Changelog
lintian (2.5.19ubuntu1) saucy; urgency=low
* Make the C++ test lib be a C++ lib. Thanks to Adam Conrad for the patch.
(Closes: #725139)
lintian (2.5.19) unstable; urgency=low
* Summary of tag changes:
+ Added:
- homepage-in-binary-package
* checks/fields.{desc,pm}:
+ [NT] Add check for "Homepage"-field missing in the
source, when one of the binary packages has the
field. Thanks to Ricardo Mones for the bug report.
(Closes: #693117)
* checks/files.pm:
+ [NT] Apply patch from Samuel Thibault to fix a
false-positive non-standard-toplevel-dir for the
directories /hurd and /servers. (Closes: #724524)
+ [NT] Work around bug #724571 in t1disasm by ignoring
failures caused by segementation faults and bus errors.
Though, Lintian will emit a warning when such an error
occurs. Thanks to Ansgar Burchardt for the report.
(Closes: #724319)
* checks/testsuite.pm:
+ [NT] Allow uppercase letters in the names of DEP-8
tests, now that the DEP-8 officially "tolerates" them.
(see #711844)
* lib/Lintian/Util.pm:
+ [NT] Add drain_pipe(FD).
* reporting/{config,harness}:
+ [NT] Determine the html_reports command automatically
instead of allowing it to be configurable.
+ [NT] Stop allowing config script to name individual
log files. The directory in which they are put is still
configurable.
+ [NT] Replace LINTIAN_CFG with passing "--no-cfg" to
lintian.
+ [NT] Replace $lintian_cmd config option with a
@EXTRA_LINTIAN_OPTIONS. Also stop forking a shell to
run lintian.
+ [NT] Remove LINTIAN_BIN_DIR; it is no longer used to
avoid signature checking.
+ [NT] Fix a bug where harness would not remove entries in
the Lintian log for removed packages if no packages were
to be processed.
* reporting/lintian-dummy.cfg:
+ [NT] Remove file as it is now obsolete.
lintian (2.5.18.1) unstable; urgency=low
* checks/files.pm:
+ [NT] Only open .pc files if they are regular files.
This fixes a possible DoS introduced in 2.5.17.
* checks/shared-libs.pm:
+ [NT] Correct the name of the multiarch-dirs data file,
which was renamed in 2.5.17.
* lib/{Test/Lintian,Lintian/Data}.pm:
+ [NT] Load data files eagerly during tests to ensure
missing or typo'ed data files are spotted earlier.
* debian/changelog:
+ [NT] Mention in the 2.5.17 entry that multiarch-dirs
data file was renamed.
+ [NT] Consistently spell "typos" without an "e".
lintian (2.5.18) unstable; urgency=low
* Summary of tag changes:
+ Added:
- debian-changelog-has-wrong-weekday
- debian-rules-missing-good-practice-target-dfsg
- empty-udeb-package
- file-name-in-PATH-is-not-ASCII
- misplaced-extra-member-in-deb
* checks/apache2.pm:
+ [NT] Fix false-positive warning about non-standard package
name when the Apache2 module contained uppercase letters.
Thanks to Jonas Smedegaard for the report.
(Closes: #723003)
* checks/changelog.{desc,pm}:
+ [NT] Check that the weekday of the latest changelog entry
is consistent with the date. Thanks to Raphael Champeimont
for the report. (Closes: #703407)
* checks/cruft.{desc,pm}:
+ [BR] Fix false-postive for license-problem-gfdl-invariants.
(Closes: #721252)
+ [BR] Extend tag description of the gfdl-invariants tag.
(Closes: #722102)
* checks/deb-format.{desc,pm}:
+ [NT] Support (but tag) unofficial members after the
"debian-binary" member where allowed by dpkg. These
members will trigger misplaced-extra-member-in-deb tag.
Thanks to Guillem Jover for the report and the feedback.
