and fix errors discovered doing this:
 deb-format: The current script is by Denis Barbier, correcting author in
  .desc file
 etcfiles:  correcting abbrevation of etcfiles to 'etc', was 'ini' which
  is already used by init.d

+ Accept more whitespace in relations, which is allowed according to
  policy, thanks Adrian Bunk for noticing, FL for fixing (Closes: #200280)

+ Tighten up mknod, dpkg --print-architecture and killall detection in
  maintainer scripts, would need rewrite to be really sane
  (Closes: #148548, #161820, #192300)

+ Don't consider depending on coreutils bad, as this is in a way a
  versioned depend (Closes: #216536)

Update info_tags.relations to new policy references

reflects the current menu manual (Closes: #229460)

Note some release goals as discussed with jvw (and as far
as I could remember them ;)

as I didn't knew myself anymore if I already changed that file...

based on a patch by Denis Barbier

"Use of uninitialized value" perl warnings in later
error messages.

"Remove the build-depends-without-arch-dep check. It produces
way too much false positives and can only be replaced by
a sophisticated debian/rules parser"

 way too much false positives and can only be replaced by
 a sophisticated debian/rules parser (Closes: #192037, #202950, #214231)

Correct Description of statically-linked test.

 1) if greater than soft_limit and greater than perc_limit
or 2) if greater than hard_limit.
Setting soft/hard/perc limits to 1MB/2MB/50%
(Not yet tested on the archive)

Fix a little formatting-issue with deb-format (double-usage of var... perl -W is rumoured to warn for that)

+ Exclude binaries and packages named *-static from the binary-is-static
  test. Exception for sash removed (override case) (Closes: #215235)

symlink-ends-with-slash tests match.

Thanks Frank Lichtenheld for the tip.

+ Check for a big /usr/share (currently 250kB) in arch-dependent
  packages (Closes: #232849)
  Thanks Steve McIntyre for the idea

Not sure what the treshold should be, and maybe make it also dependent on the
.deb size? I.e., a 100MB deb with 300kB /usr/share is maybe not that bad...

files exist, and po-debconf dependency

break, but at least DDPO had its difficulties

+ Revised the symlink detection stuff, it is now more rigorous, and has
  seperate warning for recursive symlinks that are otherwise not
  necessarily wrong (Closes: #118080)

there is no binary perl file at all in the package, since this
reflects the way the Installer module behaves (Closes: #199898)

Patch by Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsaker

breaks a lot of our code. so sed'ing it away (Closes: #234545)

+ Update valid types, since currently 'title' is supported now too
  (Closes: #234379, #234608)

(Don't advise to point to the perl packages' copyright file)