Changelog
lintian (2.5.38.1ubuntu1) xenial; urgency=low
* Merge from Debian unstable. Remaining changes:
- Ship pre-uglified json.js to avoid build-dep on nodejs for the tests.
lintian (2.5.38.1) unstable; urgency=medium
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* checks/binaries.{desc,pm}:
+ [NT] Check for ".debug_str" section in addition to the
".debug_line" section to determine if an ELF file contains
detached debug symbols.
* checks/cruft.pm:
+ [BR] Avoid false positive in minified javascript by
detecting line with only one colon.
(Closes: #792365).
* checks/debconf.desc:
+ [JW] Fix typo.
* checks/files.pm:
+ [BR] Whitelist pbuilder for dir-or-file-in-build-tree.
* checks/scripts.pm:
+ [NT] Check the syntax of maintainter scripts with "sh" when
the script is declared with "#!/bin/sh". Thanks to Ron Lee
for spotting this.
* checks/shared-libs.pm:
+ [ADB, NT] Fix false-positive instance of the tag
postrm-should-call-ldconfig when the package is using the
ldconfig trigger. (Closes: #804256)
* checks/source-copyright.desc:
+ [JW] Use HTTPS for www.debian.org URLs.
* commands/spellintian.pm:
+ [JW,NT] Report non-files as "not a file" rather than
claiming them to be directories. (Closes: #802475)
* data/cruft/non-free-files:
+ [JW] Use HTTPS for bugs.debian.org URLs.
* data/output/manual-references:
+ [JW] Refresh.
* data/spelling/corrections*:
+ [JW] Add more corrections.
* doc/lintian.xml:
+ [JW] Use HTTPS for www.debian.org and lintian.debian.org URLs.
* doc/README.developers:
+ [JW] Use HTTPS for wiki.debian.org URLs.
* doc/README.release:
+ [JW] Fix typo.
* debian/copyright:
+ [JW] Use HTTPS for lintian.debian.org URLs.
* lib/Lintian/DepMap/Properties.pm:
+ [JW] Fix typo.
* lib/Lintian/Profile.pm:
+ [JW,NT] Correct include path for default profile when include
directories are not given explicitly. (Closes: #802476)
+ [JW] Fix typo.
* lib/Lintian/Unpacker.pm:
+ [JW] Fix typo.
* lib/Lintian/Util.pm:
+ [NT] Whitelist TMPDIR in "clean_env", so that man and msgfmt
will use the user defined TMPDIR (if any). Thanks to Bjarni
Ingi Gislason Bjarni for the bug report. (Closes: #801483)
* mail-templates/license-problem-non-free-RFC:
+ [JW] Use HTTPS for debian.org URLs.
* man/lintian.pod.in:
+ [JW] Fix incorrect claim that "pedantic" and "display-info" can't be
used together in the config file.
* private/refresh-*:
+ [JW] Use httpredir.debian.org as the default mirror.
* private/refresh-manual-refs:
+ [JW] Use HTTPS for www.debian.org and lintian.debian.org URLs.
* reporting/harness:
+ [JW] Fix typo.
* reporting/templates/*.tmpl:
+ [JW] Use HTTPS for debian.org URLs.
* vendors/ubuntu/main/data/changes-file/known-dists:
+ [JW] Add "wily" and "xenial".
* README:
+ [JW] Use HTTPS for www.debian.org and lintian.debian.org URLs.
lintian (2.5.38) unstable; urgency=medium
* Summary of tag changes:
+ Added:
- command-in-menu-file-and-desktop-file
- misspelled-closes-bug
* checks/binaries.desc:
+ [NT] Update description of a tag now that debhelper properly
strips static libraries.
+ [JW] Relax the regular expression used to used to recognize
architecture-specific paths to avoid false positive
arch-dependent-file-not-in-arch-specific-directory in Python debug
packages. Thanks to Matthias Klose for the bug report.
(Closes: #795275)
* checks/changelog-files.{desc,pm}:
+ [BR] Detect misspelled Closes in changelog file (Closes: #798799)
* checks/files.{desc,pm}:
+ [AB] Apply patch by Mattia Rizzolo to also check for files in /build
and /tmp/buildd in dir-or-file-in-build-tree. (Closes: #797532)
+ [NT] Rewrite the description for dir-or-file-in-build-tree. Thanks
to Chris Lamb and Jakub Wilk for pointing out issues with the
original description. (Closes: #797466)
+ [BR] Detect pagead2.
+ [BR] Fix false positive privacy-breach-* for alternate link tag
with type application/rdf+xml. (Closes: #799914).
* checks/obsolete-sites.pm:
+ [AB] Stop at <>, $, or " when emitting URLs as tag parameter.
* checks/menu-format.{desc,pm}:
+ [NT] Check for menu files used to provide a command also listed in
a desktop file. This tag is based on the verdict in
[CTTE #741573].
* checks/rules.desc:
+ [NT,JW] Improve the wording of one of the tags based on feedback
from Chris Lamb. (Closes: #796815)
* checks/scripts.desc:
+ [NT] Apply patch from Chris Lamb to fix a grammatical issue in a
tag description. (Closes: #797555)
* checks/shared-libs.pm:
+ [JW] Fix false positive dev-pkg-without-shlib-symlink for GCC runtime
libraries. Thanks to Matthias Klose for the bug report.
(Closes: #790739)
* checks/systemd.desc:
+ [AB] Apply patch by Chris Lamb to update link to Debian systemd
packaging reference. (Closes: #799082)
* checks/watch-file.desc:
+ [JW] Fix typo.
* data/binaries/embedded-libs:
+ [RG] Use a different string to detect the copies of freetype
(Closes: #756722)
+ [RG] Allow ffmpeg to provide libav*.
