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Release lintian/2.81.0 into unstable.

Format: 1.8
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2020 09:47:18 +0100
Source: lintian
Architecture: source
Version: 2.81.0
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Lintian Maintainers <lintian-maint@debian.org>
Changed-By: Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>
Closes: 243158 554897 591665 755161 895597 904885 909696 914256 945869 950052 954459 954860 961709 961973 961975 962157 962158 962448 962583 962601 962671 963212
Changes:
 lintian (2.81.0) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   [ Felix Lechner ]
   * Remove command line option --fail-on from the settings in configuration
     files. (Closes: #962157)
   * Use UTF-8 codepoint for copyright sign in copyright files.
     (Closes: #961975)
   * Add tag for architecture-specific paths in debian/not-installed.
     (Closes: #961973)
   * Rename tag to recursive-privilege-change and explain usage of
     runuser(1). (Closes: #895597)
   * Do not enable Perl warnings globally to reduce output clutter from
     external modules.
   * In debian/control, add dh-r to Build-Depends. (See: #961709)
   * Add two test cases from Ansgar's 'colorful' test package.
     (See: #962277)
   * Drop Email::Valid as obsolete and use regex to check emails for fully
     qualified hosts. (See: #962277)
   * Flag the use of acute accents in manpages. (Closes: #554897)
   * Flag ANSI escape characters in all fields of primary packaging control
     files. (See: #962277)
   * In check menus, title-case the hash keys representing field labels to
     make the tag context more human-readable.
   * Rename tag for mailing list on Alioth and convert to classification
     tag. (Closes: #962448)
   * Add a classification tag for field contents in primary package control
     files.
   * Find the correct section when looking at combined manpages.
     (Closes: #962601)
   * Read manual references as UTF-8 to show "en" dash correctly.
     (Closes: #904885)
   * Issue 'required-field' and 'recommended-field' tagsper Debian Policy
     section 5 instead of field-specific tags.
   * Fix mail host validation in debian/changelog and rename tag for bogus
     hosts.
   * Do not allow unsafe symlinks in autopkgtests. (Closes: #954860)
   * Broaden tag descriptions for lower custom compression settings.
     (Closes: #909696)
   * Do not impose a umask when running tests as it partially obscured a bug
     in Dpkg. (See: #945869 & #796257)
   * Emit a classification tags with octal file permissions for all files
     sources and installables. (See: #945869, #796257)
   * Reset process umask before unpacking source tarballs. (Closes: #945869)
   * Use case-sensitive field names in control files, package relations,
     debconf templates and autopkgtest files.
   * Mark commas not followed by whitespace in package descriptions.
     (Closes: #591665)
   * Do not use the Bash shell when syntax checking maintainer scripts using
     /bin/sh. (Closes: #954459)
   * Point out variant spellings of field names in control files.
   * Use case-sensitive Deb822 parser for profiles, tags, checks, internal
     harness tests,private scripts, and in readelf data within
     Processable::Objdump.
   * Add new tag breakout-link for such links in /usr/lib. (Closes: #243158)
   * Stop exempting files in debian/missing-sources from source-is-missing.
     (See: #962583)
   * Provide test case with JS sources in subdir of d/missing-sources.
     (Closes: #962583)
   * Issue tag for repeated path segments in installed files.
     (Closes: #950052)
   * Restore case-invariant access to control fields, per Debian Policy
     section 5.1.
   * Add an internal harness test requiring a declared diagnostic value for
     tag-related test. (Closes: #962671)
   * Parse mail addresses in package control fields in one place and
     validate domains using Data::Validate::Domain.
   * Add new checks for maintainer-provided manpages and desktop entries.
     (Closes: #755161)
   * Restore program failure when error tags are found. (Closes: #962158)
   * Rename documentation/man to documentation/manual and debian/manpages to
     debian/manual-pages. Also rename tags that refer to a 'manpage' to
     'manual-page' or another name.
   * Combine various national encoding tags into one and issue all in one
     check.
   * Rename new item-looping entry points in checks as not all items are
     files.
   * Provide script diagnostics in the "control index".
   * Remove conflict between no-template-description and
     untranslatable-debconf-templates. (Closes: #914256)
 .
   [ Chris Lamb ]
   * Update data/fields/perl-provides for Perl 5.030003.
 .
   [ Paul Wise ]
   * spelling: Add several corrections and sort using the UTF-8 locale.
 .
   [ Dylan Aïssi ]
   * Add the requires-r-api and ships-r-site-library tags for the R
     statistics language. (Closes: #961709)
 .
   [ Mo Zhou ]
   * Add a new "linked-with-obsolete-library" tag; marks only libcblas from
     the Debian Science team for now.
 .
   [ Rafael Laboissière ]
   * Fix false positives in the no-dh-sequencer tag when Makefile command
     prefixes (eg. "+") are used. (Closes: #963212)
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