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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.
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