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lintian (2.5.87) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Summary of tag changes:
    + Added:
      - debian-pyversions-is-obsolete
      - debug-symbol-migration-possibly-complete
      - header-has-overly-generic-name

  * checks/cruft.{desc,pm}:
    + [CL] Apply patch from Joseph Herlant to warn about use of obsolete
      debian/pyversion files.  Thanks!  (Closes: #898592)
  * checks/debhelper.pm:
    + [CL] Prevent false-positives with comments and newlines when checking
      debhelper-compat-file-contains-multiple-levels.  (Closes: #898799)
  * checks/fields.{desc,pm}:
    + [BR] Detect privacy breaches in Internet Explorer "<!--[if IE 8]>"
      conditional comments.
    + [CL] Rename python-generic-modules data file to
      generic-python-modules.
    + [CL] Warn about packages that install files under /usr/include with
      overly-generic filenames.  Thanks to Andreas Beckmann for the report.
      (Closes: #898377)
    + [CL] Apply patch from Ian Jackson to not detect
      https://browse.dgit.debian.org/example.git as a VCS deprecated in the
      Debian infrastucture.  (Closes: #898708)
  * checks/files.pm:
    + [BR] Add "umd" as a possible suffix for minified Javascript.
      (alongside "lite", "min", "pack", etc.)
  * checks/menu-format.{desc,pm}:
    + [CL] Apply patch from Ross Vandegrift to update specification URIs.
      (Closes: #899134)
  * checks/upstream-metadata.desc:
    + [CL] Correct a "non-file directory entry" grammatical error in the
      description of the upstream-metadata-is-not-a-file tag.

  * data/files/js-libraries:
    + [BR] Detect uses of the libjs-normalize.css CSS "style reset" helper.
  * data/files/privacy-breaker-websites:
    + [BR] Detect uses of the "libjs-rx" API for asynchronous programming.
  * data/rules/rules-should-not-use:
    + [CL] Add a pedantic-level warning about possibly complete automatic
      debug symbol migrations.  Thanks to Graham Inggs for the report.
      (Closes: #897608)
  * data/spelling/corrections:
    + [PW] Add a number of corrections.

  * lib/Lintian/Collect/Package.pm:
    + [CL] Support parsing tar(1) archives with high-resolution timestamps
      (eg. "21:47:29.12396808").  Based on a patch by Stephen Kitt; thanks!
      (Closes: #898715)

 -- Chris Lamb <email address hidden>  Sat, 19 May 2018 19:30:19 +0000

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