Please merge lintian 2.3.1 (main) from Debian unstable (main).

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Please merge lintian 2.3.1 (main) from Debian unstable (main).

Changelog since current lucid version 2.2.18ubuntu1:

lintian (2.3.1) unstable; urgency=low

  The "goodbye to unpack level 2" release.

  * Summary of tag changes:
    + Added:
      - init.d-script-missing-start
      - debian-news-entry-has-unknown-version
      - debian-news-entry-uses-asterisk
      - debian-news-entry-without-blank-line
      - non-native-package-with-native-version
      - udev-rule-in-etc

  * {checks,collection}/*.desc:
    + [RG] Remove Unpack-Level fields and depend on the 'unpacked'
      collection script as needed.
  * checks/binaries:
    + [RG] Recognise hppa64 binaries and ignore them on the
      binary-from-other-architecture check for hppa.
      Thanks, Matthias Klose. (Closes: #562788)
  * checks/changelog-file{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Per devref, recommend against NEWS.Debian entries formatted
      with asterisks like changelog entries.
    + [RA] Check that the most recent NEWS.Debian entry is followed by a
      blank line for apt-listchanges. Thanks, Adeodato Simó. (Addresses
      the Lintian part of #523436)
    + [RA] Warn if the version of the latest NEWS.Debian entry doesn't
      appear in the changelog. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #550594)
  * checks/control-file:
    + [RA] Fix parsing of dependencies for weak-library-dev-dependency
      when the content of Depends begins with a newline. Thanks, Julien
      Cristau. (Closes: #563370)
  * checks/cruft:
    + [RA] Fix the regex to properly ignore CMakeCache.txt in the debian
      directory. Thanks, Aaron M. Ucko. (Closes: #553264)
    + [RA] Check for a non-native package with a native version. Thanks,
      Andreas Beckmann.
  * checks/debhelper:
    + [RA] Always warn if debhelper is in use but no ${misc:Depends}
      dependency is present rather than checking which specific debhelper
      commands use it. Any debhelper command may start adding
      dependencies to ${misc:Depends} at any time. Lower the certainty to
      possible, since a missing ${misc:Depends} may not cause problems.
  * checks/fields.desc:
    + [RA] Fix spelling error in dfsg-version-with-period tag description.
      Thanks, Jakub Wilk. (Closes: #563185)
  * checks/files{,.desc}:
    + [RG] Add a missing 'it' to the description of duplicate-font-file.
    + [RG] Add detection of nusoap to the embedded PHP libraries check.
    + [RG] Check that udev rules are not installed in /etc/udev/rules.d.
      Thanks, Marco d'Itri. (Closes: #559208)
  * checks/init.d{,.desc}:
    + [RG] Bump severity of init.d-script-sourcing-without-test to serious.
    + [RG] Lower the severity of init.d-script-does-not-provide-itself
      to minor.
    + [RG] Fix a init.d-script-possible-missing-stop false positive when
      stopping on runlevels 2-5.
    + [RG] Mention 'killprocs' in init.d-script-possible-missing-stop's
      description. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #562608)
    + [RG] Warn about init scripts with incomplete start runlevels.
    + [RG] Tighten check for missing dependency on local_fs or remote_fs
      when using files with a name of 'var*' or 'usr*'.
    + [RG] Also recognise the use of the -r test as a file test, and
      the test command when determining whether a /etc/default file is
      being sourced unconditionally.
    + [RG] Correct the description of the
      missing-dependency-on-{remote,local_fs} tags where 'is' was meant
      to be used instead of 'are'.
  * checks/manpages.desc:
    + [RA] Downgrade spelling-error-in-manpage to minor severity.
      (Closes: #563039)
  * checks/patch-systems:
    + [RA] Avoid false positives for patches modifying files in debian/*
      when the parent directory in which the patch was created is named
      debian. Thanks, Mark Brown. (Closes: #562875)

  * collection/ar-info:
    + [RA] Skip *.a files that are dangling symlinks and discard error
      output from ar. Correctly handle file names that contain shell
      metacharacters.
  * collection/unpacked{,.desc}:
    + [RG] New scripts to replace the unpack level 2.

  * frontend/lintian:
    + [RG] Deprecate and replace unpack levels with the use of
      collection scripts.
    + [ADB] Remove an unused variable declaration.

  * lib/Spelling.pm:
    + [ADB] Add corrections for "nam" (name) and "nams" (names).
    + [RG] Add some more spelling errors.
    + [RG] Uppercase every character of the correction if every
      character of the original word is too.
    + [RA] Superceded is an acceptable alternative spelling of superseded.

