This is the Debian package of Lintian, the Debian package checker.
The latest version of Lintian can always be found at:
http://lintian.debian.org/
Lintian was designed and written by Christian Schwarz and Richard Braakman.
The package was previously maintained by Darren Benham,
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry and Josip Rodin.
It is now maintained by a group of people, with changes noted by initials
in the changelog. Key to frequent committers:
JvW == Jeroen van Wolffelaar
FL == Frank Lichtenheld
HE == Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
CW == Colin Watson
RA == Russ Allbery
TK == Thijs Kinkhorst
ADB == Adam D. Barratt
JP == Jordà Polo
JA == Jari Aalto
RG == Raphael Geissert
NT == Niels Thykier
JW == Jakub Wilk
Contact address is .
Lintian is maintained in git. The current development version may
be checked out from:
git://git.debian.org/git/lintian/lintian.git
Copyright (C) 1998 Christian Schwarz and Richard Braakman
Portions Copyright (C) 1998-1999 Joey Hess
Portions Copyright (C) 1999 Darren Benham
Portions Copyright (C) 2000 Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
Portions Copyright (C) 2001-2008 Colin Watson
Portions Copyright (C) 2001-2003 Josip Rodin
Portions Copyright (C) 2002-2004 Denis Barbier
Portions Copyright (C) 2004-2008 Marc Brockschmidt
Portions Copyright (C) 2004-2008 Frank Lichtenheld
Portions Copyright (C) 2004-2006 Jeroen van Wolffelaar
Portions Copyright (C) 2005 René van Bevern
Portions Copyright (C) 2006 Adeodato Simó
Portions Copyright (C) 2007-2010 Russ Allbery
Portions Copyright (C) 2008 Patrick Schoenfeld
Portions Copyright (C) 2008 Niko Tyni
Portions Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Raphael Geissert
Portions Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Adam D. Barratt
Portions Copyright (C) 2009 Stéphane Glondu
Portions Copyright (C) 2010 Raphaël Hertzog
Portions Copyright (C) 2010-2011 Niels Thykier
Portions Copyright (C) 2011 Gerfried Fuchs
Portions Copyright (C) 2011 Jakub Wilk
This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
any later version.
This is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but without
any warranty; without even the implied warranty of merchantability or
fitness for a particular purpose. See the GNU General Public License
for more details.
A copy of the GNU General Public License version 2 is available as
/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2 in the Debian GNU/Linux distribution
or at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html.
You can also obtain it by writing to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.