Changelog
lintian (2.5.3ubuntu1) oneiric; urgency=low
* Merge from Debian unstable (LP: #846659). Remaining changes:
- Drop debug-symbols-directly-in-usr-lib-debug from binaries-general test
to work around bug #808767
* Backport the changelog-file-no-dch test fix for Ubuntu.
lintian (2.5.3) unstable; urgency=low
The "Another 51 bites the dust. 169 left to go." release.
* Summary of tag changes:
+ Added:
- boilerplate-copyright-format-uri
- control-file-is-not-a-file
- comma-separated-files-in-dep5-copyright
- copyright-has-crs
- debian-copyright-is-symlink
- depends-on-packaging-dev
- dh_installmanpages-is-obsolete
- missing-field-in-dep5-copyright
- missing-license-paragraph-in-dep5-copyright
- missing-license-text-in-dep5-copyright
- no-debian-copyright
- obsolete-field-in-dep5-copyright
- out-of-date-copyright-format-uri
- package-contains-no-arch-dependent-files
- perl-module-uses-perl4-libs-without-dep
- readme-debian-contains-invalid-email-address
- script-uses-perl4-libs-without-dep
- syntax-error-in-dep5-copyright
- unknown-copyright-format-uri
- unknown-paragraph-in-dep5-copyright
- unused-license-paragraph-in-dep5-copyright
- unversioned-copyright-format-uri
- vim-addon-within-vim-runtime-path
- wiki-copyright-format-uri
+ Removed:
- debian-changelog-file-contains-debmake-default-email-address
- readme-debian-contains-debmake-default-email-address
- script-calls-init-script-directly
* checks/*:
+ [NT] Dropped fields from Needs-Info, it is no longer needed.
+ [JW] Use LC_ALL rather than LANG, since LC_ALL overrules
LANG. (Closes: #637595)
+ [JW] Removed all whitespace lines to avoid confusing some
dctrl parsers (notably grep-dctrl). (Closes: #639928)
+ [JW] Fix a number of broken references in the tag
descriptions. (Closes: #639923)
+ [JW] Rewrote Debian Bug references using #nnnnnn notation.
* checks/binaries.desc:
+ [NT] Remove the reference to the Library Packaging Guide,
since it is no longer available (in Debian). (Closes: #640228)
* checks/changelog-file{,.desc}:
+ [JW] Remove debmake-specific tag in favour of more general
debian-changelog-file-contains-invalid-email-address.
(Closes: #639946)
+ [JW,NT] Fixed use of uninitialized value as hash key.
(Closes: #640238)
+ [NT] Mention that the missing native changelog tag can, in
some cases, be emitted if it does not look like a Debian
changelog.
* checks/{conffile,etcfiles}{,.desc}:
+ [JW] Merged etcfiles into conffile. (Closes: #637590)
* checks/conffile:
+ [NT] Skip all checks if "conffiles" is a symlink.
* checks/control-files{,.desc}:
+ [NT] Check that all members of the control.tar.gz are either
regular files or directories.
* checks/copyright-file{,.desc}:
+ [JW] Check for CRLF line endings in copyright files.
(Closes: #634191)
+ [JW] Extended helper-templates-in-copyright and ensure it is
only emitted once per package.
* checks/debhelper{,.desc}:
+ [NT] Recognise /usr/share/R/debian/r-cran.mk as a cdbs-based
build. This prevents false-positive "unneeded cdbs" warning.
+ [JW] Check for use of the obsolete dh_installmanpages debhelper
program. Thanks to Joey Hess for the report. (Closes: #634112).
* checks/debian-readme{,.desc}:
+ [JW] Replace debmake-specific tag with more general
readme-debian-contains-invalid-email-address.
* checks/description.desc:
+ [JW] Added references to some tags. (Closes: #640853)
* checks/duplicate-files{,.desc}:
+ [NT] Replace the exception for "__init__.py" files by excluding
all empty files from the check. The bug (#632789) only requests
an exception for "empty __init__.py" files and generally empty
files are unlikely to cause a serious size-waste.
* checks/fields{,.desc}:
+ [NT] Mention that perl modules included in perl itself should
be the first dependency if it is only included in the perl
from experimental. Thanks to Dominic Hargreaves for the
report and the patch. (Closes: #637793)
+ [NT] Warn about (build)depending/recommending on packaging-dev.
Thanks to Luk Claes for the report and the initial patch.
(Closes: #629308)
+ [NT] Also emit bad-homepage if the Homepage URL does not seem to
be using a known protocol (for homepages). (Closes: #580427)
+ [JW] Bumped the severity of "no-human-maintainers", since it is
now a Policy "must" directive. (Closes: #640856)
+ [JW,NT] If superfluous-clutter-in-homepage has been emitted,
ignore the surrounding "<>" for the rest of the homepage checks.
