lintian (2.5.6) unstable; urgency=low

  * checks/*:
    + [NT] Simplified some bit operations done on file permissions.
  * checks/binaries:
    + [NT] Fix false-negative missing-dependency-on-phpapi when the
      binary included a "SOVERSION" in its name.  Thanks to Ondřej
      Surý for the report.  (Closes: #662936)
  * checks/changelog-file:
    + [NT] Do not emit "no-upstream-changelog" for transitional
      packages.  Thanks to Paul Wise for the report.
      (Closes: #660076)
  * checks/cruft:
    + [NT] Added missing "unless" in the code.  Fixes false
      positive "source-contains-waf-binary".  Thanks to
      Dmitrijs Ledkovs for the report.  (Closes: #661561)
  * checks/debhelper:
    + [NT] Fix FP executable-debhelper-file-without-being-executable
      emitted for directories.  Thanks to Felix Geyer for the report
      and the patch.  (Closes: #663447)
  * checks/files.desc:
    + [NT] Fix a typo in a tag description.  Thanks to Ludovic
      Rousseau for spotting it.  (Closes: #663759)
  * checks/scripts:
    + [NT] Allow fontforge-nox as (alternative) provider for the
      fontforge interpreter.  Thanks to Martin Erik Werner for
      the report.  (Closes: #661363)
    + [NT] Move %interpreters map to a separate data file.
  * checks/source-copyright.desc:
    + [NT] Update references for copyright-format checks.  Thanks
      to Thijs Kinkhorst for the report and the patch.
      (Closes: #661778)
    + [NT] Added trailing slash to copyright-format URLs in tag
      descriptions for consistency with the policy.

  * collection/*:
    + [NT] Removed assumption that "cwd" is the same as the
      directory for the package being examined.
  * collection/java-info:
    + [NT] Added missing "use Util".
  * collection/scripts:
    + [NT] Use "fail" from Util.pm rather than using an embedded
      copy.
  * collection/strings:
    + [NT] Use Lintian::Collect to find ELF files.

  * data/scripts/interpreters:
    + [NT] New file.

  * frontend/lintian:
    + [NT] Pass directory of the package to the collections.

  * lib/Lintian/Check.pm:
    + [NT] Fixed false positive "*-address-malformed" if the local
      part of the email was "0".  Thanks to Christopher Vollick for
      the report.  (Closes: #663659)
  * lib/Lintian/Tag/Info.pm:
    + [NT] Fixed issue where "Experimental: no" was handled as a
      "yes" when generating a tag description.
  * lib/Util.pm:
    + [NT] If no locale can be found, just set LC_ALL to en_US.UTF-8.
      This fixes an issue with Lintian in backports when only
      locales-all is installed.  Thanks to Peter Palfrader for the
      report.  (Closes: #663459)

  * private/runtests:
    + [NT] Support using en_US.UTF-8 from locales-all, when that is
      available.  This allows locales-all to be used as a substitute
      for locales when compiling Lintian on Squeeze.

  * reporting/harness:
    + [NT] Corrected inverted logic when checking for dry-run.

 -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>  Wed, 14 Mar 2012 15:00:25 +0100

lintian (2.5.5) unstable; urgency=low

  The "Policy 3.9.3" release.

  * Summary of tag changes:
    + Added:
      - arch-dependent-file-not-in-arch-specific-directory
      - control-file-contains-dh_make-vcs-comment
      - debhelper-compat-file-is-missing
      - dependency-is-not-multi-archified
      - dh-exec-install-not-allowed-here
      - dh-exec-private-helper
      - dh-exec-script-without-dh-exec-features
      - dh-exec-subst-unknown-variable
      - executable-debhelper-file-without-being-executable
      - missing-dependency-on-numpy-abi
      - package-file-is-executable
      - package-uses-dh-exec-but-lacks-build-depends
      - preinst-uses-dpkg-maintscript-helper-without-predepends
      - shlib-in-multi-arch-foreign-package
      - source-contains-waf-binary
      - syntax-error-in-control-file
      - syntax-error-in-debconf-template
    + Removed:
      - dh_dhelp-is-deprecated
      - maintainer-not-full-name
      - maintainer-script-calls-deprecated-wm-menu-config
      - maintainer-script-does-not-check-for-existence-of-wm-menu-config
      - uploader-address-missing
      - uploader-not-full-name

  * checks/*:
    + [NT] Fixed assumptions about certain fields being present.
      Where needed, Lintian will make guesses to the most likely
      value (or the least "broken" value).
  * checks/binaries{,.desc}:
    + [NT] Allow libnss_* plugins in usr/lib.
    + [JW] Check for ELF binaries installed in unsafe paths in
      Multi-Arch: same packages.  (Closes: #650445)
    + [JW] Added check numpy ABI dependency.  (Closes: #658311)
    + [NT] Fixed embedded-library false-positive for tiff3.  Thanks
      to Jay Berkenbilt for the report.  (Closes: #660675)
  * checks/control-file{,.desc}:
    + [NT] Allow "pkg (= ${source:Version})" versioned dependency if
      pkg is architecture all.  This fixes a false-positive
      "weak-library-dev-dependency" for some mono packages.  Thanks
      to David Bremner for the report.  (Closes: #652602)
    + [NT] Emit a tag if there is a syntax error in d/control rather
      than just aborting the rest of the check.
    + [NT] Accepted patch from Gergely Nagy to catch dh-make vcs
      templates in comments.  Thanks to Paul Wise for suggesting this
      check.  (Closes: #657110)
  * checks/copyright.desc:
    + [RA] Rephrase copyright-with-old-dh-make-debian-copyright long
      description to be clearer about the legal status of copyright
      notices.  (Closes: #659574)
    + [RA,NT] Make copyright-with-old-dh-make-debian-copyright a
      pedantic tag.
  * checks/cruft{,.desc}:
    + [NT] Added dh-autoreconf as a build-depends alternative to
      libtool for suppressing ancient-libtool warning.  Thanks to
      Felix Geyer for the report.  (Closes: #650325)
    + [NT] Accepted patch from Paul Wise to detect COFF object
      files as Win32 binaries.
    + [NT] Properly handle unpacked being a symlink.
    + [NT] Accepted patch from Luca Falavigna to detect waf files
      with a binary payload.  (Closes: #654523)
  * checks/debconf:
    + [RA] Recognize Perl uses of debconf templates via metaget or
      settitle.
  * checks/debhelper{,.desc}:
    + [NT] Do not check executable debhelper files for brace
      expansion if compat is 9 (or greater).  It may be allowed by
      tool interpreting the file.
    + [NT] Added checks for handling executable files in the
      debian dir.  Thanks to Joey Hess and Arno Töll for the
      reports.  (Closes: #651572, #651330)
    + [NT] Added various dh-exec related checks.  Thanks to Gergely
      Nagy for the patches.  (Closes: #653071)
    + [NT] Removed tag for using dh_dhelp.  It is not shipped in
      debhelper anymore (not even Squeeze) and the tag is not
      emitted anymore (according to lintian.d.o).
    + [NT] Added check for missing compat file.  (Closes: #656885)
  * checks/fields{,.desc}:
    + [JW] Properly handle uploader names with commas.
      (Closes: #485705)
    + [NT] Removed uploader-address-missing tag.
    + [NT] Added section-mapping for (some) zope packages.  This
      fixes some false-positives where python-zope packages were
      wrongly identified as belong to the python section.
    + [NT] Fixed an issue where "doc-pkg-depends-on-main-pkg" would
      only be triggered if it was a "pre-depends" relation.
    + [NT] Use new Lintian::Architecture API.
    + [JW] Include ssh:// as a valid protocol for hg.
      (Closes: #655907)
    + [NT] Ignore self relations in Replaces and Provides.  This
      is allowed according to §7.6.2.  (Closes: #657034)
    + [NT] Applied patch from intrigeri to remove "not-full-name"
      tags.  (Closes: #658031)
  * checks/files:
    + [JW,NT] Skip "Multi-Arch: same" check of gzip files if their
      install path contains the architecture.  (Closes: #650665)
    + [JW]  Fixed a false-negative "empty-binary-package" if the
      package contained the /u/s/doc/$pkg symlink.
      (Closes: #650959)
    + [NT] Allow fonts in packages starting with "fonts-".  This
      completes the fix for #646838.  Thanks to أحمد المحمودي
      for the follow up report.  (Closes: #651045)
    + [NT] Re-added swfobject.js to the list of known javascript
      libraries.  Thanks to Paul Wise for noticing it had been
      uploaded.
  * checks/group-check{,.desc}:
    + [NT] Check for file conflicts in binaries built from the same
      source package.  (Closes: #293838)
    + [JW] Added check for incomplete Multi-arch'ification.
      (Closes: #650838)
  * checks/menus{,.desc}:
    + [NT] Remove obsolete checks for wm-menu/wm-menu-config use in
      maintainer scripts.  The executables are not shipped in menu
      in Squeeze nor sid.  Furthermore the tags are not emitted in
      any package (according to lintian.d.o).
  * checks/nmu:
    + [JW] Properly handle uploader names with commas.
  * checks/po-debconf:
    + [NT] Remove special handling for packages using yada.
  * checks/rules:
    + [NT] Remove check for missing build-depends on yada.
  * checks/scripts:
    + [NT] Accepted patch from Evan Broder to check for missing
      versioned pre-depends on dpkg when using maintscript helper.
      This dependency is trivially satisfied in Debian, but may
      complicate Ubuntu LTS upgrades.  (Closes: #602249)
    + [NT] Accepted patch from James McCoy to recognize "racket" as
      a known interpreter.  (Closes: #652594)
    + [NT] Accepted patch from Martin Erik Werner to recognize
      "fontforge" as a known interpreter.  (Closes: #652736)
  * checks/shared-libs{,.desc}:
    + [JW] Check for Multi-Arch foreign packages shipping shared
      libraries in public library directories.  (Closes: #650444)
    + [NT] Use the new hwcap-dirs data file to determine hwcap dirs.
    + [NT] Ignore missing symbols/shlibs files for libc libnss
      plugins.
  * checks/source-copyright{,.desc}:
    + [JW] Allow a trailing slash in the DEP-5 1.0 URL.
      (Closes: #649813)
    + [NT] Use line numbers rather than "0-indexed" paragraph numbers
      in the emitted tags.  Thanks to Jari Aalto for the suggestion.
    + [NT] Recommend the URI to the copyright-format subpolicy as
      DEP-5 format specification URI.  Thanks to Helmut Grohne for
      the report.  (Closes: #651392)
  * checks/symlinks:
    + [NT] Ignore langpack symlinks if they appear to be consistent.
      Thanks to Evan Broder for the report.  (Closes: #650793)

  * collection/ar-info:
    + [NT] Properly handle unpacked being a symlink.
  * collection/index:
    + [NT] Use Lintian::Processable::Package to determine source
      name and version.
  * collection/file-info{,-helper}:
    + [NT] Do not open non-files when double-checking gzip files.
    + [NT] Pass "-N" to file as Lintian does not need the aligned
      output.
  * collection/md5sums:
    + [NT] Properly handle unpacked being a symlink.
  * collection/source-control-file{,.desc}:
    + [NT] Removed as they are no longer needed.  They have been
      replaced by a smarter Lintian::Collect.
  * collcetion/unpacked:
    + [NT] Pass --no-check to dpkg-source when requested not to
      check signatures (via reporting/harness).

  * data/{fields => common}/architectures:
    + [NT] Moved architectures to data/common.
  * data/debhelper/dh_addons-manual:
    + [JW] Add python3-sphinx as provider of sphinxdoc dh sequence.
  * data/debhelper/dh_commands-manual:
    + [JW] Add python3-sphinx as provider of dh_sphinxdoc.
      (Closes: #649640)
    + [NT] Added libxine-dev | libxine2-dev as provider of dh_xine.
      (Closes: #659285)
  * data/fields/archive-sections:
    + [NT] Added new sections.  Thanks to Michael Biebl for the
      reminder.  (Closes: #652123)
  * data/fields/virtual-packages:
    + [NT] Refreshed against sid.  (Closes: #657155)
  * data/files/fonts:
    + [NT] Refreshed against sid.
  * data/init.d/virtual_facilities:
    + [NT] Refreshed against sid.
  * data/output/ftp-master-{,non}fatal:
    + [NT] Refreshed.
  * data/output/manual-references:
    + [NT] Refreshed.
  * data/shared-libs/hwcap-dirs:
    + [JW] New data file for listing known hwcap dirs.
  * data/shared-libs/ldconfig-dirs:
    + [NT] Auto-generate file with help from dpkg-architecture.
      (Closes: #653832)
  * data/spelling/corrections:
    + [NT] Added corrections for deprecate(d) and pedantic.
  * data/standards-version/release-dates:
    + [NT] Added release date for Standards-Version 3.9.3.

  * debian/control:
    + [NT] Prefer libc-bin (>= 2.13) to locales.  Thanks to Josh
      Triplett for the suggestion, investigative work and the
      proposed patch to make this possible.  (Closes: #636086)
    + [JW] Add Build-Dependency on python-numpy and python-all-dev
      for the test suite.
    + [NT] Bumped Lintian's Standards-Version to 3.9.3.  No changes
      required.
  * debian/{postinst,prerm}:
    + [JW,NT] Remove the internal Lintian locale if a C.UTF-8 locale
      is found in /usr/lib/locale.
  * debian/source/lintian-overrides:
    + [NT] Added override for python-dev tag.  We need python-all-dev
      for the test suite.
  * debian/triggers:
    + [JW] Added trigger for libc-bin C.UTF-8 locale.  This ensures
      the internal Lintian locale can removed if libc-bin is upgraded
      after Lintian.

  * doc/lintian.xml:
    + [NT] Corrected the runtime estimate for an archive-wide run.
      With 35 000+ packages, it can no longer be done in "a few
      hours".
    + [NT] Documented architecture specific overrides.
      (Closes: #651816)
  * doc/lintianrc.example:
    + [NT] Removed deprecated variables and added sample TMPDIR
      usage.

  * frontend/lintian:
    + [NT] Allow -U to be given more than once.
    + [JW,NT] If using a temporary lab, print its location when
      using --verbose option.  (Closes: #650433)
    + [NT] Fixed an issue where auto-clean would not see the real
      status of some collections.
    + [NT] Keep auto-cleaned collections until all processables in
      the group has been checked.
    + [NT] Attempt guess the version number when running in an git
      checkout or unpacked source dir.  Based on patch from Evan
      Broder.  (Closes: #650701)
    + [NT] Added support for the virtual "GROUP" type in Lab Queries.
      This will make Lintian select all packages related to a given
      source (and version).
    + [NT] Removed check loading code.  This has been moved into
      Lintian::Profile.
    + [NT] Always load a profile.
    + [NT] Allow TMPDIR in the configuration file.
    + [NT] Treat "pedantic" as a normal severity.  In previous
      release, pedantic tags were not affected by --display-level.
      A side-effect of this is that "pedantic" can no longer be
      used with "display-level" in the configuration file.
    + [NT] Produce a better error message when asked to process an
      URL or a path that is definitely not a valid lab query.
      Thanks to Nicholas Bamber for the report.  (Closes: #651332)
  * frontend/lintian-info:
    + [NT] Support new lintian.log format.
    + [NT] Support new override file format with -a.
    + [NT] Fixed the --profile argument, which now accepts the
      mandatory parameter it is supposed to.

  * lib/Checker.pm:
    + [NT] Removed, merged into frontend/lintian.
  * lib/Lintian/Architecture.pm:
    + [NT] New file.
  * lib/Lintian/Check.pm:
    + [NT] Do not check for missing uploader address as it cannot be
      done reliably anymore.
    + [NT] Applied patch from intrigeri to remove the "not-full-name"
      tags.
    + [NT] Only emit a spelling tag once for each spelling error in each
      field/file/text.
  * lib/Lintian/CheckScript.pm:
    + [NT] New file.
  * lib/Lintian/Collect/{Binary,Source}.pm:
    + [NT] Assume packages to be non-native when it cannot be
      accurately determined due to missing version field.
  * lib/Lintian/Collect/Binary.pm:
    + [NT] Fixed an error in parsing symbol names when using readelf
      as replacement for objdump.
  * lib/Lintian/Collect/Group.pm:
    + [NT] Made direct_dependencies properly handle udebs.  This fixes
      an error that would cause lintian to skip some checks for udebs.
  * lib/Lintian/Collect/Package.pm:
    + [NT] Map an owner/group of "0/0" to "root/root".  This avoids a
      number of false-positive ownership tags if only numerical
      ownership is available in the tarball.  Thanks to Thorsten
      Glaser for the report.  (Closes: #638278)
  * lib/Lintian/Collect/Source.pm:
    + [NT] Removed assumption that source packages always have a
      format field.
  * lib/Lintian/Lab.pm:
    + [NT] Added "is_temp" method to identify temp labs from static
      labs.
    + [NT] Corrected issue where the lab would record binaries as
      being from "main", even if their "section" field implied
      otherwise.
  * lib/Lintian/Lab/Entry.pm:
    + [NT] Properly strip whitespace when loading collection status.
  * lib/Lintian/Processable/Package.pm:
    + [NT] Use part of the file name as package name if the mandatory
      "Package" or "Source" fields are missing rather than choking.
  * lib/Lintian/Profile.pm:
    + [NT] Catch recursively defined profiles when the Profile field
      contains a (slightly) different name than the Extends field of
      its parent.  (Closes: #655469)
    + [NT] Handle loading of checks and tags.
  * lib/Lintian/Tag/Info.pm:
    + [NT] Accepted patch from Evan Broder to always output effective
      severity in tag descriptions.
    + [NT] Removed code to load tags from checks.  This has moved to
      Lintian::Profile.
  * lib/Lintian/Tags.pm:
    + [NT] Support architecture wildcards in overrides.
    + [NT] Emit "malformed-override" for architecture specific tags for
      unknown architectures and for "arch:all" packages.
    + [NT] Use a Profile to determine if a tag is suppressed or not.
    + [NT] Handle "pedantic" like the other severities.
    + [NT] Count experimental tags as a separate group of tags.  This
      fixes an issue where lintian would exit 1 if the only error
      tags emitted were experimental.  (Closes: #658971)
  * lib/Util.pm:
    + [NT] Create clean_env function to handle cleaning of the
      environment for children processes and finding a suitable UTF-8
      locale (when needed).
    + [NT] Report line number instead of "0-indexed" paragraph number
      in syntax errors.  Thanks to Jari Aalto for the suggestion.
      (Closes: #659909)

  * man/lintian.pod.in:
    + [NT] Removed the notes that some options disable loading of a
      profile.  Lintian now always loads a profile when doing checks.

  * private/refresh-archs:
    + [NT] Rewritten.
  * private/refresh-hwcap:
    + [JW] New file.

  * profiles/debian/ftp-master-auto-reject.profile:
    + [NT] Refreshed.

  * reporting/harness:
    + [NT] Removed useless "TODO" message from the log output.
    + [NT] Added -h/--help option to print usage information.
    + [NT] Added --dry-run option.
    + [NT] A source package is now only processed if one (or more) of
      its binaries are processed as well.
    + [NT] Also symlink $LINTIAN_BIN_DIR/gpgv to /bin/true when
      skipping signature checks.  This avoids issues when some tools
      prefers gpgv to gpg.
  * reporting/html_reports:
    + [JW] Properly handle uploader names with commas.
    + [NT] Use the severities from profiles when generating tag pages.
      Based on patches from Evan Broder.  (Closes: #650712)
    + [NT] Removed tag loading code, which has moved into
      Lintian::Profile.
    + [NT] Pass a profile to the templates (as $profile) instead of the
      old %all hash.
    + [NT] List only source packages on the "packages_X.html" pages.
  * reporting/templates/tags-all.tmpl:
    + [NT] Use $profile instead of the %all hash.

 -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>  Thu, 23 Feb 2012 14:06:21 +0100

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 <niels@thykier.net>  Mon, 21 Nov 2011 23:05:12 +0100

lintian (2.5.3) unstable; urgency=low

  The "Another 51 bites the dust.  169 left to go." release.

  * Summary of tag changes:
    + Added:
      - boilerplate-copyright-format-uri
      - control-file-is-not-a-file
      - comma-separated-files-in-dep5-copyright
      - copyright-has-crs
      - debian-copyright-is-symlink
      - depends-on-packaging-dev
      - dh_installmanpages-is-obsolete
      - missing-field-in-dep5-copyright
      - missing-license-paragraph-in-dep5-copyright
      - missing-license-text-in-dep5-copyright
      - no-debian-copyright
      - obsolete-field-in-dep5-copyright
      - out-of-date-copyright-format-uri
      - package-contains-no-arch-dependent-files
      - perl-module-uses-perl4-libs-without-dep
      - readme-debian-contains-invalid-email-address
      - script-uses-perl4-libs-without-dep
      - syntax-error-in-dep5-copyright
      - unknown-copyright-format-uri
      - unknown-paragraph-in-dep5-copyright
      - unused-license-paragraph-in-dep5-copyright
      - unversioned-copyright-format-uri
      - vim-addon-within-vim-runtime-path
      - wiki-copyright-format-uri
    + Removed:
      - debian-changelog-file-contains-debmake-default-email-address
      - readme-debian-contains-debmake-default-email-address
      - script-calls-init-script-directly

  * checks/*:
    + [NT] Dropped fields from Needs-Info, it is no longer needed.
    + [JW] Use LC_ALL rather than LANG, since LC_ALL overrules
      LANG.  (Closes: #637595)
    + [JW] Removed all whitespace lines to avoid confusing some
      dctrl parsers (notably grep-dctrl).  (Closes: #639928)
    + [JW] Fix a number of broken references in the tag
      descriptions.  (Closes: #639923)
    + [JW] Rewrote Debian Bug references using #nnnnnn notation.
  * checks/binaries.desc:
    + [NT] Remove the reference to the Library Packaging Guide,
      since it is no longer available (in Debian).  (Closes: #640228)
  * checks/changelog-file{,.desc}:
    + [JW] Remove debmake-specific tag in favour of more general
      debian-changelog-file-contains-invalid-email-address.
      (Closes: #639946)
    + [JW,NT] Fixed use of uninitialized value as hash key.
      (Closes: #640238)
    + [NT] Mention that the missing native changelog tag can, in
      some cases, be emitted if it does not look like a Debian
      changelog.
  * checks/{conffile,etcfiles}{,.desc}:
    + [JW] Merged etcfiles into conffile.  (Closes: #637590)
  * checks/conffile:
    + [NT] Skip all checks if "conffiles" is a symlink.
  * checks/control-files{,.desc}:
    + [NT] Check that all members of the control.tar.gz are either
      regular files or directories.
  * checks/copyright-file{,.desc}:
    + [JW] Check for CRLF line endings in copyright files.
      (Closes: #634191)
    + [JW] Extended helper-templates-in-copyright and ensure it is
      only emitted once per package.
  * checks/debhelper{,.desc}:
    + [NT] Recognise /usr/share/R/debian/r-cran.mk as a cdbs-based
      build.  This prevents false-positive "unneeded cdbs" warning.
    + [JW] Check for use of the obsolete dh_installmanpages debhelper
      program.  Thanks to Joey Hess for the report.  (Closes: #634112).
  * checks/debian-readme{,.desc}:
    + [JW] Replace debmake-specific tag with more general
      readme-debian-contains-invalid-email-address.
  * checks/description.desc:
    + [JW] Added references to some tags.  (Closes: #640853)
  * checks/duplicate-files{,.desc}:
    + [NT] Replace the exception for "__init__.py" files by excluding
      all empty files from the check.  The bug (#632789) only requests
      an exception for "empty __init__.py" files and generally empty
      files are unlikely to cause a serious size-waste.
  * checks/fields{,.desc}:
    + [NT] Mention that perl modules included in perl itself should
      be the first dependency if it is only included in the perl
      from experimental.  Thanks to Dominic Hargreaves for the
      report and the patch.  (Closes: #637793)
    + [NT] Warn about (build)depending/recommending on packaging-dev.
      Thanks to Luk Claes for the report and the initial patch.
      (Closes: #629308)
    + [NT] Also emit bad-homepage if the Homepage URL does not seem to
      be using a known protocol (for homepages).  (Closes: #580427)
    + [JW] Bumped the severity of "no-human-maintainers", since it is
      now a Policy "must" directive.  (Closes: #640856)
    + [JW,NT] If superfluous-clutter-in-homepage has been emitted,
      ignore the surrounding "<>" for the rest of the homepage checks.
      (Closes: #640947)
    + [NT] Added check for Build-Depending on libdbX.Y-dev (and related
      packages.  Most packages should be able to use unversioned -dev
      packages.  Thanks to Ondřej Surý for the report and the initial
      tag description.  (Closes: #624434)
  * checks/{filename-length,rules}.desc:
    + [NT] Improved the descriptions of some tags.  (Closes: #639018)
  * checks/files{,.desc}:
    + [NT] Added exceptions to "extra-license-file" for manpages,
      static libraries, .pc-, elf and pyshared-data-files.  This
      covers all the false-positives currently found in the liblicense
      package.  (Closes: #617901)
    + [NT] Ignore non-ELF files in multiarch paths, when checking for
      a missing pre-depends on multiarch-support.  Thanks to Sven
      Joachim for the report.  (Closes: #639735)
    + [NT] Added check for packages that only ships files in /usr/share
      and are not marked "Architecture: all".  Thanks to Evgeni Golov,
      Carl Fürstenberg and Jari Aalto for the suggestions.
      (Closes: #574689)
    + [JW] Do not emit third-party-package-in-python-dir for packages built
      from python{,3}-{stdlib-extensions,profiler,old-doctools} sources.
      Add reference to Python Policy in the tag description.
      (Closes: #640211)
    + [JW] Add check for Vim addons installing files into a directory
      within Vim runtime path.  (Closes: #640371)
    + [NT] Added check for Perl modules using perl4 libs without depending
      on libperl4-core-libs-perl.  Thanks to Dominic Hargreaves for the
      initial patch.
  * checks/menus.desc:
    + [NT] Added reference to the doc-base manual to help people
      find the list of valid doc-base sections.  (Closes: #584280)
  * checks/patch-systems:
    + [NT] Use lsdiff to determine if a patch modifies the debian dir as
      it is more accurate than diffstat for this.  (Closes: #640131)
  * checks/rules:
    + [NT] Do a simple and minimal variable tracking.  In very simple
      cases, it can determine which targets a variable contains (when
      the variable is used as a target).  (Closes: #638411)
  * checks/scripts{,.desc}:
    + [NT] Remove script-calls-init-script-directly.  (Closes: #617959)
    + [NT] Added check for Perl scripts using perl4 libs without depending
      on libperl4-core-libs-perl.  Thanks to Dominic Hargreaves for the
      initial patch.  (Closes: #636994)
  * checks/shared-libs{,.desc}:
    + [JW] Fixed a typo in a tag description.  (Closes: #639177)
    + [NT] Do not emit shlib-calls-exit for libraries that have an
      INTERP section.  (Closes: #607399)
  * checks/source-copyright{,.desc}:
    + [JW] Added check for DEP-5 copyright files.  (Closes: #633779)
  * checks/standards-version:
    + [NT] Made the ancient-standards-version independent of the
      system time.
  * checks/version-substvars{,.desc}:
    + [NT] Also emit the any-depends-all tag if the ">=" relation is
      used.  Thanks to Konstantinos Margaritis and Cyril Brulebois for
      the report and the research.  (Closes: #639144)

  * collection/fields{,.desc}:
    + [NT] Removed, no longer used.
  * collection/changelog-file:
    + [NT] Double check changelogs that does not explicitly contains
      "debian" in the filename.  This should avoid a myriad of syntax
      error tags in some cases (such as perl), where the Debian
      changelog is not present and there is an upstream changelog.

