lintian 2.5.72 source package in Ubuntu

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lintian (2.5.72) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Summary of tag changes:
    + Added:
      - debian-rules-uses-deprecated-systemd-override
      - debian-watch-does-not-check-gpg-signature
    + Removed:
      - debian-watch-may-check-gpg-signature

  * checks/binaries.pm:
    + [CL] Avoid a false positive for spelling-error-in-binary that was
      causing a FTBFS on armhf.  (Closes: #888074)
    + [CL] Drop a duplicate line in spelling-error-in-binary exceptions.
    + [CL] Move spelling-error-in-binary exceptions to a data file.
    + [CL] Support binutils 2.29.90.20180122 (vs. 2.29.1) when parsing ELF
      files for errors as the newer version modified the readelf output.
      This was causing a testsuite failure when checking the
      apparently-corrupted-elf-binary tag.  (Closes: #888456)
  * checks/cruft.{desc,pm}:
    + [CL] Do not emit "license-problem-php-license" when the source comes
      from pecl.php.net: "The last agreement with FTP Masters was that PHP
      license is OK when the sources some from PECL repository."
      (Closes: #810780)
    + [CL] Allow, for example, debian/missing-sources/foo.js directories to
      represent the source for foo.js. This is useful when foo.js is the
      result of concatenating multiple files.  (Closes: #836771)
  * checks/debhelper.{desc,pm}:
    + [CL] Warn about packages that use about dh_systemd_enable or
      dh_systemd_start overrides whilst using debhelper compat level 11 as
      they are no longer being called.  (Closes: #887899)
    + [CL] Include the offending context and line when emitting the
      brace-expansion-in-debhelper-config-file tag.
    + [CL] Avoid false positives and remove an existing (incorrect) test
      for apparent brace expansions in config files that do not include a
      comma.  (Closes: #888304)
  * checks/fields.pm:
    + [CL] Also check xfonts-foo for font-package-not-multi-arch-foreign.
  * checks/files.desc:
    + [CL] Downgrade extra-license-file from "W" to "I".  (Closes: #740118)
  * checks/patch-systems.{desc,pm}:
    + [CL] Ignore files called "README" or "README.patches" when checking
      packages for patch-file-present-but-not-mentioned-in-series.
      (Closes: #888413)
    + [CL] Ignore commented-out patches in series files when checking the
      patch-file-present-but-not-mentioned-in-series tag.
    + [CL] Check "$vendor.series" (not "series.$vendor") when checking for
      the patch-file-present-but-not-mentioned-in-series tag.
  * checks/source-copyright.desc:
    + [CL] Clarify that paragraph ordering matters in the description of
      the unused-file-paragraph-in-dep5-copyright tag.  (Closes: #762261)
  * checks/watch-file.{desc,pm}:
    + [CL] Rename the debian-watch-may-check-gpg-signature tag to
      debian-watch-does-not-check-gpg-signature to avoid confusion around
      the "may check" implying that the package in question does such
      checking and we disapprove of it. Thanks to Andreas Beckmann for the
      suggestion.  (Closes: #735040)

  * data/fields/name_section_mappings:
    + [CL] Ensure xfonts-foo are recognised as part of the "x11" section to
      match the definition on https://packages.debian.org/en/sid/.
      (Closes: #878609)
  * data/spelling/corrections:
    + [PW] Add a number of corrections.

  * debian/control:
    + [CL] docbook-xml is required to build the documentation, so drop
      "<!nocheck>" build restriction.
  * debian/copyright:
    + [CL] Add missing initials for Gergely Nagy, Sylvestre Ledru and Steve
      Langasek.  (Closes: #831729)

  * lib/Lintian/Check.pm:
    + [CL] Avoid false positives in the spelling-error-in-description
      (etc.) tags where the repetition is part of an acronym expansion such
      as "ORA (ORA Recursive Acronym)".  (Closes: #883719)

 -- Chris Lamb <email address hidden>  Fri, 26 Jan 2018 05:17:01 +0000

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Urgency:
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lintian: Debian package checker

 Lintian dissects Debian packages and reports bugs and policy
 violations. It contains automated checks for many aspects of Debian
 policy as well as some checks for common errors.
 .
 It uses an archive directory, called laboratory, in which it stores
 information about the packages it examines. It can keep this
 information between multiple invocations in order to avoid repeating
 expensive data-collection operations. This makes it possible to check the
 complete Debian archive for bugs, in a reasonable time.
 .
 This package is useful for all people who want to check Debian
 packages for compliance with Debian policy. Every Debian maintainer
 should check packages with this tool before uploading them to the
 archive.
 .
 This version of Lintian is calibrated for policy version 4.1.4.