(Closes: #640947)
+ [NT] Added check for Build-Depending on libdbX.Y-dev (and related
packages. Most packages should be able to use unversioned -dev
packages. Thanks to Ondřej Surý for the report and the initial
tag description. (Closes: #624434)
* checks/{filename-length,rules}.desc:
+ [NT] Improved the descriptions of some tags. (Closes: #639018)
* checks/files{,.desc}:
+ [NT] Added exceptions to "extra-license-file" for manpages,
static libraries, .pc-, elf and pyshared-data-files. This
covers all the false-positives currently found in the liblicense
package. (Closes: #617901)
+ [NT] Ignore non-ELF files in multiarch paths, when checking for
a missing pre-depends on multiarch-support. Thanks to Sven
Joachim for the report. (Closes: #639735)
+ [NT] Added check for packages that only ships files in /usr/share
and are not marked "Architecture: all". Thanks to Evgeni Golov,
Carl Fürstenberg and Jari Aalto for the suggestions.
(Closes: #574689)
+ [JW] Do not emit third-party-package-in-python-dir for packages built
from python{,3}-{stdlib-extensions,profiler,old-doctools} sources.
Add reference to Python Policy in the tag description.
(Closes: #640211)
+ [JW] Add check for Vim addons installing files into a directory
within Vim runtime path. (Closes: #640371)
+ [NT] Added check for Perl modules using perl4 libs without depending
on libperl4-core-libs-perl. Thanks to Dominic Hargreaves for the
initial patch.
* checks/menus.desc:
+ [NT] Added reference to the doc-base manual to help people
find the list of valid doc-base sections. (Closes: #584280)
* checks/patch-systems:
+ [NT] Use lsdiff to determine if a patch modifies the debian dir as
it is more accurate than diffstat for this. (Closes: #640131)
* checks/rules:
+ [NT] Do a simple and minimal variable tracking. In very simple
cases, it can determine which targets a variable contains (when
the variable is used as a target). (Closes: #638411)
* checks/scripts{,.desc}:
+ [NT] Remove script-calls-init-script-directly. (Closes: #617959)
+ [NT] Added check for Perl scripts using perl4 libs without depending
on libperl4-core-libs-perl. Thanks to Dominic Hargreaves for the
initial patch. (Closes: #636994)
* checks/shared-libs{,.desc}:
+ [JW] Fixed a typo in a tag description. (Closes: #639177)
+ [NT] Do not emit shlib-calls-exit for libraries that have an
INTERP section. (Closes: #607399)
* checks/source-copyright{,.desc}:
+ [JW] Added check for DEP-5 copyright files. (Closes: #633779)
* checks/standards-version:
+ [NT] Made the ancient-standards-version independent of the
system time.
* checks/version-substvars{,.desc}:
+ [NT] Also emit the any-depends-all tag if the ">=" relation is
used. Thanks to Konstantinos Margaritis and Cyril Brulebois for
the report and the research. (Closes: #639144)
* collection/fields{,.desc}:
+ [NT] Removed, no longer used.
* collection/changelog-file:
+ [NT] Double check changelogs that does not explicitly contains
"debian" in the filename. This should avoid a myriad of syntax
error tags in some cases (such as perl), where the Debian
changelog is not present and there is an upstream changelog.
* data/fields/archive-sections:
+ [NT] Fixed a typo in "otherosfs" section name. Thanks to
Stefan Potyra for the report. (Closes: #637596)
* data/files/fonts:
+ [NT] Refreshed against sid and now includes packages starting
with "fonts-" as well. Thanks to Paul Wise for the patches.
(Closes: #622149)
* data/output/ftp-master-{,non}fatal:
+ [NT] Refreshed.
* data/output/manual-references:
+ [JW] Refreshed.
* data/rules/known-makefiles:
+ [JW] Added Makefiles from (the future) dpkg. (Closes: #640921)
* data/spelling/corrections{,-multiword}:
+ [NT] Added some corrections for "remove" etc. Thanks to
Jakub Wilk for spotting those.
+ [JW,NT] Added more corrections.
(Closes: #639367, #640149, #613604)
* debian/control:
+ [NT] (Build-)Depends on patchutils for lsdiff.
* debian/copyright:
+ [NT] Added Jakub Wilk to maintainers.
* debian/rules:
+ [JW] Use LC_ALL rather than LANG, since LC_ALL overrules
LANG.
* doc/lintian.xml:
+ [NT] Removed duplicate "allowed to" in same sentence.
+ [NT] Added a paragraph on some of the constrains in design
of Lintian.
* doc/lintianrc.example:
+ [NT] Add an example on how to enable "--quiet" via lintianrc.
* doc/README.developers:
+ [NT] New file. Thanks to Jeremiah C. Foster for the initial
contribution.
