Format: 1.8 Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2018 00:41:30 +0000 Source: lintian Binary: lintian Architecture: source all Version: 2.5.69 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debian Lintian Maintainers <lintian-maint@debian.org> Changed-By: Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org> Description: lintian - Debian package checker Closes: 829100 863384 883772 886930 886961 887083 887120 887124 Changes: lintian (2.5.69) unstable; urgency=medium . * Summary of tag changes: + Added: - insecure-copyright-format-uri - package-contains-file-in-etc-skel - package-contains-python-tests-in-global-namespace - python-package-missing-depends-on-python - xz-compression-level-too-high . * checks/cruft.pm: + [CL] Ignore TeX \section (etc.) titles when checking for GFDL license. Thanks, Norbert Preining for the report. (Closes: #863384) * checks/fields.{pm,desc}: + [CL] Downgrade severity of wrong-section-according-to-package-name from "W:" to "I:". (Closes: #883772) + [CL] Thanks to Niels Thykier, update the description of the orphaned-package-not-maintained-in-debian-infrastructure tag. + [CL] Include the offending uri in the output of the vcs-deprecated-in-debian-infrastructure tag. * checks/python.{pm,desc}: + [CL] Don't emit new-package-should-not-package-python2-module if the maintainer justifies its inclusion in the changelog entry. + [CL] Improve the description and reasoning for the new-package-should-not-package-python2-module tag. + [CL] Include the offending package name when warning about new-package-should-not-package-python2-module. + [CL] Warn about packages that ship Python modules but are missing dependencies on any Python interpreter. (Closes: #887083) + [CL] Remark that new-package-should-not-package-python2-module's appearance on https://lintian.debian.org/ can be ignored. (Closes: #887124) * checks/rules.pm: + [CL] Allow rules-not-should-not-use data-based tags to capture variables and include them in the emitted tag. * checks/source-copyright.{desc,pm}: + [CL] Warn about insecure "Format:" URIs that reference debian.org. Based on a patch by Nicolas Braud-Santoni. (Closes: #886930) * checks/standards-version.pm: + [CL] Include the date the Standards-Version was actually released in the output of the ancient-standards-version and the out-of-date-standards-version tags. . * data/debhelper/*: + [ADB] Refresh. * data/files/fnames: + [CL] Warn about packages that ship (eg.) test_foo.py files in the global Python module namespace. + [CL] Emit an error if packages ship files in /etc/skel. Thanks to Paul Wise for the suggestion. (Closes: #887120) * data/files/fonts: + [ADB] Refresh. * data/fields/name_section_mappings: + [CL] Ensure that NSS (Name Services Switch) modules are placed in the "admin" section. Thanks to Mathieu Parent (sathieu) for the patch. (Closes: #886961) * data/rules/rules-should-not-use: + [CL] Include the assigned value in the Lintian output for the debian-rules-should-not-use-DH_EXTRA_ADDONS tag. + [CL] Detect overly-compressed xz packages. (Closes: #829100) * data/spelling/corrections: + [PW] Add a number of corrections. Checksums-Sha1: 7225b782975745c11434dc57da0fd8d35e071d7e 2633 lintian_2.5.69.dsc 1cc1bf9d3cced913b810fc17920242a9e3352c8f 1465732 lintian_2.5.69.tar.xz 96d3f2b4c754c3af7133d261d0a97a6f279a7de0 1087936 lintian_2.5.69_all.deb 3cd2ec6986b26ae73b54c482868f7ec7eaf7021e 14997 lintian_2.5.69_amd64.buildinfo Checksums-Sha256: 45071ad3e3350d554a087d2066eb9c0646c62c6b98b925fa6a9913e0a539505c 2633 lintian_2.5.69.dsc 9679bdf5f3943fb76894f0b05761f40c7146e81f7714251cd1fc617815993178 1465732 lintian_2.5.69.tar.xz f7566b1199d80b6aace9bc11d29312737aab5abb6eea4a2fd9ac95934c2fa4f2 1087936 lintian_2.5.69_all.deb 62a565553d80ca4aa5e0e1943937440c0649ee9bafb52d6272586661a25c70b4 14997 lintian_2.5.69_amd64.buildinfo Files: 91cc76e8f98aa42d787f879d075dc881 2633 devel optional lintian_2.5.69.dsc 658a23251c0cf8400f40d2592a5c20bc 1465732 devel optional lintian_2.5.69.tar.xz ad3314f6ae274185556b92529b15cfe1 1087936 devel optional lintian_2.5.69_all.deb 446a1474016411b55941eb6bb9fecb84 14997 devel optional lintian_2.5.69_amd64.buildinfo