* data/debhelper/dh_{commands,packages}:
+ [AB] Apply patch by Stefano Rivera to update the home of
dh_gstscancodecs. (Closes: #799467)
* data/obsolete-sites/obsolete-sites:
+ [AB] Add patch by Hideki Yamane to add sourceforge.jp (Closes:
#798736)
+ [AB] Sort file alphabetically.
* data/spelling/corrections:
+ [JW] Add more corrections.
* doc/lintian.xml:
+ [JW] Fix typo.
* lib/Lintian/Collect.pm:
+ [JW] Fix typo.
* lib/Lintian/Lab.pm:
+ [JW] Fix typo.
* man/lintian.pod.in:
+ [JW] Fix typo.
* private/refresh-debhelper-data:
+ [NT] Add a "This file is generated" header to all output files.
lintian (2.5.37) unstable; urgency=medium
* Summary of tag changes:
+ Added:
- obsolete-url-in-packaging
- renamed-tag
* checks/application-not-library.{desc,pm}:
+ [AB] Downgrade libapp-perl-package-name to certainty possible.
+ [AB] Add libapp-options-perl to the package whitelist.
* checks/binaries.pm:
+ [NT] Apply patch from Michael Stapelberg to ignore
"no-relro" and "no-fortify-functions" issues in
binaries built by the go compiler, as it does not
support these features. (Closes: #795667)
+ [NT] Apply patch from Michael Stapelberg to a
common false positive spelling mistake in "go"
binaries. (Closes: #795614)
+ [NT] Apply patch from Guillem Jover to avoid some false
positive shared-lib-without-dependency-information tags.
(Closes: #798063)
* checks/control-file.pm:
+ [AB] Apply patch by Christoph Biedl for relaxing dependency checks
to allow versions with tilde. (Closes: #797951)
* checks/copyright.pm:
+ [BR] Fix FP for copyright-without-copyright-notice tag
allow public-domain. (Closes: #786867)
* checks/cruft.pm:
+ [BR] Fix complex regular subexpression recursion limit.
Strip comments is only done on first 8192 characters.
(Closes: #795955).
+ [BR] Performance improvement check if line < 1024 before
stripping comment. Classify to minified if line > 1024.
+ [BR] Fix false positive in missing-sources directory
search path.
* checks/debhelper.pm:
+ [NT] Unconditionally warn about dh_clean -k usage even when the
debhelper compat is less than 7.
* checks/description.pm:
+ [AB] Fix false positives in
perl-module-name-not-mentioned-in-description. (Closes: #795779)
* checks/fields.{desc,pm}:
+ [JW] Use "an" (instead of "a") before "HTTP".
+ [NT] Assert that -dbgsym packages are in the "debug" section.
Thanks to Jean-Michel Vourgère for reporting the issue.
(Closes: #796896)
+ [AB] Also emit package-relation-with-perl-module for build-*
relations. Thanks gregor herrmann! (Closes: #798385)
* checks/obsolete-sites.{desc,pm}:
+ [AB] New check with tag obsolete-url-in-packaging to check for URLs
of hosting sites with frozen contents or (soon to be) closed hosting
sites (Google Code, Gitorious, Freshmeat, etc.) inside the
packaging. (Closes: #793503)
* checks/scripts.pm:
+ [BR] Fix Unescaped left brace in regex. (Closes: #788926)
* checks/shared-libs.{desc,pm}:
+ [NT] Accept an "activate-noawait ldconfig" trigger instead of
explicit calls to "ldconfig".
* checks/testsuite.pm:
+ [AB] Split up restrictions, features and tests by comma as well as
space. (Closes: #798359, #792418)
* checks/version-substvars.pm:
+ [BR] Fix Unescaped left brace in regex is deprecated line 68.
* checks/watch.desc:
+ [BR] Upgrade upstream PGP keys location. (Closes: #796311)
* data/binaries/embedded-libs:
+ [RG] Add another matching string for libidn
* data/common/source-fields:
+ [AB] Add patch by Tianon Gravi to add go-import-path as known source
field. (Closes: #798422)
* data/fields/archive-sections:
+ [NT] Remove the "debugsym" section as "ddebs" will be put in
the regular "debug" section.
* data/fields/binary-fields:
+ [NT] Accept the "Build-Ids" field, which debhelper will start to
include in debug packages.
* data/scripts/maintainer-script-bad-command:
+ [AB] Fix maintainer-script-should-not-use-adduser-system-without-home
false positive in cases where --system and --home are ordered
differently than initially expected. (Closes: #797395)
* data/spelling/corrections:
+ [JW] Add correction for "bellow". (This is an actual English word,
but in technical texts, it's almost certainly a misspelling of
"below".)
+ [JW] Add correction for "positve".
* debian/control:
+ [AB] Update Vcs-Browser header to use https and cgit.
* lib/Lintian/{Tags.pm,Tag/Override.pm}:
+ [BR] Support tag renaming. Warn about renamed
tags.
* t/runtests:
+ [BR] Apply patch from Chris Lamb improving documentation.
(Closes: #796822).
* t/scripts/01-critic/runner.pl:
+ [AB] Fix FTBFS in perlcritic runner with Test::Perl::Critic 1.03
* t/tests/application-not-library/debian/debian/control.in:
+ [AB] Add a false positive test for libapp-perl-package-name.
* t/tests/rules-perl-makemaker/debian/debian/rules:
+ [NT] Pass DESTDIR to MakeMaker to avoid FTBFS with Perl 5.22.
Thanks to Dominic Hargreaves for the report. (Closes: #797600)
-- Iain Lane <email address hidden> Wed, 18 Nov 2015 16:38:57 +0000