  * data/fields/archive-sections:
    + [NT] Fixed a typo in "otherosfs" section name.  Thanks to
      Stefan Potyra for the report.  (Closes: #637596)
  * data/fields/perl-provides:
    + [NT] Refreshed with perl 5.14 in sid.
  * data/files/fonts:
    + [NT] Refreshed against sid and now includes packages starting
      with "fonts-" as well.  Thanks to Paul Wise for the patches.
      (Closes: #622149)
  * data/output/ftp-master-{,non}fatal:
    + [NT] Refreshed.
  * data/output/manual-references:
    + [JW] Refreshed.
  * data/rules/known-makefiles:
    + [JW] Added Makefiles from (the future) dpkg.  (Closes: #640921)
  * data/spelling/corrections{,-multiword}:
    + [NT] Added some corrections for "remove" etc.  Thanks to
      Jakub Wilk for spotting those.
    + [JW,NT] Added more corrections.
      (Closes: #639367, #640149, #613604)

  * debian/control:
    + [NT] (Build-)Depends on patchutils for lsdiff.
  * debian/copyright:
    + [NT] Added Jakub Wilk to maintainers.
  * debian/rules:
    + [JW] Use LC_ALL rather than LANG, since LC_ALL overrules
      LANG.

  * doc/lintian.xml:
    + [NT] Removed duplicate "allowed to" in same sentence.
    + [NT] Added a paragraph on some of the constrains in design
      of Lintian.
  * doc/lintianrc.example:
    + [NT] Add an example on how to enable "--quiet" via lintianrc.
  * doc/README.developers:
    + [NT] New file.  Thanks to Jeremiah C. Foster for the initial
      contribution.

  * frontend/lintian:
    + [NT] Lintian now mentions if overrides may have been ignored.
      This happens if a package contains an override for a tag
      that has been marked "non-overridable" by the current vendor
      profile.
    + [NT] Mention ".changes" as a valid file type in the "unknown
      file" error.  Thanks to Michael Gilbert for the report and
      the patch.   (Closes: #639430)
    + [NT] Always display a given tag if requested with --tags
      or --tags-from-file.  Previously, pedantic and experimental
      tags were not shown unless the relevant options were also
      passed.
    + [JW,NT] Fixed a regression where --check-part ignored display
      settings (such as --display-info).  (Closes: #640694)
    + [NT] If both --verbose and --quiet is used together, then use
      the last of them to appear rather than "both at the same time".
      (Closes: #640366)
    + [NT] Accept --quiet in lintianrc as "quiet".  This option may
      not be used together with "verbose" in the config file.

  * lib/Lintian/Check.pm:
    + [NT] Catch "Name <Name <Email>>" as a malformed email address.
      (Closes: #640489)
    + [JW] Catch misspellings of the "Debian QA Group" maintainer
      email (used for orphaned packages).  (Closes: #640834)
  * lib/Lintian/Collect.pm:
    + [JW,NT] Create the source field from the package field if the
      former is not present.  This fixes a number of false-positves
      introduced in 2.5.2.  (Closes: #640186)
  * lib/Lintian/Collect/Source.pm:
    + [NT] Removed a requirement for fields that was not needed.
    + [NT] Fixed "index" method for source packages.
  * lib/Lintian/Collect/Package.pm:
    + [JW,NT] Replace use of fail with croak.  (Closes: #637741)
  * lib/Lintian/Output.pm:
    + [NT] Merged "quiet" and "verbose" into "verbosity_level".
  * lib/Lintian/Profile.pm:
    + [NT] Reject profiles containing an unknown field.
  * lib/Lintian/Tag/Info.pm:
    + [JW] Create links for references pointing to files in html
      output.
    + [JW] Parse "#nnnnnn" references as links to Debian bugs.
    + [NT] Check severity and certainty when loading checks.  This
      causes Lintian to reject checks with broken/incomplete tags
      even if the tag was never used.
  * lib/Lintian/Tag/Override.pm:
    + [NT] New file.
  * lib/Lintian/Tags.pm:
    + [NT] Track which tags had overrides that have been dropped.
    + [NT,RG] Collect override comments and print the comments
      above the overridden tag (with --show-overrides).  Thanks
      to Carl Fürstenberg for the report.  (Closes: #474590)
    + [NT] Remove the "respect-display-level" code.  It is not as
      useful as intended.
  * lib/Text_utils.pm:
    + [NT] Close <p>-tags in dtml_to_html since the output is used
      in xhtml (xml), where all tags must be closed properly.
      (Closes: #639292)
    + [NT] Remove the last new line (if any) before a </pre> in tag
      to reduce the empty space to the next paragraph.
  * lib/Util.pm:
    + [JW] Use LC_ALL rather than LANG, since LC_ALL overrules
      LANG.
    + [JW] Stricten the DCtrl parser to choke on some syntax errors
      that were silently ignored.  (Closes: #639516)

  * man/lintian.pod.in:
    + [JW] Fixed some stray POD markup.  (Closes: #640705)
    + [JW,NT] Clarified that --tags and --tags-from-file ignores
      display settings.
    + [NT] Documented how lintian behaves if --quiet is used together
      with --verbose or --debug.
    + [NT] Documented how --verbose and --quiet can be enabled via
      the config file.  Only one of "verbose" and "quiet" may
      appear in the config file.

  * profiles/debian/ftp-master-auto-reject.profile:
    + [NT] Refreshed to include udeb-uses-non-gzip-data-tarball.

  * private/*:
    + [JW] Use LC_ALL rather than LANG, since LC_ALL overrules
      LANG.
  * private/refresh-manual-refs:
    + [NT] Remove code to refresh refs to the Library Packaging
      Guide.
    + [JW] Added the java-policy and fixed the lintian ref.
    + [JW] Don't strip newlines from titles, but treat them as regular
      whitespace characters.
    + [JW] Strip some superfluous HTML markup from titles.

  * reporting/{config,html_reports,templates/foot.tmpl}:
    + [NT] Added a link to the Lintian source code.
  * reporting/harness:
    + [NT] Added missing import statement.
  * reporting/html_reports:
    + [JW,NT] Create a gzip'ed version of the raw lintian.log.
      (Closes: #637819)
  * reporting/templates/head.tmpl:
    + [NT] Show the list of all tags in the page header.  Thanks to
      Arno Töll for the suggestion and the patch.  (Closes: #640962)
  * reporting/templates/index.tmpl:
    + [NT] Added link to the new gzip'ed lintian.log.

  * t/*:
    + [JW,NT] Fixed test failures caused by unpacking the source
      with a umask different from 0022.  (Closes: #637649)

 -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>  Sat, 10 Sep 2011 11:53:51 +0200

lintian (2.5.2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Summary of tag changes:
    + Added:
      - debian-rules-uses-deprecated-makefile
      - debian-rules-uses-or-modifies-user-only-variable
      - duplicate-changelog-files
      - package-has-long-file-name
      - source-package-component-has-long-file-name
      - udeb-uses-non-gzip-data-tarball
      - upstart-job-in-etc-init.d-not-registered-via-update-rc.d
    + Removed:
      - calls-suidperl-directly
      - suid-perl-script-but-no-perl-suid-dep

  * checks/*:
    + [NT] Migrated to use new methods in the Lintian::Collect
      interfaces rather than accessing the Lab directly.
    + [NT] Removed "fields" from Needs-Info.
  * checks/{debconf,conffiles}.desc:
    + [NT] Added missing bin-pkg-control Needs-Info.
  * checks/{cruft,fields}{,.desc}:
    + [NT] Relocated doc pkg not arch all tag; it was never
      triggered since cruft was a source check and the tag
      could only be triggered for binary packages.
  * checks/binaries:
    + [NT] Added lib/${MULTIARCH_DIR} to the list of paths to
      check for public shared libraries.  Thanks to Sven Joachim
      for the report and the patch.  (Closes: #630698)
    + [NT] Recognise .gox files as object files that cannot be
      stripped.  Thanks to Matthias Klose for the report.
      (Closes: #624521)
    + [NT] Do not assume that the architecture field is present.
    + [NT] Emit "arch-dependent-file-in-usr-share" and
      "binary-in-etc" also for static compiled files.  Thanks to
      Jakub Wilk for the report and the patch.  (Closes: #635354)
    + [NT] Fixed false-negative for rpath, if the rpath included
      the multi-arch dir.  Thanks to Jakub Wilk for the report and
      the patch.  (Closes: #637259)
  * checks/changelog-file:
    + [NT] Removed exception for symlinked changelogs if the
      package had an Ubuntu version.  This exception is now
      handled by the profile.  Thanks to Benjamin Drung for the
      heads up.
  * checks/circular-deps.desc:
    + [NT] Fixed typo; thanks to Nicolás Alvarez for the report
      and patch.  (Closes: #630925)
  * checks/control-files:
    + [NT] Refactored static tables into data-files.
  * checks/copyright-file:
    + [NT] Stricten one of the regexes for catching left over
      helper templates.  This should prevent false-positives for
      some license texts.  Thanks to Charles Plessy for the
      report.  (Closes: #631674)
    + [NT] Use group data to determine if a package is foreign
      or not for symlinked /usr/share/doc/<pkg> dirs.  This
      avoids the need for symlinks between packages in the
      lab.
  * checks/deb-format{,.desc}:
    + [NT] Allow data.tar.xz as the third member.  Thanks to
      Ansgar Burchardt for the report and patch.
      (Closes: #632556)
    + [NT] Added test for udebs having non-gzip data members,
      since the debian-installer does not support them.  Thanks
      to Luk Claes.  (Closes: #634874)
  * checks/debhelper:
    + [NT] Do not trigger deprecation warning for dh_python if it
      is followed by a "$".  This prevents false-positives when
      a Makefile variable is used to choose between dh_python2
      and dh_python3.  Thanks to Leonid Borisenko for the report.
      (Closes: #631662)
    + [NT] Do not trigger deprecation warning for dh_python-ply,
      which Lintian incorrectly identified as dh_python.  Thanks
      to Daniele Tricoli for the report.  (Closes: #632693)
    + [NT] Fix a broken regex that caused Lintian skip brace
      expansion checks for some debhelper files.  Thanks to
      Jakub Wilk for the report and the patch.  (Closes: #632883)
    + [NT] Do not consider "debian/debhelper" a temporary debhelper
      file.  Some packages uses this a directory to store their
      debhelper files.
  * checks/debian-source-dir{,.desc}:
    + [NT] Added missing word in the tag description for
      git-patches-not-exported.
    + [NT] Fixed information disclosure issue, where Lintian could
      be tricked into disclosing the present of files on the host
      system via specially crafted source packages.
  * checks/duplicate-files:
    + [NT] Exclude  __init__.py files from the check as they are
      required even if they are empty.  Thanks to Daniele Tricoli
      for the report.  (Closes: #632789)
    + [NT] Report duplicate changelogs as a separate tag.
  * checks/fields:
    + [NT] Refactored to use Lintian::Data and use new data files
      from data/fields.
    + [NT] Added python3-dev and removed python2.{4,5} from
      $PYTHON_DEV.  Thanks to Jakub Wilk for the report and the
      patch.  (Closes: #633044)
    + [NT] Fixed a bug where the libdb1-compat tag only triggered
      if libdb1-compat was listed in Pre-Depends.
    + [NT] Updated list of python "dev" packages.  Thanks to
      Jakub Wilk for the patch.
  * checks/filename-length{,.desc}:
    + [NT] New file that checks the length of the package file
      names.  (Closes: #631656)
  * checks/files:
    + [NT] Check for embedded copies of the underscore javascript
      library.  Thanks to Jakub Wilk for report and the patch.
      (Closes: #631513)
    + [NT] Removed a leading slash from the filename part of the
      extra for python-debug-in-wrong-location.  Thanks to
      Jakub Wilk for the report and the patch.  (Closes: #631530)
    + [NT] Accepted patch from Marcelo Jorge Vieira to catch
      four additional embedded javascript libraries.
      (Closes: #635447)
    + [NT] Stricten the regex for finding .xvpics dirs.
    + [NT] Shipping a lintian override is no longer enough to
      make lintian consider the package for "non-empty".
  * checks/init.d{,.desc}:
    + [NT] Provide a separate tag for upstart-jobs not registered
      via update-rc.d in postinst.  This allows vendors (such as
      Ubuntu) to disable this tag for upstart-jobs only using the
      new vendor profiles.  While this would break overrides, all
      existing overrides appears to be for normal scripts rather
      than upstart-jobs.  (Closes: #631872)
  * checks/java{,.desc}:
    + [NT] Jar files containing clojure files are no longer
      considered to be codeless.
    + [NT] Exclude jar files in /usr/lib/xul{-ext,runner} from the
      "jar-not-in-usr-share" check.  (Closes: #635495)
    + [NT] Fixed a typo in a tag description.
  * checks/menu-format.desc:
    + [NT] Mentioned how to git rid of the CR characters in the
      desktop file.  Thanks to Jakub Wilk.
  * checks/nmu:
    + [NT] "LowThresholdNMU" will now work as an alternative to
      "NMU" in changelogs for suppressing
      changelog-should-mention-nmu.  Thanks to Jordi Mallach for
      the report.  (Closes: #620418)
  * checks/po-debconf:
    + [NT] Allow po-files with an "@modifier", which works with
      debconf (>= 1.5.34).  (Closes: #617905)
  * checks/rules:
    + [NT] Check included files in d/rules against a limited
      number of common makefile snippets, which are known not
      to implement all the required targets.  This prevents
      false negatives of missing targets.  Thanks to
      Jakub Wilk for the suggestion and the initial makefile
      list.  (Closes: #631711)
    + [NT] Warn about including the CDBS simple-patchsys and dpatch
      as they are both deprecated by source format 3.0 (quilt).
      Thanks to Nelson A. de Oliveira for reporting and Luk Claes
      for providing an initial patch.  (Closes: #624201)
    + [NT] Added check for using DEB_*FLAGS_{SET,APPEND} in d/rules.
      Thanks to Raphaël Hertzog for the report.  (Closes: #631786)
  * checks/scripts{,.desc}:
    + [NT] Removed perl-suid related tags as the package is no
      longer available and we have no known packages triggering
      the tags at the moment.  (Closes: #631432)
    + [NT] Added perl6/rakudo as a known interpreter.  Thanks to
      Alessandro Ghedini for the report and patch.  (Closes: #636354)
  * checks/shared-libs{,.desc}:
    + [NT] Fixed broken sentence.  Thanks to Norbert Preining for
      reporting the issue.
    + [NT] Applied patch from Peter Pentchev to correct the logic for
      testing for shlib-calls-exit.  (Closes: #633976)
    + [NT] Mention that some of the tags may be triggered due to the
      debhelper bug #204975.  Thanks to Jakub Wilk for the report.
      (Closes: #633853)
  * checks/symlinks:
    + [NT] Symlink checking extended to relative paths as well.
      (Closes: #217023)

  * collection/*:
    + [NT] Removed all Needs-Info on "fields" and all checks that
      used the "fields" dir (or files therein) to determine if the
      scripts had been called in the wrong dir.
  * collection/diffstat:
    + [NT] No longer unconditionally creates a diffstat file,
      since the Lintian::Collect interface will fall back to
      using /dev/null in its absence.
  * collection/fields:
    + [NT] Removed creation of cross package symlinks.  They have
      been replaced by the group information that checks are
      passed.
    + [NT] Deprecated it in favour of a smarter Lintian::Collect.
      It will be removed in a later release; for now it will just
      remove the "fields" directory in the lab.
  * collection/file-info:
    + [NT] Double check the output of file(1) when it says a ".gz"
      file is not gzip compressed.  This should reduce the number
      of false-positives gz-file-not-gzip tags.
      (Closes: #620289)
    + [NT] Open files before using chdir.  In the future unpacked
      may be a symlink.
  * collection/index{,.desc}:
    + [NT] Updated to handle source packages and with support for
      multi tarball source packages.

  * data/control-files/{,u}deb-permissions:
    + [NT] Added files.
  * data/fields/*:
    + [NT] Added new files based on data variables from checks/fields.
  * data/fields/obsolete-packages:
    + [NT] Added ligdigest-sha1-perl on request of the Perl Team.
      Thanks to Salvatore Bonaccorso for the report and patch.
      (Closes: #635441)
  * data/fields/perl-provides:
    + [NT] Refreshed against perl 5.12.4.
  * data/files/standard-files:
    + [NT] Added file.
  * data/rules/{deprecated,known}-makefiles:
    + [NT] Added file.
  * data/spelling/corrections:
    + [RA] Remove discontiguous correction.  The OED lists this as valid.
      Thanks, Charles Plessy.  (Closes: #632159)
    + [NT] Added another correction for "specification".  Thanks to
      Jakub Wilk for the hint.  (Closes: #634222)
    + [NT] Added another correction for "development" and "misspelt".
      Thanks to Pino Toscano and Jakub Wilk for the suggestion.

  * debian/control:
    + [NT] Bumped debhelper version to 8.1.0 due to the build-arch and
      build-indep targets.  Thanks to Mark Hymers for the heads up and
      a patch.  (Closes: #632550)
    + [NT] Added Build-Depends on cdbs, it is needed for some of the
      tests.
    + [NT] Pruned the Uploaders list a bit.  We would like to thank
      Jeroen van Wolffelaar, Frank Lichtenheld and Marc 'HE'
      Brockschmidt for their work on Lintian in the past.
  * debian/lintian.install:
    + [NT] Added the profiles directory.
  * debian/rules:
    + [NT] Added target to update the profiles.

  * doc/lintian.xml:
    + [NT] Added information about the new Vendor profiles.
    + [NT] Improved various parts of the User Manual.  Especially
      mention that Lintian can be run on changes files and this
      processes all packages related to the changes file.
  * doc/lintianrc.example:
    + [NT] Added more sample options.

  * frontend/{lintian,lintian-info}:
    + [NT] Added profile support (new option --profile), please
      refer to the Lintian User Manual for more information.
  * frontend/lintian:
    + [NT] Ensure that all dependency collections of a check are
      loaded.  Previously Lintian would only load direct
      dependencies of a collection and assume that was enough.
    + [NT] Allow "verbose" to appear in the lintianrc file.
    + [NT] Added new "--packages-from-file" option.  Lintian will
      read packages from the file (one package per line) and process
      these.  Unlike "--packages-file" it allows its argument to be
      "-" for stdin and the format is simpler.
    + [NT] Deprecated "--packages-file" in favour of the new
      "--packages-from-file" option.
    + [NT] Allow "y" as short form of "yes" in the configuration file.
      Furthermore, ignore case when doing the check for boolean
      values.

  * lib/Lab.pm:
    + [NT] Removed $dist argument to lab creation, since we rely on
      LINTIAN_DIST being exported anyway.
    + [NT] Allow temporary labs to contain the same package twice if
      the version or/and architecture differs.  (Closes: #632115)
  * lib/Lab/Package.pm:
    + [NT] Symlink in all components of the source package when
      creating the source entry in the lab.  Also removed legacy
      code for using the old unpack scripts.
  * lib/Lintian/Collect/{Binary,Source}.pm:
    + [NT] Refactored code from these files into the module
      Lintian::Collect::Package.
  * lib/Lintian/Collect/Package.pm:
    + [NT] New file.  This serves as a base for Lintian::Collect
      modules that can be unpacked.
  * lib/Lintian/Command.pm:
    + [NT] Added support for appending output to files without
      truncating them first via the new out_append and
      err_append options.
  * lib/Lintian/Data.pm:
    + [NT] Let new take an optional fourth argument, a code sub,
      that can be used to pre-process the value.
  * lib/Lintian/{Internal/FrontendUtil,Profile}.pm:
    + [NT] New files.
  * lib/Lintian/ProcessablePool.pm:
    + [NT] Made the pool consider two packages with the same name
      as duplicates even if their version or architecture differs,
      when the underlying Lab does not support this run.  This
      causes lintian to drop one of the packages rather than ending
      up with an internal error.
  * lib/Lintian/{Tag/Info,Tags}.pm:
    + [NT] Updated for profile support.
  * lib/Read_pkglists.pm:
    + [NT] Merged the binary and udeb format since they were
      essentially the same.  Old udeb files can still be parsed
      as binary ones.

  * man/lintian.pod.in:
    + [NT] Documented the new --profile option.  Note that the
      options --suppress-tags{,-from-file} now supresses tags
      in the active profile.
    + [NT] Removed all refereces to "unpack-level".  All unpack
      levels have been replaced by collections.
    + [NT] Clarified that some command-line arguments are only
      useful when using a static lintian lab.
    + [NT] Described the configuration file format.  Thanks to
      Sven Joachim for the report.  (Closes: #636681)
  * man/lintian-info.pod:
    + [NT] Documented the new --profile option.

  * profiles/*:
    + [NT] Added default profiles for Debian and Ubuntu.  Note
      that these profiles will silently ignore overrides for
      "fatal" (non-overridable) tags.  (Closes: #536364)

  * reporting/harness:
    + [NT] Use --packages-from-file instead of --packages-file.
  * reporting/{html_reports,templates/index.tmpl}:
    + [NT] Always emit a page for tags, even if they are not emitted.
      It will also include a link to the entire list of known tags.
      (Closes: #631763)
  * reporting/templates/{tag-not-seen,tags-all}.tmpl:
    + [NT] New files.

  * unpack/list-binpkg:
    + [NT] Added a -u option to make it fetch udebs insteaad of
      regular binaries.  This and the udeb/bin format merge makes
      list-udebpkg obsolete.
  * unpack/list-udebpkg:
    + [NT] Removed in favour of list-binpkg.
  * unpack/unpack-srcpkg-l1:
    + [NT] Removed in favour of the collection system.

 -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>  Wed, 10 Aug 2011 18:35:47 +0200

lintian (2.5.1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Summary of tag changes:
    + Added:
      - bad-perm-for-file-in-etc-sudoers.d
      - debian-rules-missing-recommended-target
      - dh_pycentral-is-obsolete
      - dh_python-is-obsolete
      - illegal-multi-arch-value
      - non-empty-dependency_libs-in-la-file
    + Removed:
      - uses-dh-python-with-no-pycompat
      - ldconfig-symlink-before-shlib-in-deb

  * checks/binaries:
    + [NT] Applied patch from Paul Wise to detect binaries embeddeding
      glee, glew and libtheora.  (Closes: #629288)
    + [NT] Also consider multiarch dirs when looking for public shared
      libraries.  (Closes: #630164)
  * checks/debhelper{,.desc}:
    + [NT] Recognise that dh_python and dh_pycentral are now obsolete.
      (Closes: #496902, #541978)
  * checks/changes-file:
    + [NT] Always verify the checksums of changes-files.
  * checks/copyright-file:
    + [NT] Extended current dh_make template checks.  Thanks to
      Nelson A. de Oliveira for the patch.  (Closes: #598412)
  * checks/fields{,.desc}:
    + [NT] Allow "all" and "any" to appear together in the Architecture
      field of a .dsc file.  (Closes: #626775)
    + [NT] Added illegal-multi-arch-value.  (Closes: #616493)
  * checks/files:
    + [NT] Fixed two misnamed udeb tags, which lead to an internal
      error if triggered.  Thanks to Guillem Jover for the report.
      (Closes: #628754)
    + [NT] Added bad-perm-for-file-in-etc-sudoers.d tag.
      (Closes: #588831)
    + [CW] Do not issue missing-pre-dependency-on-multiarch-support for
      udebs.
    + [NT] Limit missing-pre-dependency-on-multiarch-support to real
      files only.  Previously it would also check symlinks.
      (Closes: #629648)
  * checks/java{,.desc}:
    + [NT] Sort the jar files by name, so they are checked in the same
      order.
    + [NT] Improved the description of classpath-contains-relative-path.
      (Closes: #629189)
    + [NT] Reduced false-positives of classpath-contains-relative-path.
      Relative classpaths are now okay if they point to jar files in
      /usr/share/java (but not subdirs thereof) and there is a strong
      libX-java dependency.  Alternatively if the classpath points to
      a file or a symlink in the package itself, then it is also okay.
    + [NT] Allow maven plugins to be without classpaths.
      (Closes: #629056)
  * checks/manpages.desc:
    + [ADB] Don't suggest using debmake's output as a reference.  The
      package is not even in oldstable any more.
  * checks/md5sums.desc:
    + [ADB] Drop references to obsolete debstd.  Thanks to Steve Langasek
      for the pointer.
  * checks/rules:
    + [NT] Removed code for handling packages with dh_python.
    + [NT] Fixed the code for determining Build-Depends for python
      packages.  Thanks to Jakub Wilk for the patch.
      (Closes: #614876, #616553)
    + [NT] Applied patch from Roger Leigh to implement the check for
      rules files missing the build-arch and build-indep targets.
      (Closes: #605012)
  * checks/shared-libs{,.desc}:
    + [NT] Added non-empty-dependency_libs-in-la-file.  (Closes: #628673)
    + [NT] Removed ldconfig-symlink-before-shlib-in-deb.

