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-Check-Script: control-file
-Author: Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt <marc@marcbrockschmidt.de>
-Abbrev: dctl
-Type: source
-Unpack-Level: 1
-Needs-Info: debfiles
-Info: This script checks debian/control files in source packages
-
-Tag: debian-control-file-uses-obsolete-national-encoding
-Type: error
-Info: The Debian control file should be valid UTF-8, an encoding of
- the Unicode character set.
- .
- There are many ways to convert a control from an obsoleted encoding
- like ISO-8859-1; you may for example use "iconv" like:
- .
- $ iconv -f ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8 control > control.new
- $ mv control.new control
-
-Tag: build-info-in-binary-control-file-section
-Type: error
-Ref: policy 5.2
-Info: The control file has a Build-Depends, Build-Depends-Indep,
- Build-Conflicts, or Build-Conflicts-Indep field in a binary
- section. These specify source package relationships, and should be in
- the source section of the control file.
-
-Tag: debian-control-with-duplicate-fields
-Type: error
-Info: One of the paragraphs of your debian/control contains the same
- field more than once. This can lead to an unexpected behaviour of dpkg
- and apt.
-
-Tag: debian-control-file-is-a-symlink
-Type: warning
-Info: The <tt>debian/control</tt> file is a symlink rather than a regular
- file. Using symlinks for required source package files is unnecessary and
- makes package checking and manipulation more difficult. If the control
- file should be available in the source package under multiple names, make
- <tt>debian/control</tt> the real file and the other names symlinks to it.
-
-Tag: no-section-field-for-source
-Type: warning
-Ref: policy 5.2
-Info: The package does not have a "Section:" field in the source package
- section of its control file. The Section field is required for source
- packages at the request of the Debian ftp-masters.
-
-Tag: section-category-mismatch
-Type: error
-Info: The <tt>debian/control</tt> file places the indicated binary package
- in a different archive category (main, contrib, non-free) than its source
- package or other binary packages built from the same source package. The
- source package and any binary packages it builds must be in the same
- category of the archive. A source package in main may only build binary
- packages in main, a source package in non-free may only build binary
- packages in non-free, and so forth.
-
-Tag: xs-vcs-header-in-debian-control
-Type: info
-Info: There is an XS-Vcs-* field in the <tt>debian/control</tt> file. As
- of dpkg 1.14.6, the XS- prefix is no longer necessary. dpkg now
- recognizes these headers and handles them correctly. Consider removing
- the XS- prefix for this field.
-
-Tag: stronger-dependency-implies-weaker
-Type: warning
-Ref: policy 7.2
-Info: In the <tt>debian/control</tt> stanza for the given package, a
- stronger dependency field implies one of the dependencies in a weaker
- dependency field. In other words, the Depends field of the package
- requires that one of the packages listed in Recommends or Suggests be
- installed, or a package is listed in Recommends as well as Suggests.
- .
- Current versions of dpkg-gencontrol will silently fix this problem by
- removing the weaker dependency, but it may indicate a more subtle bug
- (misspelling or forgetting to remove the stronger dependency when it was
- moved to the weaker field).
-
-Tag: package-depends-on-itself
-Type: warning
-Ref: policy 7.2
-Info: The given package declares a dependency on itself in its
- <tt>debian/control</tt> stanza. Current versions of dpkg-gencontrol will
- silently fix this problem by removing the dependency, but it may indicate
- a more subtle bug (misspelling or cutting and pasting the wrong package
- name).
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