Bug#1122357: Bug#1122902: UDD: lintian results for udeb packages are not properly parsed

From	Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@debian.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.kernel
Subject	Bug#1122357: Bug#1122902: UDD: lintian results for udeb packages are not properly parsed
Date	2026-01-16 15:50 +0100
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Hi,

On 14/12/25 at 13:42 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Package: qa.debian.org
> Severity: normal
> X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-lint-maint@lists.debian.org
> User: qa.debian.org@packages.debian.org
> Usertags: udd
> 
> Hi,
> 
> if a package produces a udeb and the udeb package itself triggers a
> lintian warning/error, it appears that udd does not properly parse that.
> 
> See [1] as an example.
> 
> $ lintian libisns-udeb_0.101-1_amd64.udeb
> E: libisns-udeb udeb: aliased-location [lib/]
> E: libisns-udeb udeb: aliased-location [lib/libisns.so.0]
> 
> lintian prepends the string "udeb: " which results in udd having
> "udeb:" as the tag name and the actual tag is listed under "information".
> 
> I wonder, whether udd should simply strip off the "udeb: " prefix or if
> the tagname should be something like "udeb: aliased-location" (assuming
> those characters are allowed in tag names.
> 
> I've also CCed the lintian maintainers mailing list for their input.

This was fixed in UDD

> One important aspect here is that udd is used by the testing migration
> software and aliased-location is a lintian error that will block testing
> migration for regular debian packages.


> I've done a MBF to get all udeb producing packages updated to use
> non-aliased locations [1].  This is basically done, with one notable
> exception: src:linux, i.e. [2].
> Please deploy any fixes to udd only after src:linux has been fixed.

...and I failed to read this message before deploying the fix, which
means that src:linux might require an exception from the release team to
migrate to testing. Sorry about that.

Lucas

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