This bug is fixed in 2.5.0~rc1ubuntu1.

 lintian (2.5.0~rc1ubuntu1) natty; urgency=low

   * Merge from Debian unstable. Remaining changes:
     - Don't warn about a symlinked changelog file in Ubuntu due to CDBS.
     - checks/init.d: fix LP: #496798 again; upstream only took part of our
       patch and the rest of the fix was dropped in the last merge; per
       maintainer's comments in Debian bug #569492, Ubuntu will need to
       carry this fix for the time being

 lintian (2.5.0~rc1) experimental; urgency=low

   The "welcome Niels Thykier!" release.

   * Summary of tag changes:
     + Added:
       - build-depends-on-specific-java-doc-package
       - depends-on-specific-java-doc-package
       - unneeded-build-dep-on-quilt
       - description-synopsis-starts-with-article
       - needless-dependency-on-jre
       - temporary-debhelper-file
       - compressed-objects.inv
       - unused-build-dependency-on-cdbs
       - python-debug-in-wrong-location
       - debian-watch-contains-dh_make-template
       - missing-dependency-on-python-central
       - python-module-in-wrong-location
       - missing-dependency-on-python-support
       - package-installs-python-bytecode
       - debhelper-maintscript-needs-versioned-build-depends
     + Removed:
       - embedded-zlib (now in embedded-library)
       - embedded-libpng (now in embedded-library)
       - embedded-libjpeg (now in embedded-library)
       - embedded-libopenjpeg (now in embedded-library)
       - package-installs-python-pyc (replaced by
         package-installs-python-bytecode)

