internal error: command failed with error code 123

[Benjamin Drung]

Binary package hint: lintian

lintian fails on gnome-colors package:

internal error: command failed with error code 123
warning: collect info file-info about package gnome-colors: 512
warning: skipping check of source package gnome-colors

To reproduce run following commands:

bzr branch lp:gnome-colors-pkg
cd gnome-colors-pkg
uscan --force-download
cd ..
mkdir gnome-colors-3.0
cd gnome-colors-3.0
tar -xvf ../gnome-colors_3.0.orig.tar.gz
cp -r ../gnome-colors-pkg/debian .
debuild -S

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: lintian 2.2.5ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: lintian
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic x86_64

[Russ Allbery (rra-debian)]

Benjamin Drung <email address hidden> writes:

> Binary package hint: lintian
>
> lintian fails on gnome-colors package:
>
> internal error: command failed with error code 123
> warning: collect info file-info about package gnome-colors: 512
> warning: skipping check of source package gnome-colors

This is probably the problem fixed in Lintian 2.2.7. (Debian Bug#517899)

--
Russ Allbery (<email address hidden>) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

[Andrew Starr-Bochicchio (andrewsomething)]

I can confirm that the new version in debian resolved this issue.

I've prepared a merge from Debian. Subscribing ubuntu-release for guidance.

Do we want the newest version in Jaunty? It would be helpful (beyond fixing this bug) for those of us working on packages for Debian as the new release uses Standards Version 3.8.1 Though I don't know what Ubuntu policy is on something like this. Should this wait for jaunty-backports?

If ubuntu-release decides to hold off on this, I could prepare a patch for this bug alone.

Upstream git commit resolving this issue:

http://git.debian.org/?p=lintian/lintian.git;a=commitdiff;h=1dcd45e8941505fe78995036a4f697ab43f31106

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Since we don't have/use Standards-Version 3.8.1 yet, I'd prefer a backport of this, as a target of opportunity. I don't consider it a release critical problem anyway. Thank you!

[Andrew Starr-Bochicchio (andrewsomething)]

Fixed in Karmic.

lintian (2.2.9ubuntu1) karmic; urgency=low

  * Resynchronise with Debian. Remaining changes:
    - Don't complain about `dist-packages' in /usr/lib/python*.
  * Permit data.tar.lzma for packages with Ubuntu distributions at the head
    of their changelog (LP: #339519).