Bug#996943: lintian: fails to unpack strip-nondeterminism source package

[Holger Levsen]

Package: lintian
Version: 2.109.0
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: reproducible-builds at lists.alioth.debian.org

Dear Maintainer,

lintian fails to unpack the current strip-nondeterminism source package,
and thus also fails to properly check the package:

$ schroot -- lintian --info --pedantic --display-info strip-nondeterminism_1.12.0-2_source.changes
N:
E: strip-nondeterminism source: unpack-message-for-orig strip-nondeterminism_1.12.0.orig.tar.bz2 ar failed for strip-nondeterminism-1.12.0/t/failures/ar/857975.a
N: 
N:   Unpacking the contents of this source package produced the listed error.
N:   
N:   It probably means something is broken or the package was somehow constructed in a strange way. You may wish to report this as a bug to upstream.
N: 
N:   Visibility: error
N:   Show-Always: no
N:   Check: lintian
N: 
N:
I: strip-nondeterminism source: unpack-message-for-source ar failed for t/failures/ar/857975.a
N: 
N:   Unpacking the contents of this source package produced the listed error.
N:   
N:   It probably means something is broken or the package was somehow constructed in a strange way.
N: 
N:   Visibility: info
N:   Show-Always: no
N:   Check: lintian
N: 

using these files, which I've just uploaded to unstable, as dpkg and pbuilder nicely
cope with the same source package:

d451c96fe2094b1c42c52af258f9ac88  strip-nondeterminism_1.12.0-2.debian.tar.xz
5c0c59ab0996881055ca69810c43e702  strip-nondeterminism_1.12.0-2.dsc
736f82cc28615279e6ba01e9ba8d59f7  strip-nondeterminism_1.12.0.orig.tar.bz2

(and this also can be seen with strip-nondeterminism_1.12.0-1.dsc...)

I suspect this is because t/failures/ar/857975.a which is part of the package
is an ar archive.

Thanks for maintaining lintian!


-- 
cheers,
	Holger

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