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general

source: lintian (main)
version: 2.131.0
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: 4.7.3
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: 2.131.0
unstable: 2.131.0

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]
2.131.0: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]

binaries

lintian (505 bugs: 0, 209, 296, 0)
lintian-doc

action needed

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: 2026-03-13 22:00

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: 2026-03-13 22:00

Fails to build during reproducibility testing normal

A package building reproducibly enables third parties to verify that the source matches the distributed binaries. It has been identified that this source package produced different results, failed to build or had other issues in a test environment. Please read about how to improve the situation!

Created: 2026-03-12 Last update: 2026-03-13 20:33

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: 2026-03-13 19:30

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 2.131.1, distribution unstable) and new commits in its VCS. You should consider whether it's time to make an upload.

Here are the relevant commit messages:

commit 68982d9f58e298039c9d580d415b888314ba0ba4
Author: Bas Couwenberg <sebastic@xs4all.nl>
Date:   Mon Mar 9 13:38:24 2026 +0100

    Java 25 is default since java-common (0.77).
    
    openjdk-26 is also available in unstable, and openjdk-27 in experimental.

commit a38a20b343661f30ee08107c9ebf34daab681401
Author: Nilesh Patra <nilesh@debian.org>
Date:   Sat Mar 7 20:21:13 2026 +0530

    bootstrap new release

Created: 2024-07-31 Last update: 2026-03-09 17:19

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: 2026-03-07 15:00

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

news

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[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)
[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)

bugs [bug history graph]

all: 510 523
RC: 0
I&N: 206 213
M&W: 293 298
F&P: 11 12
patch: 12 13
help: 2
NC: 1

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version: 2.127.0ubuntu1
17 bugs