian_2.2.16.dsc
lintian_2.2.16.tar.gz
  to pool/main/l/lintian/lintian_2.2.16.tar.gz
lintian_2.2.16_all.deb
  to pool/main/l/lintian/lintian_2.2.16_all.deb



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 547631@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Adam D. Barratt <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk> (supplier of updated lintian package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@debian.org)


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Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:30:33 +0100
Source: lintian
Binary: lintian
Architecture: source all
Version: 2.2.16
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian Lintian Maintainers <lintian-maint@debian.org>
Changed-By: Adam D. Barratt <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>
Description: 
 lintian    - Debian package checker
Closes: 527363 537768 541977 546641 546927 547345 547555 547631 547670
Changes: 
 lintian (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * Summary of tag changes:
     + Added:
       - dh_undocumented-is-obsolete
       - lib-recommends-documentation
       - weak-library-dev-dependency
 .
   * checks/control-file{,.desc}:
     + [RA] Check that -dev packages depend on exactly the same version of
       the shared library package.  (Closes: #537768)
   * checks/debhelper{,.desc}:
     + [RA] Check for use of the obsolete dh_undocumented debhelper
       program.  Patch from Raphael Geissert.  (Closes: #541977)
   * checks/fields{,.desc}:
     + [RA] Check for library packages that recommend documentation
       packages.  Patch from Raphael Geissert.  (Closes: #527363)
     + [RA] Fix regex for recognizing CVS repositories available via
       anonymous ssh.  Thanks, Thorsten Glaser.  (Closes: #546927)
   * checks/menus{,.desc}:
     + [RA] Exclude examples from documentation that may require doc-base
       registration.  Thanks, Mikhail Gusarov.  (Closes: #547345)
   * checks/scripts{,.desc}:
     + [RA] Add /usr/bin/ir as an interpreter provided by the ironruby
       package.  Thanks, Matthias Klose.  (Closes: #547555)
     + [ADB] Fix a typo in the description of example-script-uses-bin-env
       (pth -> path).  Thanks, Jakub Wilk.  (Closes: #547670)
 .
   * lib/Lintian/Output.pm:
     + [ADB] Import Exporter before Class::Accessor to avoid accidentally
       calling Class::Accessor::import().  Thanks, Niko Tyni.
       (Closes: #547631)
   * lib/Spelling.pm:
     + [RA] Additional spelling corrections from Raphael Geissert.
     + [RA] Return the count of spelling errors and support suppressing the
       tag by passing undef for the tag name so that the spell checking
       functions can be used to test tag descriptions for spelling errors.
       (Closes: #546641)
 .
   * reporting/html_reports:
     + [RA] Include all tag types in the qa-list.txt file instead of just
       errors and warnings.  The new order of columns is errors, warnings,
       info tags, pedantic tags, experimental tags, and overridden tags.
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Message #59 received at 547631@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>

To: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>, 547631@bugs.debian.org

Cc: 547628-done@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#547628: Bug#547631: Bug#547628: libclass-accessor-perl: breaks lintian

Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:49:08 +0200

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On Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:41:05 +0200, gregor herrmann wrote:

> > > JFTR: #547631 and #547628 address the same problem.
> > Lintian::Output uses multiple inheritance, and Class::Accessor introduced
> > an import subroutine in 0.34 that wins over Exporter::import().
> > I'm attaching a patch for lintian that should fix this.
> > Not sure if Class::Accessor actually did anything wrong here.
> It's also my impression that this is supposed to be fixed on the
> lintian side.

Since lintian 2.2.16 with Niko's patch is already uploaded I'm
closing #547628 now.
 
Cheers,
gregor 
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