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  • source: lintian (main)
  • version: 2.134.0
  • 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: 2.134.0
  • unstable: 2.134.0
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]
  • 2.134.0: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
binaries
  • lintian (490 bugs: 0, 195, 295, 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: 2026-04-23 08:00
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: 2026-04-06 Last update: 2026-04-23 08:00
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: 2026-04-23 05:30
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 2.134.1, 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 eef45f42db0d31c5b3e366313b9878bbda327261
Author: Nilesh Patra <nilesh@debian.org>
Date:   Mon Apr 20 10:18:12 2026 +0530

    Set Dh-compat to 12 in "debhelper-dh-exec-useless" to fix the test

commit b05066a0cff176262e638a5f65bd0c1d2bd07e00
Author: Nilesh Patra <nilesh@debian.org>
Date:   Mon Apr 20 07:06:46 2026 +0530

    Do not mark substitution as feature of dh-exec for dh level >= 13
    
    As mentioned in https://manpages.debian.org/testing/debhelper/dh_install.1.en.html#debian/
    dh_install supports subst variables starting from debhelper compat 13.
    
    The dhe_subst variable is used for checking if we are using dh-exec features and can be used
    to drop dh-exec usage if none of its features are useful. Given that dh_install supports
    substitution, "dh-exec-script-without-dh-exec-features" should be emitted if dh-exec is used
    for purely substitution.

commit 2ca060bfe12b4103aca63a8513f10ae84d8a037e
Author: Nilesh Patra <nilesh@debian.org>
Date:   Wed Apr 15 16:14:26 2026 +0530

    Add another test to check when dh-exec is used un-necessarily

commit 4657604068aca77e3452735f56be07c699362f21
Author: Nilesh Patra <nilesh@debian.org>
Date:   Wed Apr 15 16:00:38 2026 +0530

    Adjust himts for "debhelper-dh-exec" test

commit 0c69f6f8ed064efd6bbd80c18b63f96c30689f6c
Author: Nilesh Patra <nilesh@debian.org>
Date:   Wed Apr 15 15:46:47 2026 +0530

    Emit dh-exec-useless-usage only when none of the lines needs dh-exec (Closes: #969973)

commit 1b749bfe71407b2b47c3036dbf6df115ae7a3ae0
Author: Nilesh Patra <nilesh@debian.org>
Date:   Mon Apr 13 23:40:00 2026 +0530

    bin-sbin-match: use better regex to avoid false positives with word boundary (Closes: #1017632)

commit 7873ef1091771311a37853fd20e7bf8857d0787e
Author: Nilesh Patra <nilesh@debian.org>
Date:   Sun Apr 12 19:02:02 2026 +0530

    Fix (usrmerge) F-P in bin-sbin-confusion-in-script test

commit 58147700d13c98e738c5af8cbc94fb8e11a59cee
Author: Nilesh Patra <nilesh@debian.org>
Date:   Sun Apr 12 18:48:46 2026 +0530

    Ignore usr-merged location for bin-sbin-mismatch check (Closes: #1079020)

commit e52ece2fd399bc9eb4100c17babdbb07f54db583
Author: Nilesh Patra <nilesh@debian.org>
Date:   Sun Apr 12 11:56:40 2026 +0530

    Add test for debputy sequencer plugin and test it against debhelper-but-no-misc-depends

commit fdb8e79915e6bca04bb56dcb919758acf8caf748
Author: Nilesh Patra <nilesh@debian.org>
Date:   Sun Apr 12 11:56:21 2026 +0530

    Update package-uses-x-dh-compat test to use dh-14 and test against debhelper-but-no-misc-depends

commit acdc0c4e54ca473df82cb49a97989df3ab8677df
Author: Nilesh Patra <nilesh@debian.org>
Date:   Sun Apr 12 11:55:58 2026 +0530