(Closes: #718349)
* checks/fields.{desc,pm}:
+ [NT] Warn about "?op=log" in svn.d.o brower links. Thanks
to Paul Wise for the report. (Closes: #707700)
+ [NT] Fix false-positive dbg-package-missing-depends for
transitional dbg packages. Thanks to Paul Wise for the
report. (Closes: #665694)
+ [NT] Remind people that packages named gir1.2-foo-X.Y
should be in the introspection section. Thanks to Michael
Biebl for the report (part of #695345)
* checks/files.{desc,pm}:
+ [BR] Fix false-positive dir-or-file-in-build-tree for
the sbuild source package. (Closes: #720910)
+ [NT] Add check for empty udeb packages. Thanks to Cyril
Brulebois for the suggestion. (Closes: #672664)
+ [NT] Remove exception for "/selinux" top-level directory.
Thanks to Laurent Bigonville for the report.
(Closes: #723730)
+ [NT] Add a check for files in PATH being representable
using only ASCII characters. (Closes: #723732)
* checks/menu-format.desc:
+ [BR] Rewrite description of the tag for desktop files
without a keywords entry based on a wording from Gaudenz
Steinlin. (Closes: #706966)
+ [NT] Apply patch from Lucas Nussbaum to add an additional
reference to the desktop-entry-lacks-keywords-entry tag.
(Closes: #722582)
* checks/rules.{desc,pm}:
+ [BR] Refactor the check for known targets in d/rules.
+ [BR] Add check for missing for recommended "get-orig-source"
target in d/rules for packages that look like they have been
repacked. (Closes: #460174)
* checks/scripts.desc:
+ [NT] Demote the certainty of shell-script-fails-syntax-check
due to "extglob" in bash. Thanks To Trent W. Buck for the
report. (Closes: #699410)
* checks/testsuite.pm:
+ [NT] Add "allow-stderr" as known autopkgtest "restriction".
Thanks to Jérémy Bobbio for the report and the initial
patch. (Closes: #721179)
* checks/version-substvars{.desc,.pm}:
+ [NT] Mention that version-substvar-for-external-package
can happen if the package name used in the relation has
a typo. Thanks to Joachim Reichel for reporting this.
(Closes: #708576)
+ [NT] Ignore ":any" qualifiers in dependencies. Thanks to
Scott Ritchie for the report. (Closes: #658320)
* commands/info:
+ [NT] New file (replacing lintian-info).
+ [NT] Emit a deprecation warning for --include-dir
and --[no-]user-dirs when they are not the first
arguments and called as lintian-info.
* doc/README.in:
+ [NT] Replaced by top-level README.
* data/common/source-fields:
+ [NT] Allow the "Dgit" field in source packages. Thanks
to Ian Jackson for the report. (Closes: #721205)
* data/fields/perl-provides:
+ [NT] Refresh against perl 5.18.
* data/rules/policy-rules:
+ [BR] New file.
* data/scripts/{,versioned-}interpreters:
+ [NT] Apply patch from Gunnar Wolf to update which package
is providing "rackup". (Closes: #721268)
* data/scripts/interpreters:
+ [NT] Use "python:any | python-minimal:any" as dependency
for python scripts. This fixes a false-positive for
python-script-but-no-python-dep when dh_python2 generates
a dependency of "python:any". Thanks to Francois Gouget
for the report. (Closes: #711988)
* data/scripts/versioned-interpreters:
+ [NT] Add python 2.7 and remove 2.4, 2.5 and 2.6. Also
add ":any" the dependency template like with the
unversioned interpreters (see above).
* debian/docs:
+ [NT] Install "README" instead "doc/README"
* debian/lintian.install:
+ [NT] Install dplint and commands/*.
* debian/lintian.links:
+ [NT] New file.
* debian/rules:
+ [NT] Add code for substituting some placeholder values in
dplint and lintian.
+ [NT] Invoke dh_link.
+ [NT] Remove code for auto-generating README from README.in
* debian/tests/control:
+ [NT] Remove reference to testsuite-legacy.