  * collection/java:
    + [NT] Fixed a regex that would accept any file ending with "jar" to
      be a jar file rather than only accepting ".jar".  This fixes a
      number of false-positives java checks.
  * collection/unpacked:
    + [NT] Added support for unpacking source packages using libdpkg-perl,
      instead of dpkg-source, if the latter is not present.
      (Closes: #626476)

  * data/binaries/multiarch-dirs:
    + [NT] New file - maps architectures to multiarch dirs.
  * data/fields/{perl-provides,virtual-packages}:
    + [NT] Refreshed.  (Closes: #627082, #627431)
  * data/output/ftp-master-*:
    + [NT] Refreshed.
  * data/shared-libs/ldconfig-dirs:
    + [NT] Updated ldconfig path for i386 multiarch paths.  Thanks to
      Raphaël Hertzog for the reminder.
  * data/spelling/corrections-multiword:
    + [CW] Remove the "requires to" correction; it has too many common
      false positives, especially involving relative clauses.
      (Closes: #625886)

  * debian/control:
    + [NT] (Build-)Dependency changes.
      - xz-lzma is now preferred to lzma as Build-Dependency
      - Added depends on libdpkg-perl
      - Reduced dpkg-dev to a suggests, we can use libdpkg-perl as
        fallback.
      - Explicitly depends on bzip2 to always support bz2 source packages.
      - Added xz-utils as suggests - needed for .xz source packages.
  * debian/rules:
    + [NT] Added recommended targets build-arch and build-indep.

  * doc/lintian.xml:
    + [NT] Clarify that the package type is not listed in the output for
      binary packages.  (Closes: #629193)

  * frontend/lintian:
    + [NT] Allow some options to be put into the lintianrc file.
      (Closes: #460350)
    + [NT] Added --no-cfg option that can be specified if no config
      file should be read.
    + [NT] Deprecated --checksums (also known as --md5sums and -m).
      Lintian will now always verify the checksums in changes files.
      The options will be accepted with a warning for now, but may
      be removed in a later release.  (Closes: #629453)
    + [NT] Fixed an issue where fail was called before it was
      available.  Thanks to Toby Corkindale for the report.
      (Closes: #630560, LP: #797553)

  * lib/Lintian/Tag/Info.pm:
    + [NT] Output the name of the check and the type of the check
      along with the description of the tag.
  * lib/Lintian/Tags.pm:
    + [NT] Fixed a flaw in logic that gave incorrect results for
      architecture dependent overrides.  Thanks to Andreas Beckmann for
      the report and the patch.  (Closes: #626587)

  * man/lintian.pod.in:
    + [NT] Mentioned that --checksums and aliases are deprecated.
  
  * unpack/list-srcpkg:
    + [ADB] Don't rely on the order of fields in the Sources file.  The
      files produced by the Debian archive no longer follow the order
      which the code previously assumed, and we shouldn't assume that
      the order won't change again in the future.  (Closes: #626597)

 -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>  Wed, 15 Jun 2011 23:05:28 +0200

lintian (2.5.0) unstable; urgency=low

  * Summary of tag changes:
    + Added:
      - duplicate-files
      - format-3.0-but-debian-changes-patch
      - extended-description-contains-empty-paragraph
      - git-patches-not-exported

  * checks/binaries:
    + [NT] Fixed false-positive embedded-library.  Lintian incorrectly
      assumed that none of these binary packages would contain a source
      version in their source field.  (Closes: #626038)
  * checks/copyright-file.desc:
    + [ADB] Correct a spelling mistake ("coypright" -> "copyright") in the
      description of copyright-refers-to-deprecated-bsd-license-file;
      thanks, Kees Cook.  (Closes: #623780)
  * checks/description{,.desc}:
    + [NT] Check for empty paragraphs in extended description.  Thanks to
      Gerfried Fuchs for the patch.
  * checks/duplicate-files{,.desc}:
    + [NT] Added to check for duplicate files in usr/share/doc.  Thanks to
      Axel Beckert for the suggestion.  (Closes: #614715)
  * check/fields:
    + [NT] Accepted pach from Antonio Terceiro to add Ruby-Version as a
      accepted field in binary packages.  Thanks to Vincent Carmona for
      the report.  (Closes: #623390)
  * check/files:
    + [NT] Accepted multiple patches (merged into one) from Marcelo Jorge
      Vieira to detect a number of new javascript libraries.
      (Closes: #623878)
  * checks/patch-systems{,.desc}:
    + [NT] Detect when 3.0 (quilt) packages have a debian-changes-VERSION
      patch without a patch header.  Thanks to Iain Lane for suggestion
      and patch.  (Closes: #588873)
  * checks/debian-source-dir{,.desc}:
    + [NT] Applied patch from David Bremner to enable
      git-patches-not-exported.  (Closes: #607694)
  * checks/java:
    + [NT] Tightened the regex for finding java libraries and restricted
      missing-classpath tag to only be emitted for packages that actually
      contain at least one jar file we check.  This fixes false-positives
      for packages that depended on libX-java-doc packages or packages
      that only contain jar files we ignore.
  * check/scripts{,.desc}:
    + [NT] Accepted patch from Antonio Terceiro to allow ruby-interpreter
      as alternative to ruby for /usr/bin/ruby scripts.
      (Closes: #626210)

  * data/common/source-fields:
    + [NT] Accepted pach from Antonio Terceiro to add Ruby-Version as a
      accepted field in binary packages.  Thanks to Vincent Carmona for
      the report.

  * lib/Lintian/ProcessableGroup.pm:
    + [NT] Properly handle if the changes file is located directly in the
      file system root.  Thanks to Trent W. Buck for the bug report.
      (Closes: #624149)
  * lib/Lintian/Tags.pm:
    + [NT] Allow overrides to use wildcards anywhere instead of only in
      the beginning or the end.  Thanks to Steve R. Langasek for the
      report.  (Closes: #617991)
    + [NT] Allow simple architecture overrides such as [i386] or [!i386].
      Architecture wildcards are not supported yet.  The actual syntax
      for the architecture the same as the one used in the Build-Depends.
      Thanks to Andreas Beckmann for the bug report and the solution
      proposal.  (Closes: #622888)

 -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>  Tue, 10 May 2011 20:44:32 +0200

lintian (2.5.0~rc3) unstable; urgency=low

  * Summary of tag changes:
    + Added:
      - dir-or-file-in-run
      - intra-source-package-circular-dependency
      - package-contains-broken-symlink
      - classpath-contains-relative-path
      - jar-not-in-usr-share
      - executable-jar-without-main-class
      - missing-dep-on-jarwrapper
      - missing-classpath
      - javalib-but-no-public-jars
      - missing-manifest
      - codeless-jar
      - missing-pre-dependency-on-multiarch-support

  * checks/*.desc:
    + [NT] Updated the Needs-Info field to include the new
      collections where needed.
  * checks/binaries:
    + [NT] Accepted patch from Loïc Minier to support the armhf
      architecture.  (Closes: #618587)
    + [NT] Drop wrong checks for multiarch directories.  Multiarch
      directories are only allowed in packages of the given architecture.
      Thanks to Steve R. Langasek for the patch.
  * checks/circular-deps{,.desc}:
    + [NT] Added to check for circular dependencies between
      binaries from the same source.  It requires all binaries
      packages to be present as well as the source package to be
      effective.  Thanks to Bill Allombert for the suggestion.
      (Closes: #316283)
  * checks/debhelper:
    + [NT] Use new alt-dh_commands data file to fetch alternative
      dependencies for dh_commands, which are sometimes provided
      indirectly by meta or API packages.
  * checks/fields:
    + [NT] Do not emit needless-dependency-on-jre for libX-gcj
      packages and only emit the tag at most once per package.
      Thanks to Rene Engelhard for the report.
      (Closes: #622396)
  * checks/files{,.desc}:
    + [NT] Added dir-or-file-in-run tag.  (Closes: #623031)
    + [NT] New tag missing-pre-dependency-on-multiarch-support,
      Severity: serious, to warn when a package installs libraries to the
      multiarch directory without taking care of upgrades.  Thanks to
      Steve R. Langasek for the patch.

  * checks/java{,.desc}:
    + [NT] Added file based on patches submitted by Vicent Fourmond.
      This new file checks for jar files in weird locations.
      (Closes: #620829, #575447)
  * checks/manpages:
    + [NT] Fixed false-positive binary-without-manpage when the
      manpage is in a direct dependency of the package and the
      package is checked together with its dependency.
      (Closes: #120323)
  * checks/scripts:
    + [NT] Fixed false positive missing-dep-for-interpreter, if
      the interpreter was dash, since dash is now essential.
      (Closes: #620120)
  * checks/symlinks{,.desc}:
    + [NT] New file that checks for broken symlinks.  A symlink
      is considered broken if it does not exist in the package
      itself or in its direct dependecies.  Since only absolute
      symlinks are checked at the moment, this only partly
      fixes #217023.

  * collection/*.desc:
    + [NT] Updated the Needs-Info field to include the new
      collections where needed.
  * collection/{bin-pkg-control,fields,index}{,.desc}:
    + [NT] Added to replace various unpack scripts.
  * collection/java-info{,.desc}:
    + [NT] Accepted patch from Vincent Fourmond to implement
      Java related data collection.

  * data/binaries/multiarch:
    + [NT] Removed by patch from Steve R. Langasek.
  * data/debhelper/alt-dh_commands:
    + [NT] New file; contains alternative dependencies for
      dh_python2 and dh_python3.  (Closes: #614879)
  * data/fields/architectures:
    + [NT] Updated to include armhf.
  * data/files/triplets:
    + [NT] Updated to include armhf triplet.
    + [NT] Refresh with the final approved multiarch paths by patch
      from Steve R. Langasek.
  * data/output/manual-references:
    + [NT] Accepted patch from Vincent Fourmond to add the links
      to the Java Policy.
  * data/spelling/corrections:
    + [NT] Added a lot of spelling mistakes with corrections.
      Kudos to Kevin Ryde for these.  (Closes: #619075)
  * data/spelling/corrections-multiword:
    + [NT] Removed "helps to" as a spelling mistake.  Thanks to
      Nicholas Bamber for the report.  (Closes: #622124)
  * data/standards-version/release-dates:
    + [NT] Added 3.9.2 as the newest Standards-Version.  Thanks to
      Sven Joachim for the report.  (Closes: #621667)

  * debian/control:
    + [NT] Bumped Standards-Version to 3.9.2.
    + [NT] Updated Build-Depends for debiandoc -> docbook change of
      the manual.
    + [NT] Added missing Build-Depends on libhtml-parser-perl.  Also
      added it to suggests, since it is used for XML output.
  * debian/{docs,rules}:
    + [NT] Updated to use/install docbook instead of debiandoc.

  * doc/lintianrc.example:
    + [NT] Removed reference to LINTIAN_UNPACK_LEVEL.
  * doc/lintian.sgml:
    + [RG] Removed file - replaced by doc/lintian.xml.
  * doc/lintian.xml:
    + [RG] Added to migrate away from debiandoc.  (Closes: #587925)

  * frontend/lintian:
    + [NT] Removed the deprecated --unpack-level argument.  Only
      two unpack levels were available and they were equal to
      the --remove and --unpack options.
    + [NT] Stopped accepting the environment/config variables
      LINTIAN_UNPACK_LEVEL and LINTIAN_SECTION.  The former is
      redundant as explained above and the latter was deprecated
      in favor of LINTIAN_AREA.
    + [NT] Refactored the frontend to group packages together based
      on their source package.  This allows for cross-package checks.
      (Closes: #513663)

  * lib/{Lab/Package,Lintian/Processable*}.pm:
    + [NT] Added files to assist in package grouping.
  * lib/Lintian/Command/Simple.pm:
    + [NT] Added support for chanding directory before running the
      command.
  * lib/Lintian/Collect.pm,lib/Lintian/Collect/*.pm:
    + [NT] Removed assumption that all the information handled by
      these are available in the current directory.
  *  lib/Lintian/Schedule.pm:
    + [NT] Removed file, replaced by Lintian::ProcessablePool.

  * private/refresh-archs:
    + [SRL] update to output directory mappings based on DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH
      instead of DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE.
  * private/runtests:
    + [NT] Added support for dumping build logs if a test fails.
      (Closes: #621658)
    + [NT] Disabled pkgbinarymangler during tests.  (Closes: #621681)

  * t/tests/binaries-from-other-arch:
    + [NT] Accepted patch from Benjamin Drung to accept i686-linux-gnu
      as a valid triplet.  This fixes test failure in Ubuntu.
      (Closes: #622974)

  * unpack/unpack-{binpkg,changes}-l1:
    + [NT] Removed unpack scripts for binpkg and changes as these have
      been replaced by collections.

 -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>  Thu, 21 Apr 2011 12:29:45 +0200

lintian (2.5.0~rc2) unstable; urgency=low

  Uploading to unstable.

  * Summary of tag changes:
    + Added:
      - unknown-multi-arch-value
      - package-needs-versioned-debhelper-build-depends
    + Removed:
      - old-versioned-python-dependency

  * checks/binaries:
    + [ADB] Update binary-from-other-architecture's tests in line with the
      changes to filename output introduced in 2.5.0~rc1.
      (Closes: #614906)
  * checks/changes-file.desc:
    + [NT] Added oneiric as valid Ubuntu distribution.  Thanks to Benjamin
      Drung for the patch.  (Closes: #617227)
  * checks/deb-format:
    + [NT] Removed assumption that there was always a changelog in a binary
      with a data.tar.lzma member.
  * checks/debhelper:
    + [NT] Reduced package-lacks-versioned-build-depends-on-debhelper to a
      pedantic tag.  It is now only emitted for debhelper compat levels of
      7 or less, since even oldstable ships with debhelper 7.
    + [NT] Added package-needs-versioned-debhelper-build-depends, which
      replaces package-lacks-versioned-build-depends-on-debhelper old
      task of warning if a missing versioned depends may lead to a build
      failure.  Currently this is only emitted for compat 8 (or higher).
    + [NT] Stopped emitting tags for using dh_* (and dh) if these scripts
      is in debhelper 7 (or earlier).
  * checks/fields{,.desc}:
    + [NT] Recognise Multi-Arch as a known binary field.  (Closes: #617816)
    + [NT] Fixed typo in a tag description.
    + [NT] Removed old-versioned-python-dependency per request of the
      Python team.  The tag was outdated and most instances of it was
      false positives.  Thanks to Piotr Ożarowski and Jakub Wilk for
      the report and clarification.  (Closes: #619487)
    + [NT] Accepted patch from Joachim Breitner to support new Haskell
      package naming scheme.
    + [NT] Added Built-Using as a known binary and udeb field.  This
      field is supported with dpkg 1.16.0.
  * checks/files:
    + [NT] Also check files in /etc/cron.d for dots in filenames.  Thanks
      to Thijs Kinkhorst for the report and patch.  (Closes: #615072)
    + [NT] Applied patch to also detect copies of CKEditor.  Thanks to
      Jeroen Dekkers for the report and the patch.  (Closes: #616505)
    + [NT] Fixed a regression in caused by inconsistent prefixes.
  * checks/huge-usr-share:
    + [NT] Removed assumption that there is always files in usr/share.
  * checks/menu-format:
    + [NT] Fixed an inconsistency in output of file names.  Thanks to
      أحمد المحمودي (Ahmed El-Mahmoudy) for the report.
      (Closes: #618921)
  * checks/menus:
    + [NT] Fixed check for special files that does not need to be
      registered with doc-base (e.g.  README.html).  Thanks to
      Tanguy Ortolo for the report.  (Closes: #617266)
    + [NT] Accepted patch from Joachim Breitner to support new Haskell
      package naming scheme.  (Closes: #616403)
  * checks/patch-systems.desc:
    + [NT] Reduced unneeded-build-dep-on-quilt to a pedantic tag,
      since some people keep the dependency on quilt to ease
      backporting for older releases.

  * data/changelog-file/ubuntu-dists:
    + [NT] Added oneiric as valid Ubuntu distribution.  Thanks to Benjamin
      Drung for the patch.
  * data/common/source-fields:
    + [NT] Added 'package-list' field, which is emitted by dpkg 1.16.0.
  * data/spelling/corrections:
    + [NT] Added more misspellings.
  
  * t/tests/shared-libs-la-files:
    + [NT] Fixed an issue where files would not be included in the tarball
      due to dpkg-source's exclude patterns.  (Closes: #619287)
  * t/tests/*:
    + [NT] Modified some versioned dependencies that the new dpkg will
      not consider valid from 1.16.0.  (Closes: #619290)

 -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>  Tue, 05 Apr 2011 20:25:09 +0200

lintian (2.5.0~rc1) experimental; urgency=low

  The "welcome Niels Thykier!" release.

  * Summary of tag changes:
    + Added:
      - build-depends-on-specific-java-doc-package
      - depends-on-specific-java-doc-package
      - unneeded-build-dep-on-quilt
      - description-synopsis-starts-with-article
      - needless-dependency-on-jre
      - temporary-debhelper-file
      - compressed-objects.inv
      - unused-build-dependency-on-cdbs
      - python-debug-in-wrong-location
      - debian-watch-contains-dh_make-template
      - missing-dependency-on-python-central
      - python-module-in-wrong-location
      - missing-dependency-on-python-support
      - package-installs-python-bytecode
      - debhelper-maintscript-needs-versioned-build-depends
    + Removed:
      - embedded-zlib (now in embedded-library)
      - embedded-libpng (now in embedded-library)
      - embedded-libjpeg (now in embedded-library)
      - embedded-libopenjpeg (now in embedded-library)
      - package-installs-python-pyc (replaced by
        package-installs-python-bytecode)

  * checks/*:
    + [NT] Use the new pre-sorted file {index,info} when iterating over
      files.
    + [NT] All checks now report files without any "./" or "/" prefix.
      This may break existing overrides.  (Closes: #534940)
  * checks/binaries:
    + [RA] Exclude kfreebsd-kernel-di-{amd64,i386} from the
      embedded-zlib check since it's in the kernel.  (Closes: #593397)
    + [RG] Add swipl to the list of known interpreters.  (Closes: #591316)
    + [RG] Detect embedded copies of ftgl, t1lib, gl2ps, libgd2,
      ncurses, openssl (libcrypto), sqlite/3, libm, ltdl, curl, libmng,
      libmsn, libmikmod, libmysqlclient, and tinyxml.
    + [RG] Merge embedded-{zlib,lib{png,jpeg,openjpeg}} into
      embedded-library.
    + [RG] Find directories based on the file's type instead of file(1)'s
      unforgiving output.  Thanks, Gabriele Giacone.  (Closes: #597990)
  * checks/cruft{,.desc}:
    + [NT] Extended the diff-contains-substvars check to also catch files
      prefixed with a package name.
    + [NT] Corrected the description of diff-contains-$vcs-control-dir.
      It incorrectly assumed that -i worked for native packages.
      (Closes: #609153)
    + [NT] Moved the list of autotools packages into data/cruft/autotools.
    + [NT] Clarified that dpkg-source looks for <package>_<upstreamversion>
      and not <package>_<version> in the description of
      native-package-with-dash-version.  Thanks to Daniel Thomas for the
      report.  (Closes: #594254)
  * checks/debhelper{,.desc}:
    + [NT] Fix dependency check for dh_nativejava, default-jdk has never
      provided dh_nativejava.  (Closes: #606506)
    + [NT] Added check for temporary debhelper files that ought to have
      been removed by dh_clean.  (Closes: #598251)
    + [NT] Added check for unused build dependency on cdbs.  Thanks to
      Jari Aalto for suggesting this.  (Closes: #582769)
    + [NT] Added check for incorrect debhelper version when using the
      maintscript feature from debhelper 8.1.0.
  * checks/debian-source-dir:
    + [NT] Added missing import of "Util" perl module.  Thanks to David
      Bremner for the patch.
  * checks/description{,.desc}:
    + [NT] Add a check for synopsis starting with articles.  Thanks to
      Nelson A. de Oliveira for the patch.  (Closes: #603053)
    + [NT] Fixed false positive description-contains-duplicated-word
      caused by Lintian ignoring quoted words.  Thanks to Gregor
      Herrmann for report.  (Closes: #590723)
  * checks/fields{,.desc}:
    + [NT] Added check for packages (build) depending on openjdk-X-doc or
      classpath-doc instead of the default-jdk-doc metapackage.
      (Closes: #593837)
    + [NT] Fixed spelling of metapackage in tag descriptions.
    + [NT] Added needless-dependency-on-jre tag.
    + [NT] Corrected Policy references for the uploader tags.  Thanks to
      David Prévot for spotting this issue and providing a patch.
      (Closes: #602632)
    + [NT] Fixed false positives for breaks-without-version.  The tag
      will no longer be emitted if the package listed in Breaks is also
      listed in Replaces.  Thanks to Modestas Vainius for the report.
      (Closes: #605744)
    + [NT] Clarified that old-versioned-python-dependency can also be
      triggered if dh_python2 is used and the package is missing
      ${python:Breaks}. Thanks to Piotr Ożarowski for the report.
      (Closes: #604167)
    + [RG] Mention the package's original area in
      wrong-section-according-to-package-name.  (Closes: #608554)
  * checks/files{,.desc}:
    + [NT] Fixed false-positive extra-license-file for license.ui files.
      Thanks to Jeremy Sanders for the report.  (Closes: #595941)
    + [NT] Added hurd-udeb to the list of packages allowed to ship
      unusual top-level directories.  Thanks to Samual Thibault for
      the patch.  (Closes: #591331)
    + [NT] Fixed spelling of metapackage in empty-binary-package tag
      description.  (Closes: #591300)
    + [NT] Fixed false-positive extra-license-file for games.  Instead
      of skipping PATH directories Lintian now ignores all executable
      files.  (Closes: #608866)
    + [NT] Added compressed-objects.inv tag to catch compressed
      objects.inv files in python documentation.  Thanks to
      Fladischer Michael for the report and a partial patch.
      (Closes: #608810)
    + [NT] Added check for misplaced python debug files.  Thanks to
      Jakub Wilk for the report.  (Closes: #576014)
    + [NT] Added check for missing dependency on python-central.
      Thanks to Jakub Wilk for the report.  (Closes: #592533)
    + [NT] Added check for misplaced Python modules.  Thanks to
      Jakub Wilk for the report.  (Closes: #576012)
    + [NT] Removed the "!= 0755" part from the out of the tag
      executable-is-not-world-readable, since there are other valid
      world readable file permissions.
    + [NT] Added check for missing dependency on python-support.
      Thanks to Jakub Wilk for the report.  (Closes: #592491)
    + [NT] Added check for packages installing Python eggs and
      __pycache__ directories.  Also extended existing Python bytecode
      check to include ".pyo" files.  Thanks to Piotr Ożarowski,
      Jakub Wilk and the people in #debian-python for the report and
      help with implementing this.  (Closes: #576005)
  * checks/init.d.desc:
    + [RG] Raise severity of init.d-script-starts-in-stop-runlevel.
      (Closes: #603800)
  * checks/manpages:
    + [NT] Fixed typo in locale name.  Thanks to Christoph Biedl for
      spotting this.  (Closes: #606933)
  * checks/menu-format.desc:
    + [CW] Fix several typos.
  * checks/menus.desc:
    + [RA] Rephrase doc-base-uses-applications-section to be clearer that
      its advice is to remove the "Applications/" part of the section.
  * checks/nmu:
    + [RG] Completely abort if debian/changelog is a symlink.
      (Closes: #582408)
  * checks/patch-systems{,.desc}:
    + [NT] Added check for new unneeded-build-dep-on-quilt.
      (Closes: #582767)
  * checks/rules:
    + [RG] Drop some checks for versioned dependencies that can now be
      satisfied in stable (squeeze).  Thanks, Cyril Brulebois.
      (Closes: #612137)
    + [RG] Correctly handle include directives preceded by a tab.
      (Closes: #607281)
    + [RG] Allow 'ocaml' as an alternative to 'ocaml-nox'.  Thanks,
      Ralf Treinen.  (Closes: #612568)
  * checks/scripts:
    + [NT] Added mscgen as interpreter.
  * checks/standards-version:
    + [RG] Correctly handle cases where debian/changelog is a symlink.
  * checks/watch-file{,.desc}:
    + [NT] Added check for dh_make(1) templates in the watch file.
      Thanks to Nelson A. de Oliveira for the report.  (Closes: #600866)
    + [RG] Document that relying on SourceForge's webpages for finding
      new versions is not recommended either.  (Closes: #593603)

  * collection/objdump-info:
    + [RG] Support stricter parameter handling of objdump-info from
      binutils 2.21.  Thanks, Andreas Beckmann.
      (Closes: #604047, LP: #683347)

  * data/changelog-file/ubuntu-dists:
    + [CW] Add natty as a valid Ubuntu distribution, and remove the EOLed
      intrepid and jaunty.  (Closes: #611439)
  * data/cruft/autotools:
    + [NT] Added the file which is a list of all packages that will
      suppress the {ancient,outdated}-autotools-helper-file tags.
      Currently this is manually updated.  This new list includes
      dh-autoreconf, thanks to Felix Geyer.  (Closes: #592358)
  * data/debhelper/*:
    + [RG] Refresh against unstable.
  * data/debian-source-dir/known-files:
    + [NT] Added the file and included git-patches in it.  Thanks to
      Ron for the report and David Bremner for the initial patch.
      (Closes: #607502)
  * data/fields/essential:
    + [RG] Add hurd.  (Closes: #591323)
  * data/fields/obsolete-packages:
    + [NT] Added default-jdk-builddep.  See README.gcj-native-transition
      in java-common for the replacement.
  * data/fields/perl-provides:
    + [RG] Refresh against perl 5.10.1.
  * data/files/fonts:
    + [NT] Made tipa replace xfonts-tipa as font provider.
      (Closes: #595530)
    + [RG] Refresh against unstable.
  * data/files/locale-codes:
    + [RG] Refresh against isoquery 1.4.
  * data/shared-libs/ldconfig-dirs:
    + [NT] Removed the emul/ia32-linux directories as they are no longer
      used.  (Closes: #596848)
  * data/spelling/corrections:
    + [NT] Added more corrections.
  * data/spelling/corrections-case:
    + [NT] Added DocBook corrections.  Thanks to Jakub Wilk.
      (Closes: #611349)
  * data/spelling/corrections-multiword:
    + [NT] Added "allows to" and other similar misspellings.  Thanks
      to Matthew Paul Thomas for the report.  (LP: #608231)

  * debian/control:
    + [RA] Add the build dependencies required to run the test suite
      during the build.  Many thanks to Niels Thykier for the investigative
      work to determine which packages are required.  (Closes: #593832)
    + [RA] Remove versions from dependencies when those versions are
      satisfied by oldstable (lenny).
    + [NT] Bump debhelper build dependency to 7.0.50~, since some tests
      depend on using dh7 with override targets.  (Closes: #607730)
    + [NT] Added Niels Thykier to uploaders.
    + [NT] Introduce (build) dependency on libemail-valid-perl.
    + [RG] Add a versioned build dependency on libtest-simple-perl or a
      recent Perl that has Test::More with subtests support.
  * debian/copyright:
    + [NT] Added Niels Thykier to maintainers.
  * debian/rules:
    + [RA] Run the test suite during the package build.
    + [NT] Replace dh_clean -k with dh_prep.
    + [NT] Add support for skipping the test suite per policy 4.9.1.
      Many thanks to David Bremner for the patch.
  * debian/compat:
    + [NT] Bump debhelper compat to 7.
  * debian/source/lintian-overrides:
    + [RG] Add overrides for quilt-related checks.

