lintian 2.5.5 source package in Ubuntu

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lintian (2.5.5) unstable; urgency=low


  The "Policy 3.9.3" release.

  * Summary of tag changes:
    + Added:
      - arch-dependent-file-not-in-arch-specific-directory
      - control-file-contains-dh_make-vcs-comment
      - debhelper-compat-file-is-missing
      - dependency-is-not-multi-archified
      - dh-exec-install-not-allowed-here
      - dh-exec-private-helper
      - dh-exec-script-without-dh-exec-features
      - dh-exec-subst-unknown-variable
      - executable-debhelper-file-without-being-executable
      - missing-dependency-on-numpy-abi
      - package-file-is-executable
      - package-uses-dh-exec-but-lacks-build-depends
      - preinst-uses-dpkg-maintscript-helper-without-predepends
      - shlib-in-multi-arch-foreign-package
      - source-contains-waf-binary
      - syntax-error-in-control-file
      - syntax-error-in-debconf-template
    + Removed:
      - dh_dhelp-is-deprecated
      - maintainer-not-full-name
      - maintainer-script-calls-deprecated-wm-menu-config
      - maintainer-script-does-not-check-for-existence-of-wm-menu-config
      - uploader-address-missing
      - uploader-not-full-name

  * checks/*:
    + [NT] Fixed assumptions about certain fields being present.
      Where needed, Lintian will make guesses to the most likely
      value (or the least "broken" value).
  * checks/binaries{,.desc}:
    + [NT] Allow libnss_* plugins in usr/lib.
    + [JW] Check for ELF binaries installed in unsafe paths in
      Multi-Arch: same packages.  (Closes: #650445)
    + [JW] Added check numpy ABI dependency.  (Closes: #658311)
    + [NT] Fixed embedded-library false-positive for tiff3.  Thanks
      to Jay Berkenbilt for the report.  (Closes: #660675)
  * checks/control-file{,.desc}:
    + [NT] Allow "pkg (= ${source:Version})" versioned dependency if
      pkg is architecture all.  This fixes a false-positive
      "weak-library-dev-dependency" for some mono packages.  Thanks
      to David Bremner for the report.  (Closes: #652602)
    + [NT] Emit a tag if there is a syntax error in d/control rather
      than just aborting the rest of the check.
    + [NT] Accepted patch from Gergely Nagy to catch dh-make vcs
      templates in comments.  Thanks to Paul Wise for suggesting this
      check.  (Closes: #657110)
  * checks/copyright.desc:
    + [RA] Rephrase copyright-with-old-dh-make-debian-copyright long
      description to be clearer about the legal status of copyright
      notices.  (Closes: #659574)
    + [RA,NT] Make copyright-with-old-dh-make-debian-copyright a
      pedantic tag.
  * checks/cruft{,.desc}:
    + [NT] Added dh-autoreconf as a build-depends alternative to
      libtool for suppressing ancient-libtool warning.  Thanks to
      Felix Geyer for the report.  (Closes: #650325)
    + [NT] Accepted patch from Paul Wise to detect COFF object
      files as Win32 binaries.
    + [NT] Properly handle unpacked being a symlink.
    + [NT] Accepted patch from Luca Falavigna to detect waf files
      with a binary payload.  (Closes: #654523)
  * checks/debconf:
    + [RA] Recognize Perl uses of debconf templates via metaget or
      settitle.
  * checks/debhelper{,.desc}:
    + [NT] Do not check executable debhelper files for brace
      expansion if compat is 9 (or greater).  It may be allowed by
      tool interpreting the file.
    + [NT] Added checks for handling executable files in the
      debian dir.  Thanks to Joey Hess and Arno Töll for the
      reports.  (Closes: #651572, #651330)
    + [NT] Added various dh-exec related checks.  Thanks to Gergely
      Nagy for the patches.  (Closes: #653071)
    + [NT] Removed tag for using dh_dhelp.  It is not shipped in
      debhelper anymore (not even Squeeze) and the tag is not
      emitted anymore (according to lintian.d.o).
    + [NT] Added check for missing compat file.  (Closes: #656885)
  * checks/fields{,.desc}:
    + [JW] Properly handle uploader names with commas.
      (Closes: #485705)
    + [NT] Removed uploader-address-missing tag.
