Please sync lintian 2.2.14 (main) from Debian unstable (main).

[Benjamin Drung]

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Please sync lintian 2.2.14 (main) from Debian unstable (main).

Changelog since current karmic version 2.2.13:

lintian (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=low

  The "Policy 3.8.3" release.

  * Summary of tag changes:
    + Added:
      - debhelper-overrides-need-versioned-build-depends
      - maintainer-script-modifies-ld-so-conf
      - missing-dependency-on-install-info
      - multiple-distributions-in-changes-file
      - patch-system-but-no-source-readme
      - package-modifies-ld.so-search-path
      - possible-documentation-but-no-doc-base-registration
    + Removed:
      - file-in-usr-something-x11-without-pre-depends
    + Renamed:
      - build-depends-on-x-metapackage => build-depends-on-metapackage
      - depends-on-x-metapackage => depends-on-metapackage

  * checks/changelog-file.desc:
    + [RA] Document the "Old Changelog" way of marking historic changelog
      entries that shouldn't be syntax-checked in the long description for
      syntax-error-in-debian-changelog. (Closes: #541119)
  * checks/debconf:
    + [CW] Permit Help: in .templates files, which is supported as of
      cdebconf 0.143 and used in the installer.
  * checks/debhelper{,.desc}:
    + [CW] Check for the use of debhelper override targets, which require
      debhelper 7.0.50.
    + [RA] Don't warn about recently deprecated debhelper commands in
      possibly optional portions of debian/rules. (Closes: #537607)
    + [RA] Don't warn about missing build dependencies for commands in
      possibly optional portions of debian/rules. (Closes: #537608)
  * checks/description:
    + [RA] Decode descriptions from UTF-8 before checking length. Thanks,
      Charles Plessy. (Closes: #537207)
    + [RA] Avoid duplicated word false positives from words that contain
      punctuation. Thanks, Nelson A. de Oliveira. (Closes: #540348)
  * checks/fields{,.desc}:
    + [FL] packages named lib*-camlp4-dev should be in section ocaml
    + [RA] Move debian/rules parsing to check build dependencies to
      checks/rules.
    + [RA] Allow any package to be in section oldlibs without triggering
      warnings. Thanks, Rene Engelhard. (Closes: #537606)
    + [RA] Lower wrong-section-according-to-package-name to possible.
    + [RA] Recognize packages as metapackages even if they contain Lintian
      overrides, thus fixing two packages that added a Lintian override
      for having dependencies only permitted for metapackages, which in
      turn ensures that they keep getting that tag.
    + [RA] Recognize packages as metapackages even if they contain files
      in /usr/share/cdd.
    + [RA] Renamed the tags for depending or build-depending on X
      metapackages to make them generic and load the list of metapackages
      from data/fields/metapackages. Always consider known metapackages
      to be metapackages for the dependency check.
    + [RA] Don't require a tilde after lp: in bzr URLs. Thanks, Benjamin
      Drung. (Closes: #541143)
    + [RA] Fix spelling of xfonts-encodings in the xfont dependency
      exception. (Closes: #540425)
    + [RA] Allow :ext: CVS repository references if the username looks
      like it won't require autentication. Thanks, Thorsten Glaser.
  * checks/files{,.desc}:
    + [CW] /var/lock and /var/run are not temporary filesystems in d-i, so
      don't emit errors about their use in udebs.
    + [RA] Warn about packages containing files in /etc/ld.so.conf.d that
      don't appear to be part of libc. Policy 3.8.3 no longer permits
      modification of ld.so.conf.
    + [RA] Remove the check for x11-common pre-depends before installing
      files in /usr/{include,lib}/X11. Policy 3.8.3 removes this
      requirement.
  * checks/infofiles{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Add missing leading * to example info directory entry.
    + [RA] Check that packages with info files depend on dpkg or
      install-info as recommended by Policy 5.8.3.
  * checks/lintian.desc:
    + [RA] Expand multiple-distributions-in-changes-file description and
      add a reference to the Policy section. Change certainty to
      possible, since this may be fine for non-Debian uploads.
  * checks/menus{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Add info-level tag for packages with apparent HTML or PDF
      documentation in /usr/share/doc but no doc-base registration. Based
      on a patch from Raphael Geissert. (Closes: #469018)
  * checks/patch-systems{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Check for a patch system in use but no debian/README.source.
      Based on a patch from Jonathan Yu. (Closes: #537969)
  * checks/po-debconf:
    + [CW] Don't emit not-using-po-debconf if all templates are marked "for
      internal use". (Closes: #492626)
  * checks/rules{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Moved checking of build dependencies based on programs invoked
      in debian/rules from checks/fields to here.
    + [RA] Expand Lintian's understanding of which targets are run for the
      clean target to include targets invoked via pattern variable
      expansion. (Closes: #536405)
    + [RA] Make the handling of make variables as rule names more robust
      and avoid generating invalid regexes.
    + [RA] Packages including /usr/share/mozilla-devscripts makefile
      fragments in debian/rules must Build-Depend on mozilla-devscripts.
      Thanks, Benjamin Drung. (Closes: #541144)
  * checks/scripts:
    + [RA] Fix parsing of dpkg-divert commands diverting a file ending in
      a number, followed by a redirection. Thanks, Andreas Beckmann.
      (Closes: #534942)
    + [RA] Warn about maintainter scripts that modify /etc/ld.so.conf.
      Policy 3.8.3 no longer permits this.
    + [RA] Avoid command-with-path-in-maintainer-script false positives
      with backtick expressions as arguments to commands. Thanks, Stefan
      Fritsch. (Closes: #536397)
  * checks/watch-file:
    + [RA] Fix false positives in debian-watch-file-should-mangle-version
      when an upstream version is specified in the watch file and give the
      line number of mangling issues. Patch from Raphael Geissert.
      (Closes: #536404)

  * data/debhelper/*:
    + [ADB] Refresh against unstable.
  * data/fields/architectures:
    + [RA] Refresh architecture list against dpkg 1.15.3.1, adding avr32
      and kopensolaris. (Closes: #538055)
  * data/fields/metapackages:
    + [RA] New file listing known metapackages that should not be used in
      Depends or Build-Depends.
    + [RA] Add mono-complete. (Closes: #538929)
  * data/fields/virtual-packages:
    + [ADB] Refresh against unstable.
  * data/files/fonts:
    + [ADB] Refresh against unstable.
  * data/standards-version/release-dates:
    + [RA] Add the release date for Policy 3.8.3.

  * debian/control:
    + [RA] Update standards version to 3.8.3 (no changes required).

  * frontend/lintian:
    + [RA] Enable multiple-distributions-in-changes-file now that Policy
      documents that this does not work with the Debian archive.
  * frontend/lintian-info:
    + [ADB] Correctly parse Lintian output for pedantic tags. Thanks, James
      Vega.

  * lib/Spelling.pm:
    + [RA] Add spelling correction for precedence.

  * reporting/html_reports:
    + [JP] Accumulate tag-specific statistics in a new variable, and pass it
      to the appropriate templates.
  * reporting/templates/tags{,-severity}.tmpl:
    + [JP] Remove duplicate code to calculate tag statistics.

  * t/runtests:
    + [RA] Update standards version to 3.8.3.

 -- Russ Allbery <email address hidden> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 22:47:44 -0700