* debian/tests/testsuite-legacy:
+ [NT] Removed; no longer useful.
* doc/README.developers:
+ [NT] Update the section on running Lintian from a source
tree to mention that setting LINTIAN_ROOT is no longer
needed.
+ [NT] Remove references to the legacy testsuite.
* doc/tutorial/Lintian/Tutorial/TestSuite.pod:
+ [NT] Remove references to the legacy testsuite.
* frontend/dplint:
+ [NT] New file.
* frontend/lintian:
+ [NT] Automatically determine the LINTIAN_ROOT when run from
the extracted source dir.
+ [NT] Deprecate --root and LINTIAN_ROOT. These are largely
obsolete as Lintian can now automatically determine the
proper LINTIAN_ROOT. To avoid surprises, lintian will
now exit with an error if requested to use a different
LINTIAN_ROOT than the one lintian expected to use.
+ [NT] Emit a deprecation warning for --include-dir
and --[no-]user-dirs when they are not the first
arguments and called as lintian-info.
* frontend/lintian-info:
+ [NT] Replace with symlink to dplint. The implementation of
lintian-info is now handled by commands/info.
* lib/Lintian/Collect/Package.pm:
+ [NT] If the index file does not include a "root" directory,
then create a fake one.
* lib/Lintian/Data.pm:
+ [NT] Make a special case to allow "original-maintainer" by
default in all non-"Debian" profiles. Thanks to Nick
Black for the report. (Closes: #697565)
* lib/Lintian/Relation.pm:
+ [NT] Allow "pkg" to imply "pkg:any", but without permitting
"pkg:any" to imply "pkg".
* private/runtests:
+ [NT] Remove file; merge the relevant parts into t/runtests.
* README:
+ [NT] New file for basic information about Lintian and
where to find more information.
* reporting/harness:
+ [NT] Fix bug that caused harness to not remove old log
entries on incremental runs.
+ [NT] Clear LINTIAN_ROOT environment variable if set.
* reporting/html_reports:
+ [NT] Copy (rather than symlink) the lintian.log to the
generated website.
* t/runtests:
+ [NT] Assume dpkg (>= 1.16.1) is present.
+ [NT] Work around bug in Perl (#723805) when using "glob"
within threads. Thanks to Brian "hugmeir" Fraser for
finding the underlying cause.
* t/tests/legacy-debug/debian/debian/control:
+ [NT] Mark some packages "arch:any" to avoid test failures
on kfreebsd-amd64. (Closes: #688524)
* testset/*:
+ [NT] All tests moved to t/tests/legacy-* and the test
runner removed.
* vendors/ubuntu/main/data/{common,fields}/*:
+ [NT] Retire now redundant files.
lintian (2.5.17) unstable; urgency=low
* Summary of tag changes:
+ Added:
- apache2-unparsable-dependency
- deprecated-configure-filename
- doc-base-abstract-field-separator-extra-whitespace
- doc-base-abstract-might-contain-extra-leading-whitespace
- doc-base-file-separator-extra-whitespace
- md5sums-lists-nonexistent-file
- non-multi-arch-lib-dir
- pkg-config-multi-arch-wrong-dir
+ Removed:
- apache2-unparseable-dependency
- doc-base-abstract-field-separator-extra-whitespaces
- doc-base-abstract-might-contain-extra-leading-whitespaces
- doc-base-file-separator-extra-whitespaces
- md5sums-lists-nonexisting-file
* checks/apache2.{desc,pm}:
+ [JW,NT] Rename a tag for consistent spelling of
"unparsable" in tag names. The tag has no known
overrides.
* checks/automake.{desc,pm}:
+ [NT] Apply patch from Gautier Minster to detect
usage of configure.in with automake. Thanks to
Paul Wise for the report. (Closes: #708482)
* checks/cruft.pm:
+ [NT] Avoid given/when which was demoted to an
experimental feature. (Closes: #720835)
* checks/files.{desc,pm}:
+ [BR] Add check for architecture pkg-config files using
multi-arch paths but being installed in a non-multi-arch
location. Thanks to Ivo De Decker for the report.