    + [NT] Added section-mapping for (some) zope packages.  This
      fixes some false-positives where python-zope packages were
      wrongly identified as belong to the python section.
    + [NT] Fixed an issue where "doc-pkg-depends-on-main-pkg" would
      only be triggered if it was a "pre-depends" relation.
    + [NT] Use new Lintian::Architecture API.
    + [JW] Include ssh:// as a valid protocol for hg.
      (Closes: #655907)
    + [NT] Ignore self relations in Replaces and Provides.  This
      is allowed according to §7.6.2.  (Closes: #657034)
    + [NT] Applied patch from intrigeri to remove "not-full-name"
      tags.  (Closes: #658031)
  * checks/files:
    + [JW,NT] Skip "Multi-Arch: same" check of gzip files if their
      install path contains the architecture.  (Closes: #650665)
    + [JW]  Fixed a false-negative "empty-binary-package" if the
      package contained the /u/s/doc/$pkg symlink.
      (Closes: #650959)
    + [NT] Allow fonts in packages starting with "fonts-".  This
      completes the fix for #646838.  Thanks to أحمد المحمودي
      for the follow up report.  (Closes: #651045)
    + [NT] Re-added swfobject.js to the list of known javascript
      libraries.  Thanks to Paul Wise for noticing it had been
      uploaded.
  * checks/group-check{,.desc}:
    + [NT] Check for file conflicts in binaries built from the same
      source package.  (Closes: #293838)
    + [JW] Added check for incomplete Multi-arch'ification.
      (Closes: #650838)
  * checks/menus{,.desc}:
    + [NT] Remove obsolete checks for wm-menu/wm-menu-config use in
      maintainer scripts.  The executables are not shipped in menu
      in Squeeze nor sid.  Furthermore the tags are not emitted in
      any package (according to lintian.d.o).
  * checks/nmu:
    + [JW] Properly handle uploader names with commas.
  * checks/po-debconf:
    + [NT] Remove special handling for packages using yada.
  * checks/rules:
    + [NT] Remove check for missing build-depends on yada.
  * checks/scripts:
    + [NT] Accepted patch from Evan Broder to check for missing
      versioned pre-depends on dpkg when using maintscript helper.
      This dependency is trivially satisfied in Debian, but may
      complicate Ubuntu LTS upgrades.  (Closes: #602249)
    + [NT] Accepted patch from James McCoy to recognize "racket" as
      a known interpreter.  (Closes: #652594)
    + [NT] Accepted patch from Martin Erik Werner to recognize
      "fontforge" as a known interpreter.  (Closes: #652736)
  * checks/shared-libs{,.desc}:
    + [JW] Check for Multi-Arch foreign packages shipping shared
      libraries in public library directories.  (Closes: #650444)
    + [NT] Use the new hwcap-dirs data file to determine hwcap dirs.
    + [NT] Ignore missing symbols/shlibs files for libc libnss
      plugins.
  * checks/source-copyright{,.desc}:
    + [JW] Allow a trailing slash in the DEP-5 1.0 URL.
      (Closes: #649813)
    + [NT] Use line numbers rather than "0-indexed" paragraph numbers
      in the emitted tags.  Thanks to Jari Aalto for the suggestion.
    + [NT] Recommend the URI to the copyright-format subpolicy as
      DEP-5 format specification URI.  Thanks to Helmut Grohne for
      the report.  (Closes: #651392)
  * checks/symlinks:
    + [NT] Ignore langpack symlinks if they appear to be consistent.
      Thanks to Evan Broder for the report.  (Closes: #650793)

  * collection/ar-info:
    + [NT] Properly handle unpacked being a symlink.
  * collection/index:
    + [NT] Use Lintian::Processable::Package to determine source
      name and version.
  * collection/file-info{,-helper}:
    + [NT] Do not open non-files when double-checking gzip files.
    + [NT] Pass "-N" to file as Lintian does not need the aligned
      output.
  * collection/md5sums:
    + [NT] Properly handle unpacked being a symlink.
  * collection/source-control-file{,.desc}:
    + [NT] Removed as they are no longer needed.  They have been
      replaced by a smarter Lintian::Collect.
  * collcetion/unpacked:
    + [NT] Pass --no-check to dpkg-source when requested not to
      check signatures (via reporting/harness).

