Changelog
lintian (1.24.3~hardy1) hardy-backports; urgency=low
* Automated backport upload; no source changes.
lintian (1.24.3) unstable; urgency=low
The "greetings from Argentina" release.
* checks/binaries:
+ [ADB] Use Lintian::Collect throughout rather than reparsing file-info
and objdump-info.
* checks/changelog-file{,.desc}:
+ [ADB] Use Lintian::Collect instead of reading the fields/*, file-info
and objdump-info files.
+ [ADB] Remove a misplaced word from the description of the tag
"debian-changelog-file-contains-invalid-email-address".
* checks/copyright-file{,.desc}:
+ [ADB] Drop the "copyright line too long" check. Most of the issues
it flags aren't easily fixable, particularly where the copyright file
is (semi)automatically generated. (Closes: #491302, #491365, #491685)
+ [ADB] Use Lintian::Collect for accessing control fields and reading the
list of files in the package.
+ [ADB] Don't flag use of version 1 of the GPL, or licenses using phrases
such as "compatible with the GPL" (for example, the W3C Software
License) as missing a reference to common-licenses
+ [ADB] Replace references to the GPL in GFDL and LGPL related tags
with the appropriate license. Also remove a misplaced word.
* checks/cruft:
+ [ADB] Use Lintian::Collect for accessing control fields
* checks/debconf:
+ [ADB] Don't complain about unused debconf templates in udebs.
(Closes: #491135)
+ [RA] Try to recognize at least some debconf template uses in Perl.
+ [ADB] Replace fields/* and scripts access with Lintian::Collect
+ [ADB] Don't flag the shared templates used for dictionaries-common
co-ordination as unused.
+ [FL] Remove debconf-error-requires-versioned-depends since post-lenny
a tag for the sake of sarge-backports clearly makes no sense anymore.
(Closes: #493920)
* checks/description:
+ [RA] Don't warn about a synopsis that ends in "etc." Patch from
Chris Lamb. (Closes: #491252)
+ [ADB] Use Lintain::Collect to read the package's description.
* checks/etcfiles:
+ [ADB] Walk Lintian::Collect->index instead of reading the "index" file.
* checks/fields{,.desc}:
+ [RA] Warn about packages that depend exclusively on makedev.
Thanks, Josh Triplett. (Closes: #491625)
+ [ADB] Use Lintian::Collect::field() to determine the content of fields
from control files rather than reading the fields/* files. This and
similar changes to other scripts should improve performance as the
Collect object caches the lookup result.
+ [ADB] Reformat a couple of tags' descriptions.
* checks/files{,.desc}:
+ [ADB] Switch to using Lintian::Collect.
+ [ADB] Fix a couple of bugs in the parsing of the list of scripts
contained within a package which led to scripts in /usr/share/doc
being incorrectly tagged as executable-in-usr-share-doc.
+ [ADB] Update a couple of Policy references. Thanks Jordà Polo.
+ [ADB] Warn when a package embeds a copy of the Universal Feed Parser.
Patch from Chris Lamb. (Closes: #493156)
+ [FL, ADB] Don't issue tag file-in-unusal-dir for files where we already
issued one of the specific dir-or-file-in-* tags. (Closes: #493921)
+ [ADB] Add a missing "have" to package-contains-ancient-file's
description.
* checks/huge-usr-share:
+ [ADB] Replace (the single) direct access to fields/* with ::field()
+ [ADB] Replace an outdated link to the Developer's Reference.
Thanks Jordà Polo.
* checks/infofiles{,.desc}:
+ [ADB] Use Lintian::Collect to retrieve information about the files
being processed.
+ [ADB] Update the tag "install-info-not-called-with-quiet-option"'s
Policy reference. Thanks Jordà Polo.
* checks/init.d.desc:
+ [ADB] Update a Policy reference. Thanks Jordà Polo.
* checks/lintian.desc:
+ [ADB] Add a Policy reference to bad-section-in-changes-file. Thanks
Jordà Polo.
* checks/manpages{,.desc}:
+ [RA] Suppress warnings about inability to break a line that contains
a URL. URLs often can't be usefully broken. Based on a patch by
Damyan Ivanov. (Closes: #491578)
+ [ADB] Update the Policy reference for manpage-has-wrong-extension.
+ [ADB] Use Lintian::Collect rather than parsing the "index" and
"file-info" files.
