Changelog
lintian (1.23.36ubuntu1~gutsy1) gutsy-backports; urgency=low
* Automated backport upload; no source changes.
lintian (1.23.36ubuntu1) hardy; urgency=low
* Merge from Debian unstable. Remaining Ubuntu changes:
+ If version contains "ubuntu", only accept Ubuntu distributions
(#120040)
+ checks/lintian.desc: add "bad-ubuntu-distribution-in-changes-file" tag
+ checks/nmu: avoid NMU warning on Ubuntu uploads
+ frontend/lintian: check Ubuntu distribution if changelog contains "ubuntu"
+ Update Maintainer field to match Debian-Maintainer-Spec
* frontend/lintian, check/lintian.desc: Add hardy to list of allowed Ubuntu
distributions, and drop breezy, hoary and warty (they've been obsolete for
quite a while).
* checks/common_data.pm: Add original-maintainer to list of allowed control
fields for sources, binaries and udebs.
* checks/lintian.desc: Drop unsupported Ubuntu distributions.
lintian (1.23.36) unstable; urgency=low
The "grand open change and desktop cleanup" release.
* {checks,collection,depcheck,frontend,lib,reporting,unpack}/*:
+ [RA] Use the three-argument form of open uniformly, whether needed
or not, to head off further quoting and whitespace interpretation
bugs.
* checks/files{.desc,}:
+ [RA] Catch .DS_Store.gz files as well.
+ [RA] Warn about ._ Mac OS X resource files in the package.
+ [RA] Add a hopefully helpful note about how cruft from other
operating systems can show up in binary packages.
* checks/menu-format:
+ [RA] Fix detection of commands for menu entries when the command is
given with its full path. (Closes: #446796)
+ [RA] Remove Actions from known desktop keys again, as I believe the
root problem was our willingness to inspect desktop types other than
Application (also fixed in the previous release).
+ [RA] Fix Perl flow error when skipping some desktop files.
+ [RA] Skip unknown and deprecated key warnings and encoding key
warnings in desktop files if they were of an unknown type.
* lib/Dep.pm:
+ [RA] Fix negative implication in some boundary cases when comparing
two versioned relationships in the same direction. Thanks to
Raphael Hertzog for the analysis and fix. (Closes: #446768)
lintian (1.23.35) unstable; urgency=low
The "frantic bug catchup" release.
* checks/changelog-file{.desc,}:
+ [RA] Add some basic checks for NEWS.Debian files: naming,
compression, encoding, a syntax check with Parse::DebianChangelog,
and unreleased for the distribution. (Closes: #437707)
* checks/common_data.pm:
+ [RA] Allow Homepage in source and binary packages.
* checks/control-file:
+ [RA] Support and ignore comments in debian/control. Thanks, Julien
Cristau. (Closes: #440830)
+ [RA] Check for XS-Vcs-* headers and recommend (at info level) that
they be changed to Vcs-* headers. (Closes: #444661)
* checks/cruft.desc:
+ [RA] Fix incorrect tag name for patch failure files. Thanks, Romain
Francoise. (Closes: #437463)
* checks/debconf:
+ [RA] A cdebconf that supported error was released with sarge, so
don't require a versioned cdebconf dependency. Thanks, Thijs
Kinkhorst. (Closes: #438860)
+ [RA] Various improvements from Thomas Huriaux: Diagnose select
templates with only yes/no options, diagnose more question prompts,
warn on any questions in the extended description, allow yes/no
mentions in non-boolean templates, and catch more first-person
language. (Closes: #439508)
+ [RA] More exactly follow the Developer's Reference recommendations
by only requiring open prompts for string and password prompts and
only complaining about imperative wording for select and multiselect
templates. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #442711)
* checks/description{.desc,}:
+ [RA] Warn (at info level for now) about Homepage pseudo-fields in
the extended description. (Closes: #444336)
* checks/fields:
+ [RA] Allow python-all as yet another way of satisfying a Python
build dependency. (Closes: #444642)
* checks/fields.desc:
+ [RA] Properly escape < and >.
* checks/files{.desc,}:
+ [RA] Warn about Thumbs.db files, which are usually useless Windows
thumbnail databases. Thanks, Paul Wise. (Closes: #438202)
+ [RA] Warn about .DS_Store files, used by Mac OS X to store extended
folder attributes. Thanks, Paul Wise. (Closes: #438203)
+ [RA] Improve the recommended command to remove .packlist files.
Thanks, Justin Pryzby.
+ [RA] Don't think hard links are zero-length files.
+ [RA] Diagnose files with names ending in whitespace.
* checks/infofiles:
+ [RA] Emacs 22 now allows embedded images in info files, so accept
and ignore PNG files in the info directory. More image types may be
needed. Thanks, Andreas Metzler. (Closes: #438602)
* checks/menu-format{.desc,}:
+ [RA] Reserved categories are okay in .desktop files if OnlyShowIn is
present, and generally deserve their own separate tag regardless.
Thanks, Michael Biebl. (Closes: #442709)
+ [RA] Ignore categories beginning with "X-", reserved for category
extensions. Thanks, Josselin Mouette. (Closes: #443827)
+ [RA] Allow Actions keys. This isn't in the desktop standard but
is widely used. Thanks, Raphael Geissert. (Closes: #444651)
+ [RA] Ignore desktop files not for one of the known types. This
should significantly reduce the noise for KDE packages.
