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• Published on 2012-05-29

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lintian (2.5.8) unstable; urgency=low

  Its like 2.5.7, only with less false positives and no FTBFS.

  * checks/binaries{,.desc}:
    + [NT] Fix a too strict regex causing false-positives for
      biarch packages.  This was a regression introduced in
      version 2.5.7.  Thanks to Sven Joachim for reporting it.
      (Closes: #673106)
    + [NT] Demote certainty of hardening-no-stackprotector to
      wild-guess and move it to debian/extra-hardening profile.
    + [NT] Skip hardening-no-fortify-functions for binaries only
      using the unprotected memcpy.  This greatly reduces the
      number of false positives for binaries compiled with
      gcc-4.7 -O2 (or higher optimization).  (Closes: #673112)
  * checks/files:
    + [NT] Properly handle symlinks in icon directories.  Thanks
      to Nicholas Breen for the report and Felix Geyer for the
      patches.  (Closes: #673352)
    + [NT] Ignore wrong sizes on images in animations as it may
      be a method to implement the animation.  Thanks to Matthias
      Klumpp for the report and Felix Geyer for the patch.
      (Closes: #673862)
    + [NT] Ignore wrong icon sizes if the size difference is at
      most 2px.  Thanks to Felix Geyer for the patch.
  * checks/scripts:
    + [NT] Refactor the %versioned_interpreters into a new
      data file.
  * checks/shared-libs:
    + [NT] Fix false positive "dev-pkg-without-shlib-symlink"
      for shared libraries using "libtool -release X.Y".
      Thanks to Sven Joachim for the report.  (Closes: #673109)
    + [NT] Fix false positive "dev-pkg-without-shlib-symlink"
      for shared libraries installed in /lib.  Lintian now
      correctly expects the dev-symlink beneath /usr/lib.
      Thanks to Guillem Jover for the report.
  * checks/source-copyright:
    + [NT] Use the in-memory contents of the copyright file
      instead of re-reading the file when parsing it as a
      DEP-5 copyright file.

  * collection/objdump-info{,.desc}:
    + [NT] Drop -D flag for readelf when looking for symbols.
      This makes some checks more reliable in Ubuntu.  Thanks
      to Marc Deslauriers for the report and the patch.
      (Closes: #673451)

  * debian/control:
    + [NT] Add versioned Build-Depends on dpkg-dev (>= 1.16.1~)
      as the test suite relies on it.  Thanks to Luca Falavigna
      for reporting it.
    + [NT] Update the description to mention that the version
      of Lintian is calibrated for version 3.9.3 of the Policy.
  * debian/lintian.install:
    + [NT] Remove usr/share/lintian/data - Lintian does not
      need it and dpkg will not replace the dir with a symlink.

  * data/scripts/interpreters:
    + [NT] Add falcon, gbr3, jython and ngp2 as known interpreters.
      (Closes: #669911, #671387, #662134, #667895)
  * data/scripts/versioned-interpreters:
    + [NT] New file.
    + [NT] Added python2.7 to the list of known Python 2 interpreters.
  * data/spelling/corrections:
    + [RA] Remove corrections for "writeable" and "overwriteable".  These
      spellings are permitted by the OED in UK English.  (Closes: #673611)
    + [NT] Add correction for "pointer".

  * lib/Lintian/Collect/*.pm:
    + [NT] Localize "$_" to avoid truncating caller's variable.
      (Closes: #673613)

  * t:
    + [NT] Generate empty ".so" files used in the test.  This
      resolves an issue where dpkg-source would exclude them
      causing a FTBFS.  (Closes: #673198)
    + [NT] Fix test failure in derivatives where some hardening
      flags are enabled by default.  Thanks to Marc Deslauriers
      for the report and the patch.  (Closes: #673449)
 -- Niels Thykier <email address hidden>   Tue, 29 May 2012 11:49:47 +0200

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• lintian_2.5.8.dsc (2.1 KiB)
• lintian_2.5.8.tar.gz (1.0 MiB)
• lintian_2.5.8_all.deb (682.5 KiB)