   * checks/*:
     + [NT] Use the new pre-sorted file {index,info} when iterating over
       files.
     + [NT] All checks now report files without any "./" or "/" prefix.
       This may break existing overrides.  (Closes: #534940)
   * checks/binaries:
     + [RA] Exclude kfreebsd-kernel-di-{amd64,i386} from the
       embedded-zlib check since it's in the kernel.  (Closes: #593397)
     + [RG] Add swipl to the list of known interpreters.  (Closes: #591316)
     + [RG] Detect embedded copies of ftgl, t1lib, gl2ps, libgd2,
       ncurses, openssl (libcrypto), sqlite/3, libm, ltdl, curl, libmng,
       libmsn, libmikmod, libmysqlclient, and tinyxml.
     + [RG] Merge embedded-{zlib,lib{png,jpeg,openjpeg}} into
       embedded-library.
     + [RG] Find directories based on the file's type instead of file(1)'s
       unforgiving output.  Thanks, Gabriele Giacone.  (Closes: #597990)
   * checks/cruft{,.desc}:
     + [NT] Extended the diff-contains-substvars check to also catch files
       prefixed with a package name.
     + [NT] Corrected the description of diff-contains-$vcs-control-dir.
       It incorrectly assumed that -i worked for native packages.
       (Closes: #609153)
     + [NT] Moved the list of autotools packages into data/cruft/autotools.
     + [NT] Clarified that dpkg-source looks for <package>_<upstreamversion>
       and not <package>_<version> in the description of
       native-package-with-dash-version.  Thanks to Daniel Thomas for the
       report.  (Closes: #594254)
   * checks/debhelper{,.desc}:
     + [NT] Fix dependency check for dh_nativejava, default-jdk has never
       provided dh_nativejava.  (Closes: #606506)
     + [NT] Added check for temporary debhelper files that ought to have
       been removed by dh_clean.  (Closes: #598251)
     + [NT] Added check for unused build dependency on cdbs.  Thanks to
       Jari Aalto for suggesting this.  (Closes: #582769)
     + [NT] Added check for incorrect debhelper version when using the
       maintscript feature from debhelper 8.1.0.
   * checks/debian-source-dir:
     + [NT] Added missing import of "Util" perl module.  Thanks to David
       Bremner for the patch.
   * checks/description{,.desc}:
     + [NT] Add a check for synopsis starting with articles.  Thanks to
       Nelson A. de Oliveira for the patch.  (Closes: #603053)
     + [NT] Fixed false positive description-contains-duplicated-word
       caused by Lintian ignoring quoted words.  Thanks to Gregor
       Herrmann for report.  (Closes: #590723)
   * checks/fields{,.desc}:
     + [NT] Added check for packages (build) depending on openjdk-X-doc or
       classpath-doc instead of the default-jdk-doc metapackage.
       (Closes: #593837)
     + [NT] Fixed spelling of metapackage in tag descriptions.
     + [NT] Added needless-dependency-on-jre tag.
     + [NT] Corrected Policy references for the uploader tags.  Thanks to
       David Prévot for spotting this issue and providing a patch.
       (Closes: #602632)
     + [NT] Fixed false positives for breaks-without-version.  The tag
       will no longer be emitted if the package listed in Breaks is also
       listed in Replaces.  Thanks to Modestas Vainius for the report.
       (Closes: #605744)
     + [NT] Clarified that old-versioned-python-dependency can also be
       triggered if dh_python2 is used and the package is missing
       ${python:Breaks}. Thanks to Piotr Ożarowski for the report.
       (Closes: #604167)
     + [RG] Mention the package's original area in
       wrong-section-according-to-package-name.  (Closes: #608554)
   * checks/files{,.desc}:
     + [NT] Fixed false-positive extra-license-file for license.ui files.
       Thanks to Jeremy Sanders for the report.  (Closes: #595941)
     + [NT] Added hurd-udeb to the list of packages allowed to ship
       unusual top-level directories.  Thanks to Samual Thibault for
       the patch.  (Closes: #591331)
     + [NT] Fixed spelling of metapackage in empty-binary-package tag
       description.  (Closes: #591300)
     + [NT] Fixed false-positive extra-license-file for games.  Instead
       of skipping PATH directories Lintian now ignores all executable
       files.  (Closes: #608866)
     + [NT] Added compressed-objects.inv tag to catch compressed
       objects.inv files in python documentation.  Thanks to
       Fladischer Michael for the report and a partial patch.
       (Closes: #608810)
     + [NT] Added check for misplaced python debug files.  Thanks to
       Jakub Wilk for the report.  (Closes: #576014)
     + [NT] Added check for missing dependency on python-central.
       Thanks to Jakub Wilk for the report.  (Closes: #592533)
     + [NT] Added check for misplaced Python modules.  Thanks to
       Jakub Wilk for the report.  (Closes: #576012)
     + [NT] Removed the "!= 0755" part from the out of the tag
       executable-is-not-world-readable, since there are other valid
       world readable file permissions.
     + [NT] Added check for missing dependency on python-support.
       Thanks to Jakub Wilk for the report.  (Closes: #592491)
     + [NT] Added check for packages installing Python eggs and
       __pycache__ directories.  Also extended existing Python bytecode
       check to include ".pyo" files.  Thanks to Piotr Ożarowski,
       Jakub Wilk and the people in #debian-python for the report and
       help with implementing this.  (Closes: #576005)
   * checks/init.d.desc:
     + [RG] Raise severity of init.d-script-starts-in-stop-runlevel.
       (Closes: #603800)
   * checks/manpages:
     + [NT] Fixed typo in locale name.  Thanks to Christoph Biedl for
       spotting this.  (Closes: #606933)
   * checks/menu-format.desc:
     + [CW] Fix several typos.
   * checks/menus.desc:
     + [RA] Rephrase doc-base-uses-applications-section to be clearer that
       its advice is to remove the "Applications/" part of the section.
   * checks/nmu:
     + [RG] Completely abort if debian/changelog is a symlink.
       (Closes: #582408)
   * checks/patch-systems{,.desc}:
     + [NT] Added check for new unneeded-build-dep-on-quilt.
       (Closes: #582767)
   * checks/rules:
     + [RG] Drop some checks for versioned dependencies that can now be
       satisfied in stable (squeeze).  Thanks, Cyril Brulebois.
       (Closes: #612137)
     + [RG] Correctly handle include directives preceded by a tab.
       (Closes: #607281)
     + [RG] Allow 'ocaml' as an alternative to 'ocaml-nox'.  Thanks,
       Ralf Treinen.  (Closes: #612568)
   * checks/scripts:
     + [NT] Added mscgen as interpreter.
   * checks/standards-version:
     + [RG] Correctly handle cases where debian/changelog is a symlink.
   * checks/watch-file{,.desc}:
     + [NT] Added check for dh_make(1) templates in the watch file.
       Thanks to Nelson A. de Oliveira for the report.  (Closes: #600866)
     + [RG] Document that relying on SourceForge's webpages for finding
       new versions is not recommended either.  (Closes: #593603)

