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Bug#963589: lintian: detection error package-contains-timestamped-gzip

From Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.bugs.dist
Subject Bug#963589: lintian: detection error package-contains-timestamped-gzip
Date 2020-06-24 09:40 +0200
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On Wed, 24 Jun 2020 15:19:28 +0900 Norbert Preining wrote:

> W: texlive-fonts-extra: package-contains-timestamped-gzip usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/huerta/alegreya/AlegreyaSans-Regular-tlf-lgr.tfm 2105-07-28T02:08:00
> W: texlive-fonts-extra: package-contains-timestamped-gzip usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/huerta/alegreya/AlegreyaSans-Regular-tosf-lgr.tfm 2105-07-28T02:08:00
> W: texlive-fonts-extra: package-contains-timestamped-gzip usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/huerta/alegreya/AlegreyaSans-Thin-lf-sc-ly1.tfm 2105-07-28T02:08:00
> W: texlive-fonts-extra: package-contains-timestamped-gzip usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/huerta/alegreya/AlegreyaSans-Thin-osf-sc-ly1.tfm 2105-07-28T02:08:00
> 
> No, that is not a gzip file.

This looks like a bug in file that gets inherited by lintian:

$ file usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/huerta/alegreya/AlegreyaSans* | grep -i gzip
usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/huerta/alegreya/AlegreyaSans-Regular-tlf-lgr.tfm:                     gzip compressed data, reserved method, has CRC, has comment, original size modulo 2^32 2758803456
usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/huerta/alegreya/AlegreyaSans-Regular-tosf-lgr.tfm:                    gzip compressed data, reserved method, has CRC, has comment, original size modulo 2^32 2758803456
usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/huerta/alegreya/AlegreyaSans-Thin-lf-sc-ly1.tfm:                      gzip compressed data, reserved method, has CRC, has comment, original size modulo 2^32 3782868992
usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/huerta/alegreya/AlegreyaSans-Thin-osf-sc-ly1.tfm:                     gzip compressed data, reserved method, has CRC, has comment, original size modulo 2^32 3782868992

$ file --mime-type usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/huerta/alegreya/AlegreyaSans* | grep -i gzip
usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/huerta/alegreya/AlegreyaSans-Regular-tlf-lgr.tfm:                     application/gzip
usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/huerta/alegreya/AlegreyaSans-Regular-tosf-lgr.tfm:                    application/gzip
usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/huerta/alegreya/AlegreyaSans-Thin-lf-sc-ly1.tfm:                      application/gzip
usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/huerta/alegreya/AlegreyaSans-Thin-osf-sc-ly1.tfm:                     application/gzip

Looks like there are a lot of bugs in the .tfm detection in file:

$ find usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/ -type f -name '*.tfm' -print0 | xargs -0 file | grep -v 'TeX font metric data' | wc -l
4997

So probably the right solution is for lintian to ignore *.tfm files
when searching for gzip files.

You may want to talk to file upstream about the *.tfm detection issues.

-- 
bye,
pabs

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Bug#963589: lintian: detection error package-contains-timestamped-gzip Norbert Preining <norbert@preining.info> - 2020-06-24 08:30 +0200
  Bug#963589: lintian: detection error package-contains-timestamped-gzip Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2020-06-24 09:40 +0200
    Bug#963589: lintian: detection error package-contains-timestamped-gzip Norbert Preining <norbert@preining.info> - 2020-06-24 12:30 +0200

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