lintian 2.5.4 source package in Ubuntu

Changelog

lintian (2.5.4) unstable; urgency=medium


  The "perl5.14 (+ misc) fix"-upload.  Medium as perl 5.14
  deprecation warnings tend to make Lintian output unreadable.

  * Summary of tag changes:
    + Added:
      - data.tar.xz-member-without-dpkg-pre-depends
      - gzip-file-is-not-multi-arch-same-safe
      - init.d-script-does-not-implement-optional-option
      - init.d-script-missing-lsb-description
      - maintainer-address-causes-mail-loops-or-bounces
      - missing-build-dependency-for-dh-addon
      - package-depends-on-lower-priority-package
      - package-would-benefit-from-build-arch-targets
      - python-depends-but-no-python-helper
      - python3-depends-but-no-python3-helper
      - transitional-package-should-be-oldlibs-extra
      - uploader-address-causes-mail-loops-or-bounces

  * checks/*:
    + [JW] Replace common_data.pm with Lintian::Check.
    + [NT] Remove some unused "use lib <expr>" from various checks.
    + [NT] Use Lintian::Collect::Group to find direct dependencies.
  * checks/binaries:
    + [JW] Allow binaries to use "/usr/lib/$srcpkg/" in RPATHs.
      (Closes: #642092)
    + [JW] Fixed a false-positive when using the multiarch dir in
      RPATH.  (Closes: #646817)
  * checks/changes-file{,.desc}:
    + [NT] Added the "precise" to the list of Ubuntu distributions.
      Thanks to Loïc Minier for the patch.
    + [NT] Accept release codename in the changes file.  Thanks to
      Julien Cristau for the report.  (Closes: #637540)
  * checks/circular-deps{,.desc}:
    + [NT] Renamed to group-checks{,.desc}.
  * checks/group-checks{,.desc}:
    + [NT] Added check for depending on lower priority packages built
      from the same source.  Only strong dependencies are considered.
      Thanks to Neil Williams for the report.  (Closes: #387166)
  * checks/common_data.pm:
    + [JW] Merged into Lintian::Check.
  * checks/cruft{,.desc}:
    + [NT] Escape path when using them in regexes.  (Closes: #642902)
    + [NT] Extended the description of the tag for non-native packages
      with native versions.  Thanks to Jari Aalto for the report.
      (Closes: #580048)
  * checks/copyright.desc:
    + [RG,NT] Clarified that the PHP 2.x license is only for the PHP
      interpreter and PEAR modules cannot use it.  Thanks to
      Thomas Goirand for the report.  (Closes: #616436)
  * checks/deb-format{,.desc}:
    + [NT] Added check for using .xz compression in deb files without
      versioned Pre-Depends on dpkg.  The severity is pedantic for
      Debian and serious for Ubuntu.  Thanks to Aaron M. Ucko for the
      rapport.  (Closes: #648350)
  * checks/dehelper{,.desc}:
    + [JW,NT] Check for versioned dependencies for some dh_commands.
      (Closes: #641035)
    + [JW] Detect missing dependencies for using dh sequences.
      (Closes: #613327)
    + [JW] Parse continuation lines in d/rules.
    + [JW] Only emit brace-expansion-in-debhelper-config-file at most
      once per file.  (Closes: #644344)
    + [JW] Replaced "=" with " => " in the tag extra for missing-
      build-dependency-for-dh_-command to improve readability.  This
      breaks overrides, but according to lintian.d.o there are none
      of these.  (Closes: #644339)
    + [JW] Added check for missing python helpers when using python
      substvars in d/control.  (Closes: #582511)
  * checks/fields{,.desc}:
    + [NT] Fixed source-field-does-not-match-pkg-name.
    + [NT] Newlines from URIs in Vcs-* fields are stripped before they
      are checked.  These will fields will also cause a "multiline-
      field" tag if they contain newlines.
    + [JW,NT] Clarified that build-depends-on-metapackage is not only
      triggered by X11 metapackages.  (Closes: #642125)
    + [NT] Ensure transitional packages are in section oldlibs and
      priority extra.  Thanks to Josh Triplett for the report.
      (Closes: #645438)
    + [NT] Check for bouncing and looping email addresses.  Thanks to
      Ansgar Burchardt and Arno Töll for the bug report and patch.
      (Closes: #636599)
  * checks/files{,.desc}:
    + [JW] Suggest the usage of "-delete" rather than "| xargs rm -f".
      (Closes: #641983)
    + [JW] Improve "linked against libvga.so" test.  This avoid
      setuid-binary false-positives.  (Closes: #642038)
    + [NT] Skip package-contains-no-arch-dependent-files for
      transitional packages.  Thanks to Andreas Beckmann for the patch.
      (Closes: #642339)
    + [NT] Applied patch from Andrew Starr-Bochicchio to update the
      description of font-in-non-font-package to better reflect current
      font policy.  (Closes: #646838)
    + [JW,NT] Check that gzip files are compressed with -n in
      "Multi-Arch: same" packages.  (Closes: #649329)
      packages.
    + [NT] Corrected perl4 check, thanks to Dominic Hargreaves for the
      report and the patch.
  * checks/init.d{,.desc}:
    + [NT] Applied patch from Peter Eisentraut to detect init.d scripts
      without support for the optional "status" option.
      (Closes: #647250)
    + [NT] Fixed deprecation warning when using perl 5.14.
      (Closes: #649133)
    + [NT] Added tag for missing LSB Description keyword.  Thanks to
      Michael Biebl and Petter Reinholdtsen for the bug report.
      (Closes: #604620)
  * checks/rules{,.desc}:
    + [JW] Fixed false negative "missing-build-dependency" when using
      "dh --with=X" rather than "dh --with X".  (Closes: #643714)
    + [NT] Do not emit missing-build-dependency for missing dh sequences,
      since the new tag will handle those.
    + [JW] Parse continuation lines in d/rules.  (Closes: #644021)
    + [JW] Check for versioned dependency on dpkg-dev when using the new
      dpkg makefiles.  (Closes: #646495)
    + [NT] Added tracker tag for the build-arch target goal.
      (Closes: #647227)
    + [JW] Fixed duplicate tags about missing dependency for
      dh_pycentral/dh_pysupport.  (Closes: #633507)
  * checks/scripts:
    + [RA] Exclude files ending in *.erb from several shell script
      checks.  ERB is a Ruby templating language, so these will probably
      have mixed shell and Ruby code and may not be executable.  Thanks,
      Laurent Arnoud.
    + [NT] Corrected perl4 check, thanks to Dominic Hargreaves for the
      report and the patch.  (Closes: #648532)
  * checks/source-copyright:
    + [JW] Added some more DEP-5 URLs.  (Closes: #642027)
    + [JW] Improved the wording of the extra information for the tag
      syntax-error-in-dep5-copyright.  (Closes: #644556)
  * checks/symlinks:
    + [NT] Ignore broken links that appears to point to fonts.