  * data/{fields => common}/architectures:
    + [NT] Moved architectures to data/common.
  * data/debhelper/dh_addons-manual:
    + [JW] Add python3-sphinx as provider of sphinxdoc dh sequence.
  * data/debhelper/dh_commands-manual:
    + [JW] Add python3-sphinx as provider of dh_sphinxdoc.
      (Closes: #649640)
    + [NT] Added libxine-dev | libxine2-dev as provider of dh_xine.
      (Closes: #659285)
  * data/fields/archive-sections:
    + [NT] Added new sections.  Thanks to Michael Biebl for the
      reminder.  (Closes: #652123)
  * data/fields/virtual-packages:
    + [NT] Refreshed against sid.  (Closes: #657155)
  * data/files/fonts:
    + [NT] Refreshed against sid.
  * data/init.d/virtual_facilities:
    + [NT] Refreshed against sid.
  * data/output/ftp-master-{,non}fatal:
    + [NT] Refreshed.
  * data/output/manual-references:
    + [NT] Refreshed.
  * data/shared-libs/hwcap-dirs:
    + [JW] New data file for listing known hwcap dirs.
  * data/shared-libs/ldconfig-dirs:
    + [NT] Auto-generate file with help from dpkg-architecture.
      (Closes: #653832)
  * data/spelling/corrections:
    + [NT] Added corrections for deprecate(d) and pedantic.
  * data/standards-version/release-dates:
    + [NT] Added release date for Standards-Version 3.9.3.

  * debian/control:
    + [NT] Prefer libc-bin (>= 2.13) to locales.  Thanks to Josh
      Triplett for the suggestion, investigative work and the
      proposed patch to make this possible.  (Closes: #636086)
    + [JW] Add Build-Dependency on python-numpy and python-all-dev
      for the test suite.
    + [NT] Bumped Lintian's Standards-Version to 3.9.3.  No changes
      required.
  * debian/{postinst,prerm}:
    + [JW,NT] Remove the internal Lintian locale if a C.UTF-8 locale
      is found in /usr/lib/locale.
  * debian/source/lintian-overrides:
    + [NT] Added override for python-dev tag.  We need python-all-dev
      for the test suite.
  * debian/triggers:
    + [JW] Added trigger for libc-bin C.UTF-8 locale.  This ensures
      the internal Lintian locale can removed if libc-bin is upgraded
      after Lintian.

  * doc/lintian.xml:
    + [NT] Corrected the runtime estimate for an archive-wide run.
      With 35 000+ packages, it can no longer be done in "a few
      hours".
    + [NT] Documented architecture specific overrides.
      (Closes: #651816)
  * doc/lintianrc.example:
    + [NT] Removed deprecated variables and added sample TMPDIR
      usage.

  * frontend/lintian:
    + [NT] Allow -U to be given more than once.
    + [JW,NT] If using a temporary lab, print its location when
      using --verbose option.  (Closes: #650433)
    + [NT] Fixed an issue where auto-clean would not see the real
      status of some collections.
    + [NT] Keep auto-cleaned collections until all processables in
      the group has been checked.
    + [NT] Attempt guess the version number when running in an git
      checkout or unpacked source dir.  Based on patch from Evan
      Broder.  (Closes: #650701)
    + [NT] Added support for the virtual "GROUP" type in Lab Queries.
      This will make Lintian select all packages related to a given
      source (and version).
    + [NT] Removed check loading code.  This has been moved into
      Lintian::Profile.
    + [NT] Always load a profile.
    + [NT] Allow TMPDIR in the configuration file.
    + [NT] Treat "pedantic" as a normal severity.  In previous
      release, pedantic tags were not affected by --display-level.
      A side-effect of this is that "pedantic" can no longer be
      used with "display-level" in the configuration file.
    + [NT] Produce a better error message when asked to process an
      URL or a path that is definitely not a valid lab query.
      Thanks to Nicholas Bamber for the report.  (Closes: #651332)
  * frontend/lintian-info:
    + [NT] Support new lintian.log format.
    + [NT] Support new override file format with -a.
    + [NT] Fixed the --profile argument, which now accepts the
      mandatory parameter it is supposed to.

