Changelog
lintian (1.23.21ubuntu1) edgy; urgency=low
* Merge from debian unstable.
* add edgy to frontend
lintian (1.23.21) unstable; urgency=low
* checks/menus:
+ [RA] Tell Perl where common_data.pm is since we're now including it.
Doh. Thanks, Nelson A. de Oliveira. (Closes: #366481)
lintian (1.23.20) unstable; urgency=low
The "Policy backlog clearing is a wonderful sight" release
* checks/debconf{.desc,}:
+ [RA] Add checks for the Developer's Reference guidelines for debconf
templates. Based on a patch by Thomas Huriaux. (Closes: #362145)
* checks/fields{.desc,}:
+ [RA] xfonts-encodings is also not an xfont package. Thanks, Drew
Parsons. (Closes: #365503)
+ [RA] Report errors for dependencies on python-minimal. Thanks to
Steve Langasek for the analysis.
+ [RA] Allow a build-dependency on patchutils when using CDBS with one
of the patch systems, as patchutils may be optionally used to check
for bad patches. Thanks, Marc Dequènes (Duck). (Closes: #365466)
+ [RA] Since some packages should be in Build-Depends and some should
be in Build-Depends-Indep, report all of the misplaced ones rather
than just the first one. That way, users know which to move.
+ [RA] Allow perl in Build-Depends if invoked in clean rules.
+ [RA] Allow patch in Build-Depends if yada unpatch is invoked in
clean rules.
* checks/files{.desc,}:
+ [RA] Add an explicit check for non-world-readable executables to
provide a more detailed explanation and tighten the accepted
permissions of setuid and setgid executables to just the permissions
mentioned in Policy 10.9. Add Policy 10.9 references to the
descriptions. Reported by Piotr Engelking. (Closes: #365452)
+ [RA] Add a request to the descriptions of setuid and setgid tags to
add a lintian override for documentation if the permissions are
intentional.
+ [RA] Report a more specific tag for binaries that are owned by group
games but are not setgid.
+ [RA] Remove the check for files in /usr/lib/cgi-bin. This policy
change was reverted.
+ [RA] Allow files installed in /usr/include/X11 and /usr/lib/X11 but
require Pre-Depends on x11-common (>= 1:7.0.0). Remove the
duplicate check for files in /usr/bin/X11 since it no longer adds
additional information.
* checks/menus{.desc,}:
+ [RA] Check that all files referenced in doc-base control files are
present in the package, based on a patch by Robert Luberda. Also
check that Index references only one file and that Format names a
known format. (Closes: #196122)
+ [RA] Fix incomplete diagnosis of missing calls to update-menus.
+ [RA] Change postrm to prerm in the check for a useless install-docs
call; calling install-docs in postrm is always a warning and useless
calls in prerm were not being diagnosed.
* checks/po-debconf{.desc,}:
+ [RA] Exempt packages that use yada from the POTFILES.in check and
from checking for up-to-date templates, since yada does this at
build time. Reported by Piotr Roszatycki. (Closes: #321139)
+ [RA] Check for stray debconf-mergetemplate files in packages
using po-debconf. Thanks, Martin Quinson. (Closes: #232442)
+ [RA] General cleanup of tag descriptions for grammar and markup.
Move man page references into Ref fields.
* checks/shared-libs.desc:
+ [RA] Document that exceptions to the -fPIC rule for shared libraries
are possible and ask that such exceptions be documented with lintian
overrides.
* checks/standards-version:
+ [RA] Update to 3.7.2. (Closes: #366233)
+ [RA] Report the current standards version when warning about too old
or too new versions. Thanks, Jari Aalto. (Closes: #366104)
* debian/control:
+ [RA] Update standards version to 3.7.2 (no changes required).
+ [RA] Update description to note calibration for Policy 3.7.2.
lintian (1.23.19) unstable; urgency=low
The "Policy 3.7.0" release
* checks/fields{.desc,}:
+ [RA] python-all-dev also satisfies dh_python's requirements.