* frontend/lintian:
+ [NT] Lintian now mentions if overrides may have been ignored.
This happens if a package contains an override for a tag
that has been marked "non-overridable" by the current vendor
profile.
+ [NT] Mention ".changes" as a valid file type in the "unknown
file" error. Thanks to Michael Gilbert for the report and
the patch. (Closes: #639430)
+ [NT] Always display a given tag if requested with --tags
or --tags-from-file. Previously, pedantic and experimental
tags were not shown unless the relevant options were also
passed.
+ [JW,NT] Fixed a regression where --check-part ignored display
settings (such as --display-info). (Closes: #640694)
+ [NT] If both --verbose and --quiet is used together, then use
the last of them to appear rather than "both at the same time".
(Closes: #640366)
+ [NT] Accept --quiet in lintianrc as "quiet". This option may
not be used together with "verbose" in the config file.
* lib/Lintian/Check.pm:
+ [NT] Catch "Name <Name <Email>>" as a malformed email address.
(Closes: #640489)
+ [JW] Catch misspellings of the "Debian QA Group" maintainer
email (used for orphaned packages). (Closes: #640834)
* lib/Lintian/Collect.pm:
+ [JW,NT] Create the source field from the package field if the
former is not present. This fixes a number of false-positves
introduced in 2.5.2. (Closes: #640186)
* lib/Lintian/Collect/Source.pm:
+ [NT] Removed a requirement for fields that was not needed.
+ [NT] Fixed "index" method for source packages.
* lib/Lintian/Collect/Package.pm:
+ [JW,NT] Replace use of fail with croak. (Closes: #637741)
* lib/Lintian/Output.pm:
+ [NT] Merged "quiet" and "verbose" into "verbosity_level".
* lib/Lintian/Profile.pm:
+ [NT] Reject profiles containing an unknown field.
* lib/Lintian/Tag/Info.pm:
+ [JW] Create links for references pointing to files in html
output.
+ [JW] Parse "#nnnnnn" references as links to Debian bugs.
* lib/Lintian/Tag/Override.pm:
+ [NT] New file.
* lib/Lintian/Tags.pm:
+ [NT] Track which tags had overrides that have been dropped.
+ [NT,RG] Collect override comments and print the comments
above the overridden tag (with --show-overrides). Thanks
to Carl Fürstenberg for the report. (Closes: #474590)
+ [NT] Remove the "respect-display-level" code. It is not as
useful as intended.
* lib/Text_utils.pm:
+ [NT] Close <p>-tags in dtml_to_html since the output is used
in xhtml (xml), where all tags must be closed properly.
(Closes: #639292)
+ [NT] Remove the last new line (if any) before a </pre> in tag
to reduce the empty space to the next paragraph.
* lib/Util.pm:
+ [JW] Use LC_ALL rather than LANG, since LC_ALL overrules
LANG.
+ [JW] Stricten the DCtrl parser to choke on some syntax errors
that were silently ignored. (Closes: #639516)
* man/lintian.pod.in:
+ [JW] Fixed some stray POD markup. (Closes: #640705)
+ [JW,NT] Clarified that --tags and --tags-from-file ignores
display settings.
+ [NT] Documented how lintian behaves if --quiet is used together
with --verbose or --debug.
+ [NT] Documented how --verbose and --quiet can be enabled via
the config file. Only one of "verbose" and "quiet" may
appear in the config file.
* profiles/debian/ftp-master-auto-reject.profile:
+ [NT] Refreshed to include udeb-uses-non-gzip-data-tarball.
* private/*:
+ [JW] Use LC_ALL rather than LANG, since LC_ALL overrules
LANG.
* private/refresh-manual-refs:
+ [NT] Remove code to refresh refs to the Library Packaging
Guide.
+ [JW] Added the java-policy and fixed the lintian ref.
+ [JW] Don't strip newlines from titles, but treat them as regular
whitespace characters.
+ [JW] Strip some superfluous HTML markup from titles.
* reporting/{config,html_reports,templates/foot.tmpl}:
+ [NT] Added a link to the Lintian source code.
* reporting/harness:
+ [NT] Added missing import statement.
* reporting/html_reports:
+ [JW,NT] Create a gzip'ed version of the raw lintian.log.
(Closes: #637819)
* reporting/templates/head.tmpl:
+ [NT] Show the list of all tags in the page header. Thanks to
Arno Töll for the suggestion and the patch. (Closes: #640962)
* reporting/templates/index.tmpl:
+ [NT] Added link to the new gzip'ed lintian.log.
* t/*:
+ [JW,NT] Fixed test failures caused by unpacking the source
with a umask different from 0022. (Closes: #637649)
-- Benjamin Drung <email address hidden> Tue, 13 Sep 2011 21:41:17 +0200