  * collection/index:
    + [NT] Fixed an "uninitialized variable" warning if no tarballs were
      present or the tarball is empty.  (Closes: #645660, LP: #886487)
    + [NT] Fixed deprecation warning when using perl 5.14.
  * collcetion/debfiles:
    + [NT] Bail if the debian dir is a symlink.

  * data/changelog-file/debian-dists:
    + [NT] New file.
  * data/changelog-file/ubuntu-dists:
    + [NT] Added the "precise".  Thanks to Loïc Minier for the
      patch.  (Closes: #644488)
  * data/debhelper/{dh_commands,maint_commands,miscDepends_commands}:
    + [NT] Refreshed.
  * data/debhelper/alt-dh_commands:
    + [NT] Renamed to dh_commands-manual.
  * data/debhelper/dh_commands-manual:
    + [NT] Support arbitrary dependency relations.  This new change
      also fixes a "duplicate" in the dependency output.
      (Closes: #643716)
  * data/fields/essential:
    + [NT] Add libc-bin to the list of known essential packages.
  * data/fields/obsolete-packages:
    + [NT] Added dpatch per request of the maintainer.  Thanks to
      Gergely Nagy for the report.  (Closes: #646420)
  * data/fields/virtual-packages:
    + [NT] Refreshed against sid.  Thanks to Gregor Herrmann for the
      report.  (Closes: #646604)
  * data/rules/deprecated-makefiles:
    + [JW] Added dbs makefiles, since dbs maintainer deprecated the
      package in 0.47.  (Closes: #646126)
  * data/shared-libs/ldconfig-dirs:
    + [NT] Add multi-arch dirs for hurd-i386.  Thanks to Julien
      Cristau for noticing that they were missing.
  * data/spelling/corrections:
    + [NT] Added a correction for "propagate" and "separate", thanks
      to Guillem Jover for the suggestions.
      (Closes: #644793, #646529)
    + [JW] Added a number of corrections.  (Closes: #645393)

  * debian/control:
    + [CW] Mark lintian Multi-Arch: foreign (there does exist one
      Architecture: any package that Build-Depends: lintian, so this helps
      multiarch cross-building slightly).
  * debian/lintian.install:
    + [NT] Removed unpack which was removed.

