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source: lintian (main)
version: 2.141.0
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: 4.7.4
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: 2.141.0
unstable: 2.141.0

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

binaries

lintian (487 bugs: 0, 193, 294, 0)
lintian-doc

action needed

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: 2026-10-03 17:30

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: 2026-10-03 16:30

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: 2026-10-03 16:30

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 2.141.1, 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 78703e91687ba9fece1c21d17fda9a2cd4f29291
Author: Nilesh Patra <nilesh@debian.org>
Date:   Sun Sep 27 11:25:45 2026 +0530

    tests(rules-override-dh-foo-does-not-call-dh-foo-unrel): Check for `$(DH_OVERRIDDEN_COMMAND)` as a check for #1149119

commit 4961da9bbb41eb8e9381a44d3b303692e131f49e
Author: Nilesh Patra <nilesh@debian.org>
Date:   Sun Sep 27 11:13:02 2026 +0530

    Rules.pm: Do not emit `override_dh_foo-does-not-call-dh_foo` when override targets use `$(DH_OVERRIDDEN_COMMAND)` (Closes: #1149119)

commit b628bf13811bf44011038f2e89d99132aece3a48
Author: Nilesh Patra <nilesh@debian.org>
Date:   Thu Sep 24 21:43:06 2026 +0200

    tests: Adjust python-could-use-pyproject-* with `:any` dropped

commit 79c54e843b616a0282a017bfd504f46cd0209032
Author: Nilesh Patra <nilesh@debian.org>
Date:   Thu Sep 24 21:39:25 2026 +0200

    Python.pm: Drop `:any` from the check for python modules for dependency checking in pyproject.toml
    
    None of them are marked `M-A: allowed` and `:any` simply does not make sense here.
    
    See #1148880

commit cfe4d941d33e0d7a76faca938523750984b5118f
Author: Nilesh Patra <nilesh@debian.org>
Date:   Thu Sep 24 21:33:46 2026 +0200

    Python.pm: Add python3-flit also to check for `flit_core.buildapi` (Closes: #1148880)

commit 1f8a8d92fff1136907d6a1ef8983f10dacf114eb
Author: Nilesh Patra <nilesh@debian.org>
Date:   Thu Sep 24 17:52:06 2026 +0200

    tests(golang-package-without-version-suffix): tweak test to check against #1148838

commit f6d518a88c2d96d26584df27ac149c70cc0b6243
Author: Nilesh Patra <nilesh@debian.org>
Date:   Thu Sep 24 12:24:28 2026 +0200

    Drop tag `go-source-package-does-not-include-version` and do not emit `go-library-package-does-not-include-version` with `oldlibs` as section (Closes: #1148838)

commit 9778e46adb8f01bb733d5592a047b5cb3c87f8d6
Author: Nilesh Patra <nilesh@debian.org>
Date:   Tue Sep 22 18:48:51 2026 +0200

    tags(script with missing dependencies): Mention about making script non-executable for cases where the script would not be used by the package directly (Closes: #1148716)

commit 4817fbf3c46d51af0c2236863ad12a763fd146dd
Author: Sébastien Villemot <sebastien@debian.org>
Date:   Tue Sep 22 11:11:02 2026 +0200

    arch-dep-package-has-big-usr-share: fix devref section pointer

commit 4fef631756608e87edeaac418ba5170dbe9bf4c1
Author: Soren Stoutner <soren@debian.org>
Date:   Thu Sep 17 13:43:40 2026 -0700

    Add a woff-font-in-wrong-dir tag (Closes: #1148185)

commit ddb706cec84b1991edffb7e0fce8021c6f7e797e
Author: Soren Stoutner <soren@debian.org>
Date:   Wed Sep 16 11:51:51 2026 -0700

    Bump font-in-non-font-package from severity info to warning (closes: #1148076)

commit c08b1a3f67e565cc63ceca35d6d2fdb05f3b7ad4
Author: Nilesh Patra <nilesh@debian.org>
Date:   Mon Sep 14 23:12:17 2026 +0200

    tests(systemd-complex-service-file): Adjust hints with fix for #1147715

commit bdf48bc64651fb2a621b118f883f08f010c7d920
Author: Nilesh Patra <nilesh@debian.org>
Date:   Mon Sep 14 18:21:53 2026 +0200

    Systemd.pm: Make key extraction non-greedy so it does not consume the space in key value (Closes: #1147715)

commit 94798d5ca9e7203cefb9aeb4d8a147f61eab24f3
Author: Nilesh Patra <nilesh@debian.org>
Date:   Sat Sep 12 23:09:10 2026 +0200

    Testsuite.pm: resolve d/t/control via `->child` call for special case where d/tests is a file and simplify logic

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: 2026-09-27 09:32

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

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[2026-09-18] lintian 2.141.0 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[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)

bugs [bug history graph]

all: 492 503
RC: 0
I&N: 190 196
M&W: 292 297
F&P: 10
patch: 11
help: 2
NC: 1

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version: 2.139.0ubuntu1
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