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  • source: lintian (main)
  • version: 2.130.0
  • maintainer: Debian Lintian Maintainers (DMD)
  • uploaders: Nilesh Patra [DMD] – Bastien Roucariès [DMD] – Louis-Philippe Véronneau [DMD] – Maytham Alsudany [DMD] – Axel Beckert [DMD]
  • arch: all
  • std-ver: 4.7.3
  • 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: 2.129.0
  • unstable: 2.130.0
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]
  • 2.129.0: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
  • 2.130.0: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
binaries
  • lintian (504 bugs: 0, 208, 296, 0)
  • lintian-doc
action needed
Debci reports failed tests high
  • unstable: pass (log)
    The tests ran in 0:15:09
    Last run: 2026-02-23T06:42:24.000Z
    Previous status: unknown

  • testing: fail (log)
    The tests ran in 0:15:03
    Last run: 2026-02-19T21:00:50.000Z
    Previous status: unknown

  • stable: pass (log)
    The tests ran in 0:09:54
    Last run: 2025-11-08T23:31:11.000Z
    Previous status: unknown

Created: 2026-02-19 Last update: 2026-02-23 10:02
Depends on packages which need a new maintainer normal
The packages that lintian depends on which need a new maintainer are:
  • cdbs (#1026085)
    • Build-Depends: cdbs
  • intltool-debian (#774187)
    • Depends: intltool-debian
Created: 2019-11-22 Last update: 2026-02-23 11:02
2 bugs tagged help in the BTS normal
The BTS contains 2 bugs tagged help, please consider helping the maintainer in dealing with them.
Created: 2019-03-21 Last update: 2026-02-23 11:00
12 bugs tagged patch in the BTS normal
The BTS contains patches fixing 12 bugs (13 if counting merged bugs), consider including or untagging them.
Created: 2025-01-06 Last update: 2026-02-23 11:00
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 2.130.1, 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 3549534894615ce246df04fa16400d79740430f7
Author: Louis-Philippe Véronneau <pollo@debian.org>
Date:   Sun Feb 22 14:43:26 2026 -0500

    bootstrap new release

commit a8bc654476194e7652e302bd793b03e1ed347bca
Author: Louis-Philippe Véronneau <pollo@debian.org>
Date:   Sun Feb 22 14:42:42 2026 -0500

    releasing package lintian version 2.130.0

commit 1a60f09ccc56b223520a6a4d551fa5f7d47b3270
Author: Louis-Philippe Véronneau <pollo@debian.org>
Date:   Sun Feb 22 14:14:50 2026 -0500

    d/salsa-ci: remove backports, as they are broken for Trixie and thus not useful

commit f38f655d7387e5d47da6b69f13c73555815bc4ec
Author: Nilesh Patra <nilesh@debian.org>
Date:   Tue Feb 17 21:26:49 2026 +0530

    Stop loading appstream yaml and rely on regex to check if validation passed (Closes: #1128262)
    
    The yaml that is loaded off appstream validation output is un-used.
    Furthermore, lintian dies if the yaml is not parsed correctly. This
    seems like an un-necessary operation and just checking for proper
    appstream validation should be enough.

commit dce10050acc9a63cd885bba44a0668e175900801
Author: Nilesh Patra <nilesh@debian.org>
Date:   Tue Feb 17 21:12:49 2026 +0530

    Do not raise lintian error for missing targets when .DEFAULT is specified (Closes: #983539)
    
    .DEFAULT is an alias could be treated as an alias for "%". This is a
    rule that runs when no other rules apply.

commit 3d7e0b374639633883bbf0057a119ebb3984e481
Author: Nilesh Patra <nilesh@debian.org>
Date:   Thu Feb 19 03:10:05 2026 +0530

    Add additional d/ch entry in changelog-file-invalid-date as a workaround for #1128372

commit 37449c033e37ec309c913b97ba28ea851b08ac33
Author: Nilesh Patra <nilesh@debian.org>
Date:   Thu Feb 19 00:23:05 2026 +0530

    Check double quotes as well for appstream metadata check
    
    The output comes up like the following with new libfyaml 0.9.4-1
    ---
    {
      "File": "appstream-metadata.metadata.xml",
      "Validator": "1.1.2",
      "Issues": [
        {
          "tag": "developer-info-missing",
          "severity": "info",
          "component": "org.debian.lintian.check.appstream.udev",
          "explanation": "This component contains no `developer` element with information about its auth\
            or."
        },
        {
          "tag": "metainfo-filename-cid-mismatch",
          "severity": "warning",
          "component": "org.debian.lintian.check.appstream.udev",
          "explanation": "The metainfo filename does not match the component ID."
        }
      ],
      "Passed": "no"
    }
    
    It was earlier working with single quotes instead.

commit 430441c8683f0117f5fb239bb27796e4f3e70233
Author: Nilesh Patra <nilesh@debian.org>
Date:   Tue Feb 17 20:39:27 2026 +0530

    Reword a few lines varies-content-with-nocheck.tag

commit f203166b2d3cacee2f57635df10256030885cf8c
Author: Maytham Alsudany <maytha8thedev@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed Jan 22 16:39:52 2025 +0800

    Check for obsolete packages in debian/tests/control
    
    This commit adds an obsolete package check for testsuite dependencies to
    the testsuite check, using the same logic as the normal obsolete package
    check. This also introduces two new tags to distinguish obsolete
    testsuite dependencies.
    