+ [FL] In description for manpage-has-errors-from-man note how to
reproduce this errors outside of lintian. (Closes: #492930)
* checks/menu-format{,.desc}:
+ [ADB] Use Lintian::Collect to parse the list of files in the package.
+ [ADB] Don't raise menu-command-not-in-package for 'sensible-browser'
or 'sh'. Thanks Raphael Geissert.
+ [RA] Warn about .kdelnk files and [KDE Desktop Entry] headings in
desktop files. Patch from Raphael Geissert.
* checks/menus{,.desc}:
+ [ADB] Fix a typo; thanks Jordà Polo.
+ [ADB] Use the file list from Lintian::Collect.
* checks/nmu{,.desc}:
+ [ADB] Use Lintian::Collect for maintainer / uploader information
+ [ADB] Add a DevRef reference to changelog-should-mention-nmu. Thanks
Jordà Polo.
* checks/patch-systems:
+ [RA] Combine all patch-system-but-direct-changes-in-diff instances
into a single message to reduce the noise from packages that rebuild
all auto-generated files outside the patch system. Thanks, Julien
Cristau. (Closes: #491296)
+ [ADB] Migrate fields/* reading to use ::Collect::field().
* checks/po-debconf{,.desc}:
+ [ADB] Check that at least one complete translation exists. Thanks Jordà
Polo.
* checks/rules:
+ [ADB] Use ::Collect for field access.
+ [FL] Do not complain about using dh in a unused binary-* target.
* checks/scripts{,.desc}:
+ [RA] Warn about maintainer scripts that prepend a path to commands.
Based on a patch by Raphael Geissert. (Closes: #376184)
+ [ADB] Don't read fields/*, scripts, index or file-info directly as the
contents have almost certainly been cached in Lintian::Collect already.
+ [ADB] Update a couple of Policy references. Thanks Jordà Polo.
* checks/shared-libs.{,desc}:
+ [ADB] Improve the description of no-symbols-control-file.
+ [ADB] Migrate to using ::Collect instead of parsing the index, file-info
and objdump-info files directly.
+ [ADB] Disable ldconfig-symlink-before-shlib-in-deb as it can never be
tested correctly using the information currently available to the
scripts
* checks/watch-file:
+ [FL] Do not issue debian-watch-file-should-mangle-version for
empty watch files.
* data/doc-base/sections:
+ [ADB] Resynchronize with doc-base's section list (adding
Programming/OCaml). (Closes: #491440)
* debian/postrm:
+ [FL] Do not try to remove /var/spool/lintian if it doesn't exist
(dpkg might already removed it at this point).
* doc/desc-files:
+ [ADB] Update the description of tags to include experimental and info
tags.
* doc/README:
+ [ADB] Add -E / --show-experimental, -T / --tags and --tags-from-file
to the option list.
* frontend/lintian:
+ [FL, ADB] Add new --tags/-T option to limit the amount of checks
run not by check names but by names of tags you're interested
in. Requested by Joerg Jaspert for ftpmaster. (Closes: #493903)
+ [FL] Add --tags-from-file option to make it easier to specify
a long list of tags.
* lib/Lintian/Collect/Binary.pm:
+ [ADB] When parsing objdump-info, indicate whether a shared object is
an Ocaml executable. Also add information on segments which various
checks scripts use which hadn't made it here yet.
+ [ADB] Make index() return a hash rather than an array
+ [ADB] Add support for parsing the "scripts" index file
* lib/Read_taginfo.pm:
+ [FL] Handle URLs in the Ref: field.
* lib/Tags.pm:
+ [ADB] If --tags was used, don't issue tags that aren't in the provided
list.
* man/lintian.1
+ [ADB] Update the list of check scripts, removing the no longer present
deb-format and perl and adding the nmu script.
+ [FL] Document the new --tags/-T option.
+ [FL] Document the new --tags-from-file option.
* reporting/templates/index.tmpl:
+ [RA] Add a link to lintian.log. Suggested by Stefano Zacchiroli.
* t/:
+ [FL] Begin work on a new testsuite.
* testset/fields:
+ [ADB] New testset from Tobias Quathamer (including some tags which
previously weren't tested)
* testset/tags.scripts{,.sed}:
+ [ADB] Munge .changes filenames so that the tests produce consistent
output across architectures
-- Scott Kitterman <email address hidden> Fri, 05 Sep 2008 10:28:36 +0100