  * man/lintian.1:
    + [RG] Document deprecation of unpack levels.
    + [ADB] Add the new "unpacked" collection script to the list of such
      scripts.
    + [ADB] Correct the documentation of --tags-from-file to indicate that
      the file contains tags to issue, not suppress.

  * reporting/html_reports:
    + [RA] Sort the tags so that the maintainer view will group repeated
      instances of the same tag and display extra information in sorted
      order. (Closes: #563126)
    + [RA] Better handle missing information for packages in the package
      lists and default the package area to main.
  * reporting/templates/maintainer.tmpl:
    + [RA] Fix the logic to optionally display the archive area of
      additional package entries under the same source package.

  * unpack/unpack-{src,bin}pkg-l2:
    + [RG] Dropped in favour of collection/unpacked.

 -- Russ Allbery <email address hidden> Sat, 02 Jan 2010 21:01:14 -0800

lintian (2.3.0) unstable; urgency=low

  The "welcome Raphael Geissert!" release.

  * Summary of tag changes:
    + Added:
      - capitalization-error-in-description
        (split from spelling-error-in-description)
      - debian-rules-automatically-updates-control
      - duplicate-in-relation-field (pedantic)
      - duplicated-compressed-file
      - init.d-script-missing-dependency-on-local_fs (experimental)
      - init.d-script-missing-dependency-on-remote_fs (experimental)
      - obsolete-relation-form-in-source
      - ocaml-dangling-cmi
      - ocaml-dangling-cmx
      - ocaml-dangling-cmxa
      - ocaml-dangling-cmxs
      - ocaml-dev-file-in-nondev-package (pedantic)
      - ocaml-dev-file-not-in-usr-lib-ocaml (pedantic)
      - ocaml-meta-without-suggesting-findlib (pedantic)
      - ocaml-stray-cmo
      - spelling-error-in-manpage
    + Removed:
      - build-depends-without-arch-dep

  * checks/*:
    + [RA] Use Lintian::Tags instead of Tags.
  * checks/binaries{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Allow any RPATH containing $ORIGIN or ${ORIGIN}, not just the
      literal value $ORIGIN. (Closes: #557511)
    + [ADB] Exempt all binary packages built from the zlib source from
      the embedded-zlib test, not just those with binary package names
      matching zlib.+. Thanks, Mark Brown.
    + [RA] Spelling errors are no longer normalized to lowercase.
  * checks/changelog-file:
    + [RA] Suppress latest-debian-changelog-entry-without-new-date if the
      distribution is UNRELEASED. Thanks, Raphaël Hertzog.
      (Closes: #560149)
    + [RA] Also ignore too-long lines that consist of "See" followed by an
      unbreakable word. Thanks, Jari Aalto. (Closes: #560005)
    + [RA] Downgrade spelling tags to severity: minor.
  * checks/control-file{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Check for < and > version dependencies in debian/control since
      dpkg-source helpfully rewrites and fixes them in binary packages.
      Thanks, Jakub Wilk. (Closes: #557971)
    + [RA] Add a pedantic check for duplicates in relation fields in
      debian/control prior to the fixes applied by dpkg-dev. Thanks,
      Nelson A. de Oliveira. (Closes: #548819)
    + [RA] Fix a typo that skipped checks on the Build-Conflicts field.
    + [RA] Rework weak-library-dev-dependency to allow more approaches to
      bounding the shared library version. Skip complex cases with or'd
      dependencies and assume the maintainer knows what they're doing.
      Add more explanation to the long tag description. Thanks, Reinhard
      Tartler and Mike Hommey. (Closes: #557449)
  * checks/copyright-file.desc:
    + [RA] Downgrade spelling-error-in-copyright to minor and mention
      false positive possibilities and an override in the tag description.
  * checks/cruft:
    + [RA] Allow an automake or libtool dependency in Build-Depends-Indep
      to also satisfy the check for outdated helper files. Thanks,
      Guillaume Delacour. (Closes: #557530)
    + [RA] Ignore files in .pc, created by unpacking 3.0 (quilt) packages.
      Thanks, Ahmed El-Mahmoudy. (Closes: #556022)
  * checks/debian-readme.desc:
    + [RA] Downgrade spelling tag to severity: minor.
  * checks/description{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Downgrade spelling tag to severity: minor.
    + [RA] Split capitalization-error-in-description to a separate tag and
      downgrade its certainty to wild-guess.
  * checks/fields{,.desc}:
    + [ADB] Re-order the fields of build-depends-on-build-essential so that
      all of the descriptive text is included. Thanks, Jonathan Wiltshire.
      (Closes: #557786)
    + [RA] For lib-recommends-documentation, exclude packages ending in
      -tools or -bin. Thanks, Jay Berkenbilt. (Closes: #557883)
    + [RA] Warn of build dependencies on python*-dev if no architecture-
      dependent packages are being built. Patch from Luca Falavigna.
      (Closes: #551793)
    + [RA] Add emacs22 to obsolete emacs versions. Thanks, Sven Joachim.
      (Closes: #560053)
  * checks/files{,.desc}:
    + [RA] New check for files present in both compressed and uncompressed
      form. Patch from Raphael Geissert. (Closes: #546174)
    + [RA] Allow /etc/sudoers.d files to be mode 0440 as recommended by
      sudo. Thanks, Thijs Kinkhorst. (Closes: #557353)
  * checks/huge-usr-share{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Increase the thresholds to 2MB (over 50%) and 4MB (any
      percentage), and mention the thresholds in the tag description.
      Thanks, Christoph Egger. (Closes: #561720)
  * checks/init.d{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Add checks for missing dependencies on $local_fs or $remote_fs
      based on what files appear to be used in the init scripts. Patch
      from Raphael Geissert. (Partly addresses #405454)
  * checks/manpages{,.desc}:
    + [RG] Check for spelling errors in English manpages.
  * checks/manpages.desc:
    + [RA] Clarify the long description of hyphen-used-as-minus-sign.
      Note that Debian groff is currently patched to avoid this problem,
      but hopefully that divergence can be removed. Reference
      groff-base's README.Debian for more information. (Closes: #548844)
  * checks/menus.desc:
    + [RA] Change spelling tags to severity: minor and certainty: certain
      since there are few false positives but minor is the correct
      severity.
  * checks/ocaml{,.desc}:
    + [RA] New checks for OCaml packaging. Contributed by Stéphane
      Glondu. (Closes: #528367)
  * checks/patch-systems{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Recommend DEP-3 in {dpatch,quilt}-patch-missing-description and
      reference the document. Thanks, Raphaël Hertzog. (Closes: #554025)
    + [RA] Allow DEP-3 headers in dpatch patches to satisfy the
      description requirement. Thanks, Paul Gevers. (Closes: #548640)
  * checks/rules{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Remove build-depends-without-arch-dep. If the package only
      builds architecture-independent packages, the distinction between
      Build-Depends and Build-Depends-Indep is meaningless and there's no
      reason, even pedantically, to worry about the separation. Thanks,
      Charles Plessy. (Closes: #552200, #555667)
    + [RA] Add a new check for DEB_AUTO_UPDATE_DEBIAN_CONTROL = yes.
      Thanks, Nelson A. de Oliveira. (Closes: #557120)

