lintian - Debian Package Tracker

general

source: lintian (main)
version: 2.140.1
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: 2.139.0
unstable: 2.140.1

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

binaries

lintian (486 bugs: 0, 192, 294, 0)
lintian-doc

action needed

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 2.141.1, 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 5feec2d6e4f1998039342b9fed046c03a5ad73fd
Author: Louis-Philippe Véronneau <pollo@debian.org>
Date:   Sat Sep 12 14:24:13 2026 -0400

    Update old and ancient Python versions and simplify tags' code
    
    old == stable
    ancient == oldstable
    
    Python2 is no more, so we don't need to jump through as many hoops.

commit b4c45addf48d035973d76292595910c98bb0cde8
Author: Louis-Philippe Véronneau <pollo@debian.org>
Date:   Sat Sep 12 13:27:04 2026 -0400

    bootstrap new release

https://salsa.debian.org/api/v4/projects/lintian%2Flintian API request failed: 401 Unauthorized at /srv/qa.debian.org/data/vcswatch/vcswatch line 410.

Created: 2024-07-31 Last update: 2026-09-12 22:32

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: 2026-09-12 22:00

11 bugs tagged patch in the BTS normal

The BTS contains patches fixing 11 bugs, consider including or untagging them.

Created: 2026-09-02 Last update: 2026-09-12 22:00

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: 2026-09-12 20:00

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

testing migrations

excuses:
- Migration status for lintian (2.139.0 to 2.141.0): Waiting for test results or another package, or too young (no action required now - check later)
- Issues preventing migration:
- ∙ ∙ Piuparts check waiting for test results - https://piuparts.debian.org/sid/source/l/lintian.html
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for gdebi: amd64: Test triggered, arm64: Test triggered, armhf: Test triggered, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: Test triggered
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for libconfig-model-dpkg-perl: amd64: Test triggered, arm64: Test triggered, armhf: Test triggered, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: Test triggered
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for lintian: amd64: Test triggered, arm64: Test triggered, armhf: Test triggered, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: Test triggered (failure will be ignored)
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for pkg-perl-tools: amd64: Test triggered, arm64: Test triggered, armhf: Test triggered, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Test triggered, riscv64: Test triggered
- ∙ ∙ Lintian check waiting for test results - info
- ∙ ∙ Reproducibility check waiting for results on amd64 - info
- ∙ ∙ Reproducibility check waiting for results on arm64 - info
- ∙ ∙ Reproducibility check waiting for results on armhf - info
- ∙ ∙ Reproducibility check waiting for results on i386 - info
- ∙ ∙ Too young, only 0 of 5 days old
- Additional info (not blocking):
- ∙ ∙ Updating lintian will fix bugs in testing: #1146226
- Not considered

news

[rss feed]

[2026-09-12] Accepted lintian 2.141.0 (source) into unstable (Louis-Philippe Véronneau)
[2026-09-09] Accepted lintian 2.140.1 (source) into unstable (Louis-Philippe Véronneau)
[2026-09-04] Accepted lintian 2.140.0 (source) into unstable (Louis-Philippe Véronneau)
[2026-08-09] lintian 2.139.0 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2026-08-04] Accepted lintian 2.139.0 (source) into unstable (Louis-Philippe Véronneau)
[2026-07-17] lintian 2.138.0 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[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)

bugs [bug history graph]

all: 484 495
RC: 0
I&N: 189 195
M&W: 292 297
F&P: 3
patch: 11
help: 2
NC: 1

links

homepage
lintian
buildd: logs, reproducibility
popcon
browse source code
other distros
security tracker
l10n (-, 54)
debci

ubuntu

[Information about Ubuntu for Debian Developers]

version: 2.139.0ubuntu1
17 bugs
patches for 2.139.0ubuntu1