Changelog
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.
-- ???? ???????? (Ahmed El-Mahmoudy) <email address hidden> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:34:24 +0100