  * frontend/lintian:
    + [NT] Ensure that Lintian always reaps processes it started before
      exiting.  In some cases these jobs would attempt to modify the
      lab while Lintian was trying to remove it.  Thanks to
      Andreas Beckmann for reporting this issue.  (Closes: #610218)
    + [NT] Sorted related options alphabetically.  Thanks to Jari Aalto
      for the initial patch.  (Closes: #600905)

  * lib/Lintian/Check.pm:
    + [NT] Use Email::Valid to validate email addresses.
      (Closes: #602655)
    + [NT] Allow package names to be excluded from regular spelling
      checks.  They are still subject to multi word and case sensitive
      spelling checks.  Thanks to syq for the suggestion.
      (Closes: #576283)
  * lib/Lintian/Collect/Binary.pm:
    + [NT] Pre-sort file index and file info to avoid sorting it
      repeatedly in the checks.  (Closes: #605844)

  * man/*:
    + [NT] Rewrote the man pages in pod.  (Closes: #600906)

  * t/runtests:
    + [RG] Run blackbox tests in parallel too.
  * t/tests/{rules-not-makefile,scripts-missing-dep}:
    + [NT] Added new tests.  (Closes: #607731)

 -- Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>  Tue, 22 Feb 2011 20:28:48 -0600

lintian (2.4.3) unstable; urgency=low

  The "Policy 3.9.1" release.

  * Summary of tag changes:
    + Added:
      - embedded-library
    + Removed:
      - debian-news-entry-without-blank-line
      - dh_testversion-is-deprecated

  * checks/binaries{,.desc}:
    + [RG] Detect embedded copies of expat, libbz2, libmagic, libxml2,
      pcre3, and tiff.
    + [RG] Recognise powerpcspe and sh4 ELF objects.
    + [RA] Warn that spelling-error-in-binary may produce false positives
      for words containing non-ASCII characters.  (See #588661)
  * checks/changelog-file{,.desc}:
    + [RA] apt-listchanges has been fixed, so drop the check for NEWS
      files ending in a trailing blank line.  (Closes: #586816)
  * checks/control-files.desc:
    + [RA] Add references to Policy requirements added in 3.9.1.
  * checks/copyright-file{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Add examples for copyright-without-copyright-notice.  Based on
      a patch by Jari Aalto.  (Closes: #580767)
    + [RA] Remove exceptions for GPL v1, which is now in common-licenses
      and mentioned in Policy 3.9.1.
  * checks/cruft.desc:
    + [RA] Add some hints to the ancient-libtool long description on how
      to update the libtool files oneself.  (Closes: #580767)
  * checks/debhelper{,.desc}:
    + [RA] package-lacks-versioned-build-depends-on-debhelper can also
      trigger if the dependency is present but not tight enough.  Thanks,
      gregor herrmann.  (Closes: #588156)
    + [RA] Allow a tilde after the compatibility level in the debhelper
      dependency.  Thanks, Axel Beckert.  (Closes: #583777)
    + [RA] Remove dh_testversion-is-deprecated.  The command is no longer
      part of debhelper, so using it now just results in a build failure,
      and there are no instances in the archive.
  * checks/description.desc:
    + [RA] Downgrade description-too-long to minor severity to match bug
      reporting standards for formatting bugs.  (Closes: #587837)
  * checks/files{,.desc}:
    + [RG] Detect embedded copies of HTMLPurifier.
    + [RG] Detect embedded copies of the Strophe javascript library.
    + [RA] Add references to Policy requirements added in 3.9.1.
  * checks/patch-systems.desc:
    + [RA] Improve the more-than-one-patch-system long description to
      explicitly mention the case of packages that depend on dpatch but
      are in 3.0 (quilt) format and to provide more rationale for the
      tag.  Thanks, Robert Luberda.  (Closes: #585657)
  * checks/po-debconf:
    + [RA] Ignore comments in po/POTFILES.in.  (Closes: #586036)
  * checks/rules.desc:
    + [RA] Rephrase the debian-rules-calls-debhelper-in-odd-order long
      description to try to be clearer about the ordering requirements.
      (Closes: #579964)
  * checks/scripts{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Improve python-script-but-no-python-dep tag description to be
      clearer about the requirement for a versioned dependency for
      versioned scripts and to mention ${python:Depends}, created by the
      various Python debhelper scripts.  (Closes: #575590, #582763)
    + [RA] Add runhaskell and runghc.  (Closes: #589266)
    + [RA] Add references to Policy requirements added in 3.9.1.
    + [RA] Allow kill -<signal> and kill and trap with signal numbers in
      /bin/sh scrips, now allowed by Policy 3.9.1.

  * debian/changelog:
    + [RA] Fix Policy 3.9.0 reference in 2.4.2.  (Closes: #587549)
  * debian/control:
    + [RA] Update standards version to 3.9.1.

  * data/output/manual-references:
    + [RA] Update for Policy 3.9.1.
  * data/standards-version/release-dates:
    + [RA] Add release date for Policy 3.9.1.

  * lib/Lintian/Check.pm:
    + [RA] More correctly handle hyphenated words to avoid triggering
      spelling error false positives.  (Closes: #588896)
  * lib/Lintian/Relation.pm:
    + [RA] Don't require a package name component after a substvar to
      follow the rules of the beginning of a package name.  Fixes
      stronger-dependency-implies-weaker false positives containing
      substvars.  (Closes: #580494)
  * lib/Lintian/Schedule.pm:
    + [ADB] Import "warning" from Lintian::Output, really fixing the
      error caused by a non-existent file referenced in a .changes
      file.  (Closes: #583555, again)

  * private/refresh-insserv-data:
    + [RG] Hardcode the '$all' virtual facility.

  * reporting/html_reports:
    + [RA] Stop attempting to report unknown tags with a fake
      description.  This was failing with an error later, and the tag was
      probably removed from Lintian and is now erroneous.

  * t/runtests:
    + [RA] Add support for skipping raw Debian package and source package
      tests.

 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>  Sun, 25 Jul 2010 21:50:45 -0700

lintian (2.4.2) unstable; urgency=low

  The "Policy 3.9.0" release.

  * Summary of tag changes:
    + Added:
      - arch-wildcard-in-binary-package
      - bad-provided-package-name
      - conflicts-with-version
      - copyright-refers-to-deprecated-bsd-license-file
      - init.d-script-depends-on-unknown-virtual-facility
      - team-upload-has-incorrect-version-number
      - xc-package-type-in-debian-control (pedantic)
    + Removed:
      - arch-any-in-binary-pkg (now in arch-wildcard-in-binary-package)
      - package-type-in-debian-control

  * checks/changes-file.desc:
    + [RA] Add references for file-size-mismatch-in-changes-file and
      checksum-mismatch-in-changes-file.
  * checks/control-file{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Remove package-type-in-debian-control now that dpkg-dev handles
      it as desired by the d-i team.  xc-package-type-in-debian-control
      replaces it as a pedantic check to encourage switching to the
      official name.  Thanks, Raphael Hertzog.
    + [RA] Add reference for debian-control-with-duplicate-fields.
  * checks/copyright-file{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Deprecate references to /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD in
      debian/copyright following the change in Policy 3.9.0.
  * checks/fields{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Allow Breaks without a version if the broken package is a
      virtual package.
    + [RG] Check for invalid package names in provided (virtual)
      packages.
    + [RG] Exclude dash from the depends-on-essential-package checks, as
      per discusion in debian-devel.  (Closes: #587209)
    + [RA] Allow architecture wildcards in build relations and in the
      Architecture field of binary and source packages.  (Closes: #582804)
    + [RA] Rename arch-any-in-binary-pkg to arch-wildcard-in-binary-package
      and diagnose any architecture wildcard, not just "any".
    + [RA] Warn of using Conflicts with a version, which should normally
      be Breaks instead, but only at wild-guess certainty for now.
  * checks/huge-usr-share{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Count file size from the tar listing rather than using du.  The
      results of du vary based on file system and other factors and make
      the tag difficult to test.
  * checks/init.d{,.desc}:
    + [RG] Check for init.d scripts depending on unknown virtual
      facilities.
    + [RA] Remove checkroot from the list of scripts that should use a
      virtual dependency since $local_fs is not quite the same and some
      packages (cryptsetup) care about the difference.  (Closes: #580082)
  * checks/manpages{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Run man page checks using the en_US.UTF-8 locale now that we
      guarantee it exists.  Should hopefully fix occasional problems with
      col complaining about bad multibyte characters.  (Closes: #575661)
  * checks/menu-format.desc:
    + [RA] Fix typo in long description of duplicated-key-in-desktop-entry.
      Thanks, Niels Thykier.  (Closes: #580700)
  * checks/menus:
    + [RG] Recognise call to update-menus when using 'exec.'
    + [RA] Skip Haskell library documentation when warning about
      documentation not registered with doc-base.  Patch from Erik de
      Castro Lopo.  (Closes: #586877)
  * checks/nmu{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Recognize team uploads and do not treat them like NMUs.  Patch
      from Charles Plessy.  (Closes: #582741)
  * checks/rules.desc:
    + [RA] Add reference for debian-rules-makemaker-prefix-is-deprecated.
  * checks/scripts:
    + [RG] Correctly handle variables at the beginning of a call to
      dpkg-divert.  Thanks, Andreas Beckmann.  (Closes: #586984)

  * collection/objdump-info:
    + [RG] Disable etch compatibility code.
  * collection/strings:
    + [RG] Correctly handle ELF binaries with whitespaces in their name.
      (LP: #540342)

  * data/fields/architectures:
    + [RG] Refresh against dpkg 1.15.7.2.  (Closes: #581314, #584743)
  * data/fields/virtual-packages:
    + [RA] Update to current unstable and add the old xserver-xorg video
      and input virtual packages.
  * data/files/locale-codes:
    + [RG] Refresh to reflect change to private/refresh-locale-codes.
  * data/files/triplets:
    + [RG] Refresh against dpkg 1.15.7.2.
  * data/init.d/virtual_facilities
    + [RG] New list of virtual facilities that exist in the archive.
  * data/output/ftp-master-fatal:
    + [RA] Remove arch-any-in-binary-pkg.
  * data/output/manual-references:
    + [RA] Update against latest Debian Policy and devref.
  * data/spelling/corrections:
    + [RG] Add more spelling corrections.
  * data/spelling/corrections-case:
    + [RG] Add capitalization correction for OAuth.  (Closes: #582353)
  * data/standards-version/release-dates:
    + [RA] Add Debian Policy 3.9.0.

  * frontend/lintian:
    + [RA] Set a PATH of /bin:/usr/bin if PATH is completely unset.
      Thanks, Carsten Hey.

  * lib/Lintian/Collect/Binary.pm:
    + [RG] Correctly handle ELF binaries with whitespaces in their name.
  * lib/Lintian/Relation.pm:
    + [RA] Rather than allowing only a package name or a substvar, allow
      substvars mixed into the package name.  (Closes: #580494)
  * lib/Lintian/Schedule.pm:
    + [ADB] Add missing "use Lintian::Output", required for the use of
      warning().  (Closes: #583555)

  * private/refresh-insserv-data:
    + [RG] New script to collect insserv data from the archive.
  * private/refresh-locale-codes:
    + [RG] Print elements with values only once.
  * private/refresh-virtual-packages-data:
    + [RA] Fix handling of # Keep: lines to work correctly now that
      virtual packages mentioned only once are excluded.

 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>  Sun, 27 Jun 2010 22:08:59 -0700

lintian (2.4.1) unstable; urgency=low

  The "there's always a hidden bug" release.

  * checks/manpages:
    + [RG] Use "use" instead of "require" for Text::ParseWords and move
      it outside a loop.

  * collection/debfiles:
    + [RG] Properly handle cases where debian is a symlink.

  * data/spelling/corrections:
    + [RG] Add more spelling corrections.

  * frontend/lintian:
    + [RG] Remove finished processes from the processes hash to avoid
      trying to kill dead processes.
    + [ADB] Don't add the dependencies of the override-file check script
      to the list of checks to run if --no-override was specified.
      (Closes: #579211)

 -- Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>  Mon, 26 Apr 2010 22:44:35 -0500

lintian (2.4.0) unstable; urgency=low

  The "and this is just the beginning" release.

  * Summary of tag changes:
    + Added:
      - embedded-libjpeg
      - embedded-libopenjpeg
      - embedded-libpng

  * checks/binaries{,.desc}:
    + [ADB] Use Lintian::Check::check_spelling()
    + [RG] Detect embedded copies of libpng, lib{,open}jpeg.
    + [RA] Suppress embedded-zlib if the zlib implementation is the Pascal
      version.  FPC doesn't support dynamic linking at this time, and this
      isn't the problem the tag was designed to catch.
  * checks/changelog-file:
    + [ADB] Use Lintian::Check::check_spelling()
  * checks/changes-file{,.desc}:
    + [ADB] New check script for .changes file tests
    + [RA] Add maverick as a valid Ubuntu distribution.
    + [ADB] Recognise *-volatile as valid distributions.
  * checks/copyright-file:
    + [ADB] Use Lintian::Check::check_spelling()
  * checks/deb-format.desc:
    + [RG] deb-format needs changelog-file.
  * checks/debconf.desc:
    + [RG] Add missing dependency on debfiles collection script.
  * checks/debian-readme:
    + [ADB] Use Lintian::Check::check_spelling()
  * checks/debian-source-dir.desc:
    + [RA] Downgrade missing-debian-source-format to wishlist and tone
      down the long description a bit.
  * checks/description:
    + [ADB] Use Lintian::Check::check_spelling{,_picky}()
  * checks/fields:
    + [RA] Add an exception for diffutils for depending on an essential
      package without a version, since diff was renamed to diffutils and
      depending on diffutils effectively is a versioned dependency.
      Thanks, Santiago Vila.  (Closes: #575073)
  * checks/files{,.desc}:
    + [RA] The simplepie class can begin with class[.-].  Patch from
      Marcelo Jorge Vieira (metal).  (Closes: #575879)
    + [RG] Fix typo in empty-binary-package's description.  Thanks,
      Jakub Wilk.  (Closes: #576804)
    + [RG] Exclude udebs from empty-binary-package check.  Thanks,
      Vagrant Cascadian.  (Closes: #576581)
    + [RG] Also warn about bmp files in /usr/lib.  Thanks, Rene
      Engelhard.  (Closes: #578776)
  * checks/init.d:
    + [RA] Allow $all to satisfy a $remote_fs or $local_fs requirement for
      Required-Stop, since this has now been implemented.  Thanks, Michael
      Meskes.
    + [RA] Recognize negated file checks when checking for file sourcing
      without a test.  Thanks, Jérémie Corbier.  (Closes: #575363)
    + [ADB] Use == for numeric comparison.
  * checks/lintian.desc:
    + [ADB] Remove information about .changes-related tags, now included in
      checks/changes-file.desc
  * checks/manpages:
    + [ADB] Replace Spelling::spelling_check() call with the new
      Lintian::Check::check_spelling()
  * checks/menus:
    + [ADB] Use Lintian::Check::check_spelling{,_picky}()
  * checks/nmu:
    + [RA] Skip leading changelog lines that do not begin with * when
      looking for things like non-maintainer upload notes at the start of
      the changelog entry.  Patch from Gunnar Wolf.  Thanks, Vincent
      Danjean.  (Closes: #575192)
  * checks/rules:
    + [RG] Warn about missing versioned build dependencies for
      ocaml-related packages.  (Closes: #567949)
  * checks/scripts:
    + [RA] Track local diversions like other diversions for the purposes
      of checking for orphans and diversions of unknown files.  Partly
      addresses #575361.
  * checks/watch-file{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Warn about use of dversionmangle instead of uversionmangle to
      handle tildes for upstream pre-releases.  Patch from Peter
      Eisentraut.  (Closes: #575064)

  * collection/*.desc:
    + [RG] Remove now-unneeded Order keys.

  * data/changelog-file/ubuntu-dists:
    + [RA] Add maverick as a valid Ubuntu distribution.  (Closes: #576282)
  * data/fields/virtual-packages:
    + [RG] Refresh against unstable.
  * data/files/fonts:
    + [RG] Refresh against unstable.
  * data/files/locale-codes:
    + [RG] Refresh to include ISO 639-3 codes.
  * data/output/ftp-master-{,non}fatal:
    + [RG] Refresh, without changes.
  * data/spelling/corrections{,-case,-multiword}:
    + [ADB] New files to contain the various types of spelling corrections
      made by Lintian's spelling checks.
    + [RG] Detect "pleaes" -> "please" typo.
    + [RG] Add more spelling corrections.

  * doc/desc-files:
    + [ADB] Add "changes" as an acceptable type for collection and check
      scripts.
    + [RG] Document Sort and Output-Format fields of the tests' desc files.

  * frontend/lintian:
    + [ADB] Add "changes" as a valid type for collection and check scripts
    + [ADB] Replace the special-cased parsing of .changes files with calls to
      unpack-changes-l1 and Lintian::Schedule::add_changes()
    + [ADB] Bump lab format to 10 for the addition of the "changes" lab
      directory
    + [ADB] Remove import of Lintian::Check which is no longer required after
      the .changes parsing code was removed
    + [RG] Support running collection and check scripts in parallel as soon
      as their prerequisites are satisfied.
  * frontend/lintian-info:
    + [ADB] Add support for .changes tags to --annotate

  * lib/Lab.pm:
    + [ADB] Add a "changes" directory to the lab structure. For static labs,
      the directory is automatically added the first time a .changes-aware
      Lintian accesses the lab.
  * lib/Lintian/Check.pm:
    + [ADB] Add new check_spelling and check_spelling_picky methods, based on
      the spelling_check and spelling_check_picky methods from lib/Spelling.pm
      (renamed for consistency with check_maintainer).
  * lib/Lintian/Collect.pm:
    + [ADB] Add support for Lintian::Collect::Changes
  * lib/Lintian/Collect/Binary.pm:
    + [ADB] The STACK element of objdump_info's result is a string not a
      number; treat it as such consistently
  * lib/Lintian/Collect/Changes.pm:
    + [ADB] New module providing information about .changes files and the
      files referenced therein
  * lib/Lintian/Command.pm:
    + [RG] Add done() method to check whether a process can be reaped
      without blocking.
  * lib/Lintian/Command/Simple.pm:
    + [RG] New simple command interface which supports backgrounded
      commands and easier waiting on commands without the full features of
      Lintian::Command.
  * lib/Lintian/DepMap.pm:
    + [RG] New module to manipulate dependency maps.
  * lib/Lintian/DepMap/Properties.pm:
    + [RG] New subclass of Lintian::DepMap that allows properties to be
      associated with Lintian::DepMap nodes.
  * lib/Lintian/Schedule.pm:
    + [ADB] Add support for scheduling .changes files
    + [ADB] Fix an uninitialised value warning caused by .changes files by
      treating a missing Version: field as being empty
  * lib/Lintian/Tags.pm:
    + [ADB] Remove the special-casing of .changes files in the output from
      file_start()
    + [ADB] Don't refer to .changes files as "packages"
  * lib/Spelling.pm:
    + [ADB] Removed as its functionality has been replaced by new methods in
      Lintian::Check.

  * man/lintian.1:
    + [ADB] Add changes-file to the list of check scripts.

  * private/refresh-locale-codes:
    + [RG] Include ISO 639-3 codes.
  * private/refresh-virtual-packages-data:
    + [ADB] Use "==" for numeric comparison, not "eq".
  * private/update-coverage:
    + [ADB] Support .changes file tags

  * t/runtests:
    + [ADB] Don't flag lintian output lines for .changes tags as invalid
    + [ADB] When checking the number of jobs to run in parallel, use "=="
      for numeric comparison rather than "eq".
  * t/scripts/tags.t:
    + [ADB] Use Lintian::Check::check_spelling() rather than Spelling.pm.
  * t/tests/README:
    + [ADB] Update the example .changes sed script to match the new output
      format.

  * testset/runtests:
    + [ADB] Don't flag lintian output lines for .changes tags as invalid

  * unpack/unpack-changes-l1:
    + [ADB] New script to "unpack" a .changes file, creating a fields/
      hierarchy
  * unpack/unpack-srcpkg-l1:
    + [ADB] Support tarballs in the .tar.xz format.  (Closes: #575633)

 -- Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>  Sat, 24 Apr 2010 13:51:45 -0500

lintian (2.3.4) unstable; urgency=low

  The "miscellaneous bug fix" release.

  * Summary of tag changes:
    + Added:
      - control-file-with-CRLF-EOLs
      - debian-rules-makemaker-prefix-is-deprecated
      - empty-binary-package
      - incorrect-locale-code
      - missing-debian-source-format
      - package-type-in-debian-control
      - possible-new-upstream-release-without-new-version
      - star-file
      - unknown-file-in-debian-source
      - unknown-source-format
      - unknown-locale-code

  * checks/binaries:
    + [RA] Exclude packages from the klibc source package from the
      embedded zlib check since klibc legitimately includes its own copy.
      Thanks, maximilian attems.  (Closes: #573914)
  * checks/changelog-file{,.desc}:
    + [RA] New check for a changelog entry indicating a new upstream
      release but no change in the upstream portion of the package
      version.  Idea from Emilio Pozuelo Monfort.  (Closes: #569129)
  * checks/control-file:
    + [RG] Update package-depends-on-hardcoded-libc exception to also
      exclude eglibc.  Based on a patch from Cyril Brulebois.
      (Closes: #573398)
    + [RA] Also exclude *-common packages from weak-library-dev-dependency
      checks.  Thanks, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort.  (Closes: #570408)
    + [RA] Suppress missing-separator-between-items if either of the items
      contain substvars other than *:Depends substvars, since substvars
      may be used to assemble the components of a dependency.  Thanks,
      Matthias Klose.  (Closes: #573815)
    + [RA] Warn about Package-Type instead of XC-Package-Type in
      debian/control.  Patch from Cyril Brulebois.  (Closes: #573399)
  * checks/cruft{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Provide more information in native-package-with-dash-version
      long description about how native packages can be created by
      mistake.  Thanks, Jari Aalto.  (Closes: #573839)
    + [RA] Reword source-contains-prebuilt-windows-binary long
      description.  (Closes: #574515)
    + [RG] Warn about control and changelog files with CRLF end of line
      terminators.  Thanks, Michal Čihař.  (Closes: #564713)
  * checks/debconf:
    + [RA] Don't warn about the length of the short description for
      templates of type text in udebs, since they're frequently used by
      including them into other templates at runtime.  Patch from Frans
      Pop.  (Closes: #560414)
  * checks/debian-source-dir{,.desc}:
    + [RA] New check script from Raphaël Hertzog checking various things
      about debian/source/* control files including checking for a source
      format control file.  (Closes: #566820)
  * checks/fields.desc:
    + [RA] Correct the supported source formats in the long description of
      unsupported-source-format.  Patch from Raphaël Hertzog.
    + [RA] Stop recommending a dependency on perl-modules.  Patch from
      Niko Tyni.  (Closes: #568749)
  * checks/files{,.desc}:
    + [RA] New check for binary packages that are empty except for
      standard files and don't declare themselves to be metapackages or
      other types of dummy packages.  Based on a patch from Luca
      Falavigna.  (Closes: #569220)
    + [RG] New check for packages shipping files literally called '*'
      (star symbol).  Thanks, Niels Thykier.  (Closes: #574771)
    + [RG] New checks for incorrect and unknown locale codes in
      /usr/share/locale subdirectories.
  * checks/init.d{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Exclude symlinks to upstart-job from init script syntax checks.
      Based on a patch by Jos Boumans.  (Closes: #569492)
    + [RA] Allow umountnfs to satisfy a $remote_fs requirement and
      umountnfs or umountfs to satisfy a $local_fs requirement in LSB
      headers, avoiding false positives in unusual situations such as
      rsyslog.  Thanks, Michael Biebl.  (Closes: #571280)
    + [RA] Allow $all to satisfy a $remote_fs or $local_fs requirement in
      Required-Start, but (per the wiki) not Required-Stop.  Thanks,
      Michael Meskes.  (Closes: #574970)
  * checks/manpages.desc:
    + [RA] Clarify the long description for manpage-has-bad-whatis-entry.
      Thanks, Jari Aalto.  (Closes: #573837)
  * checks/rules:
    + [RA] Allow ant1.7 to satisfy a build requirement for ant.  Thanks,
      Rene Engelhard.  (Closes: #572430)
    + [RG] Require a versioned build-dependency on cdbs if scons.mk or
      perl-build.mk are used.  (Closes: #574744)
    + [RG] Warn about installing files specifying the destination
      directory with PREFIX when Perl's MakeMaker build system is used.
      Based on a patch by Niko Tyni.  (Closes: #568748)
    + [RA] Also check binary-independent, wildcard, and override rules for
      programs requiring build dependencies, but accept them in either
      Build-Depends or Build-Depends-Indep.
    + [RA] Check for a quilt dependency when the debhelper 7 quilt module
      is used.  Thanks, Martin Meredith.  (Closes: #548094)
    + [RA] Allow python2.6 packages to satisfy Python build dependencies.
  * checks/scripts{,.desc}:
    + [ADB] Update the list of octave interpreters, adding octave3.2
      (Closes: #574048) and removing octave2.1 (only available in lenny
      and earlier) and octave3.1.
    + [RA] Allow non-executable *.pm files in the examples directory to
      start with a line like #!perl.  This is probably just an editor
      hint.  Thanks, Thijs Kinkhorst.  (Closes: #574826)
    + [RA] Mention #!@BASH@ and similar cases in the long tag description
      of example-interpreter-not-absolute.
    + [RA] Add Python 2.6 to recognized Python versions.
    + [RA] Add liquidsoap and texlua to known interpreters.
  * checks/shared-libs:
    + [RA] symbols-declares-dependency-on-other-package should not have
      trailing whitespace for unversioned dependencies.  Patch from
      Modestas Vainius.  (Closes: #570380)
  * checks/standards-version:
    + [RG] Don't warn about timewarp-standards-version when the
      changelog's distribution is "UNRELEASED."  Thanks, Raphaël Hertzog.
      (Closes: #571616)

  * collection/debfiles:
    + [RA] Simplify the logic since the entire debian directory is always
      copied.  Patch from Raphaël Hertzog.