    Closes: #1091166

commit 861d1d7cd5cef2d86d3537b9ff67ea2e721ceaba
Author: Nilesh Patra <nilesh@riseup.net>
Date:   Thu Feb 5 21:10:47 2026 +0530

    Add check to flag !nocheck in Build-Profiles with error (Closes: #1126934)

commit 99613c9523d55bf75b410639bf8d4b7e637b544d
Author: Nilesh Patra <nilesh@riseup.net>
Date:   Wed Feb 4 00:27:07 2026 +0530

    Add tests to detect buildsystem with cdbs along with/without debhelper

commit 5da98cc29356be4dab18f6b7d7036313cec85d3e
Author: Nilesh Patra <nilesh@riseup.net>
Date:   Thu Feb 5 21:21:34 2026 +0530

    Drop lintian-git test from d/salsa-ci.yml (Closes: #1127003)
    
    The default autopkgtest also achieves the exact same result and it
    is not fruitful to have another lintian-git with the same set of checks.
    
    See https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/merge_requests/512 for
    more info.

commit 3d82855079667383d8db82283ff72612deda1efc
Author: Christian Göttsche <cgzones@googlemail.com>
Date:   Tue Feb 3 08:44:49 2026 +0000

    obsolete-packages: add libselinux1-dev
    
    Renamed in src:libselinux 3.9-3, see
    https://tracker.debian.org/news/1691680/accepted-libselinux-39-3-source-amd64-into-unstable/

commit 9110fc5f8bb525e8787c05833151ab415a7e1509
Author: Louis-Philippe Véronneau <pollo@debian.org>
Date:   Mon Feb 2 23:53:43 2026 -0500

    Rename tag package-does-not-use-debhelper-or-cdbs to package-does-not-use-debhelper
    
    Closes: #1125329

commit 08f18110ecc0bbee14656749509f9ad2cfdf2509
Author: Louis-Philippe Véronneau <pollo@debian.org>
Date:   Mon Feb 2 22:51:54 2026 -0500

    bootstrap new release
Created: 2024-07-31 Last update: 2026-02-23 03:32
6 open merge requests in Salsa normal
There are 6 open merge requests for this package on Salsa. You should consider reviewing and/or merging these merge requests.
Created: 2025-09-16 Last update: 2026-02-22 20:02
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 (2.129.0 to 2.130.0): Waiting for test results or another package, or too young (no action required now - check later)
    • Issues preventing migration:
    • ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for gdebi/0.9.5.8: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, i386: Pass, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: Pass, s390x: Test triggered
    • ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for libconfig-model-dpkg-perl/3.017: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, i386: Pass, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: Pass, s390x: Test triggered
    • ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for lintian/2.130.0: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, i386: Test triggered (will not be considered a regression) ♻ (reference ♻), ppc64el: Test triggered (will not be considered a regression) ♻ (reference ♻), riscv64: Test triggered (failure will be ignored), s390x: Test triggered (will not be considered a regression) ♻ (reference ♻)
    • ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for pkg-perl-tools/0.85: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, i386: Pass, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: Pass, s390x: Test triggered
    • ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for reprotest/0.7.32: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, i386: Pass, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: Pass, s390x: Test triggered
    • ∙ ∙ Too young, only 0 of 5 days old
    • Additional info (not blocking):
    • ∙ ∙ Updating lintian will fix bugs in testing: #1128669
    • ∙ ∙ Piuparts tested OK - https://piuparts.debian.org/sid/source/l/lintian.html
    • ∙ ∙ Reproducibility check waiting for results on amd64
    • ∙ ∙ Reproducibility check waiting for results on arm64
    • ∙ ∙ Reproducibility check waiting for results on armhf
    • ∙ ∙ Reproducibility check waiting for results on i386
    • ∙ ∙ Reproducibility check waiting for results on ppc64el
    • Not considered
news
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  • [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)
  • [2025-09-18] Accepted lintian 2.126.0 (source) into unstable (Louis-Philippe Véronneau)
  • [2025-09-16] Accepted lintian 2.125.0 (source) into unstable (Louis-Philippe Véronneau)
  • [2025-09-14] lintian 2.124.0 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2025-09-08] Accepted lintian 2.124.0 (source) into unstable (Louis-Philippe Véronneau)
  • [2025-08-31] lintian 2.123.0 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2025-08-26] Accepted lintian 2.123.0 (source) into unstable (Louis-Philippe Véronneau)
  • [2025-07-28] Accepted lintian 2.116.3+deb12u1 (source) into proposed-updates (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Adrian Bunk)
  • [2025-04-03] lintian 2.122.0 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2025-03-28] Accepted lintian 2.122.0 (source) into unstable (Louis-Philippe Véronneau)
  • [2025-03-19] Accepted lintian 2.121.2 (source) into unstable (Louis-Philippe Véronneau)
  • [2025-02-26] lintian 2.121.1+nmu1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2025-02-21] Accepted lintian 2.121.1+nmu1 (source) into unstable (Niels Thykier)
  • [2024-12-12] lintian 2.121.1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2024-12-07] Accepted lintian 2.121.1 (source) into unstable (Louis-Philippe Véronneau)
  • [2024-12-05] Accepted lintian 2.121.0 (source all) into unstable (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Louis-Philippe Véronneau)
  • [2024-11-08] lintian 2.120.0 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2024-11-02] Accepted lintian 2.120.0 (source) into unstable (Louis-Philippe Véronneau)
  • [2024-10-05] lintian 2.119.0 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2024-09-29] Accepted lintian 2.119.0 (source) into unstable (Louis-Philippe Véronneau)
  • [2024-09-16] lintian 2.118.2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2024-09-11] Accepted lintian 2.118.2 (source) into unstable (Louis-Philippe Véronneau)
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bugs [bug history graph]
  • all: 509 522
  • RC: 0
  • I&N: 205 212
  • M&W: 293 298
  • F&P: 11 12
  • patch: 12 13
  • help: 2
  • NC: 1
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