-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 22:47:44 -0700 Source: lintian Binary: lintian Architecture: source all Version: 2.2.14 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian Lintian Maintainers <lintian-maint@debian.org> Changed-By: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Description: lintian - Debian package checker Closes: 469018 492626 534942 536397 536404 536405 537207 537606 537607 537608 537969 538055 538929 540348 540425 541119 541143 541144 Changes: lintian (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=low . The "Policy 3.8.3" release. . * Summary of tag changes: + Added: - debhelper-overrides-need-versioned-build-depends - maintainer-script-modifies-ld-so-conf - missing-dependency-on-install-info - multiple-distributions-in-changes-file - patch-system-but-no-source-readme - package-modifies-ld.so-search-path - possible-documentation-but-no-doc-base-registration + Removed: - file-in-usr-something-x11-without-pre-depends + Renamed: - build-depends-on-x-metapackage => build-depends-on-metapackage - depends-on-x-metapackage => depends-on-metapackage . * checks/changelog-file.desc: + [RA] Document the "Old Changelog" way of marking historic changelog entries that shouldn't be syntax-checked in the long description for syntax-error-in-debian-changelog. (Closes: #541119) * checks/debconf: + [CW] Permit Help: in .templates files, which is supported as of cdebconf 0.143 and used in the installer. * checks/debhelper{,.desc}: + [CW] Check for the use of debhelper override targets, which require debhelper 7.0.50. + [RA] Don't warn about recently deprecated debhelper commands in possibly optional portions of debian/rules. (Closes: #537607) + [RA] Don't warn about missing build dependencies for commands in possibly optional portions of debian/rules. (Closes: #537608) * checks/description: + [RA] Decode descriptions from UTF-8 before checking length. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #537207) + [RA] Avoid duplicated word false positives from words that contain punctuation. Thanks, Nelson A. de Oliveira. (Closes: #540348) * checks/fields{,.desc}: + [FL] packages named lib*-camlp4-dev should be in section ocaml + [RA] Move debian/rules parsing to check build dependencies to checks/rules. + [RA] Allow any package to be in section oldlibs without triggering warnings. Thanks, Rene Engelhard. (Closes: #537606) + [RA] Lower wrong-section-according-to-package-name to possible. + [RA] Recognize packages as metapackages even if they contain Lintian overrides, thus fixing two packages that added a Lintian override for having dependencies only permitted for metapackages, which in turn ensures that they keep getting that tag. + [RA] Recognize packages as metapackages even if they contain files in /usr/share/cdd. + [RA] Renamed the tags for depending or build-depending on X metapackages to make them generic and load the list of metapackages from data/fields/metapackages. Always consider known metapackages to be metapackages for the dependency check. + [RA] Don't require a tilde after lp: in bzr URLs. Thanks, Benjamin Drung. (Closes: #541143) + [RA] Fix spelling of xfonts-encodings in the xfont dependency exception. (Closes: #540425) + [RA] Allow :ext: CVS repository references if the username looks like it won't require autentication. Thanks, Thorsten Glaser. * checks/files{,.desc}: + [CW] /var/lock and /var/run are not temporary filesystems in d-i, so don't emit errors about their use in udebs. + [RA] Warn about packages containing files in /etc/ld.so.conf.d that don't appear to be part of libc. Policy 3.8.3 no longer permits modification of ld.so.conf. + [RA] Remove the check for x11-common pre-depends before installing files in /usr/{include,lib}/X11. Policy 3.8.3 removes this requirement. * checks/infofiles{,.desc}: + [RA] Add missing leading * to example info directory entry. + [RA] Check that packages with info files depend on dpkg or install-info as recommended by Policy 5.8.3. * checks/lintian.desc: + [RA] Expand multiple-distributions-in-changes-file description and add a reference to the Policy section. Change certainty to possible, since this may be fine for non-Debian uploads. * checks/menus{,.desc}: + [RA] Add info-level tag for packages with apparent HTML or PDF documentation in /usr/share/doc but no doc-base registration. Based on a patch from Raphael Geissert. (Closes: #469018) * checks/patch-systems{,.desc}: + [RA] Check for a patch system in use but no debian/README.source. Based on a patch from Jonathan Yu. (Closes: #537969) * checks/po-debconf: + [CW] Don't emit not-using-po-debconf if all templates are marked "for internal use". (Closes: #492626) * checks/rules{,.desc}: + [RA] Moved checking of build dependencies based on programs invoked in debian/rules from checks/fields to here. + [RA] Expand Lintian's understanding of which targets are run for the clean target to include targets invoked via pattern variable expansion. (Closes: #536405) + [RA] Make the handling of make variables as rule names more robust and avoid generating invalid regexes. + [RA] Packages including /usr/share/mozilla-devscripts makefile fragments in debian/rules must Build-Depend on mozilla-devscripts. Thanks, Benjamin Drung. (Closes: #541144) * checks/scripts: + [RA] Fix parsing of dpkg-divert commands diverting a file ending in a number, followed by a redirection. Thanks, Andreas Beckmann. (Closes: #534942) + [RA] Warn about maintainter scripts that modify /etc/ld.so.conf. Policy 3.8.3 no longer permits this. + [RA] Avoid command-with-path-in-maintainer-script false positives with backtick expressions as arguments to commands. Thanks, Stefan Fritsch. (Closes: #536397) * checks/watch-file: + [RA] Fix false positives in debian-watch-file-should-mangle-version when an upstream version is specified in the watch file and give the line number of mangling issues. Patch from Raphael Geissert. (Closes: #536404) . * data/debhelper/*: + [ADB] Refresh against unstable. * data/fields/architectures: + [RA] Refresh architecture list against dpkg 1.15.3.1, adding avr32 and kopensolaris. (Closes: #538055) * data/fields/metapackages: + [RA] New file listing known metapackages that should not be used in Depends or Build-Depends. + [RA] Add mono-complete. (Closes: #538929) * data/fields/virtual-packages: + [ADB] Refresh against unstable. * data/files/fonts: + [ADB] Refresh against unstable. * data/standards-version/release-dates: + [RA] Add the release date for Policy 3.8.3. . * debian/control: + [RA] Update standards version to 3.8.3 (no changes required). . * frontend/lintian: + [RA] Enable multiple-distributions-in-changes-file now that Policy documents that this does not work with the Debian archive. * frontend/lintian-info: + [ADB] Correctly parse Lintian output for pedantic tags. Thanks, James Vega. . * lib/Spelling.pm: + [RA] Add spelling correction for precedence. . * reporting/html_reports: + [JP] Accumulate tag-specific statistics in a new variable, and pass it to the appropriate templates. * reporting/templates/tags{,-severity}.tmpl: + [JP] Remove duplicate code to calculate tag statistics. . * t/runtests: + [RA] Update standards version to 3.8.3. 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