  * data/debhelper/*:
    + [RG] Refresh against unstable.
  * data/fields/{perl-provides,virtual-packages}:
    + [RG] Refresh against unstable.
  * data/files/architectures:
    + [RG] Refreshed against dpkg 1.15.6.  (Closes: #563495)
  * data/files/fonts:
    + [RG] Refresh against unstable.
  * data/files/incorrect-locale-codes:
    + [RG] New list of common incorrect locale names
  * data/files/locale-codes:
    + [RG] Generated from unstable's iso-codes.
  * data/files/triplets:
    + [RG] Refreshed against dpkg 1.15.6.

  * debian/control:
    + [RG] Update package description to mention Policy version 3.8.4
      instead of 3.8.3.  Should have been done on the previous release.
  * debian/source/format:
    + [RA] Switch package format to 3.0 (native).
  * debian/postinst:
    + [RG] Use triggers to ensure an up-to-date locale in all cases.
      (Closes: #567451)

  * frontend/lintian:
    + [RA] Globally ignore SIGPIPE, forcing error return codes from write.
      Hopefully will resolve some unreproducible occasional crashes.
      (Closes: #558360)

  * lib/Lintian/Tag/Info.pm:
    + [JP] Don't link to references with no URL.  (Closes: #572297)
  * lib/Spelling.pm:
    + [ADB] Remove duplicate entries from the correction list.  Thanks,
      Jakub Wilk.  (Closes: #572260)
    + [ADB] Add a spelling correction for "unecessary".  Thanks, Jakub
      Wilk.  (Closes: #572456)

  * man/lintian-info.1:
    + [CW] Fix typo.
    + [RA] Document new debian-source-dir check script.

  * private/refresh-locale-codes:
    + [RG] New script to generate a list of locale codes.

  * reporting/templates/foot.tmpl:
    + [ADB] Replace the "please mail comments to the maintainer" request
      with a pointer to reportbug.  (Closes: #572298)

  * testset/etcfiles/:
    + [RA] Fix problems with the md5sums test suite construction in the
      legacy etcfiles test.  Thanks, Frank Lin PIAT.  (Closes: #573081)

  * t/runtests:
    + [RG] Add support for architecture-specific tests.
    + [RG] Add support for To-Do tests.
  * t/tests/binaries-multiarch/:
    + [RG] Fix test failure in non-i386 architectures by normalising the
      expected output.  Thanks, Niko Tyni.  (Closes: #568680)

 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>  Mon, 22 Mar 2010 16:23:51 -0700

lintian (2.3.3) unstable; urgency=low

  The "Policy 3.8.4" release.

  * Summary of tag changes:
    + Added:
      - missing-dependency-on-phpapi
      - obsolete-comments-style-in-php-ini
      - package-contains-mime-cache-file
      - package-contains-mimeinfo.cache-file
      - triplet-dir-and-architecture-mismatch

  * checks/binaries{,.desc}:
    + [RG] Warn about packages shipping PHP extensions but not
      depending on phpapi-*.
  * checks/debconf.desc:
    + [RG] There are legitimate uses of db_input on the postinst
      script, downgrading the certainty of the check.  (Closes: #543418)
  * checks/fields{,.desc}:
    + [RG] Don't warn about depending on the phpapi-* virtual package.
  * checks/files{,.desc}:
    + [RG] Warn about packages shipping PHP .ini files using old-style
      (#) comments separators.
    + [RG] Warn about packages embedding the dojo and dijit javascript
      libraries.
    + [RG] Don't warn about packages containing /sys or /selinux
      directories.  Policy 3.8.4 grants an exception to the FHS.
    + [RG] Warn about packages containing (/usr)/lib/<triplet>
      directories for a <triplet> that isn't the one of the
      architecture of the package, per Policy 3.8.4 requirement.
    + [RG] Warn about packages shipping cache files generated by
      update-mime-database.  Thanks, Jakub Wilk.  (Closes: #563685)
    + [RG] Warn about packages shipping mimeinfo.cache files, generated by
      update-desktop-database.  Thanks, Raphaël Hertzog.  (Closes: #567753)
  * checks/init.d:
    + [RG] Warn about init scripts depending on checkroot instead of
      $local_fs.
    + [RG] Remove experimental flag from remote_fs and local_fs checks.
    + [RG] Skip rc and rcS from the init script checks.

  * data/debhelper/*:
    + [RG] Refresh against unstable.
  * data/fields/{perl-provides,virtual-packages}:
    + [RG] Refresh against unstable.
  * data/files/fonts:
    + [RG] Refresh against unstable.
  * data/files/triplets:
    + [RG] New file with a list of triplet<->architecture
      relationships.
  * data/output/ftp-master-{,non}fatal:
    + [RG] Refresh, without changes.
  * data/standards-version/release-dates:
    + [RG] Add the release date for Policy 3.8.4.

  * debian/control:
    + [RG] Update standards version to 3.8.4 (no changes required).
  * debian/postinst:
    + [RG] Generate the locale under the correct directory.
  * debian/prerm:
    + [RG] Don't ignore errors on shell commands failures.

  * frontend/lintian:
    + [RG] Fix path to the locale directory passed to LOCPATH.
      (Closes: #555408)

  * private/refresh-archs:
    + [RG] Generate a list of triplet<->architecture relationships too.

  * t/runtests:
    + [RG] Update standards version to 3.8.4.

 -- Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>  Sun, 31 Jan 2010 02:59:56 -0600

lintian (2.3.2) unstable; urgency=high

  * Summary of tag changes:
    + Added:
      - conflicting-negation-in-source-relation

  * checks/{control-files,files,menu-format,menus}:
    + [RG] Fix CVE-2009-4014: format string vulnerabilities.
  * checks/{fields,patch-systems}:
    + [RG] Fix CVE-2009-4013: missing control files sanitation.
  * checks/{files,patch-systems,po-debconf}:
    + [RG] Fix CVE-2009-4015: arbitrary command execution.
  * checks/changelog-file:
    + [RA] Avoid Perl warning when the NEWS file ends immediately after
      the most recent entry.  (Closes: #563585)
  * checks/copyright-file:
    + [RA] Relax the regex for matching dh-make-perl boilerplate to catch
      the current text.  Thanks, gregor herrmann.  (Closes: #563571)
  * checks/fields{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Reject "all" and "any" in architecture qualifications for build
      dependencies.  Thanks, Jonathan Yu.
    + [RA] Warn if some architectures in a build relation are negated and
      others are not.
  * checks/files.desc:
    + [JP] Fix outdated reference in file-in-usr-lib-site-python.
  * checks/infofiles:
    + [RA] Pass LOCPATH to subprocesses.
    + [ADB] Don't flag info files with filenames of info-N.gz as having an
      incorrect extension if N contains multiple digits.  (Closes: #564900)
  * checks/manpages:
    + [RA] Pass LOCPATH to subprocesses.

  * collection/objdump-info:
    + [RG] Fix CVE-2009-4015: arbitrary command execution.
  * collection/source-control-file:
    + [RG] Fix CVE-2009-4013: missing control files sanitation.

  * data/output/manual-references:
    + [JP] Refresh reference data against Policy 3.8.3, doc-base 0.9.5,
      developers-reference 3.4.3, and Python Policy 0.9.0.

  * debian/control:
    + [RA] Depend on locales.
  * debian/prerm:
    + [RA] Remove /var/lib/lintian/locale on any removal except upgrades.
  * debian/postinst:
    + [RA] Generate an en_US.UTF-8 locale in /var/lib/lintian/locale for
      use for tests, particularly man page tests.  (Closes: #555408)

  * frontend/lintian:
    + [RA] Set LOCPATH to LINTIAN_ROOT/locale or /var/lib/lintian/locale,
      whichever exist.
    + [RG] Fix CVE-2009-4013: missing control files sanitation.

  * lib/Lintian/Collect.pm:
    + [ADB] Update the documentation to reflect the existence of
      Lintian::Collect::Binary.
  * lib/Lintian/Collect/Binary.pm:
    + [ADB] Correct a reference in the documentation indicating that the 
      module collects data for source packages.
  * lib/Lintian/Schedule.pm:
    + [RG] Fix CVE-2009-4013: missing control files sanitation.
    + [RG] Fix CVE-2009-4014: format string vulnerabilities.
  * lib/Spelling.pm:
    + [RA] Add additional spelling corrections.
    + [RA] Remove spelling correction for parameterize.  This is the
      correct US spelling.  Thanks, Jonathan Yu.  (Closes: #564523)
    + [RA] Remove spelling correction for useable, a variant permitted
      by the OED.  Thanks, Vagrant Cascadian.  (Closes: #564740)
    + [RG] Add more spelling corrections.
  * lib/Util.pm:
    + [RA] Pass LOCPATH to subprocesses.
    + [RG] Fix CVE-2009-4015: arbitrary command execution.

  * man/lintian.1:
    + [RA] Spelling fix.  Thanks, A. Costa.  (Closes: #564017)

  * private/refresh-manual-refs:
    + [RG] Fix CVE-2009-4015: arbitrary command execution.

  * reporting/{config,html_reports}:
    + [JP] Make it possible to keep a record of statistics of previous
      archive-wide Lintian executions.
  * reporting/templates/maintainer.tmpl:
    + [RA] Really fix the logic to optionally display the archive area of
      additional package entries under the same source package.

  * unpack/unpack-{bin,src}pkg-l1:
    + [RG] Fix CVE-2009-4013: missing control files sanitation.

 -- Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>  Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:55:03 -0600

lintian (2.3.1) unstable; urgency=low

  The "goodbye to unpack level 2" release.

  * Summary of tag changes:
    + Added:
      - init.d-script-missing-start
      - debian-news-entry-has-unknown-version
      - debian-news-entry-uses-asterisk
      - debian-news-entry-without-blank-line
      - non-native-package-with-native-version
      - udev-rule-in-etc

  * {checks,collection}/*.desc:
    + [RG] Remove Unpack-Level fields and depend on the 'unpacked'
      collection script as needed.
  * checks/binaries:
    + [RG] Recognise hppa64 binaries and ignore them on the
      binary-from-other-architecture check for hppa.
      Thanks, Matthias Klose.  (Closes: #562788)
  * checks/changelog-file{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Per devref, recommend against NEWS.Debian entries formatted
      with asterisks like changelog entries.
    + [RA] Check that the most recent NEWS.Debian entry is followed by a
      blank line for apt-listchanges.  Thanks, Adeodato Simó.  (Addresses
      the Lintian part of #523436)
    + [RA] Warn if the version of the latest NEWS.Debian entry doesn't
      appear in the changelog.  Thanks, Christoph Berg.  (Closes: #550594)
  * checks/control-file:
    + [RA] Fix parsing of dependencies for weak-library-dev-dependency
      when the content of Depends begins with a newline.  Thanks, Julien
      Cristau.  (Closes: #563370)
  * checks/cruft:
    + [RA] Fix the regex to properly ignore CMakeCache.txt in the debian
      directory.  Thanks, Aaron M. Ucko.  (Closes: #553264)
    + [RA] Check for a non-native package with a native version.  Thanks,
      Andreas Beckmann.
  * checks/debhelper:
    + [RA] Always warn if debhelper is in use but no ${misc:Depends}
      dependency is present rather than checking which specific debhelper
      commands use it.  Any debhelper command may start adding
      dependencies to ${misc:Depends} at any time.  Lower the certainty to
      possible, since a missing ${misc:Depends} may not cause problems.
  * checks/fields.desc:
    + [RA] Fix spelling error in dfsg-version-with-period tag description.
      Thanks, Jakub Wilk.  (Closes: #563185)
  * checks/files{,.desc}:
    + [RG] Add a missing 'it' to the description of duplicate-font-file.
    + [RG] Add detection of nusoap to the embedded PHP libraries check.
    + [RG] Check that udev rules are not installed in /etc/udev/rules.d.
      Thanks, Marco d'Itri.  (Closes: #559208)
  * checks/init.d{,.desc}:
    + [RG] Bump severity of init.d-script-sourcing-without-test to serious.
    + [RG] Lower the severity of init.d-script-does-not-provide-itself
      to minor.
    + [RG] Fix a init.d-script-possible-missing-stop false positive when
      stopping on runlevels 2-5.
    + [RG] Mention 'killprocs' in init.d-script-possible-missing-stop's
      description.  Thanks, Kurt Roeckx.  (Closes: #562608)
    + [RG] Warn about init scripts with incomplete start runlevels.
    + [RG] Tighten check for missing dependency on local_fs or remote_fs
      when using files with a name of 'var*' or 'usr*'.
    + [RG] Also recognise the use of the -r test as a file test, and
      the test command when determining whether a /etc/default file is
      being sourced unconditionally.
    + [RG] Correct the description of the
      missing-dependency-on-{remote,local_fs} tags where 'is' was meant
      to be used instead of 'are'.
  * checks/manpages.desc:
    + [RA] Downgrade spelling-error-in-manpage to minor severity.
      (Closes: #563039)
  * checks/patch-systems:
    + [RA] Avoid false positives for patches modifying files in debian/*
      when the parent directory in which the patch was created is named
      debian.  Thanks, Mark Brown.  (Closes: #562875)

  * collection/ar-info:
    + [RA] Skip *.a files that are dangling symlinks and discard error
      output from ar.  Correctly handle file names that contain shell
      metacharacters.
  * collection/unpacked{,.desc}:
    + [RG] New scripts to replace the unpack level 2.

  * frontend/lintian:
    + [RG] Deprecate and replace unpack levels with the use of
      collection scripts.
    + [ADB] Remove an unused variable declaration.

  * lib/Spelling.pm:
    + [ADB] Add corrections for "nam" (name) and "nams" (names).
    + [RG] Add some more spelling errors.
    + [RG] Uppercase every character of the correction if every
      character of the original word is too.
    + [RA] Superceded is an acceptable alternative spelling of superseded.

  * man/lintian.1:
    + [RG] Document deprecation of unpack levels.
    + [ADB] Add the new "unpacked" collection script to the list of such
      scripts.
    + [ADB] Correct the documentation of --tags-from-file to indicate that
      the file contains tags to issue, not suppress.
  
  * reporting/html_reports:
    + [RA] Sort the tags so that the maintainer view will group repeated
      instances of the same tag and display extra information in sorted
      order.  (Closes: #563126)
    + [RA] Better handle missing information for packages in the package
      lists and default the package area to main.
  * reporting/templates/maintainer.tmpl:
    + [RA] Fix the logic to optionally display the archive area of
      additional package entries under the same source package.

  * unpack/unpack-{src,bin}pkg-l2:
    + [RG] Dropped in favour of collection/unpacked.

 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>  Sat, 02 Jan 2010 21:01:14 -0800

lintian (2.3.0) unstable; urgency=low

  The "welcome Raphael Geissert!" release.

  * Summary of tag changes:
    + Added:
      - capitalization-error-in-description
        (split from spelling-error-in-description)
      - debian-rules-automatically-updates-control
      - duplicate-in-relation-field (pedantic)
      - duplicated-compressed-file
      - init.d-script-missing-dependency-on-local_fs (experimental)
      - init.d-script-missing-dependency-on-remote_fs (experimental)
      - obsolete-relation-form-in-source
      - ocaml-dangling-cmi
      - ocaml-dangling-cmx
      - ocaml-dangling-cmxa
      - ocaml-dangling-cmxs
      - ocaml-dev-file-in-nondev-package (pedantic)
      - ocaml-dev-file-not-in-usr-lib-ocaml (pedantic)
      - ocaml-meta-without-suggesting-findlib (pedantic)
      - ocaml-stray-cmo
      - spelling-error-in-manpage
    + Removed:
      - build-depends-without-arch-dep

  * checks/*:
    + [RA] Use Lintian::Tags instead of Tags.
  * checks/binaries{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Allow any RPATH containing $ORIGIN or ${ORIGIN}, not just the
      literal value $ORIGIN.  (Closes: #557511)
    + [ADB] Exempt all binary packages built from the zlib source from
      the embedded-zlib test, not just those with binary package names
      matching zlib.+.  Thanks, Mark Brown.
    + [RA] Spelling errors are no longer normalized to lowercase.
  * checks/changelog-file:
    + [RA] Suppress latest-debian-changelog-entry-without-new-date if the
      distribution is UNRELEASED.  Thanks, Raphaël Hertzog.
      (Closes: #560149)
    + [RA] Also ignore too-long lines that consist of "See" followed by an
      unbreakable word.  Thanks, Jari Aalto.  (Closes: #560005)
    + [RA] Downgrade spelling tags to severity: minor.
  * checks/control-file{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Check for < and > version dependencies in debian/control since
      dpkg-source helpfully rewrites and fixes them in binary packages.
      Thanks, Jakub Wilk.  (Closes: #557971)
    + [RA] Add a pedantic check for duplicates in relation fields in
      debian/control prior to the fixes applied by dpkg-dev.  Thanks,
      Nelson A. de Oliveira.  (Closes: #548819)
    + [RA] Fix a typo that skipped checks on the Build-Conflicts field.
    + [RA] Rework weak-library-dev-dependency to allow more approaches to
      bounding the shared library version.  Skip complex cases with or'd
      dependencies and assume the maintainer knows what they're doing.
      Add more explanation to the long tag description.  Thanks, Reinhard
      Tartler and Mike Hommey.  (Closes: #557449)
  * checks/copyright-file.desc:
    + [RA] Downgrade spelling-error-in-copyright to minor and mention
      false positive possibilities and an override in the tag description.
  * checks/cruft:
    + [RA] Allow an automake or libtool dependency in Build-Depends-Indep
      to also satisfy the check for outdated helper files.  Thanks,
      Guillaume Delacour.  (Closes: #557530)
    + [RA] Ignore files in .pc, created by unpacking 3.0 (quilt) packages.
      Thanks, Ahmed El-Mahmoudy.  (Closes: #556022)
  * checks/debian-readme.desc:
    + [RA] Downgrade spelling tag to severity: minor.
  * checks/description{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Downgrade spelling tag to severity: minor.
    + [RA] Split capitalization-error-in-description to a separate tag and
      downgrade its certainty to wild-guess.
  * checks/fields{,.desc}:
    + [ADB] Re-order the fields of build-depends-on-build-essential so that
      all of the descriptive text is included.  Thanks, Jonathan Wiltshire.
      (Closes: #557786)
    + [RA] For lib-recommends-documentation, exclude packages ending in
      -tools or -bin.  Thanks, Jay Berkenbilt.  (Closes: #557883)
    + [RA] Warn of build dependencies on python*-dev if no architecture-
      dependent packages are being built.  Patch from Luca Falavigna.
      (Closes: #551793)
    + [RA] Add emacs22 to obsolete emacs versions.  Thanks, Sven Joachim.
      (Closes: #560053)
  * checks/files{,.desc}:
    + [RA] New check for files present in both compressed and uncompressed
      form.  Patch from Raphael Geissert.  (Closes: #546174)
    + [RA] Allow /etc/sudoers.d files to be mode 0440 as recommended by
      sudo.  Thanks, Thijs Kinkhorst.  (Closes: #557353)
  * checks/huge-usr-share{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Increase the thresholds to 2MB (over 50%) and 4MB (any
      percentage), and mention the thresholds in the tag description.
      Thanks, Christoph Egger.  (Closes: #561720)
  * checks/init.d{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Add checks for missing dependencies on $local_fs or $remote_fs
      based on what files appear to be used in the init scripts.  Patch
      from Raphael Geissert.  (Partly addresses #405454)
  * checks/manpages{,.desc}:
    + [RG] Check for spelling errors in English manpages.
  * checks/manpages.desc:
    + [RA] Clarify the long description of hyphen-used-as-minus-sign.
      Note that Debian groff is currently patched to avoid this problem,
      but hopefully that divergence can be removed.  Reference
      groff-base's README.Debian for more information.  (Closes: #548844)
  * checks/menus.desc:
    + [RA] Change spelling tags to severity: minor and certainty: certain
      since there are few false positives but minor is the correct
      severity.
  * checks/ocaml{,.desc}:
    + [RA] New checks for OCaml packaging.  Contributed by Stéphane
      Glondu.  (Closes: #528367)
  * checks/patch-systems{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Recommend DEP-3 in {dpatch,quilt}-patch-missing-description and
      reference the document.  Thanks, Raphaël Hertzog.  (Closes: #554025)
    + [RA] Allow DEP-3 headers in dpatch patches to satisfy the
      description requirement.  Thanks, Paul Gevers.  (Closes: #548640)
  * checks/rules{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Remove build-depends-without-arch-dep.  If the package only
      builds architecture-independent packages, the distinction between
      Build-Depends and Build-Depends-Indep is meaningless and there's no
      reason, even pedantically, to worry about the separation.  Thanks,
      Charles Plessy.  (Closes: #552200, #555667)
    + [RA] Add a new check for DEB_AUTO_UPDATE_DEBIAN_CONTROL = yes.
      Thanks, Nelson A. de Oliveira.  (Closes: #557120)

  * collection/ar-info{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Collects the results of ar t on all *.a files, used by the new
      OCaml checks.  Contributed by Stéphane Glondu.
  * collection/override-file:
    + [RA] Check debian/source/lintian-overrides before
      debian/source.lintian-overrides for source package overrides.
      Thanks, martin f krafft.  (Closes: #554617)

  * data/debhelper/*:
    + [ADB] Refresh against unstable.  
  * data/fields/{perl-provides,virtual-packages}:
    + [ADB] Refresh against unstable.
  * data/files/fonts:
    + [ADB] Refresh against unstable.
  * data/output/ftp-master-{non,}fatal:
    + [RA] New data files listing tags that may result in an automated
      upload reject.

  * doc/lintian.sgml:
    + [RA] Document debian/source/lintian-overrides as the new preferred
      location for source overrides.

  * debian/control:
    + [RG] Add Raphael Geissert to Uploaders.
    + [RA] Add ${misc:Depends} to dependencies.
  * debian/copyright:
    + [RG] Add Raphael Geissert to maintainers.