  * lib/Checker.pm:
    + [NT] Removed, merged into frontend/lintian.
  * lib/Lintian/Architecture.pm:
    + [NT] New file.
  * lib/Lintian/Check.pm:
    + [NT] Do not check for missing uploader address as it cannot be
      done reliably anymore.
    + [NT] Applied patch from intrigeri to remove the "not-full-name"
      tags.
    + [NT] Only emit a spelling tag once for each spelling error in each
      field/file/text.
  * lib/Lintian/CheckScript.pm:
    + [NT] New file.
  * lib/Lintian/Collect/{Binary,Source}.pm:
    + [NT] Assume packages to be non-native when it cannot be
      accurately determined due to missing version field.
  * lib/Lintian/Collect/Binary.pm:
    + [NT] Fixed an error in parsing symbol names when using readelf
      as replacement for objdump.
  * lib/Lintian/Collect/Group.pm:
    + [NT] Made direct_dependencies properly handle udebs.  This fixes
      an error that would cause lintian to skip some checks for udebs.
  * lib/Lintian/Collect/Package.pm:
    + [NT] Map an owner/group of "0/0" to "root/root".  This avoids a
      number of false-positive ownership tags if only numerical
      ownership is available in the tarball.  Thanks to Thorsten
      Glaser for the report.  (Closes: #638278)
  * lib/Lintian/Collect/Source.pm:
    + [NT] Removed assumption that source packages always have a
      format field.
  * lib/Lintian/Lab.pm:
    + [NT] Added "is_temp" method to identify temp labs from static
      labs.
    + [NT] Corrected issue where the lab would record binaries as
      being from "main", even if their "section" field implied
      otherwise.
  * lib/Lintian/Lab/Entry.pm:
    + [NT] Properly strip whitespace when loading collection status.
  * lib/Lintian/Processable/Package.pm:
    + [NT] Use part of the file name as package name if the mandatory
      "Package" or "Source" fields are missing rather than choking.
  * lib/Lintian/Profile.pm:
    + [NT] Catch recursively defined profiles when the Profile field
      contains a (slightly) different name than the Extends field of
      its parent.  (Closes: #655469)
    + [NT] Handle loading of checks and tags.
  * lib/Lintian/Tag/Info.pm:
    + [NT] Accepted patch from Evan Broder to always output effective
      severity in tag descriptions.
    + [NT] Removed code to load tags from checks.  This has moved to
      Lintian::Profile.
  * lib/Lintian/Tags.pm:
    + [NT] Support architecture wildcards in overrides.
    + [NT] Emit "malformed-override" for architecture specific tags for
      unknown architectures and for "arch:all" packages.
    + [NT] Use a Profile to determine if a tag is suppressed or not.
    + [NT] Handle "pedantic" like the other severities.
    + [NT] Count experimental tags as a separate group of tags.  This
      fixes an issue where lintian would exit 1 if the only error
      tags emitted were experimental.  (Closes: #658971)
  * lib/Util.pm:
    + [NT] Create clean_env function to handle cleaning of the
      environment for children processes and finding a suitable UTF-8
      locale (when needed).
    + [NT] Report line number instead of "0-indexed" paragraph number
      in syntax errors.  Thanks to Jari Aalto for the suggestion.
      (Closes: #659909)

  * man/lintian.pod.in:
    + [NT] Removed the notes that some options disable loading of a
      profile.  Lintian now always loads a profile when doing checks.

  * private/refresh-archs:
    + [NT] Rewritten.
  * private/refresh-hwcap:
    + [JW] New file.

  * profiles/debian/ftp-master-auto-reject.profile:
    + [NT] Refreshed.

  * reporting/harness:
    + [NT] Removed useless "TODO" message from the log output.
    + [NT] Added -h/--help option to print usage information.
    + [NT] Added --dry-run option.
    + [NT] A source package is now only processed if one (or more) of
      its binaries are processed as well.
    + [NT] Also symlink $LINTIAN_BIN_DIR/gpgv to /bin/true when
      skipping signature checks.  This avoids issues when some tools
      prefers gpgv to gpg.
  * reporting/html_reports:
    + [JW] Properly handle uploader names with commas.
    + [NT] Use the severities from profiles when generating tag pages.
      Based on patches from Evan Broder.  (Closes: #650712)
    + [NT] Removed tag loading code, which has moved into
      Lintian::Profile.
    + [NT] Pass a profile to the templates (as $profile) instead of the
      old %all hash.
    + [NT] List only source packages on the "packages_X.html" pages.
  * reporting/templates/tags-all.tmpl:
    + [NT] Use $profile instead of the %all hash.

 -- Niels Thykier <email address hidden>  Thu, 23 Feb 2012 14:06:21 +0100