Thanks, Marc Dequènes (Duck). (Closes: #364943)
+ [RA] Allow python in Build-Depends if it's invoked explicitly in the
clean rule. Thanks, Marc Dequènes (Duck). (Closes: #365030)
+ [RA] Recognize the CDBS included rule files that indicate dpatch or
quilt will be used, check those dependencies, and require that they
be in Build-Depends since they're used for clean. Thanks, Marc
Dequènes (Duck). (Closes: #365041)
* checks/files{.desc,}:
+ [RA] Add the references to Policy for the deprecation of X11R6
directories now that Policy has been updated in 3.7.0.0.
+ [RA] Policy now mandates FHS 2.3. Update tag descriptions.
+ [RA] Warn about files installed in /usr/lib/cgi-bin. Policy now
states they should be installed in /usr/lib/cgi-lib.
+ [RA] Warn about scripts installed on the user's PATH with names that
include language extensions (.sh, .pl, .py), per Policy 10.4.
+ [RA] Report directories under /usr/share/man that don't match the
directory layout specified in the FHS. (Closes: #176683)
+ [RA] Fix a very long-standing bug that caused the check for
executable manpages to be silently skipped.
* checks/scripts:
+ [RA] Debian etch release policy explicitly forbids scripts without
#! magic and they rely on being run from a shell. Revert the change
that permitted the Perl magic without a #! line. Thanks to Piotr
Engelking and Steve Langasek for pointing this out.
+ [RA] Don't syntax-check *.dpatch scripts in /usr/src. bash -n
doesn't stop at exit 0 and then may choke on the patch. Thanks,
Matthias Klose. (Closes: #364521)
* checks/scripts.desc:
+ [RA] Using invoke-rc.d is now required by Policy.
* checks/standards-version:
+ [RA] Update to 3.7.0.
* debian/control:
+ [RA] Update standards version to 3.7.0 (no changes required).
+ [RA] Update description to note calibration for Policy 3.7.0.
lintian (1.23.18) unstable; urgency=low
The "brown paper Python" release
* checks/fields{.desc,}:
+ [RA] Redo handling of build dependencies to allow a custom tag to be
specified and to allow a general dependency string to be required
rather than a simple package name. As a result, dh_python handling
is no longer a buggy special case. Allow either python or
python-dev for dh_python and the cdbs Python rules. Thanks, Torsten
Merek and Aaron M. Ucko. (Closes: #364297, #364330)
+ [RA] Require at least quilt 0.40 if /usr/share/quilt/quilt.make is
included. Thanks, Michele Baldessari.
+ [RA] Packages using dh_installxfonts must build-depend on 5.0.31 or
later of debhelper for the X.Org 7 transition.
lintian (1.23.17) unstable; urgency=low
The "happy Nanaimo hacking" release
* checks/binaries:
+ [RA] Detect klibc binaries from their requested interpreter and
allow them to appear static. (Closes: #328850)
* checks/common_data.pm:
+ [RA] Include all combinations of cpu and os from the dpkg cputable
and ostable files (as of dpkg 1.13.16). (Closes: #337034, #357433)
+ [RA] Include a list of known X metapackages.
* checks/control-file{.desc,}:
+ [RA] Warn if debian/control in a source package is a symlink.
* checks/copyright-file{.desc,}:
+ [RA] Don't assume mentions of GPL or GNU General Public License
after what look like mail headers are referring to the license of
the package. Be a bit more specific in the old FSF address check
to avoid false positives on other Cambridge, MA addresses. Reported
by Adam C. Powell IV. (Closes: #205934)
* checks/debconf:
+ [RA] Allow Indices as a template field. cdebconf uses it and
debconf ignores it. Reported by Frans Pop. (Closes: #361986)
* checks/debdiff{.desc,}:
+ [RA] Warn if the diff contains debian/substvars. Based on a patch
by Michael Ablassmeier. (Closes: #359646)
* checks/debhelper.desc:
+ [RA] When explaining the warning about deprecated debhelper
compatibility versions, mention that debhelper defaults to version 1
if not set anywhere. (Closes: #360711)
+ [RA] Move simple man page references from Info into Ref.
* checks/fields{.desc,}:
+ [RA] Allow dpatch in Build-Depends for arch-independent packages if
it is invoked in clean, build-arch, or binary-arch.