  * frontend/lintian:
    + [RA] Add options --suppress-tags and --suppress-tags-from-file to
      completely suppress the given tags.
    + [RA] Support comments and blank lines in --tags-from-file files.
    + [RA] Run the check modules in sorted order.
    + [RA] Create a global Lintian::Tags object and use it instead of
      setting variables in the Tags namespace.  Move display level code
      from here to Lintian::Tags.  Adjust calls for the new Lintian::Tags
      module.
    + [RA] Add option -F or --ftp-master-rejects which only checks tags
      that could result in an automatic upload reject.
  * frontend/lintian-info:
    + [RA] Add -h/--help option.  Patch from gregor herrmann.
      (Closes: #558214)

  * lib/Lintian/Check.pm:
    + [RA] Use Lintian::Tags instead of Tags.
  * lib/Lintian/Output.pm:
    + [RA] print_tag() now takes an additional argument containing
      override data and expects a Lintian::Tag::Info object as the tag
      info instead of a hash.
    + [RA] Adjust for the renaming of pkg in the file information hash.
  * lib/Lintian/Output/*.pm:
    + [RA] Adjust for print_tag() and file information hash changes.
  * lib/Lintian/Output/XML.pm:
    + [RA] Rewrite to be more readable and fix the tags attribute for
      overridden experimental tags.
  * lib/Lintian/Relation.pm:
    + [RA] Fix bugs in unparse() and duplicates() that caused duplicates()
      to crash when processing duplicates between an alternative and a
      regular package.  Thanks, Jonathan Yu.  (Closes: #559625)
  * lib/Lintian/Tag/Info.pm:
    + [RA] Add a code method that returns the tag code corresponding to
      the severity and certainty for a tag, based on get_tag_code from
      Tags.pm.
    + [RA] Add certainty, severity, and tag accessor methods.
    + [RA] Add a method saying whether a tag is experimental.
    + [RA] Record the check script corresponding to each tag and add an
      accessor method for it.
    + [RA] Add a sources method returning a list of sources referenced by
      a tag, based on the get_tag_source method from Tags.pm.
  * lib/Lintian/Tags.pm:
    + [RA] New module in a proper namespace replacing Tags.pm.  A global
      Lintian::Tags object replaces the static variables in the Tags
      namespace, with new accessor functions, except for the tag metadata
      functions (which have moved to Lintian::Tag::Info).  All handling of
      display levels is now here instead of in frontend/lintian.
    + [RA] Support suppressing a list of tags.
    + [RA] Suppress calling Lintian::Output::print_end_pkg for changes
      files, where we don't call print_start_pkg.  This fixes an unmatched
      closing tag in the experimental XML output.
  * lib/Spelling.pm:
    + [RA] Use Lintian::Tags instead of Tags.
    + [RA] Ignore all-caps words of five characters or less for spelling
      corrections, since they are probably acronyms.  Thanks, Michal
      Čihař.  (Closes: #556456)
    + [RA] Report the original word in spelling errors rather than the
      normalized form.
    + [RG] Detect some multi-word spelling errors.
    + [RA] Remove the als to also correction.  This is a word in several
      European languages, and the many hits on the archive are nearly all
      false positives.
  * lib/Tags.pm:
    + [RA] Removed in favor of Lintian::Tags.
  * lib/Util.pm:
    + [RA] Consume all output from extracting the control file of a binary
      package before closing the pipe.

  * man/lintian.1:
    + [RA] Document --suppress-tags and --suppress-tags-from-file.
    + [RA] Document format of --tags-from-file.
    + [RA] Document -F (--ftp-master-rejects).
    + [RA] Add ocaml checker script.
    + [RA] Add ar-info collection script.
    + [RA] Document the override locations in the FILES section.  Thanks,
      Jakub Wilk.  (Closes: #558649)
    + [RA] Remove obsolete spelling checker script.
    + [RA] Mention /usr/share/lintian/data under FILES.
    + [RA] Clarify that errors are not necessarily policy violations.
    + [RA] Remove bug that Lintian doesn't handle packages with different
      binary and source versions correctly.  I don't believe this is still
      an issue.
  * man/lintian-info.1:
    + [RA] Add -h (--help).
    + [RA] lintian -i no longer pipes output through lintian-info.  Adjust
      the man page accordingly.

  * private/refresh-ftp-master-tags:
    + [RA] Script to refresh data about automatic package rejects.

  * reporting/html_reports:
    + [RA] Never use O as the code for the tag on the per-tag page even if
      all instances in the archive are overridden.  (Closes: #562630)

  * t/runtests:
    + [RA] Unwrap the Options field so that it can be continued.
    + [RA] Replace TESTSET in Options with the root of the test suite so
      that lintian options referring to files can be tested with files in
      the test suite directory.
    + [RA] Support a new Sort: no field in package test metadata to
      suppress sorting of lintian output, for testing output formatting.
    + [RA] Use Lintian::Command::spawn to run Lintian for package tests so
      that the lintian options may contain shell metacharacters.
    + [RA] Put all error output from lintian unsorted before the regular
      output, making it easier to diagnose errors.
    + [RA] Suppress checking the syntax of the lintian output if neither
      Test-For nor Test-Against are set and Sort: no is set.

  * unpack/list-{bin,src,udeb}pkg:
    + [RA] Support multiple versions of a package in the archive and
      include only the latest version in the Lintian package list.
  * unpack/unpack-binpkg-l2:
    + [RA] Report errors from dpkg-deb or tar on stderr if either exit
      with non-zero status.
  * unpack/unpack-srcpkg-l2:
    + [RA] Report errors from dpkg-source -x on stderr if it exits with
      non-zero status.  (Closes: #557717)

 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>  Sat, 26 Dec 2009 18:38:10 -0800

lintian (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=low

  The "synchronize severities with ftpmaster's Lintian checks" release.

  * Summary of tag changes:
    + Removed:
      - copyright-lists-upstream-authors-with-dh_make-boilerplate
    + Promoted from experimental:
      - spelling-error-in-binary
      - template-uses-unsplit-choices

  * checks/binaries.desc:
    + [RA] Remove experimental marker on spelling-error-in-binary.  Change
      severity to minor; spelling errors are minor bugs.
    + [RA] library-in-debug-or-profile-should-not-be-stripped,
      binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath, arch-dependent-file-in-usr-share, and
      binary-in-etc, binary-file-compressed-with-upx,
      binary-with-bad-dynamic-table, and embedded-zlib are now
      serious since they can result in ftpmaster rejects.  embedded-zlib,
      missing-dependency-on-libc, and binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath are
      possible rather than certain since overrides are allowed.
  * checks/changelog-file:
    + [FL] Avoid various Perl warnings which can be caused by
      completly broken changelog files.
  * checks/conffiles.desc:
    + [RA] file-in-usr-marked-as-conffile is serious (ftpmaster reject).
      Add a Policy reference and improve the description.
    + [RA] non-etc-file-marked-as-conffile is serious/possible rather than
      important/certain (ftpmaster reject unless overridden).
  * checks/control-file{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Say to use (= ${binary:Version}) to fix weak dependencies
      between a library dev package and the shared library.  Thanks,
      Norbert Preining.  (Closes: #548218)
    + [ADB] Fix an uninitialised value warning when processing a
      -dev package which has no Depends: fields.  Thanks, Lucas
      Nussbaum.
    + [RA] build-info-in-binary-control-file-section and
      debian-control-with-duplicate-fields are now serious (ftpmaster
      reject).
    + [RA] Allow -dev dependencies based on source:Upstream-Version or
      source:Version if the -dev package is architecture: all.  Thanks,
      Mike Hommey.  (Closes: #552729)
  * checks/control-files.desc:
    + [RA] not-allowed-control-file, control-file-has-bad-permissions, and
      control-file-has-bad-owner are now serious (ftpmaster reject).
      Mention that the config control file should also be executable.
  * checks/copyright-file{,.desc}:
    + [FL] Add special exception to no-copyright-file for perl.
      See #522827 for discussion.  (Closes: #553262)
    + [FL] Extend match for exceptions to copyright-refers-to-symlink-license
      to catch more ways to specify Perl's license.  Patch from
      Salvatore Bonaccorso.  (Closes: #549596)
    + [RA] copyright-lists-upstream-authors-with-dh_make-boilerplate
      removed, as some package maintainers prefer to use Author(s) and
      have filled out the copyright file.  (Closes: #553469)
    + [RA] Add additional dh_make template strings to the
      helper-templates-in-copyright check, including the templates for
      upstream author or copyright holder, which effectively replaces
      copyright-lists-upstream-authors-with-dh_make-boilerplate with far
      fewer false positives.
    + [RA] Remove a duplication of the check for "This copyright info was
      automatically extracted from the perl module" by dh-make-perl, and
      ensure that this is copyright-contains-dh-make-perl-boilerplate and
      not helper-templates-in-copyright, since it is lower severity.
    + [RA] copyright-refers-to-old-directory, old-style-copyright-file,
      usr-share-doc-symlink-without-dependency,
      usr-share-doc-symlink-to-foreign-package,
      copyright-refers-to-incorrect-directory, and
      copyright-contains-dh_make-todo-boilerplate are now serious
      (ftpmaster reject).  copyright-contains-dh_make-todo-boilerplate is
      possible (overrides allowed).  Significantly improve the description
      of usr-share-doc-symlink-without-dependency to mention that Lintian
      doesn't look at transitive dependencies, and change to possible.
  * checks/cruft:
    + [FL] Add automake1.11 to list of autotools packages.  Thanks,
      Laurent Bigonville.  (Closes: #551051)
    + [RA] Allow CMakeCache.txt files in the debian directory.  Thanks,
      Aaron M. Ucko.  (Closes: #553264)
  * checks/debconf.desc:
    + [FL] Remove experimental flag from template-uses-unsplit-choices.
      This was only done to not disrupt the lenny freeze.  Thanks,
      Raphael Geissert.  (Closes: #553487)
  * checks/description.desc:
    + [RA] Downgrade description-synopsis-might-not-be-phrased-properly to
      minor and fix the cross-reference to point to devref, not Policy.
    + [RA] description-is-dh_make-template is serious (ftpmaster reject).
  * checks/etcfiles.desc:
    + [RA] file-in-etc-not-marked-as-conffile is serious (ftpmaster
      reject).
  * checks/fields{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Fix lib-recommends-documentation tag to correctly exclude dev
      and doc packages.  Patch from Stéphane Glondu.  (Closes: #548210)
    + [FL] Allow source formats 3.0 (quilt) and 3.0 (native).
      (Closes: #552707)
    + [RA] Multiple maintainer-* and uploader-* tags for syntax errors or
      localhost addresses are now serious (ftpmaster reject), as are
      section-is-dh_make-template and bad-relation.
  * checks/files.desc:
    + [RA] Add a note to wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid that it's possible to
      construct a Policy-compliant package that triggers this tag by
      creating users in preinst, and asking package maintainers to file a
      bug against Lintian if they encounter a case where this appears to
      be necessary.
    + [RA] package-contains-ancient-file, package-installs-python-pyc
      symlink-has-too-many-up-segments, and package-contains-info-dir-file
      are now serious (ftpmaster reject).
    + [RA] dir-or-file-in-var-www is now serious/possible (ftpmaster
      reject unless overridden).
    + [RA] dir-or-file-in-{tmp,mnt,opt,srv} are now serious and have the
      proper File Hierarchy Standard cross-references and descriptions.
    + [RA] Don't suggest creating a symlink to the python-feedparser
      library.  Just use the normal Python import mechanism.  Thanks,
      Jakub Wilk.  (Closes: #555617)
  * checks/lintian.desc:
    + [CW] Add lucid as an allowable distribution for Ubuntu, and remove
      gutsy.
  * checks/manpages.desc:
    + [ADB] Mention in the description for manpage-has-errors-from-man
      that Lintian passes "-E UTF-8" to man when running checks.  Thanks,
      Raphaël Hertzog. (Closes: #555320)
    + [RA] Also suppress failures to break lines if the reported line is
      a .UE macro, which marks the end of a block defining a URL.  Thanks,
      Martin Stigge.
  * checks/patch-systems:
    + [RA] Do not issue patch-system-but-no-source-readme for packages in
      3.0 (quilt) format.  Patch from Stéphane Glondu.  (Closes: #553207)
    + [RA] Don't consider the "index <sha1>..<sha1>" line added by git
      diff to be a patch description.  (Closes: #553697)
    + [RA] If a diff outside of the patch system only creates new files
      that can be copied into place by the package build rules, suggest
      just putting them in the debian directory rather than using a patch
      system.  Thanks, Charles Plessy.  (Closes: #550924)
  * checks/rules.desc:
    + [RA] missing-build-dependency is now serious/possible (ftpmaster
      reject unless overridden).
  * checks/scripts{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Add some more details to executable-not-elf-or-script about
      possible causes and how to correct them.
    + [RA] Suggest mkfifo in mknod-in-maintainer-script if the script was
      creating a named pipe.
    + [RA] Add rep.  Thanks, Rodrigo Gallardo.  (Closes: #510954)
    + [RA] Add r.  Thanks, Dirk Eddelbuettel.  (Closes: #555278)
    + [RA] Add rackup.  Thanks, Sebastien Delafond.  (Closes: #552013)
  * checks/shared-libs:
    + [FL] Add /usr/lib/python*/dist-packages to exception list for
      incorrect-libdir-in-la-file.  Thanks, Mathieu Trudel.
      (Closes: #551134)

  * data/changelog-file/ubuntu-dists:
    + [CW] Add lucid as an allowable distribution for Ubuntu, and remove
      gutsy.
  * data/doc-base/sections:
    + [FL] Update from doc-base 0.9.5. Adds Typesetting section.
      Thanks Julian Gilbey.  (Closes: #552526)
  * data/fields/architectures:
    + [ADB] Refresh against unstable.
  * data/fields/perl-provides:
    + [ADB] Refresh against unstable.
  * data/fields/virtual-packages:
    + [ADB] Refresh against unstable.
  * data/files/fonts:
    + [ADB] Refresh against unstable.

  * man/lintian.1:
    + [RA] Add additional explanation of experimental tags.  Remove the
      comment that pedantic tags are frequently wrong; that's not what
      they're for.  Improve the explanation for -i to not imply that
      everything Lintian finds is a Policy violation.

  * private/refresh-perl-provides:
    + [ADB] Special-case libio-compress-perl; the package contains the
      modules which used to be in libio-compress-* but does not contain
      IO::Compress.  Patch from Niko Tyni.  (Closes: #554393)

 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>  Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:36:33 -0800

lintian (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Urgency medium to beat libclass-accessor-perl into testing.

  * checks/control-file:
    + [RA] Correctly exclude lib*-dev dependencies on other lib*-dev
      packages that contain a version number.  Thanks, Yves-Alexis Perez.
      (Closes: #547773)

  * debian/control:
    + [RA] Explicitly depend on libclass-accessor-perl, since we use it
      directly.  (libparse-debianchangelog-perl was implicitly ensuring it
      was installed.)

 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>  Tue, 22 Sep 2009 10:07:24 -0700

lintian (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=low

  * Summary of tag changes:
    + Added:
      - dh_undocumented-is-obsolete
      - lib-recommends-documentation
      - weak-library-dev-dependency

  * checks/control-file{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Check that -dev packages depend on exactly the same version of
      the shared library package.  (Closes: #537768)
  * checks/debhelper{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Check for use of the obsolete dh_undocumented debhelper
      program.  Patch from Raphael Geissert.  (Closes: #541977)
  * checks/fields{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Check for library packages that recommend documentation
      packages.  Patch from Raphael Geissert.  (Closes: #527363)
    + [RA] Fix regex for recognizing CVS repositories available via
      anonymous ssh.  Thanks, Thorsten Glaser.  (Closes: #546927)
  * checks/menus{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Exclude examples from documentation that may require doc-base
      registration.  Thanks, Mikhail Gusarov.  (Closes: #547345)
  * checks/scripts{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Add /usr/bin/ir as an interpreter provided by the ironruby
      package.  Thanks, Matthias Klose.  (Closes: #547555)
    + [ADB] Fix a typo in the description of example-script-uses-bin-env
      (pth -> path).  Thanks, Jakub Wilk.  (Closes: #547670)

  * lib/Lintian/Output.pm:
    + [ADB] Import Exporter before Class::Accessor to avoid accidentally
      calling Class::Accessor::import().  Thanks, Niko Tyni.
      (Closes: #547631)
  * lib/Spelling.pm:
    + [RA] Additional spelling corrections from Raphael Geissert.
    + [RA] Return the count of spelling errors and support suppressing the
      tag by passing undef for the tag name so that the spell checking
      functions can be used to test tag descriptions for spelling errors.
      (Closes: #546641)
  
  * reporting/html_reports:
    + [RA] Include all tag types in the qa-list.txt file instead of just
      errors and warnings.  The new order of columns is errors, warnings,
      info tags, pedantic tags, experimental tags, and overridden tags.

 -- Adam D. Barratt <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>  Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:30:33 +0100

lintian (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=low

  The "BTS cleanup" release.

  * Summary of tag changes:
    + Added:
      - build-depends-on-non-build-package
      - desktop-entry-limited-to-environments
      - example-interpreter-in-usr-local (pedantic)
      - example-interpreter-not-absolute
      - example-script-without-interpreter
      - example-script-uses-bin-env
      - example-shell-script-fails-syntax-check (pedantic)
      - example-wrong-path-for-interpreter
      - example-unusual-interpreter (pedantic)
      - global-data-in-games-directory
      - init.d-script-does-not-provide-itself
      - init.d-script-possible-missing-stop
      - init.d-script-provides-virtual-facility
      - init.d-script-should-depend-on-virtual-facility
      - init.d-script-starts-in-stop-runlevel
      - ocaml-custom-executable
  
  * checks/binaries{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Add a new check for OCaml bytecode executables.  Patch from
      Stéphane Glondu.  (Closes: #498138)
    + [RA] Allow ldconfig to be statically linked.
  * checks/changelog-file:
    + [RA] Don't warn about a symlinked changelog file if the version
      contains ubuntu.  Thanks, Benjamin Drung.  (Closes: #536434)
  * checks/common_data.pm:
    + [RA] Moved the essential package list to data/fields.
  * checks/copyright-file:
    + [RA] Use Lintian::Data to read the essential package list.
  * checks/debhelper:
    + [RA] Ignore whitespace when checking debian/compat, since Perl will
      when converting it to a number.  Thanks, Niels Thykier.
      (Closes: #545430)
  * checks/fields{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Exclude base-files from the needlesly-depends-on-awk tag
      and from the warning about depending on a virtual package without
      a real package for the awk virtual package.
    + [RA] Use Lintian::Data to read the essential package list.
    + [RA] Stop allowing unversioned build dependencies on coreutils.  The
      migration from fileutils is long since finished.
    + [RA] Check for build dependencies on packages that should not be
      used for builds.  (Closes: #540594)
    + [RA] Allow architecture-dependent metapackages, since it can be
      useful for metapackages to change dependencies based on the
      architecture.  Thanks, Vagrant Cascadian.  (Closes: #544004)
  * checks/files{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Suppress non-standard-dir-perm for /tmp, /var/tmp, /var/local,
      /var/lock, and /usr/src if they have their normal owner and
      permissions.  This suppresses some Lintian tags for base-files.
    + [RA] Allow base-files to ship /var/backups and /var/local.
    + [RA] Remove swfobject.js from the known packaged Javascript
      libraries.  The version in libjs-yui is old and the new version is
      not packaged.  Thanks, Giuseppe Iuculano.  (Closes: #542046)
    + [RA] Allow t1- and xfonts- as prefixes for font packages since the
      font regex is also looking for Type 1 fonts.  Thanks, Rogério
      Brito.  (Closes: #542389)
    + [RA] Stop looking for *.pcf files outside font packages.  The check
      wasn't triggering since PCF files are always compressed, and the
      situation for PCF font packages is more complex and not suitable for
      the same check.
    + [RA] Add mootools.js to embedded-javascript-library.  Patch from
      Marcelo Jorge Vieira (metal).  (Closes: #545716)
    + [RA] Check for putting data that should be in /usr/share under
      /usr/share/games.  Patch from Raphael Geissert.  (Closes: #534486)
  * checks/init.d{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Add new checks for starting in runlevels 0 and 6, providing a
      virtual facility, not providing a facility matching the script, not
      depending on a virtual facility, and inconsistent stop runlevels.
      Patch from Raphael Geissert.  (Closes: #544221)
  * checks/manpages{,.desc}:
    + [ADB] Add HTTPS to the list of recognised protocols for URLs in manpages
      which should not cause manpage-has-errors-from-man to be emitted.
      (Closes: #543641)
    + [RA] Document the MANWIDTH variable when running man by hand to
      check for man page errors.  (Closes: #542584)
    + [RA] Adjust the exclusion of pod2man's .IX macro for the new
      output format from groff.
  * checks/menu-format{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Add a pointer to desktop-file-validate in many of the tag
      descriptions for desktop tags.  (Closes: #539403)
    + [RA] Mention in the description of desktop-entry-invalid-category
      that whitespace isn't allowed and categories are case-sensitive.
    + [RA] Add a new check for desktop entries that are limited to
      multiple environments.  NotShowIn was probably intended instead.
      Thanks, Andrew Lee.  (Closes: #537737)
  * checks/rules:
    + [RA] Anchor the dh_quilt regex to not trigger on commented-out
      calls.  Patch from Cesare Tirabassi.  (Closes: #543259)
    + [RA] When checking for out-of-order debhelper calls, take into
      account the -p flag and only check within each package.  Thanks,
      Michael Koch.  (Closes: #545219)
  * checks/scripts{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Don't warn about missing dependencies on programs if the
      program invocation is followed by || true.  Thanks, Aurelien Jarno.
      (Closes: #541372)
    + [RA] Permit diversion of a man page as long as the package is
      installing a man page by the same name in the same numeric section,
      even if the specific section is different.  Thanks, Niko Tyni.
      (Closes: #543781)
    + [RA] Check example scripts for most of the same issues as scripts
      elsewhere in the package, but report problems with a different set
      of tags with info or pedantic severity.  Patch from Damyan Ivanov.
      (Closes: #543873)
    + [RA] Add seed.  Thanks, Josselin Mouette.  (Closes: #543779)
    + [RA] Add pike 7.8.  Thanks, Magnus Holmgren.  (Closes: #543262)
  * checks/shared-libs:
    + [RA] Allow ld.so to be executable.  (Closes: #538716)

  * data/fields/essential:
    + [RA] New list of essential packages.
    + [RA] Add dash.  (Closes: #541744)
    + [RA] Add diffutils and remove diff.  (Closes: #544277)
  * data/fields/no-build-depends:
    + [RA] New list of packages that should not be used as build
      dependencies, currently containing only java-propose-classpath.
      Thanks, Josh Triplett.
  * data/files/fonts:
    + [RA] Refresh and include Type 1 fonts and packages as well.

  * lib/Lintian/Collect/Binary.pm:
    + [RA] Stop looking for the special OCaml symbol.  OCaml custom
      binaries are now detected another way.  Patch from Stéphane Glondu.
  * lib/Lintian/Schedule.pm:
    + [RA] If declining to add a duplicate file to the Lintian check
      schedule, return success to avoid a spurious error message.  Patch
      from Raphael Geissert.  (Closes: #542072)
  * lib/Spelling.pm:
    + [RA] Add spelling correction for "aplication."  (Closes: #546404)

  * private/refresh-fonts-data:
    + [RA] To match what checks/files looks for, also look for *.pfb files
      and packages starting with t1-.

  * reporting/{html_reports,templates/clean.tmpl}:
    + [JP] Don't link to full report if the maintainer only has clean
      packages. (Closes: #545781)

 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>  Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:06:01 -0700

lintian (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=low

  The "Policy 3.8.3" release.

  * Summary of tag changes:
    + Added:
      - debhelper-overrides-need-versioned-build-depends
      - maintainer-script-modifies-ld-so-conf
      - missing-dependency-on-install-info
      - multiple-distributions-in-changes-file
      - patch-system-but-no-source-readme
      - package-modifies-ld.so-search-path
      - possible-documentation-but-no-doc-base-registration
    + Removed:
      - file-in-usr-something-x11-without-pre-depends
    + Renamed:
      - build-depends-on-x-metapackage => build-depends-on-metapackage
      - depends-on-x-metapackage => depends-on-metapackage

  * checks/changelog-file.desc:
    + [RA] Document the "Old Changelog" way of marking historic changelog
      entries that shouldn't be syntax-checked in the long description for
      syntax-error-in-debian-changelog.  (Closes: #541119)
  * checks/debconf:
    + [CW] Permit Help: in .templates files, which is supported as of
      cdebconf 0.143 and used in the installer.
  * checks/debhelper{,.desc}:
    + [CW] Check for the use of debhelper override targets, which require
      debhelper 7.0.50.
    + [RA] Don't warn about recently deprecated debhelper commands in
      possibly optional portions of debian/rules.  (Closes: #537607)
    + [RA] Don't warn about missing build dependencies for commands in
      possibly optional portions of debian/rules.  (Closes: #537608)
  * checks/description:
    + [RA] Decode descriptions from UTF-8 before checking length.  Thanks,
      Charles Plessy.  (Closes: #537207)
    + [RA] Avoid duplicated word false positives from words that contain
      punctuation.  Thanks, Nelson A. de Oliveira.  (Closes: #540348)
  * checks/fields{,.desc}:
    + [FL] packages named lib*-camlp4-dev should be in section ocaml
    + [RA] Move debian/rules parsing to check build dependencies to
      checks/rules.
    + [RA] Allow any package to be in section oldlibs without triggering
      warnings.  Thanks, Rene Engelhard.  (Closes: #537606)
    + [RA] Lower wrong-section-according-to-package-name to possible.
    + [RA] Recognize packages as metapackages even if they contain Lintian
      overrides, thus fixing two packages that added a Lintian override
      for having dependencies only permitted for metapackages, which in
      turn ensures that they keep getting that tag.
    + [RA] Recognize packages as metapackages even if they contain files
      in /usr/share/cdd.
    + [RA] Renamed the tags for depending or build-depending on X
      metapackages to make them generic and load the list of metapackages
      from data/fields/metapackages.  Always consider known metapackages
      to be metapackages for the dependency check.
    + [RA] Don't require a tilde after lp: in bzr URLs.  Thanks, Benjamin
      Drung.  (Closes: #541143)
    + [RA] Fix spelling of xfonts-encodings in the xfont dependency
      exception.  (Closes: #540425)
    + [RA] Allow :ext: CVS repository references if the username looks
      like it won't require autentication.  Thanks, Thorsten Glaser.
  * checks/files{,.desc}:
    + [CW] /var/lock and /var/run are not temporary filesystems in d-i, so
      don't emit errors about their use in udebs.
    + [RA] Warn about packages containing files in /etc/ld.so.conf.d that
      don't appear to be part of libc.  Policy 3.8.3 no longer permits
      modification of ld.so.conf.
    + [RA] Remove the check for x11-common pre-depends before installing
      files in /usr/{include,lib}/X11.  Policy 3.8.3 removes this
      requirement.
  * checks/infofiles{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Add missing leading * to example info directory entry.
    + [RA] Check that packages with info files depend on dpkg or
      install-info as recommended by Policy 3.8.3.
  * checks/lintian.desc:
    + [RA] Expand multiple-distributions-in-changes-file description and
      add a reference to the Policy section.  Change certainty to
      possible, since this may be fine for non-Debian uploads.
  * checks/menus{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Add info-level tag for packages with apparent HTML or PDF
      documentation in /usr/share/doc but no doc-base registration.  Based
      on a patch from Raphael Geissert.  (Closes: #469018)
  * checks/patch-systems{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Check for a patch system in use but no debian/README.source.
      Based on a patch from Jonathan Yu.  (Closes: #537969)
  * checks/po-debconf:
    + [CW] Don't emit not-using-po-debconf if all templates are marked "for
      internal use".  (Closes: #492626)
  * checks/rules{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Moved checking of build dependencies based on programs invoked
      in debian/rules from checks/fields to here.
    + [RA] Expand Lintian's understanding of which targets are run for the
      clean target to include targets invoked via pattern variable
      expansion.  (Closes: #536405)
    + [RA] Make the handling of make variables as rule names more robust
      and avoid generating invalid regexes.
    + [RA] Packages including /usr/share/mozilla-devscripts makefile
      fragments in debian/rules must Build-Depend on mozilla-devscripts.
      Thanks, Benjamin Drung.  (Closes: #541144)
  * checks/scripts:
    + [RA] Fix parsing of dpkg-divert commands diverting a file ending in
      a number, followed by a redirection.  Thanks, Andreas Beckmann.
      (Closes: #534942)
    + [RA] Warn about maintainter scripts that modify /etc/ld.so.conf.
      Policy 3.8.3 no longer permits this.
    + [RA] Avoid command-with-path-in-maintainer-script false positives
      with backtick expressions as arguments to commands.  Thanks, Stefan
      Fritsch.  (Closes: #536397)
  * checks/watch-file:
    + [RA] Fix false positives in debian-watch-file-should-mangle-version
      when an upstream version is specified in the watch file and give the
      line number of mangling issues.  Patch from Raphael Geissert.
      (Closes: #536404)

  * data/debhelper/*:
    + [ADB] Refresh against unstable.
  * data/fields/architectures:
    + [RA] Refresh architecture list against dpkg 1.15.3.1, adding avr32
      and kopensolaris.  (Closes: #538055)
  * data/fields/metapackages:
    + [RA] New file listing known metapackages that should not be used in
      Depends or Build-Depends.
    + [RA] Add mono-complete.  (Closes: #538929)
  * data/fields/virtual-packages:
    + [ADB] Refresh against unstable.
  * data/files/fonts:
    + [ADB] Refresh against unstable.
  * data/standards-version/release-dates:
    + [RA] Add the release date for Policy 3.8.3.