+ [RA] Only check whether a program referenced by Exec is in the
package if the desktop file is in /usr/share/applications. Too many
applications use Exec for desktop files elsewhere without the
standard PATH.
+ [RA] Ignore Exec fields pointing to kcmshell.
+ [RA] Ignore desktop files in /usr/share/doc or that appear to be
templates.
+ [RA] Avoid uninitialized warnings on all-whitespace commands.
* checks/menus:
+ [RA] Find the targets of hard links correctly. (Closes: #444355)
+ [RA] Use the three-argument form of open to not fail on doc-base
files ending in whitespace. Error on doc-base files with Document
fields that end in whitespace, since currently they break multiple
tools. Thanks, Ian Zimmerman. (Closes: #444889)
* checks/nmu.desc:
+ [RA] Remove obsolete note about binary NMUs. Patch from Thijs
Kinkhorst. (Closes: #437925)
* checks/scripts{.desc,}:
+ [RA] We now have a csh package. Allow it as an alternative for csh
script dependencies. Thanks, Bernd Zeimetz. (Closes: #440825)
+ [RA] Allow install-sgmlcatalog --remove in postinst as well as
prerm and suggest removing it entirely in the long description.
* checks/version-substvars.desc:
+ [RA] Properly escape < and >.
* collection/changelog-file{.desc,}:
+ [RA] Collect NEWS.Debian as well as changelog.
lintian (1.23.34) unstable; urgency=low
The "brown paper operator" release.
* frontend/lintian:
+ [RA] Use =~ with regexes, not eq. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
(Closes: #436180)
lintian (1.23.33) unstable; urgency=low
The "menu and cruft reorganization" release.
* checks/common_data.pm:
+ [CW] Add automaken as a known virtual package.
+ [CW] Update architectures to dpkg 1.14.5, adding solaris-* and lpia.
+ [RA] Add %known_obsolete_emacs.
* checks/cruft{.desc,}:
+ [RA] Check for .git directories in source packages. Thanks, Julien
Cristau. (Closes: #433516)
+ [RA] Substantially rewrite how all cruft checking against source
packages is done, incorporating debdiff in the process. There are
now two tags for most source package cruft problems: one for files
introduced in the Debian diff or in a native package, and one for
files present upstream. The former is at warning severity and the
latter is at info severity, since it's usually not worth repackaging
the upstream source to remove such files. In the process,
standardize the names of all of the tags and pull the regexes out
into data instead of code for easier maintenance. (Closes: #434744)
* checks/debdiff{.desc}:
+ [RA] Removed, incorporated into checks/cruft.
* checks/debian-readme:
+ [RA] Replace all uses of tag_error and tag_warn with just tag.
* checks/fields{.desc,}:
+ [RA] Tag packages listing emacs21 as the preferred Emacs flavor in a
dependency. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita. (Closes: #434978)
+ [RA] Start tagging unversioned dependencies on coreutils again since
the transition from fileutils is long-since finished. Thanks,
Guillem Jover. (Closes: #436058)
* checks/files{.desc,}:
+ [RA] Check for .git directories in binary packages.
* checks/menu-format{.desc,}:
+ [RA] Switch to the new menu hierarchy, which will be in the next
release of Policy. Add specific checks for the major renamings to
hopefully cut down on the confusion and provide some specific
guidance. Remove the code that allowed for applications to create
new sub-menus, since the current menu documentation says not to do
that. (Closes: #431844)
+ [RA] Add checks of desktop files. The checks so far are basic, but
do include key and category verification. Based heavily on work by
Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña. (Closes: #277441, #433411)
* checks/scripts{.desc,}:
+ [RA] If rm output is redirected to /dev/null, don't think that rm is
removing /dev/null. Thanks, Robert Luberda. (Closes: #431259)
+ [RA] xjed also provides jed-script. Thanks, Jörg Sommer.
(Closes: #431629)
+ [RA] Don't complain about ruby libraries in /usr/lib/ruby that have
shebang lines. This is a common means for embedding unit tests in
Ruby libraries. Thanks, Paul van Tilburg. (Closes: #431545)
+ [RA] Don't push depending directly on update-inetd in the long
description of maintainer-script-needs-depends-on-update-inetd.
Most packages should depend on inet-superserver. Leave the check
the same for the time being, however.
+ [RA] Replace all uses of tag_error and tag_warn with just tag.
* checks/shared-libs:
+ [RA] Exclude udebs from dependency checking in the shlibs files
since binary packages may legitimately declare udeb dependencies on
other packages. Thanks, Loïc Minier. (Closes: #431395)
* checks/spelling:
+ [RA] Replace all uses of tag_error and tag_warn with just tag.
* checks/version-substvars:
+ [RA] Don't skip other checks for binNMUability when warning about
the deprecated ${Source-Version} substvar. Thanks, Lior Kaplan.
(Closes: #432959)
* frontend/lintian:
+ [RA] Add \w+-backports to the known distribution list. Thanks,
Vincent Danjean. (Closes: #432268)
* lib/Tags.pm:
+ [RA] Replace any newlines in the extra information to the tag
function with \n.
* man/lintian.1:
+ [RA] Remove the mention of the debdiff check script.
-- John Dong <email address hidden> Sat, 10 Nov 2007 19:23:58 +0000