(Closes: #674469)
+ [BR] Add check for using the old bi-arch directories
(/usr/lib64) instead of multi-arch dirs. Thanks to
Kurt Roeckx for the report. (Closes: #528975)
+ [BR] Remove "emul/" as a recognised top-level directory.
* checks/md5sums.{desc,pm}:
+ [JW,NT] Rename a tag due to a typo in the tag name.
The tag has no known overrides.
* checks/menus.{desc,pm}:
+ [JW,NT] Rename tags due to a typo in their tag name.
These tags have no known overrides.
* checks/source-copyright.pm:
+ [NT] Avoid accidental use of an experimental feature.
* data/{binaries => common}/multiarch-dirs:
+ [BR] Moved multiarch-dirs from binaries to common, since
it is used from multiple checks.
* debian/control:
+ [NT] Add Build-Depends on aspell, aspell-en and
libtest-spelling-perl.
* lib/Lintian/Tag/TextUtil.pm:
+ [NT] Prevent very long URLs from being split into two
lines. Thanks to Jari Aalto for the report.
(Closes: #719769)
* lib/Lintian/Util.pm:
+ [NT] Prefer paths without leading slash in the
documentation for normalize_pkg_path. Thanks to
Kevin Ryde for spotting this inconsistency.
+ [NT] The first argument argument of normalize_pkg_path
is now unconditionally normalized. Furthermore, allow
the function to be called with only one argument like
Cwd::realpath.
* t/*:
+ [NT] Adapt several tests to work under perl 5.18.
lintian (2.5.16) unstable; urgency=low
* Summary of tag changes:
+ Added:
- changelog-is-dh_make-template
- copyright-should-refer-to-common-license-file-for-apache-2
- debian-control-repeats-field-name-in-value
- info-document-missing-image-file
- license-problem-font-adobe-copyrighted-fragment
- license-problem-font-adobe-copyrighted-fragment-no-credit
- missing-dependency-on-libstdc++
- quilt-patch-using-template-description
+ Removed:
- dh_pycentral-is-obsolete
- dh_python-is-obsolete
- font-adobe-copyrighted-fragment
- font-adobe-copyrighted-fragment-no-credit
- init.d-script-call-internal-API
- missing-dependency-on-python-central
* checks/apache2.pm:
+ [NT] Fix F-P apache2-deprecated-auth-config for
"AllowOverride". Thanks to Jean-Michel Vourgère
for the report and an initial patch.
(Closes: #717621)
* checks/binaries.pm:
+ [NT] Apply patch from Michael Stapelberg to exempt
golang-go binaries from statically-linked-binary
tag. (Closes: #718404)
+ [NT] Permit shared libraries to not link against
libc as long as they link against libstdc++. This
fixes a lot of false positive warnings for some c++
libraries when the linker (with --as-needed)
determines that the libc link is superfluous.
Thanks to Maximiliano Curia for the report.
(This is a partial fix for #719806)
+ [NT] Add experimental tag for missing dependency
on libstdc++.
* checks/changelog-file.{desc,pm}:
+ [BR] Add check for dh-make reminder to insert the
bug number of the ITP bug. (Closes: #690273)
* checks/control-file.{desc,pm}:
+ [BR] Add check for field name being duplicated in
the value of the field. (Closes: #711069)
* checks/copyright-file.{desc,pm}:
+ [BR] Extend check for "reference to compressed
common-license" to include all current
common-licenses.
+ [BR] Add check for use of Apache-2.0 in d/copyright
without references common-licenses.
