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#629
lintian: false positive: "unknown-field Description" in source package
Reported by: Hannah Rittich <void@rittich.net>
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2021 13:42:02 UTC
Severity: normal
Tags: debian
Found in version 2.109.0~bpo11+1
Done: Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk>
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Package: lintian
Version: 2.109.0~bpo11+1
Severity: normal
Adding a "Description" field in the source section of a control file
will cause lintian to issue the error "source: unknown-field Description".
The Debian Policy Manual [1] states that "in a source or binary control
file, the Description field contains a description of the binary package
[...]". Furthermore, deb-substvars allows to reference the description
field of the source package, using the variables ${source:Synopsis} and
${source:Extended-Description} [2]. Hence, adding a description to a
source package should be allowed. This field can be used to avoid
repetitions in the control file, as done by the abseil package [3],
which displays the said error message [4].
I would suggest to remove this warning for the "Description" field in
the source section.
[1]:
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-f-description
[2]:
https://manpages.debian.org/bullseye/dpkg-dev/deb-substvars.5.en.html#source:Synopsis
[3]: https://sources.debian.org/src/abseil/0~20200923.3-3/debian/control/
[4]: https://lintian.debian.org/sources/abseil
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Please close. That should have been sent to the Debian BTS.
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Please close this bug. This should have been sent to the Debian BTS.
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Control: tags -1 debian
On Sat, Oct 30, 2021 at 03:52:35PM +0200, Where all about bugs in Devuan packages is reported wrote:
> Please close. That should have been sent to the Debian BTS.
Closing.
Mark
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