  * frontend/lintian:
    + [NT] Collections explicitly requested (by -U) are no longer
      auto-removed.  Previously the only way to prevent auto-removal
      was to use --keep-lab.
    + [NT] Removed all archive-wide testing code.  This has been moved
      into reporting/harness.  This deprecates a lot options and config
      variables (--arch, --archivedir, --area, --dist, --section and
      LINTIAN_{ARCH,ARCHIVEDIR,AREA,DIST}).
    + [NT] Support new lab query format, replacing the old "package
      name"-based search.

  * lib/Lab{,/Package}.pm:
    + [NT] Removed, replaced by Lintian::Package{,::Entry}.
  * lib/Lintian/Check.pm:
    + [JW] Merged with common_data.pm.
  * lib/Lintian/Collect/Group.pm:
    + [NT] New file - Collect like API for group data.
  * lib/Lintian/Collect/Source.pm:
    + [JW] Fixed call to binary_field in binary_relation.
      (Closes: #641609)
  * lib/Lintian/Data.pm:
    + [NT] Fixed a file descriptor leak.
  * lib/Lintian/Lab{,/Entry,/Manifest,/ManifestDiff}.pm:
    + [NT] New files.  Replaces the Read_pkglists, Lab and
      Lab::Package modules.
  * lib/Lintian/Lab.pm:
    + [JW,NT] Correctly handle $TMPDIR not being an absolute path.
      (Closes: #642113)
    + [NT] New lab layout style resembling the "pool" dirs of the
      Debian mirrors.  This allows more than 32 000 packages of a
      given type in the laboratory.  It also allows multiple
      versions/architectures of the same package in static labs.
      A feature previously only enabled in temporary labs.  The new
      layout is incompatible with the old format.  (Closes: #641468)
  * lib/Lintian/Output.pm:
    + [NT] Minor refactoring to simplify creation of the FullEWI
      module.
  * lib/Lintian/Output/FullEWI.pm:
    + [NT] New experimental output.  More machine-friendly version
      of the normal Lintian output format.
  * lib/Lintian/Output/XML.pm:
    + [NT] Use self-closing tags (if possible) and do not write
      attributes with an empty value.
  * lib/Lintian/Processable.pm:
    + [NT] Reduced to an abstract class.  The "old" implementation
      has been put into Lintian::Processable::Package.
  * lib/Lintian/Processable/Package.pm:
    + [NT] New file.
    + [NT] Changed the "name" of changes files.  It is now equal to
      the name of the source package.  Previously it was the filename
      (without extension and without the dir part).
  * lib/Read_pkglists.pm:
    + [NT] Removed - replaced by Lintian::Lab::Manifest.
  * lib/Util.pm:
    + [NT] Stricten the parser to not accept a field name with a ":".
      This could cause the parser to eat the first part of the value,
      if it contained a colon and there was no space before the value.
      Thanks to Pino Toscano for reporting the issue.
    + [JW] Explicitly check that files are not encoded using ISO-2022,
      when they should be encoded with UTF-8.  (Closes: #643009)
    + [JW] Use "paragraph" and "field" rather than "section" and "tag"
      when referring to a Debian control file.

  * man/lintian.pod.in:
    + [NT] Fixed a typo, thanks to Evgeni Golov for spotting it,

  * private/generate-lintian-pod:
    + [NT] Document which collections are auto-removed by default in
      static labs.

  * profiles/ubuntu/main.profile:
    + [NT] Disable no-upstream-changelog and lzma-deb-archive for
      Ubuntu.  Thanks to Evan Broder for the report and patch.
      (Closes: #648117)

  * reporting/*:
    + [NT] Recognise and display pedantic tags.
    + [JW] Only emit "plus X overrides" if there any overrides.
  * reporting/{harness,html_reports}:
    + [NT] Do not accept LINTIAN_UNPACK_LEVEL nor LINTIAN_SECTION
      anymore.  The lintian frontend lost support for these in
      2.5.0~rc3.
  * reporting/harness:
    + [NT] Refactored to handle the archive-wide checking directly.
    + [NT] Use the new FullEWI output format for the archive-wide
      logs.
  * reporting/html_reports:
    + [NT] Ensure source tags appear before binary tags.
      (Closes: #580945)
    + [NT] Supports the FullEWI output format.

  * t/*:
    + [NT] Skip some tests broken by a recent dpkg upload.
      (Closes: #643205)

  * unpack/*:
    + [NT] Removed, no longer used.

 -- Niels Thykier <email address hidden>  Mon, 21 Nov 2011 23:05:12 +0100