   * collection/objdump-info:
     + [RG] Support stricter parameter handling of objdump-info from
       binutils 2.21.  Thanks, Andreas Beckmann.
       (Closes: #604047, LP: #683347)

   * data/changelog-file/ubuntu-dists:
     + [CW] Add natty as a valid Ubuntu distribution, and remove the EOLed
       intrepid and jaunty.  (Closes: #611439)
   * data/cruft/autotools:
     + [NT] Added the file which is a list of all packages that will
       suppress the {ancient,outdated}-autotools-helper-file tags.
       Currently this is manually updated.  This new list includes
       dh-autoreconf, thanks to Felix Geyer.  (Closes: #592358)
   * data/debhelper/*:
     + [RG] Refresh against unstable.
   * data/debian-source-dir/known-files:
     + [NT] Added the file and included git-patches in it.  Thanks to
       Ron for the report and David Bremner for the initial patch.
       (Closes: #607502)
   * data/fields/essential:
     + [RG] Add hurd.  (Closes: #591323)
   * data/fields/obsolete-packages:
     + [NT] Added default-jdk-builddep.  See README.gcj-native-transition
       in java-common for the replacement.
   * data/fields/perl-provides:
     + [RG] Refresh against perl 5.10.1.
   * data/files/fonts:
     + [NT] Made tipa replace xfonts-tipa as font provider.
       (Closes: #595530)
     + [RG] Refresh against unstable.
   * data/files/locale-codes:
     + [RG] Refresh against isoquery 1.4.
   * data/shared-libs/ldconfig-dirs:
     + [NT] Removed the emul/ia32-linux directories as they are no longer
       used.  (Closes: #596848)
   * data/spelling/corrections:
     + [NT] Added more corrections.
   * data/spelling/corrections-case:
     + [NT] Added DocBook corrections.  Thanks to Jakub Wilk.
       (Closes: #611349)
   * data/spelling/corrections-multiword:
     + [NT] Added "allows to" and other similar misspellings.  Thanks
       to Matthew Paul Thomas for the report.  (LP: #608231)

   * debian/control:
     + [RA] Add the build dependencies required to run the test suite
       during the build.  Many thanks to Niels Thykier for the investigative
       work to determine which packages are required.  (Closes: #593832)
     + [RA] Remove versions from dependencies when those versions are
       satisfied by oldstable (lenny).
     + [NT] Bump debhelper build dependency to 7.0.50~, since some tests
       depend on using dh7 with override targets.  (Closes: #607730)
     + [NT] Added Niels Thykier to uploaders.
     + [NT] Introduce (build) dependency on libemail-valid-perl.
     + [RG] Add a versioned build dependency on libtest-simple-perl or a
       recent Perl that has Test::More with subtests support.
   * debian/copyright:
     + [NT] Added Niels Thykier to maintainers.
   * debian/rules:
     + [RA] Run the test suite during the package build.
     + [NT] Replace dh_clean -k with dh_prep.
     + [NT] Add support for skipping the test suite per policy 4.9.1.
       Many thanks to David Bremner for the patch.
   * debian/compat:
     + [NT] Bump debhelper compat to 7.
   * debian/source/lintian-overrides:
     + [RG] Add overrides for quilt-related checks.

   * frontend/lintian:
     + [NT] Ensure that Lintian always reaps processes it started before
       exiting.  In some cases these jobs would attempt to modify the
       lab while Lintian was trying to remove it.  Thanks to
       Andreas Beckmann for reporting this issue.  (Closes: #610218)
     + [NT] Sorted related options alphabetically.  Thanks to Jari Aalto
       for the initial patch.  (Closes: #600905)

   * lib/Lintian/Check.pm:
     + [NT] Use Email::Valid to validate email addresses.
       (Closes: #602655)
     + [NT] Allow package names to be excluded from regular spelling
       checks.  They are still subject to multi word and case sensitive
       spelling checks.  Thanks to syq for the suggestion.
       (Closes: #576283)
   * lib/Lintian/Collect/Binary.pm:
     + [NT] Pre-sort file index and file info to avoid sorting it
       repeatedly in the checks.  (Closes: #605844)

   * man/*:
     + [NT] Rewrote the man pages in pod.  (Closes: #600906)

   * t/runtests:
     + [RG] Run blackbox tests in parallel too.
   * t/tests/{rules-not-makefile,scripts-missing-dep}:
     + [NT] Added new tests.  (Closes: #607731)