  * debian/control:
    + [RA] Update standards version to 3.8.3 (no changes required).

  * frontend/lintian:
    + [RA] Enable multiple-distributions-in-changes-file now that Policy
      documents that this does not work with the Debian archive.
  * frontend/lintian-info:
    + [ADB] Correctly parse Lintian output for pedantic tags.  Thanks, James
      Vega.

  * lib/Spelling.pm:
    + [RA] Add spelling correction for precedence.

  * reporting/html_reports:
    + [JP] Accumulate tag-specific statistics in a new variable, and pass it
      to the appropriate templates.
  * reporting/templates/tags{,-severity}.tmpl:
    + [JP] Remove duplicate code to calculate tag statistics.

  * t/runtests:
    + [RA] Update standards version to 3.8.3.

 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>  Sat, 15 Aug 2009 22:47:44 -0700

lintian (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=low

  The "triggerized install-info" release.

  * Summary of tag changes:
    + Added:
      - install-info-used-in-maintainer-script
      - package-contains-info-dir-file
    + Removed:
      - info-documents-not-removed
      - install-info-not-called-with-quiet-option
      - missing-comma-after-substvar
      - postrm-calls-install-info
      - preinst-calls-install-info

  * checks/control-file{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Rework missing-separator-between-lines to only include two
      specific package stanzas in the extra tag data and not include
      newlines.  Generalize it to also detect missing commas between
      substvars, replacing missing-comma-after-substvar.
  * checks/cruft{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Don't warn about outdated libtool if the package build-depends
      on libtool.  Thanks, Kurt Roeckx.  (Closes: #534134)
    + [RA] Fix typo in *-contains-ht-tags-file description.  Patch from
      Peter Pentchev.  (Closes: #534218)
  * checks/fields:
    + [ADB] If the Debian r-cran makefile include is used in the rules file,
      cdbs, debhelper and r-base-dev are required in Build-Depends.  Thanks,
      Charles Plessy.  (Closes: #534684)
    + [RA] Allow variable settings before ant, dpatch, and dh when
      checking debian/rules for dependencies.  Thanks, Ryan Niebur.
      (Closes: #535432)
  * checks/files{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Allow non-core Python packages to install files into
      /usr/lib/python*/dist-packages, the extension location for Python
      2.6 and later.  Thanks, Julian Andres Klode.  (Closes: #534212)
    + [RA] Check for /usr/share/info/dir files included in the package.
      Thanks, Bas Zoetekouw.  (Closes: #535566)
  * checks/infofiles{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Ignore dir files; they're a different error that's now caught
      by checks/files.
    + [RA] Remove all checking of maintainer scripts, since info dir
      entries are now handled with triggers.  Now always warn of info
      files without INFO-DIR-SECTION, even if install-info were called
      with a --section argument.  Warn of info files without a DIR-ENTRY
      section.  Thanks, Raphaël Hertzog.  (Closes: #534640)
    + [RA] Fix a bug in the detection of bad info file extensions that
      missed extensions containing the string "info".
    + [RA] Improve the long descriptions of tags about compression of info
      documents.
  * checks/init.d:
    + [RA] Take into account dangling symlinks in /etc/init.d.  Patch from
      Raphael Geissert.  (Closes: #534139)
    + [RA] Don't require symlink init scripts to be conffiles and realize
      they are included in the package even if the symlink is dangling.
      Thanks, Steve Langasek.  (Closes: #534326)
  * checks/manpages:
    + [RA] Don't warn about hyphens used as minus signs inside draft mode,
      since \- cannot be used there.  Based on a patch by Gennaro Oliva.
      (Closes: #535308)
  * checks/patch-systems:
    + [RA] Don't include the package name as extra data in tags that are
      only issued for source packages.  Patch from Raphael Geissert.
  * checks/scripts{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Lower certainty of read-in-maintainer-script to possible and
      mention false positives.  Thanks, Raphaël Hertzog.  (Closes: #534276)
    + [RA] Allow for output redirection when parsing diversions in
      maintainer scripts.  Thanks, Andreas Beckmann.  (Closes: #534942)
    + [ADB] Detect the use of the "source" bashism when the sourced filename
      contains a tilde or consists of a single character.  Thanks, Raphael
      Geissert and Ryan Niebur.
    + [RA] Avoid a false positive in the bashism check for trap with
      signal numbers when the the trap command contains a number.  Thanks,
      Julien Cristau.  (Closes: #534580)
    + [RA] Check for any maintainer script running install-info, since
      this is now handled with triggers.
  * checks/watch-file:
    + [RA] Use a consistent way of displaying the line number of a problem.

  * collection/strings:
    + [ADB] Handle the fact that, when Lintian is run as root, the output of
      "file" on set[gu]id files may include the fact that they are set[gu]id.
      Thanks, Peter Pentchev.  (Closes: #533618)

  * lib/Read_pkglists.pm:
    + [RA] Increment the package list format and expect the archive area
      as an additional argument.  Patch from Raphael Geissert.
  * lib/Spelling.pm:
    + [RA] Add changes misspelling.
    + [RA] Fix correction for endianness.  Thanks, Raphael Geissert.
      (Closes: #535582)
    + [RA] Only strip most punctuation from the end of each word, not from
      anywhere in the string.  We don't want to strip the period from
      res.size.  Thanks, Zack Weinberg.  (Closes: #534234)
  * lib/Tags.pm:
    + [RA] Replace all newlines in tag data with \n, not just the first.
      (Closes: #534141)

  * man/lintian.1:
    + [RA] The archive area may be a comma-separated list of areas.  Patch
      from Raphael Geissert.

  * private/update-coverage:
    + [RA] Provide a breakdown of tags only covered in the legacy test
      suite by test name.

  * reporting/html_reports:
    + [RA] Change area back to section in the loop for generating the
      package index pages to be consistent with the page template.
    + [RA] Allow for multiple archive areas in the front page summary.
    + [RA] Add the archive area to the tag information.
  * reporting/templates/maintainer.tmpl:
    + [RA] Include the archive area in the source package heading if it's
      not main.  Include the archive area in the binary package heading if
      it's different than the source package archive area.

  * unpack/list-{bin,src,udeb}pkg:
    + [RA] Collect information from multiple archive areas and include the
      archive area in the package list.  Patch from Raphael Geissert.
      (Closes: #516530)

 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>  Thu, 09 Jul 2009 09:11:14 -0700

lintian (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=low

  The "Policy 3.8.2" release.
  
  * Summary of tag changes:
    + Added:
      - debug-symbols-directly-in-usr-lib-debug
      - dh_desktop-is-deprecated
      - dh_scrollkeeper-is-deprecated
      - file-in-discouraged-x11-font-directory
      - file-in-unknown-x11-font-directory
      - init.d-script-sourcing-without-test
      - init.d-script-uses-usr-interpreter
      - missing-separator-between-items
      - package-contains-multiple-dpi-fonts
      - package-mixes-misc-and-dpi-fonts
    + Removed:
      - missing-comma-between-items
      
  * checks/binaries{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Diagnose installing detached debugging symbols directly in
      /usr/lib/debug instead of in an appropriate subdirectory.  Patch
      from Raphael Geissert.  (Closes: #532394)
  * checks/control-file{,.desc}:
    + [ADB] Allow both comma and pipe as valid separators between items when
      detecting whether a separator has been omitted.  As a consequence,
      rename the missing-comma-between-items tag to the more descriptive
      missing-separator-between-items.  Based on a patch by Rafael
      Laboissiere.  (Closes: #533202)
    + [RA] Allow a newline immediately after the field name, since this
      does work with fields that can be wrapped (such as Build-Depends).
      Thanks, Stephane Glondu.  (Closes: #528377)
  * checks/debhelper{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Issue package-lacks-versioned-build-depends-on-debhelper always
      if the debhelper dependency isn't properly versioned, not just for
      compat levels newer than 5.  (Closes: #522384)
    + [RA] Warn about dh_desktop calls since the command is now
      deprecated.   Thanks, Nelson A. de Oliveira.  (Closes: #531164)
    + [RA] Include the line number in deprecated and obsolete dh_* command
      tags.
    + [ADB] Warn about dh_scrollkeeper calls since the command is now
      deprecated.
  * checks/fields{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Update source-field-malformed to serious and don't allow
      capital letters in source package names.  Check source package names
      for validity even when checking only source packages to be sure the
      package name is syntactically valid.
    + [RA] Permit quilt in Build-Depends for arch-independent packages if
      dh_quilt_* programs are called in the clean target.  Thanks, Daniel
      Moerner.  (Closes: #528003)
    + [RA] If one of the gnome-pkg-tools makefile fragments is included,
      gnome-pkg-tools is allowed and required in Build-Depends.  Thanks,
      Emilio Pozuelo Monfort.  (Closes: #532892)
  * checks/files{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Diagnose files installed into discouraged or unknown
      subdirectories of /usr/share/fonts/X11 per Policy 11.8.5.
    + [RA] Diagnose packages including both 100dpi and 75dpi fonts or
      mixing misc and Xdpi fonts.
  * checks/init.d{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Also check unregistered init scripts for other syntax problems.
      Patch from Raphael Geissert.
    + [RA] Don't think required init.d options are implemented just
      because they occur in a comment.  Patch from Raphael Geissert.
    + [RA] Diagnose init scripts sourcing /etc/default files without
      checking first whether they're present.  Patch from Raphael
      Geissert.  (Closes: #533571)
    + [RA] Diagnose init scripts that use interpreters in /usr.  Patch
      from Raphael Geissert.
  * checks/menus{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Read menu-methods files from the collected location instead of
      the unpacked binary package and change the unpack level of menus to
      1.  Patch from Raphael Geissert.
  * checks/scripts{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Per Policy 3.8.2, read-in-maintainer-script is now of serious
      severity.
    + [RA] Catch obsolete dpkg checks in more contexts.
    + [RA] Check for invocations of fc-cache in maintainer scripts.
      Thanks, Josselin Mouette.  (Closes: #532984)
    + [RA] Catch more commands with paths in maintainer scripts.  Thanks,
      Raphael Geissert.

  * collection/menu-files{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Collect menu-methods as well as menu files.  Refactor to remove
      code duplication.  Patch from Raphael Geissert.

  * data/standards-version/release-dates:
    + [RA] Add the release date for Policy 3.8.2.

  * debian/control:
    + [RA] Update standards version to 3.8.2 (no changes required).

  * t/runtests:
    + [RA] Update standards version to 3.8.2.

 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>  Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:19:03 -0700

lintian (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=low

  * Summary of tag changes:
    + Added:
      - missing-comma-between-items
      - non-conf-file-in-modprobe.d
      - non-free-flash
      - section-area-mismatch
    + Removed:
      - section-category-mismatch

  * checks/binaries{,.desc}:
    + [ADB] Extend the description of spelling-error-in-binary to mention
      that misspelt words are always output in lower case, and give some
      suggestions for finding the error oneself.  Thanks, Raphael Geissert
      and Paul Gevers.  (Closes: #526435)
    + [RA] Downgrade certainty of tags for which we recommend overrides.
      Patch from Raphael Geissert.  (Closes: #530008)
    + [ADB] Don't consider an 64-bit kernel module shipped in a binary
      package for the corresponding 32-bit architecture to be "from other
      architecture".  (Closes: #532013)
    + [ADB] When checking for binaries which define rpaths, don't exclude
      rpaths of /lib and /usr/lib, even if the directory is shipped by the
      package.  (Closes: #532508)
  * checks/control-file{,.desc}:
    + [ADB] Refer to main, contrib and non-free as archive areas rather
      than categories.
    + [ADB] Rename section-category-mismatch to section-area-mismatch.
    + [ADB] Update the description of section-area-mismatch to clarify
      that source packages in main may build binary packages in contrib.
    + [RA] Skip duplicate description checks for udeb packages.  Thanks,
      Thijs Kinkhorst.  (Closes: #529924)
    + [ADB] Warn about missing spaces between items in a control file which
      have been omitted when spanning the dependency line over multiple
      lines.  Based on a patch by Damyan Ivanov.  (Closes: #516706)
  * checks/cruft{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Downgrade certainty of tags for which we recommend overrides.
      Patch from Raphael Geissert.
    + [RA] When looking for tar errors from dpkg-source, ignore gpgv
      output as well as gpg output.  (Closes: #533116)
  * checks/debhelper.desc:
    + [ADB] Correct Unpack-Level to 1.  Thanks, Raphael Geissert.
  * checks/fields{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Allow python << dependencies without Python-Version if the
      package depends on python-support, which doesn't use the
      Python-Version field.  Adjust the long description of
      old-versioned-python-dependency to make it clearer it only applies
      to python-central.  Thanks, Bernd Zeimetz.  (Closes: #525997)
    + [ADB] Refer to contrib and non-free as "archive areas" rather than
      distributions.
    + [ADB] Accept Architecture fields in .dsc files which contain both
      "all" and one or more binary architectures.  (Closes: #530565)
    + [ADB] If a ruby-pkg-tools make include is used in a rules file,
      require a build-dependency on that package.  Patch by Ryan Niebur.
      (Closes: #532837)
    + [ADB] Replace a misplaced "build-depends" with the correct "depends"
      in the description of the "missing-build-dependency" tag.  Patch by
      Ryan Niebur.  (Closes: #532838)
  * checks/files{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Downgrade symlink-has-double-slash and symlink-ends-with-slash
      to minor.  These are violations of a Policy should, but are unlikely
      to cause practical problems.  (Closes: #527843)
    + [RA] Explain in the symlink-contains-spurious-segments description
      that these segments can cause problems in the presence of symlinked
      directories.
    + [RA] Downgrade certainty of tags for which we recommend overrides.
      Patch from Raphael Geissert.
    + [ADB] Add a new tag indicating that the filename of a Flash file
      it may be a known non-free file.  Patch by Raphael Geissert.
      (Closes: #516250)
    + [ADB] Check for files in /etc/modprobe.d with filenames which do not
      end in ".conf".  Based on a patch by Raphael Geissert.
      (Closes: #521595)
  * checks/manpages:
    + [ADB] Remove support for detecting whether man supports the --warnings
      flag.  The version of man shipped in lenny supports it so the
      compatibility code is no longer required.
  * checks/menu{s,-format}.desc:
    + [ADB] Correct Unpack-Level to 2.  Thanks, Raphael Geissert.
  * checks/po-debconf.desc:
    + [ADB] Correct Unpack-Level to 1.  Thanks, Raphael Geissert.
  * checks/scripts:
    + [ADB] Do not include an empty alternative in the list of suggested
      dependencies for an interpreter when the interpreter may be
      unversioned but the dependency may not.  For example, pikeX.Y provide
      /usr/bin/pike and /usr/bin/pikeX.Y but there is no "pike" package.
    + [ADB] Add ksh and zsh to the list of packages providing the /bin/ksh
      alternative.  Thanks, Guillaume Delacour.  (Closes: #529457)
    + [ADB] Detect shellscript wrappers which embed a call to "exec" in a
      conditional statement.  Thanks, Raphael Geissert.
    + [ADB] Fix a syntax error in the shellscript wrapper detection that lead
      to it returning a part of the wrapper script rather than a simple
      success value.
    + [ADB] Remove "\\" from the list of unsafe backslash escapes in the
      shell script checks.  POSIX does not prohibit its use and it works in
      all shells in Debian.
    + [RA] Add escript to the list of known interpreters.  Thanks, Nicholas
      Jefferson.  (Closes: #532158)
  * checks/shared-libs.desc:
    + [RA] Downgrade certainty of tags for which we recommend overrides.
      Patch from Raphael Geissert.

  * data/debhelper/{dh_commands,dh_packages,maint_commands}:
    + [ADB] Refresh against unstable.  (Closes: #530622)
  * data/fields/{perl-provides,virtual-packages}:
    + [ADB] Refresh against unstable.
  * data/files/fonts:
    + [ADB] Refresh against unstable.

  * debian/control:
    + [ADB] Depend on libapt-pkg-perl.
  * debian/rules:
    + [ADB] Re-order the commands in the runtests target so that the
      "new style" testset is run first, as it now also tests the harness.
      Thanks, Raphael Geissert.

  * frontend/lintian:
    + [ADB] Rename the --section command line option to --area in line
      with Policy's use of the term "archive area" to describe main, etc.
      Also rename the corresponding environment and configuration file
      variables.  In each case, the original name is permitted as a
      synonym.
    + [ADB] Reset the timezone in the environment before running any
      tests so that tar's "implausibly old timestamp" errors use a
      consistent epoch.  Thanks, Raphael Geissert.

  * lib/Lintian/*.pm:
    + [ADB] Fix a few errors and add missing example variable declarations
      in POD synopsis example sections.  Patch by Raphael Geissert.
  * lib/Lintian/Relation/Version.pm:
    + [ADB] Rework to use libapt-pkg-perl rather than calling "dpkg
      --compare-versions" repeatedly and keeping a potentially large
      cache of previous results.
  * lib/Lintian/Schedule.pm:
    + [ADB] Correctly display package versions of 0 in status messages.
      (Closes: #532550)
  * lib/scan_script.pl:
    + [RA] Removed.  A start at parsing shell scripts that was never
      finished and wasn't usable in its current form.
  * lib/Spelling.pm:
    + [ADB] Add a number of new corrections from Raphael Geissert.
      (Closes: #526019)

  * man/lintian.1:
    + [ADB] Document the new --area command line option and update the
      documentation of --section to indiciate that it is deprecated in
      favour of the new option.

  * private/refresh-debhelper-data:
    + [ADB] Update the contents file parsing to handle the fact that
      there are now section names containing hyphens.
    + [ADB] Use LC_ALL=C to preserve sort order regardless of the user's
      locale.
  * private/refresh-fonts-data:
    + [ADB] Use LC_ALL=C to preserve sort order.
  * private/refresh-perl-provides:
    + [ADB] Special-case libio-compress-zlib-perl to account for the fact
      that it does not contain IO::Compress::Zlib.  Patch by Niko Tyni.
      (Closes: #528744)

  * reporting/config:
    + [ADB] Use $LINTIAN_AREA rather than $LINTIAN_SECTION in the default
      configuration file.
  * reporting/harness:
    + [ADB] Use the new $LINTIAN_AREA variable to determine which packages
      to process.
    + [RA] Include pedantic tags in lintian.log, but don't report them on
      the web site.  Patch from Raphael Geissert.
  * reporting/html_reports:
    + [ADB] Use the new $LINTIAN_AREA variable to determine which archive
      area we are generating reports for, and pass it through to templates
      where relevant.
  * reporting/templates/index.tmpl:
    + [ADB] Modify the statistics table to refer to archive area rather
      than section.

  * t/runtests:
    + [ADB] Run the test scripts before all other tests as they now test
      some fundamentals which are required to pass in order for the harness
      itself to work.  Thanks, Raphael Geissert.
    + [RA] Run prove recursively in the scripts directory.
    + [RA] Skip scripts tests if a tag was specified.  Patch from Raphael
      Geissert.
  * t/scripts/minimum-version.t:
    + [ADB] New script by Raphael Geissert to ensure that all our scripts
      can run with Perl 5.8.0.
  * t/scripts/needs-info.t:
    + [ADB] Renamed to needs-info-exists.t.
  * t/scripts/needs-info-missing.t:
    + [ADB] New script by Raphael Geissert to check whether scripts using
      Lintian::Collect{,::*} declare the required collection scripts in
      Use-Info.
  * t/scripts/pod-synopsis.t:
    + [ADB] New script by Raphael Geissert to ensure that example code in
      module's POD synopsis section is valid.
  * t/scripts/{static-lab,tags}.t:
    + [ADB] New test scripts splitting some of the "harness checking" out
      of the runtests script.  Patch by Raphael Geissert.
  * t/scripts/strict.t:
    + [ADB] New script by Raphael Geissert to check that all our scripts
      "use strict".
  * t/scripts/unpack-level.t:
    + [ADB] New script by Raphael Geissert to check that all checks scripts
      declare the correct unpack level.
  * t/scripts/version.t:
    + [ADB] New script to test Lintian::Relation::Version.
  * t/tests/lintian-overrides:
    + [ADB] New testset for the {malformed,unused}-override tags.  Patch by
      Raphael Geissert.

  * unpack/list-{bin,src,udeb}pkg:
    + [ADB] Use the new $LINTIAN_AREA variable to determine which package
      list to read.

 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>  Sun, 14 Jun 2009 18:40:18 -0700

lintian (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low

  The "do something useful with tar errors, plus bug fixes" release.

  * Summary of tag changes:
    + Added:
      - ancient-autotools-helper-file
      - tar-errors-from-control
      - tar-errors-from-data
      - tar-errors-from-source
    + Removed:
      - desktop-mimetype-without-update-call
      - package-uses-breaks

  * checks/conffiles:
    + [RA] Fix a false negative in duplicate-conffile by improving
      normalization of conffiles before comparing and restructure the
      check a bit.  Patch from Raphael Geissert.
  * checks/cruft{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Split outdated-autotools-helper-file into ancient- and
      outdated-, preserving the 2004 date for ancient and checking for at
      least June of 2006 for outdated.  The latter is needed for AVR32.
      Thanks, Bradley Smith.  (Closes: #525280)
    + [RA] Set certainty for ancient- and outdated-autotools-helper-file
      to possible instead of certain.  Some packages contain extra copies
      that aren't used during the Debian package build.
    + [RA] Document that cdbs still requires the autotools-dev build
      dependency to update config.{sub,guess} at build time.
    + [RA] Report errors from tar or dpkg-source when listing or unpacking
      the source package, skipping and suppressing some harmless errors.
  * checks/deb-format{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Report tar errors from listing or unpacking the control or data
      members of the package, suppressing uninteresting errors or errors
      that are caught some other way.  (Closes: #367327)
    + [CW] Ubuntu's archive allows packages whose data members are
      compressed with lzma.
  * checks/etcfiles.desc:
    + [RA] Remove unused Needs-Info: etcfiles.  Thanks, Raphael Geissert.
  * checks/fields{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Remove package-uses-breaks.  dpkg in stable now supports it.
      Thanks, Julian Andres Klode.  (Closes: #522660)
    + [RA] Fix Needs-Info.  Thanks, Raphael Geissert.
  * checks/files{,.desc}
    + [ADB] Anchor the regular expression for the "gz-file-not-gzip" tag so
      that files with names that contain ".gz" but do not end in that string
      are not flagged.  Patch by Raphael Geissert.  (Closes: #523352)
    + [RA] Remove desc for removed possible-name-space-pollution tag.
  * checks/manpages.desc:
    + [RA] Remove desc for removed no-manpage-in-correct-directory tag.
  * checks/menu-format{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Remove desktop-mimetype-without-update-call.  This is now
      handled by triggers.  Thanks, Chow Loong Jin.  (Closes: #525133)
    + [RA] Remove desc for removed menu-item-adds-to-root-menu tag.
  * checks/patch-systems.desc:
    + [RA] Mention that empty dpatch patch lists or quilt series files
      will disappear in a non-native source package and hence produce the
      warning about a missing file.  (Closes: #525005)
  * checks/scripts{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Handle command delimiters, $() expressions, and braces and
      parentheses in the checks for correct diversion handling.  Patch
      from Raphael Geissert.  (Closes: #523708)
    + [RA] Clarify the php-script-but-no-phpX-cli-dep description to
      explain why it warns about a php4-cli dependency.  (Closes: #525484)
    + [RA] Add jruby1.2 and allow an unversioned jruby reference.  Thanks,
      Sebastien Delafond.  (Closes: #523001)
  * checks/shared-libs{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Strip trailing slashes from the libdir path in *.la files
      before checking it for correctness.  Thanks, Patrick Matthäi.
      (Closes: #524228)
    + [RA] Special-case *.la files for Python modules installed in
      /usr/share/pyshared, since they're moved during install.  Thanks,
      Jonas Smedegaard.  (Closes: #522623)
    + [RA] Requires unpack level 2 to read the *.la files.
  * checks/standards-version.desc:
    + [ADB] Fix a couple of spelling mistakes ("verison" -> "version").
      Thanks, Guillaume Delacour.  (Closes: #522643)

  * collection/file-info:
    + [ADB] Call "file" with "--" to ensure that any filenames in the package
      that start with "-" aren't interpreted as options to "file".  Thanks,
      Trent W. Buck.  (Closes: #523408)
  * collection/strings:
    + [RA] Make strings gathering on ELF binaries robust against file
      names containing "ELF" or a colon.  Patch from Raphael Geissert.