  * collection/ar-info{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Collects the results of ar t on all *.a files, used by the new
      OCaml checks. Contributed by Stéphane Glondu.
  * collection/override-file:
    + [RA] Check debian/source/lintian-overrides before
      debian/source.lintian-overrides for source package overrides.
      Thanks, martin f krafft. (Closes: #554617)

  * data/debhelper/*:
    + [ADB] Refresh against unstable.
  * data/fields/{perl-provides,virtual-packages}:
    + [ADB] Refresh against unstable.
  * data/files/fonts:
    + [ADB] Refresh against unstable.
  * data/output/ftp-master-{non,}fatal:
    + [RA] New data files listing tags that may result in an automated
      upload reject.

  * doc/lintian.sgml:
    + [RA] Document debian/source/lintian-overrides as the new preferred
      location for source overrides.

  * debian/control:
    + [RG] Add Raphael Geissert to Uploaders.
    + [RA] Add ${misc:Depends} to dependencies.
  * debian/copyright:
    + [RG] Add Raphael Geissert to maintainers.

  * frontend/lintian:
    + [RA] Add options --suppress-tags and --suppress-tags-from-file to
      completely suppress the given tags.
    + [RA] Support comments and blank lines in --tags-from-file files.
    + [RA] Run the check modules in sorted order.
    + [RA] Create a global Lintian::Tags object and use it instead of
      setting variables in the Tags namespace. Move display level code
      from here to Lintian::Tags. Adjust calls for the new Lintian::Tags
      module.
    + [RA] Add option -F or --ftp-master-rejects which only checks tags
      that could result in an automatic upload reject.
  * frontend/lintian-info:
    + [RA] Add -h/--help option. Patch from gregor herrmann.
      (Closes: #558214)