+ [RA] Only list examples of non-standard architectures, since there
are now too many combinations to list completely.
+ [RA] Catch dependencies on X metapackages, based on a patch by Josh
Triplett. No packages are allowed to build-depend, and only
packages that look like metapackages (arch: all, no files outside of
/usr/share/doc) are allowed to depend. (Closes: #347169)
+ [RA] Look for an explicit section of unknown, probably left over
from dh_make templates, and diagnose it with an error rather than a
warning. Reported by Jari Aalto. (Closes: #355032)
+ [RA] Reorganize dependency checking based on debian/rules analysis.
Diagnose missing build dependencies on the helper packages we know
about, catch cases where Build-Depends-Indep should be Build-Depends
because of the clean target, and make sure users of dh_python
build-depend on python. yada is no longer a special case.
(Closes: #242789, #278290)
+ [RA] Check for conflicting with dependencies and build-conflicting
with build dependencies. (Closes: #122760)
+ [RA] Allow xfonts-utils in dependencies. It's not actually an X
font package.
* checks/files{.desc,}:
+ [RA] For the X.Org 7 transition, add explicit checks for fonts and
binaries installed in /usr/X11R6. Rename the existing check for
other files in /usr/X11R6 since the tag had a pluralization error
and we want package maintainers to see the error again and
reconsider whether to ignore it. No packages should be installing
files in /usr/X11R6 going forward. Remove the policy cross-refs for
right now until policy catches up.
* checks/manpages:
+ [RA] Use system_env instead of system and sanitize the environment
before running man -l out of caution and to avoid extraneous output
when CDPATH is set. Reported by Marc Haber. (Closes: #360217)
* checks/nmu{.desc,}:
+ [RA] Warn if debian/changelog in a native source package is a
symlink and skip checks rather than aborting if it was a symlink to
a file we didn't unpack. (Closes: #257650)
* checks/po-debconf:
+ [RA] Use system_env instead of system out of caution and to avoid
extraneous output when CDPATH is set.
* checks/rules{.desc,}:
+ [RA] A new set of checks that parses debian/rules and checks for
required rules, debian/rules as a symlink, and the correct first
line. Based heavily on previous work by René van Bevern.
(Closes: #294926, #311786)
* checks/scripts{.desc,}:
+ [RA] Ignore text inside single quotes and, for most checks, text
inside double quotes when checking for bashisms. Reported by Frank
Küster. (Closes: #344266)
+ [RA] Change canonical zsh path to /bin/zsh at the request of the zsh
maintainer. (Closes: #360534)
+ [RA] Change the check for broken error handling with invoke-rc.d to
maintainer-script-hides-init-failure to be more generic and explain
what the test looks at. Add the script name and line number and fix
a typo. Thanks, Marc Haber. (Closes: #360214, #360216)
+ [RA] Warn when maintainer scripts run init scripts directly and
don't use invoke-rc.d. Thanks, Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #353659)
+ [RA] Find missing ucf dependencies and restructure the code to allow
easier addition of similar checks. (Closes: #261891)
+ [RA] Add python2.5, lua50, gbx, and gbx2 to the list of valid
interpreters. (Closes: #361601, #361644, #362566)
* checks/shared-libs:
+ [RA] Limit shlib-without-PT_GNU_STACK-section to only those
architectures where gcc always adds the section. Thanks to Frans
Pop for the report and Bastian Blank for the architecture list.
(Closes: #357636)
* collection/objdump-info:
+ [RA] Unset CDPATH before running cd to avoid strange effects from
the user's environment.
+ [RA] Run readelf -l to collect interpreter information.
* lib/Dep.pm:
+ [RA] Add initial support for analyzing architecture information in
dependencies instead of ignoring it.
* lib/Read_taginfo.pm:
+ [RA] Add support for formatting man page references from Ref.
* lib/Util.pm:
+ [RA] Add system_env, like system but sanitizing the environment.
* man/lintian.1:
+ [RA] Mention the new rules check class.
-- Reinhard Tartler <email address hidden> Wed, 28 Jun 2006 20:31:18 +0200
