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general
  • source: lintian (main)
  • version: 2.138.0
  • maintainer: Debian Lintian Maintainers (DMD)
  • uploaders: Axel Beckert [DMD] – Bastien Roucariès [DMD] – Louis-Philippe Véronneau [DMD] – Nilesh Patra [DMD] – Maytham Alsudany [DMD]
  • arch: all
  • std-ver: 4.7.4
  • VCS: Git (Browse, QA)
versions [more versions can be listed by madison] [old versions available from snapshot.debian.org]
[pool directory]
  • o-o-stable: 2.104.0
  • oldstable: 2.116.3+deb12u1
  • stable: 2.122.0
  • testing: 2.137.1
  • unstable: 2.138.0
versioned links
  • 2.104.0: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
  • 2.116.3+deb12u1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
  • 2.122.0: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
  • 2.137.1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
  • 2.138.0: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
binaries
  • lintian (497 bugs: 0, 202, 295, 0)
  • lintian-doc
action needed
3 bugs tagged help in the BTS normal
The BTS contains 3 bugs tagged help, please consider helping the maintainer in dealing with them.
Created: 2019-03-21 Last update: 2026-07-14 08:00
12 bugs tagged patch in the BTS normal
The BTS contains patches fixing 12 bugs, consider including or untagging them.
Created: 2026-06-02 Last update: 2026-07-14 08:00
Depends on packages which need a new maintainer normal
The packages that lintian depends on which need a new maintainer are:
  • intltool-debian (#774187)
    • Depends: intltool-debian
Created: 2019-11-22 Last update: 2026-07-14 05:30
3 open merge requests in Salsa normal
There are 3 open merge requests for this package on Salsa. You should consider reviewing and/or merging these merge requests.
Created: 2025-09-16 Last update: 2026-07-13 19:31
version in VCS is newer than in repository, is it time to upload? normal
vcswatch reports that this package seems to have a new changelog entry (version 2.138.1~git, distribution UNRELEASED) and new commits in its VCS. You should consider whether it's time to make an upload.

Here are the relevant commit messages:
commit eaadddd52c94b59e08f81179ff480b3797ea51a1
Author: Nilesh Patra <nilesh@debian.org>
Date:   Sun Jul 12 21:46:03 2026 +0530

    Add golang-go as a test-dep both for build and autopkgtest

commit 0528fb086d2e22744178441c199b6bc342982c33
Author: Nilesh Patra <nilesh@debian.org>
Date:   Sun Jul 12 18:53:26 2026 +0530

    tests(use-godebug): Add test to test against `binary-contains-defaultgodebug-options`

commit 3ae3156e2d4b8dc2d7b84782d635054252f8777a
Author: Nilesh Patra <nilesh@debian.org>
Date:   Sun Jul 12 17:28:18 2026 +0530

    New tag: binary-contains-insecure-defaultgodebug-settings (Closes: #1141908)

commit 70fe697708bf17a54064a9c866863a0d8c778350
Author: Nicholas Guriev <nicholas@guriev.su>
Date:   Fri May 22 09:30:41 2026 +0300

    Implement dpkg-build-api-level and debian-rules-defines-dpkg-build-api tags

commit 4b3359b2cb863bf31ea3d172c4fde37fb457faba
Author: Nicholas Guriev <nicholas@guriev.su>
Date:   Thu May 21 15:38:47 2026 +0300

    Do not fail spellintian on empty stdin
    
    For unknown reason it crashes when no arguments set and the standard
    input is redirected from /dev/null. This broke tests ran in my chroot
    environment. The original error looks like the following.
    
    $ spellintian < /dev/null
    Usage: Unicode::UTF8::decode_utf8(octets, fallback=NULL) at /usr/bin/spellintian line 99.

commit 0e9d7f9b7e0e79f7300f4393e83faec42bde09f8
Author: Nicholas Guriev <nicholas@guriev.su>
Date:   Mon Jul 13 11:37:42 2026 +0300

    Do not fail at version guessing when Git binary is unavailable

commit 72079a87f176793f8b85856a81cd6393ea9ec69f
Author: Benjamin Drung <bdrung@debian.org>
Date:   Mon Jul 13 15:14:58 2026 +0000

    Disable unnecessary-team-upload and nmu-in-changelog tags in ubuntu/main profile

commit f399134c12517efde68c1131431c4a5926d44741
Author: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
Date:   Fri Jun 19 16:40:56 2026 +0100

    Add tests for #1140147
    
    Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>

commit e37e01b5a6b54a577c0257c1c0a695126dd8f141
Author: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
Date:   Fri Jun 19 17:26:05 2026 +0100

    Avoid typelib-missing-gir-depends with debhelper compat level 14
    
    In compat level 14, ${foo:Depends} is automatically added to Depends and
    so on, so it is unnecessary to list them explicitly.
    
    In the tests that intentionally provoke typelib-missing-gir-depends,
    this means we need to hard-code compat level 13 or older, similar to
    commit 18b4f855 "tests (lacks-depends-on-r-api): Hardcode to compat 13
    as compat14 autopopulates substvars".
    
    Closes: #1140147
    Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>

commit a6b26250e2ed94004234132448d7ba1fd8890623
Author: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
Date:   Fri Jun 19 17:23:06 2026 +0100

    Remove gobject-introspection-package-missing-depends-on-gir-depends tag
    
    This was effectively redundant with typelib-missing-gir-depends,
    although it had a few minor differences:
    
    * The removed tag was an error, typelib-missing-gir-depends is a warning.
      Compensate for this by elevating typelib-missing-gir-depends to an
      error.
    * The removed tag matched any version number of the typelib/GIR format.
      Compensate for this by matching any version number in the remaining tag.
    * The removed tag gave advice about adding the --with-gir debhelper
      sequence, which is good advice but does not actually fix the problem.
      The remaining tag points to the GObject-Introspection mini-policy,
      which gives many recommendations, including this one.
    * The removed tag only matched girX.Y packages that end with a version
      number, but the remaining tag also matches collections like
      gir1.2-freedesktop and -dev packages like gir1.2-glib-2.0-dev,
      which have an equal need for `${gir:Depends}`.
    
    Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>

commit e04ebb000ae7b7e718d8eabc2bb77d0dabcad301
Author: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
Date:   Fri Jun 19 15:02:31 2026 +0100

    t: Make a test package more realistic
    
    In practice GObject-Introspection uses GIR 1.2 format, has done for
    several years, and is likely to continue to do so. Format v1.1 never
    actually existed.
    
    Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>

commit 666b32bed8aa1e27a6cc6464365778a2b2d7ede2
Author: Nilesh Patra <nilesh@debian.org>
Date:   Sun Jul 12 13:29:38 2026 +0530

    Move d/lintian-overrides -> d/lintian.lintian-overrides

commit 8cf8bc1a7cbcbb99da3f192bef6042acdc8c9d28
Author: Nilesh Patra <nilesh@debian.org>
Date:   Sun Jul 12 13:28:57 2026 +0530

    d/control: Drop ${misc:Depends} from Depends

commit 9d8a44e0ee1dee592107ed975778cbf92468a03e
Author: Nilesh Patra <nilesh@debian.org>
Date:   Sun Jul 12 13:26:27 2026 +0530

    Post-release version bump
    
    Gbp-Dch: Ignore
Created: 2024-07-31 Last update: 2026-07-13 19:31
Issues found with some translations low

Automatic checks made by the Debian l10n team found some issues with the translations contained in this package. You should check the l10n status report for more information.

Issues can be things such as missing translations, problematic translated strings, outdated PO files, unknown languages, etc.

Created: 2020-02-26 Last update: 2020-02-26 10:49
testing migrations
  • excuses:
    • Migration status for lintian (2.137.1 to 2.138.0): Waiting for test results or another package, or too young (no action required now - check later)
    • Issues preventing migration:
    • ∙ ∙ Too young, only 2 of 5 days old
    • Additional info (not blocking):
    • ∙ ∙ Piuparts tested OK - https://piuparts.debian.org/sid/source/l/lintian.html
    • ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for lintian/2.138.0: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, armhf: Pass, i386: Pass, loong64: Pass, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Test triggered (failure will be ignored), s390x: Pass
    • ∙ ∙ Reproduced on amd64 - info
    • ∙ ∙ Reproduced on arm64 - info
    • ∙ ∙ Reproduced on armhf - info
    • ∙ ∙ Reproduced on i386 - info
    • Not considered
news
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  • [2026-07-12] Accepted lintian 2.138.0 (source) into unstable (Nilesh Patra)
  • [2026-07-02] lintian 2.137.1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2026-06-26] Accepted lintian 2.137.1 (source) into unstable (Nilesh Patra)
  • [2026-06-25] Accepted lintian 2.137.0 (source) into unstable (Nilesh Patra)
  • [2026-06-09] lintian 2.136.2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2026-06-01] Accepted lintian 2.136.2 (source) into unstable (Nilesh Patra)
  • [2026-05-31] lintian 2.136.1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2026-05-25] Accepted lintian 2.136.1 (source) into unstable (Nilesh Patra)
  • [2026-05-24] Accepted lintian 2.136.0 (source) into unstable (Nilesh Patra)
  • [2026-05-02] lintian 2.135.0 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2026-04-27] Accepted lintian 2.135.0 (source) into unstable (Nilesh Patra)
  • [2026-04-13] lintian 2.134.0 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2026-04-07] Accepted lintian 2.134.0 (source) into unstable (Nilesh Patra)
  • [2026-04-03] Accepted lintian 2.133.0 (source) into unstable (Louis-Philippe Véronneau)
  • [2026-03-27] lintian 2.132.1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2026-03-22] Accepted lintian 2.132.1 (source) into unstable (Louis-Philippe Véronneau)
  • [2026-03-21] Accepted lintian 2.132.0 (source) into unstable (Louis-Philippe Véronneau)
  • [2026-03-13] lintian 2.131.0 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2026-03-07] Accepted lintian 2.131.0 (source) into unstable (Nilesh Patra)
  • [2026-03-04] lintian 2.130.1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2026-02-26] Accepted lintian 2.130.1 (source) into unstable (Nilesh Patra)
  • [2026-02-22] Accepted lintian 2.130.0 (source) into unstable (Louis-Philippe Véronneau)
  • [2026-02-08] lintian 2.129.0 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2026-02-03] Accepted lintian 2.129.0 (source) into unstable (Louis-Philippe Véronneau)
  • [2026-01-07] lintian 2.128.1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2026-01-02] Accepted lintian 2.128.1 (source) into unstable (Louis-Philippe Véronneau)
  • [2025-12-31] Accepted lintian 2.128.0 (source) into unstable (Louis-Philippe Véronneau)
  • [2025-10-22] lintian 2.127.0 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2025-10-16] Accepted lintian 2.127.0 (source) into unstable (Louis-Philippe Véronneau)
  • [2025-09-25] lintian 2.126.0 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
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bugs [bug history graph]
  • all: 497 508
  • RC: 0
  • I&N: 199 205
  • M&W: 293 298
  • F&P: 5
  • patch: 12
  • help: 3
  • NC: 1
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