(Closes: #713012)
* checks/cruft.pm:
+ [NT] Skip d/README.Debian and d/README.source when
checking for non-free licenses. Mentions here are
presumably just false-positives. Thanks to
Marcelo Jorge Vieira for the report and the initial
patch. (Closes: #718575)
* checks/deb-format.pm:
+ [NT] Apply patch from Guillem Jover to fix a wrong
tag being emitted on lzma compressed udebs.
(Closes: #718337)
* checks/debhelper.{desc,pm}:
+ [NT] Remove tag for dh_pycentral and dh_python being
obsolete. Thanks to Luca Falavigna for the report.
(Closes: #720337)
+ [BR] Fix false-negative in the brace expansion check
when the comma was next to one of the braces.
(Closes: #708381)
* checks/files.{desc,pm}:
+ [NT] Remove tag for missing dependency on
python-central. Thanks to Luca Falavigna for the
report. (Closes: #718690)
+ [BR] Rename font-adobe-copyrighted-fragment tags.
(Closes: #718820)
+ [NT] Fix false positive warning about embedded
feedparser for python3-feedparser. Thanks to
Etienne Millon for the report. (Closes: #719163)
* checks/infofiles.{desc,pm}:
+ [NT] Apply patches from Kevin Ryde to find info files
references non-existent images. (Closes: #719450)
* checks/init.d.{desc,pm}:
+ [NT] Revert init.d-script-call-internal-API for now.
Refer to #710559 for more information.
* checks/patch-systems.{desc,pm}:
+ [BR] Add tag for DEP-3 template descriptions.
(Closes: #717633)
* checks/phppear.{desc,pm}:
+ [NT] Apply patch from Mathieu Parent to fix false
positive missing-pkg-php-tools-addon. Thanks to
Thijs Kinkhorst for the report. (Closes: #718167)
+ [NT] Apply patch form Mathieu Parent to reduce the
severity of a "composer package" not using
pkg-php-tools to wishlist. Thanks to Thijs
Kinkhorst for the report. (Closes: #718862)
+ [NT] Apply patch from Vincent Bernat to downgrade
severity of not using phppear substvars for
description and synopsis plus explain that they
should not be used blindly. Thanks to Mathieu
Parent for the review of the patch.
(Closes: #719788)
* checks/po-debconf.{desc,pm}:
+ [NT] Fix false-positive translated-default-field for
fields preceded by a "true" Deb822 comment. Thanks
to Ron Lee for the report. (Closes: #637881)
* checks/scripts.pm:
+ [NT] Stop emitting package-uses-local-diversion for
calls to dpkg-divert without --package as dpkg 1.16.0
(Wheezy) handles this case correctly. Thanks to
Raphaël Hertzog for the report. (Closes: #679132)
+ [NT] Apply patch from Vincent Cheng to fix warning
for executable jar files. Thanks to Matthew Johnson
for the report. (Closes: #539315)
* checks/systemd.pm:
+ [NT] Apply patch from Stig Sandbeck Mathisen to allow
systemd files being symlinks to /dev/null.
(Closes: #718563)
* debian/changelog:
+ [NT] Correct some older tag summaries to include some
missing tags in the entry for 2.5.11 and 2.5.12.
* debian/copyright:
+ [NT] Add Bastien ROUCARIÈS to maintainers (as BR).
* frontend/lintian:
+ [NT] Move some handling of overrides to Lintian::Tags.
* lib/Lintian/Processable/Package.pm:
+ [NT] Refuse to process .dsc files that are missing the
Source field. This prevents some warnings about using
undefined values. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
report. (Closes: #718351)
* lib/Lintian/Tags.pm:
+ [NT] Take over some handling of overrides from the
frontend.
* lib/Lintian/Util.pm:
+ [NT] Fix problem in normalize_pkg_path, where "."-entries
were not properly filtered out.
* profiles/debian/ftp-master-auto-reject.profile:
+ [NT] Refresh with new tags. Thanks to Gregor Herrmann
for the reminder.
-- Benjamin Drung <email address hidden> Wed, 02 Oct 2013 01:59:04 +0200
