commit b98d9bd171efc724c3494692f6422bf36290bdaa
Author: Louis-Philippe Véronneau <pollo@debian.org>
Date: Sat Mar 28 16:13:17 2026 -0400
Remove Experimental tag portable-executable-missing-security-features
last updated: 2019-02
499 entries in UDD
This tag's description is horrendously confusing and includes a whole
section marked as "The following advice is historical. PLEASE DO NOT
FOLLOW IT."
commit 851008c15c0b431b0f8fbcbae8fdf29789db7c6b
Author: Louis-Philippe Véronneau <pollo@debian.org>
Date: Sat Mar 28 16:06:00 2026 -0400
Remove Experimental tag duplicate-files
last updated: 2019-10
117,663 entries in UDD
This tag has been Experimental since 2011 and asks maintainers to do
very complex work (hunting and replacing "duplicate" files by symlinks)
for very little results.
This feels like busywork.
commit 087170dc4d217d28482ae8bd3ba98c4b72c35065
Author: Louis-Philippe Véronneau <pollo@debian.org>
Date: Sat Mar 28 15:57:37 2026 -0400
Remove Experimental tag exit-in-shared-library
last updated: 2021-11
33,020 entries in UDD
The tag's description acknowledges that "In most cases, removing the
call should be discussed with upstream, particularly as it may produce
an ABI change".
Considering the number of packages where it is trigger, the work
necessary to make this change upstream and the perceived benefits, this feels
like we're asking too much of the Debian maintainers.
commit 63a6bbdf9fedcd367c458a71d5c3f5c53c82c0b4
Author: Louis-Philippe Véronneau <pollo@debian.org>
Date: Sat Mar 28 15:54:23 2026 -0400
Remove Experimental tag update-debian-copyright
last updated: 2022-12
22,597 entries in UDD
This tag was changed to Experimental: yes in 2022 after a lot of people
complained about it.
There is no need to update copyright years, as copyright is granted
automatically. As such, this promotes unnecessary busywork.
commit 3d87ad16c7ae3146293af8a2156691cca7e6925c
Author: Louis-Philippe Véronneau <pollo@debian.org>
Date: Sat Mar 28 15:47:17 2026 -0400
Remove Experimental tag large-file-support/binaries-missing-lfs
last updated: 2019-09
25,628 entries in UDD
To comply with this tag, the description mentions "[upstream] code
review might be needed".
Considering the number of packages flagged and the difficulty of the
task, I feel this is outside of the scope of what a lintian tag should
recommend.
commit 5a2f8d13a60c0166cc4d6d9cc387a12060837251
Author: Louis-Philippe Véronneau <pollo@debian.org>
Date: Sat Mar 28 15:39:27 2026 -0400
Remove Experimental tag systemd-service-file-missing-hardening-features
last updated: 2018-12
6,458 entries in UDD
This check only looks if the systemd service file includes at least 1
feature in a long list of "hardening" features. This is an overly
simplistic solution to a very hard problem.
commit 7a33d04ae364fc9cae0b8b00d1111c307b4e8cbd
Author: Louis-Philippe Véronneau <pollo@debian.org>
Date: Sat Mar 28 15:34:46 2026 -0400
Remove Experimental tag mentions-deprecated-usr-lib-perl5-directory
last updated: 2018-08
The logic behind this tag seems dubious.The 9 entries in UDD all seem
like false-positives.
commit adf11d79ed2123acf9813e8451ca1a2712d78371
Author: Louis-Philippe Véronneau <pollo@debian.org>
Date: Sat Mar 28 15:31:11 2026 -0400
Remove Experimental tag prefer-uscan-symlink
last updated: 2021-11
14,294 entries in UDD
This tag asks individual users to change their ~/.devscripts
configuration file instead of using the filenamemangle option in
debian/watch.
Individual config change shoud not be the solution to collective
problems.
commit 005ea1cc8f2d5f3ab117ef6521e4ac97fe625c50
Author: Louis-Philippe Véronneau <pollo@debian.org>
Date: Sat Mar 28 15:26:30 2026 -0400
Remove Experimental tag dependency-on-python-version-marked-for-end-of-life
0 entries in UDD
Python 2 has been removed from the archive a while ago and isn't coming
back.
commit 658343c76a6a80717509dcb99deaec625e878ca7
Author: Louis-Philippe Véronneau <pollo@debian.org>
Date: Sat Mar 28 15:24:10 2026 -0400
Remove Experimental tag application-in-library-section
9,847 entries in UDD
The logic behind this check is flawed, as proven by the large number of
false-positives from the Python and Ruby sections. For certain
languages, the difference between "applications" and "libraries" is
often arbitrary.
commit c93903690b9e172f2affd1c6af72dfa83b2a1717
Author: Louis-Philippe Véronneau <pollo@debian.org>
Date: Sat Mar 28 15:21:39 2026 -0400
Remove Experimental tag library-package-name-for-application
7,769 entries in UDD
The logic behind this check is flawed, as proven by the large number of
false-positives from the Python and Ruby sections. For certain
languages, the difference between "applications" and "libraries" is
often arbitrary.
commit 65217eda346b9983d974da17629ac2ed9ce69fa8
Author: Louis-Philippe Véronneau <pollo@debian.org>
Date: Sat Mar 28 15:18:29 2026 -0400
Remove Experimental tag maybe-not-arch-all-binnmuable
last updated: pre-2020
1,215 entries in UDD
This tag looks like it was a real "experiment" to verify something in
the archive. From discussing it on IRC, I think the experiment is now
over.
commit cb6f67e7699eb660ae9bc621c60f39bc9573f565
Author: Louis-Philippe Véronneau <pollo@debian.org>
Date: Fri Apr 3 16:34:35 2026 -0400
bootstrap new release
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.
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