  * lib/Lintian/Check.pm:
    + [RA] Use Lintian::Tags instead of Tags.
  * lib/Lintian/Output.pm:
    + [RA] print_tag() now takes an additional argument containing
      override data and expects a Lintian::Tag::Info object as the tag
      info instead of a hash.
    + [RA] Adjust for the renaming of pkg in the file information hash.
  * lib/Lintian/Output/*.pm:
    + [RA] Adjust for print_tag() and file information hash changes.
  * lib/Lintian/Output/XML.pm:
    + [RA] Rewrite to be more readable and fix the tags attribute for
      overridden experimental tags.
  * lib/Lintian/Relation.pm:
    + [RA] Fix bugs in unparse() and duplicates() that caused duplicates()
      to crash when processing duplicates between an alternative and a
      regular package. Thanks, Jonathan Yu. (Closes: #559625)
  * lib/Lintian/Tag/Info.pm:
    + [RA] Add a code method that returns the tag code corresponding to
      the severity and certainty for a tag, based on get_tag_code from
      Tags.pm.
    + [RA] Add certainty, severity, and tag accessor methods.
    + [RA] Add a method saying whether a tag is experimental.
    + [RA] Record the check script corresponding to each tag and add an
      accessor method for it.
    + [RA] Add a sources method returning a list of sources referenced by
      a tag, based on the get_tag_source method from Tags.pm.
  * lib/Lintian/Tags.pm:
    + [RA] New module in a proper namespace replacing Tags.pm. A global
      Lintian::Tags object replaces the static variables in the Tags
      namespace, with new accessor functions, except for the tag metadata
      functions (which have moved to Lintian::Tag::Info). All handling of
      display levels is now here instead of in frontend/lintian.
    + [RA] Support suppressing a list of tags.
    + [RA] Suppress calling Lintian::Output::print_end_pkg for changes
      files, where we don't call print_start_pkg. This fixes an unmatched
      closing tag in the experimental XML output.
  * lib/Spelling.pm:
    + [RA] Use Lintian::Tags instead of Tags.
    + [RA] Ignore all-caps words of five characters or less for spelling
      corrections, since they are probably acronyms. Thanks, Michal
      Čihař. (Closes: #556456)
    + [RA] Report the original word in spelling errors rather than the
      normalized form.
    + [RG] Detect some multi-word spelling errors.
    + [RA] Remove the als to also correction. This is a word in several
      European languages, and the many hits on the archive are nearly all
      false positives.
  * lib/Tags.pm:
    + [RA] Removed in favor of Lintian::Tags.
  * lib/Util.pm:
    + [RA] Consume all output from extracting the control file of a binary
      package before closing the pipe.

  * man/lintian.1:
    + [RA] Document --suppress-tags and --suppress-tags-from-file.
    + [RA] Document format of --tags-from-file.
    + [RA] Document -F (--ftp-master-rejects).
    + [RA] Add ocaml checker script.
    + [RA] Add ar-info collection script.
    + [RA] Document the override locations in the FILES section. Thanks,
      Jakub Wilk. (Closes: #558649)
    + [RA] Remove obsolete spelling checker script.
    + [RA] Mention /usr/share/lintian/data under FILES.
    + [RA] Clarify that errors are not necessarily policy violations.
    + [RA] Remove bug that Lintian doesn't handle packages with different
      binary and source versions correctly. I don't believe this is still
      an issue.
  * man/lintian-info.1:
    + [RA] Add -h (--help).
    + [RA] lintian -i no longer pipes output through lintian-info. Adjust
      the man page accordingly.

  * private/refresh-ftp-master-tags:
    + [RA] Script to refresh data about automatic package rejects.

  * reporting/html_reports:
    + [RA] Never use O as the code for the tag on the per-tag page even if
      all instances in the archive are overridden. (Closes: #562630)

  * t/runtests:
    + [RA] Unwrap the Options field so that it can be continued.
    + [RA] Replace TESTSET in Options with the root of the test suite so
      that lintian options referring to files can be tested with files in
      the test suite directory.
    + [RA] Support a new Sort: no field in package test metadata to
      suppress sorting of lintian output, for testing output formatting.
    + [RA] Use Lintian::Command::spawn to run Lintian for package tests so
      that the lintian options may contain shell metacharacters.
    + [RA] Put all error output from lintian unsorted before the regular
      output, making it easier to diagnose errors.
    + [RA] Suppress checking the syntax of the lintian output if neither
      Test-For nor Test-Against are set and Sort: no is set.

  * unpack/list-{bin,src,udeb}pkg:
    + [RA] Support multiple versions of a package in the archive and
      include only the latest version in the Lintian package list.
  * unpack/unpack-binpkg-l2:
    + [RA] Report errors from dpkg-deb or tar on stderr if either exit
      with non-zero status.
  * unpack/unpack-srcpkg-l2:
    + [RA] Report errors from dpkg-source -x on stderr if it exits with
      non-zero status. (Closes: #557717)

 -- Russ Allbery <email address hidden> Sat, 26 Dec 2009 18:38:10 -0800