    Do not trigger misc-depends missing tags for dh compat 14+ and when debputy sequencers are in B-D (Closes: #1067653)

commit 1f1bbe1524122d2dab2594c8feeb2db9084fbac7
Author: Nilesh Patra <nilesh@debian.org>
Date:   Sun Apr 12 00:45:36 2026 +0530

    Add support for X-DH-Compat field as replacement for d/compat (Closes: #1072741)

commit 3947ebe517594d3e5fa1abdb8f2c046dc09ac5a8
Author: Nilesh Patra <nilesh@debian.org>
Date:   Sat Apr 11 18:25:43 2026 +0530

    Add initial support for parsing Build-Driver; add corresponding test to detect the same (Closes: #1077938)

commit ddfd2315ff11cd1789e3ecd5279bb23ccc951312
Author: Nilesh Patra <nilesh@debian.org>
Date:   Sat Apr 11 17:06:53 2026 +0530

    Drop un-needed tags: "build-depends-on-python-sphinx-only" and "alternatively-build-depends-on-python-sphinx-and-python3-sphinx" as python2 has been long removed (Closes: #1133273)

commit 5a26f2267b8c52e5862c8d01b90859b78aa2cd66
Author: Nilesh Patra <nilesh@debian.org>
Date:   Thu Apr 9 23:14:02 2026 +0530

    Do not print line number for "spelling-error-in-binary" check
    
    It seems to print line number sometimes for binaries, which does not
    make much sense nor is it useful. This comes off the output of
    `strings`.
    
    At the moment, as per [1], there are 14 packages that have this
    overridden with ":<number>" which will go lintian un-clean for this tag.
    That does not look a very high number.
    
    OTOH, the number of non-overridden ":<number>" tags is very high, as can
    be seen at [2] (search with "so:"). Hence it probably makes sense to fix
    this before other packages adopt this scheme.
    
    [1]: https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=spelling-error-in-binary.*%3A+path%3Adebian%2F.*lintian-overrides&literal=0&perpkg=1&page=2
    [2]: https://udd.debian.org/lintian-tag/spelling-error-in-binary?affected=yes

commit b4310b6097a16553559519102d0e0c0220062812
Author: William Desportes <williamdes@wdes.fr>
Date:   Thu Apr 9 18:02:31 2026 +0200

    Fix regexes to catch embedded-php-library

commit 43996f24465f98e8fa3537b0e22c0417e4f7f73e
Author: Nilesh Patra <nilesh@debian.org>
Date:   Thu Apr 9 07:06:17 2026 +0530

    Add test for "uses-deprecated-adttmp" check

commit 13f31a0b85f429b8f943077b2661b0283421b3c0
Author: Nilesh Patra <nilesh@debian.org>
Date:   Thu Apr 9 08:48:52 2026 +0530

    New (warning) tag: version-refers-to-unstable-distribution-with-exp-version (Closes: #1064637)

commit a8a755abcafae166dcb553c1796815be84f4c128
Author: Nilesh Patra <nilesh@debian.org>
Date:   Wed Apr 8 09:59:58 2026 +0530

    Do not emit syntax-error-in-debian-changelog when changelog entry is a BinNMU (Closes: #1031378)

commit 216573872715f3e3e31d8e2bdd26462794c1a6ff
Author: Nilesh Patra <nilesh@debian.org>
Date:   Wed Apr 8 00:36:52 2026 +0530

    bootstrap new release
Created: 2024-07-31 Last update: 2026-04-20 08:02
5 open merge requests in Salsa normal
There are 5 open merge requests for this package on Salsa. You should consider reviewing and/or merging these merge requests.
Created: 2025-09-16 Last update: 2026-04-20 03:33
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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  • [2026-04-13] 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)
  • [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)
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bugs [bug history graph]
  • all: 495 508
  • RC: 0
  • I&N: 192 199
  • M&W: 292 297
  • F&P: 11 12
  • patch: 12 13
  • help: 2
  • NC: 1
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