  * doc/desc-files:
    + [ADB] Mention the new Standards-Version field available for tests.
      Patch by Raphael Geissert.

  * frontend/lintian:
    + [RA] Stop reporting $! when unpack scripts fail.  It will almost
      never contain anything useful.
    + [RA] Move override parsing to the Tags module.  Patch from Raphael
      Geissert.

  * lib/Lintian/Collect/Binary.pm:
    + [CW] Add missing 'use Parse::DebianChangelog'.
  * lib/Lintian/Output.pm:
    + [RA] With --color=html, display the HTML rendering of the long tag
      description rather than the text version and escape HTML
      metacharacters in the tag information.  Patch from Raphael Geissert.
      (Closes: #522527)
  * lib/Lintian/Relation.pm:
    + [ADB] Fix a spelling mistake ("verison" -> "version").  Thanks,
      Guillaume Delacour.
  * lib/Spelling.pm:
    + [RA] Add spelling correction for "verison".
  * lib/Tags.pm:
    + [RA] Add a function to parse overrides, moved from frontend/lintian.
      Patch from Raphael Geissert.

  * t/runtests:
    + [ADB] Allow a default Policy version to be specified in template files.
      This avoids the need to update every test each time a new Policy version
      is released, unless one specifically wishes to keep a particular test
      using an older version.  Patch by Raphael Geissert.
    + [ADB] Use extended regular expressions in "post_test" sed scripts.
      Patch by Raphael Geissert.
  * t/tests/README:
    + [ADB] Mention the new Standards-Version field available for tests.
      Patch by Raphael Geissert.

  * unpack/unpack-binpkg-l1:
    + [RA] Save control unpack errors in control-errors, control listing
      errors in control-index-errors, and package listing errors in
      index-errors for later processing by deb-format.  (Closes: #522530)
  * unpack/unpack-binpkg-l2:
    + [RA] Save data unpack errors in unpacked-errors for later processing
      by deb-format.
  * unpack/unpack-srcpkg-l1:
    + [RA] Save source listing errors in index-errors for later processing
      by cruft.  Don't fail the unpack if tar exits with non-zero status.
      star-created archives will cause tar to blow up, but the listing
      and unpacking still works.
  * unpack/unpack-srcpkg-l2:
    + [RA] Save source unpack errors in unpacked-errors for later
      processing by cruft.

 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>  Mon, 27 Apr 2009 19:28:02 -0700

lintian (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low

  * Summary of tag changes:
    + Added:
       - wrong-section-according-to-package-name
       - vcs-field-uses-not-recommended-uri-format
       - vcs-field-uses-unknown-uri-format
    + Removed:
       - dev-package-should-be-section-libdevel
       - doc-package-should-be-section-doc
       - perl-package-should-be-section-perl
       - python-package-should-be-section-python
  
  * checks/deb-format.desc:
    + [RA] In the tag description, the first required element should be
      debian-binary, not debian-control.  Thanks, Judit Foglszinger.
      (Closes: #521012)
  * checks/fields{,.desc}:
    + [FL] Update list of valid sections.  (Closes: #521782)
    + [RA] Fix dbg-package-missing-depends check when the dependency is
      followed by a comma.  (Closes: #520640)
    + [FL] Add package name checks for the new sections.  Move all package
      section checks to one tag "wrong-section-according-to-package-name"
      instead of one tag per section.
    + [FL] Add checks for well formatted Vcs-* fields.  (Closes: #517635)
  * checks/lintian.desc:
    + [CW] Add karmic as an allowable distribution for Ubuntu (thanks, Soren
      Hansen).
  * checks/scripts:
    + [RA] Fix a hash collision that could suppress a correct
      remove-of-unknown-diversion tag if the diversion was removed in
      multiple maintainer scripts including postrm.
    + [RA] Handle variables in maintainer scripts when adding and removing
      diversions.  Patch from Raphael Geissert.  (Closes: #519268)
  * checks/shared-libs:
    + [RA] Correctly handle SONAMEs in symbols files that contain regex
      metacharacters like +.  Thanks, Daniel Kobras.  (Closes: #521621)

  * collection/file-info:
    + [RA] Use chomp instead of chop to remove newlines.
    + [RA] Ignore error returns from file.  file returns non-zero if it
      can't parse some files, but the resulting output is still fine for
      Lintian's purposes.  Thanks to Raphael Geissert for the problem
      identification.  (Closes: #521257)

  * data/changelog-file/ubuntu-dists:
    + [CW] Add karmic as an allowable distribution for Ubuntu (thanks, Soren
      Hansen).

  * debian/rules:
    + [RA] Remove and recreate debian/tests before runtests or check-tag to
      avoid spurious test failures from lingering old files.

  * frontend/lintian:
    + [RA] Belatedly bump the lab format version for many recent changes.

  * lib/Lintian/Command.pm:
    + [RA] In kill, initialize the result status and use &&= instead of |=.
      Partly addresses #521257.

  * unpack/unpack-srcpkg-l1:
    + [RA] Better anchor the regexes that parse the file list in a source
      package.

 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>  Fri, 03 Apr 2009 11:49:06 -0700

lintian (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=low

  The "Policy 3.8.1" release.

  * Summary of tag changes:
    + Added
      - dir-or-file-in-var-lock
      - dir-or-file-in-var-run

  * checks/changelog-file.desc:
    + [RA] Using UTF-8 is now a Policy must and hence serious.
  * checks/control-file.desc:
    + [RA] Using UTF-8 is now a Policy must and hence serious.
  * checks/files{,.desc}:
    + [CW] Emit dir-or-file-in-var-lock or dir-or-file-in-var-run, as
      appropriate, for packages shipping directories or files in /var/lock
      or /var/run. See policy bug #514326.
  * checks/menus{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Revert the change to not require update-menus in postinst.
      This is still needed due to #518919.  Don't require update-menus in
      postrm for regular menu files, only for menu-methods, but also don't
      warn if it's present.  (Closes: #519300)
  * checks/scripts:
    + [RA] Policy allows scripts to assume that /bin/sh supports local
      with simple variable assignments.
    + [ADB] Check all added and removed diversions at once rather than
      as each maintainer script is processed.  This avoids differing
      results and false positives if the postrm is processed before other
      maintainer scripts.  (Closes: #518966)

  * data/debhelper/*:
    + [RA] Refresh against unstable.
  * data/fields/virtual-packages:
    + [RA] Refresh against unstable.
  * data/files/fonts:
    + [RA] Refresh against unstable.
  * data/output/manual-references:
    + [RA] Refresh reference data against Policy 3.8.1, doc-base 0.9.1,
      and developers-reference 3.4.1.
  * data/standards-version/release-dates:
    + [RA] Add release date for 3.8.1.

  * debian/control:
    + [RA] Update to standards version 3.8.1.

  * lib/Dep.pm:
    + [RA] Remove, replaced with Lintian::Relation.
  * lib/Lintian/Collect/Binary.pm:
    + [RA] Fix POD errors.
  * lib/Lintian/Collect/Source.pm:
    + [RA] Fix POD errors.
  * lib/Lintian/Command.pm:
    + [RA] Fix POD errors.

  * private/refresh-debhelper-data:
    + [RA] Remove symlinks as a (possibly temporary) workaround to
      packages that contain broken links to dh_* commands.
    + [RA] Exclude dh_gencontrol from debhelper commands that set
      ${misc:Depends} since it only sets it to empty when not already
      set.
  * private/refresh-fonts-data:
    + [RA] Correctly handle not specifying a Contents file on the command
      line.

  * t/runtests:
    + [RA] Add support for running test scripts under t/scripts via prove
      (the standard Perl test harness).

 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>  Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:50:58 -0700

lintian (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low

  The "debhelper 7.2.3 and lots of fiddly infrastructure fixes" release.

  * Summary of tag changes:
    + Added
      - apparently-truncated-elf-binary
      - copyright-refers-to-nonexistent-license-file
      - debian-control-has-unusual-field-spacing (pedantic)
      - diversion-for-unknown-file
      - embedded-zlib
      - gz-file-not-gzip
      - incorrect-libdir-in-la-file
      - orphaned-diversion
      - package-uses-local-diversion
      - remove-of-unknown-diversion
    + Removed
      - description-synopsis-has-leading-spaces
      - postinst-does-not-call-installdocs
      - prerm-does-not-call-installdocs

  * checks/binaries{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Check for embedded copies of zlib in ELF binaries by looking
      for the inflate and deflate copyright strings.  Patch from Raphael
      Geissert.  (Closes: #318104)
    + [RA] Avoid capturing parentheses in regexes due to their minor
      performance penalty.  Patch from Raphael Geissert.
    + [RA] Report apparently truncated ELF binaries separately from
      apparently corrupted ones.  The current binutils now distinguishes.
      Patch from Raphael Geissert.  (Closes: #517778)
    + [RA] Allow i386 binaries in amd64 packages for right now.  Thanks,
      Paul Wise.  (Closes: #516856)
    + [RA] Suggest, when fixing spelling errors in binaries, that one
      unfuzzy gettext translations as well.  Thanks, Raphael Geissert.
  * checks/changelog-file:
    + [RA] Avoid capturing parentheses in regexes due to their minor
      performance penalty.  Patch from Raphael Geissert.
    + [RA] Correctly handle changelog.gz files that aren't compressed with
      gzip.  Patch from Raphael Geissert.
  * checks/common_data.pm:
    + [RA] Move all information used only in one check script from here to
      the relevant check script.  Patch from Raphael Geissert.
  * checks/control-file{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Add pedantic tag for weird spacing after the colon of a field.
  * checks/copyright-file{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Avoid capturing parentheses in regexes due to their minor
      performance penalty.  Patch from Raphael Geissert.
    + [RA] Avoid false positive for versionless license files when the
      file is referred to without a hyphen; instead, issue a separate tag
      that explains the problem.  Based on a patch from Raphael Geissert.
      (Closes: #517191)
    + [RA] Allow commas between the GFDL license name and version when
      suppressing false positives for the 1.1 version.  Thanks, Aurelien
      Jarno.  (Closes: #516687)
    + [RA] Don't warn about versionless GPL references if the word version
      appears nowhere in the copyright file.
  * checks/debconf:
    + [ADB] Use Lintian::Relation rather than Dep.
  * checks/debhelper{,.desc}:
    + [ADB] Use Lintian::Relation rather than Dep.
    + [RA] Add dh_bugfiles to version requirements, added in 7.2.3.
    + [RA] debhelper compatibility level V4 is now deprecated.
  * checks/description{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Remove description-synopsis-has-leading-spaces.  Policy
      explicitly says this is not a bug.  Adjust for the changes to Util
      that preserve leading whitespace in continued fields.
  * checks/fields:
    + [RA] Precompile constant regexes with qr.  Patch from Raphael
      Geissert.
    + [RA] Load Lintian::Data objects only once.  Patch from Raphael
      Geissert.  Also use all caps for global variables.
    * [RA] Move data from common_data.pm to here and use Lintian::Data to
      get the list of known architectures.  Patch from Raphael Geissert.
  * checks/files{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Avoid capturing parentheses in regexes due to their minor
      performance penalty.  Patch from Raphael Geissert.
    + [RA] Precompile constant regexes with qr and only load the list of
      font packages if needed.  Patch from Raphael Geissert.
    + [RA] Warn about yui-*.js as well as yahoo-*.js.  Patch from Raphael
      Geissert.
    + [ADB] Use Lintian::Relation instead of Dep.
    + [RA] magpierss was renamed to libphp-magpierss.  Patch from Marcelo
      Jorge Vieira (metal).  (Closes: #518684)
    + [RA] Diagnose files ending in *.gz that aren't compressed with
      gzip.  Patch from Raphael Geissert.  (Closes: #518873)
    + [RA] Simplify some checks now that we're guaranteed leading and
      trailing whitespace will be stripped from field values.
  * checks/manpages:
    + [CW] Run man with '-E UTF-8' to avoid producing bogus warnings on
      localised manual pages due to attempting to recode through ASCII.
    + [RA] Set MANWIDTH to 80 in the environment when running man to force
      it to assume 80-column lines even when Lintian is run in a smaller
      window.  Thanks, Joey Hess.  (Closes: #517629)
    + [ADB] Use Lintian::Relation::Version when determining whether the
      installed version of man supports the --warnings option.
  * checks/menus:
    + [RA] Cache the reference to the section list.  Thanks, Raphael
      Geissert.  Also use all caps for global variables.
    + [RA] Move known doc-base formats from common_data.pm to here.  Patch
      from Raphael Geissert.
    + [RA] Explicit update-menus calls in postinst and postrm are no
      longer required unless menu-methods are installed.  Thanks, Eric
      Lavarde.  (Closes: #518712)
    + [RA] Explicit install-docs calls are no longer needed since doc-base
      registration is done with triggers.  (Closes: #518801)
  * checks/nmu:
    + [RA] Calculate the regex for Ubuntu distributions only once.
  * checks/patch-systems:
    + [ADB] Use Lintian::Relation instead of Dep.
  * checks/rules:
    + [ADB] Remove some obsolete code and therefore stop use-ing Dep.
  * checks/scripts:
    + [ADB] Use Lintian::Relation rather than Dep.
    + [ADB] Update lists of known interpreter versions (add jruby1.1,
      octave3.1 and remove jruby0.9)
    + [RA] Diagnose various problems with creating and removing
      diversions.  Based on a patch by Jörg Sommer.  (Closes: #516221)
  * checks/shared-libs{,.desc}:
    + [ADB] When parsing symbols files, correctly ensure that meta-information
      occurs between the end of the dependency template(s) and the start of
      the symbol list.  The code that was intended to check this resulted
      in a false positive syntax error being generated if a file with
      alternative dependency templates used meta-information.
    + [ADB] Extend the parsing of dependency templates in symbols files to
      handle ORed dependencies.
    + [ADB] Use Lintian::Relation rather than Dep.
    + [ADB] Avoid capturing parentheses in regexes due to their minor
      performance penalty.
    + [RA] Check the libdir path in libtool *.la files and ensure that it
      matches the installed location of the *.la file.  Based on a patch
      by Raphael Geissert.  (Closes: #302196)
  * checks/version-substvars:
    + [RA] Be robust against whitespace in the Architecture field.
      Thanks, Gonéri Le Bouder.  (Closes: #517555)

  * collection/*.desc:
    + [RA] Remove the output key and instead add a version key.  Patch
      from Raphael Geissert.
  * collection/changelog-file:
    + [RA] Remove the remains of a previous run before starting.
  * collection/diffstat:
    + [RA] Remove the remains of a previous run before starting.
  * collection/objdump-info:
    + [RA] Recognize truncated binaries.  Patch from Raphael Geissert.
  * collection/source-control-file:
    + [RA] Remove the remains of a previous run before starting.

  * debian/control:
    + [CW] Depend on man-db (>= 2.4.0) for '-E UTF-8'.

  * data/fields/architectures:
    + [RA] Replace the runtime-generated list of known architectures with
      this data file, built from the current dpkg files.  Patch from
      Raphael Geissert.

  * doc/desc-files:
    + [RA] Document new Version field for collect scripts and remove
      Output field.  Document pedantic severity for tags.  Document
      Sequence, Options, and Skeleton for test suite descriptions.
      Thanks, Raphael Geissert.
  * doc/lintian.sgml:
    + [RA] Document pendantic tags.  Patch from Raphael Geissert.

  * frontend/lintian:
    + [RA] Stop loading FileHandle.  We no longer use it.
    + [RA] Run all the collect scripts within a given order in parallel.
      Patch from Raphael Geissert.
    + [RA] Create marker files in the laboratory for each collect script
      that has successfully including its current version number.  Use
      these marker files rather than the existence of output files to
      determine when to run collect scripts.  Re-run collect scripts if
      the current version doesn't match what's in the lab.  Patch from
      Raphael Geissert.  (Closes: #517650)
    + [RA] Add oldstable to the known distributions for *.changes files.

  * lib/Lintian/Collect/Binary.pm:
    + [RA] Recognize truncated binaries.  Patch from Raphael Geissert.
  * lib/Lintian/Command.pm:
    + [RA] Add support for running commands in the background using a
      final argument of '&'.  Allow reap() to take multiple opt hashes and
      reap all of them in a loop.  Add a kill() function to kill
      outstanding jobs.  Patch from Raphael Geissert.
  * lib/Lintian/Tag/Info.pm:
    + [RA] Strip leading whitespace from continued lines.
  * lib/Spelling.pm:
    + [RA] Optimize the spell-checking algorithm.  Patch from Raphael
      Geissert.  (Closes: #514495)
  * lib/Util.pm:
    + [RA] Fully comply with Policy in whitespace handling when parsing
      Debian control files.  Multiline fields will now have the leading
      whitespace of subsequent lines left in, and leading tabs are no
      longer handled specially.  Trailing whitespace is now uniformly
      stripped, as is leading whitespace on the first field line.

  * man/lintian.1:
    + [RA] Document strings collect script.

  * private/refresh-archs:
    + [RA] Script from Raphael Geissert to refresh known architectures.

  * unpack/unpack-binpkg-l1:
    + [RA] Run the separate commands involved in unpacking a binary
      package in parallel where possible.  Patch from Raphael Geissert.
  * unpack/unpack-srcpkg-l1:
    + [RA] When processing tar output, we may not get complete lines at a
      time.  Save partial lines and glue them back together again when we
      get the next burst of data.  (Closes: #517899)
    + [RA] Do a little bit of parallelization when writing out the sorted
      index of the source package.
    + [RA] Ignore leading whitespace in the Files section.
  
 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>  Sun, 08 Mar 2009 21:58:32 -0700

lintian (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low

  * Summary of tag changes:
    + Added
      - binary-from-other-architecture
      - icon-size-and-directory-name-mismatch
      - lzma-deb-archive
      - multiple-distributions-in-changes-file (disabled)
      - spelling-error-in-binary (experimental)
      - unsupported-source-format

  * checks/binaries:
    + [RA] When checking for dependencies on libc, don't use /o on the
      regex.  Otherwise, lintian produces false positives when run on
      multiple packages with different architectures, since the libc
      package name is not the same on all architectures.  Thanks to
      Raphael Geissert for the report.  (Closes: #516067)
    + [RA] Check for binaries from other architectures than the declared
      architecture of the package outside of known multiarch directories.
      Patch from Raphael Geissert.  (Closes: #513996)
    + [RA] Check the data section of ELF binaries for spelling errors.
      Patch from Raphael Geissert.
  * checks/common_data.pm:
    + [RA] Virtual packages now come from data.
  * checks/changelog-file:
    + [RA] Don't warn about uncompressed ChangeLog files in doc.  They may
      be small files and the maintainer may be installing some other
      upstream file as the upstrema changelog.  (Closes: #515601)
    + [RA] Fix improbable-bug-number-in-closes so that it works.
  * checks/control-file:
    + [ADB] Properly exclude packages built from the glibc source package
      from the "hardcoded depends on libc" test.  (Closes: #515831)
  * checks/cruft:
    + [RA] For Format: 2.0 and Format: 3.0 (quilt) packages, check
      the *.debian.tar.(gz|bz2|lzma) contents instead of expecting
      diffstat output.  (Closes: #515069)
    + [RA] Ignore cruft in the upstream source in directories that look
      like part of a test suite.  The files may be part of the test
      cases.  (Closes: #515137)
  * checks/deb-format{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Recognize data.tar.lzma binary package components and use a
      different tag than malformed-deb-archive.
  * checks/description:
    + [ADB] Warn of homepages embedded in the description which use the
      syntax "Homepage: <http://example.com>" using the warning level
      tag description-contains-homepage rather than the info level tag
      description-possibly-contains-homepage.  (Closes: #515998)
    + [RA] Don't warn about too-short long descriptions for transitional
      or dummy packages.  Thanks, Andreas Beckmann.  (Closes: #515538)
  * checks/fields{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Load virtual packages from data/fields/virtual-packages.
    + [RA] Warn of unsupported source package versions.
  * checks/files{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Warn of PNG icons whose size doesn't match the size indicated
      by the directory in which they're installed.  Patch from Raphael
      Geissert.  (Closes: #509624)
    + [RA] Make static regexes global to avoid recreating them for each
      file we scan.  Patch from Raphael Geissert.
    + [ADB] Modify the check for embedded Javascript libraries to ignore
      yahoo.js as there are similarly named, but unrelated, scripts in
      the archive.      
    + [ADB] Lower the certainty of the embedded-{javascript,php}-library
      tags to "possible" as they trigger purely on filenames and not
      content.  (Closes: #515690)
    + [RA] Offer advice for duplicate-font-file for when the font package
      is huge.  Thanks, Thijs Kinkhorst and Paul Wise.  (Closes: #515689)
  * checks/patch-systems.desc:
    + [RA] Improve the suggestions in the long description of
      quilt-patch-missing-description and dpatch-missing-description based
      on suggestions from Paul Wise.  (Closes: #516534)
  * checks/scripts:
    + [RA] Make static regexes global to avoid recreating them for each
      file we scan.  Patch from Raphael Geissert.
  * checks/shared-libs:
    + [RA] Save a local reference to objdump information to reduce the
      number of method calls.  Patch from Raphael Geissert.
    + [ADB] Correctly handle alternative dependency lines in symbols files
      which contain multiple entries.  (Closes: #516427)

  * collection/strings{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Collect a list of ELF binaries in the package and the output of
      strings on each binary except for those in /usr/lib/debug.  Based on
      a patch from Raphael Geissert.  (Closes: #514951)

  * data/fields/obsolete-packages:
    + [RA] Add foomatic-data, lambdamoo-{core,server}, and old kernel
      packages.  Patch from Raphael Geissert.
  * data/fields/virtual-packages:
    + [RA] New file listing known virtual packages.  Based on a patch by
      Raphael Geissert.  (Closes: #514497)

  * debian/postrm:
    + [RA] Use set -e, not #!/bin/sh -e.

  * frontend/lintian:
    + [ADB] Split the Distribution field of a .changes file into individual
      distributions and then check each of them against the list of known
      distributions.  (Closes: #514853)
    + [ADB] Anchor the regular expressions for the backports, security and
      proposed-updates distribution checks, so that etch-backports is
      accepted as a valid distribution but etch-backportss is not.
    + [ADB] Add a new check for .changes files which contain multiple
      entries in their Distribution: field.  The check is currently
      disabled as the syntax is currently accepted by dak although it is
      likely to stop being so in the near future.

  * lib/Lintian/Collect/Source.pm:
    + [RA] Recognize Format: 2.0 packages as non-native.
  * lib/Lintian/Command.pm:
    + [RA] Disable IPC::Run debugging.  Patch from Raphael Geissert.
    + [RA] Don't load Data::Dumper.  Patch from Raphael Geissert.
  * lib/Spelling.pm:
    + [RA] Add spelling correction for "mroe".
  * lib/Util.pm:
    + [RA] Minor optimizations to {read,parse}_dpkg_control.  Patch from
      Raphael Geissert.
    + [RA] Only take the first space after a field name as the separator
      and treat the rest as part of the field value so that other parts of
      Lintian can see the leading spaces.

  * private/refresh-virtual-packages-data:
    + [RA] New script to generate the list of virtual packages.  Based on
      a patch by Raphael Geissert.
  * private/update-coverage:
    + [RA] Add support for source package tests.

  * t/runtests:
    + [RA] Add support for raw source package checks in the source
      subdirectory.  See t/source/README for more details.

  * unpack/unpack-srcpkg-l1:
    + [ADB] Handle a number of different ways in which upstream directory
      trees may be represented in tarballs.  (Closes: #515795)
    + [RA] Support LZMA-compressed upstream source.  (Closes: #515068)
    + [RA] Analyze the upstream source tarball to extract its prefix and
      save it in the laboratory.  Also fixes unpacking of source tarballs
      that have no common subdirectory.

 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>  Sat, 21 Feb 2009 23:53:09 -0800

lintian (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low

  * lib/Lintian/Collect/{Binary,Source}.pm:
    + [ADB] Add a missing "use Lintian::Relation".  Thanks, Raphael Geissert.
      (Closes: #514697)

 -- Adam D. Barratt <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>  Tue, 10 Feb 2009 23:15:43 +0000

lintian (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low

  * checks/changelog-file:
    + [RA] Use Lintian::Relation::Version instead of Dep.
  * checks/control-file:
    + [RA] Use Lintian::Relation instead of Dep.
  * checks/copyright-file:
    + [RA] Use Lintian::Collect for dependency information.
  * checks/cruft:
    + [RA] Use Lintian::Collect for dependency information.

  * t/runtests:
    + [ADB] Correctly handle epoched package versions. Patch by
      Raphael Geissert.

  * testset/runtests:
    + [ADB] Correctly handle epoched package versions.

  * unpack/unpack-srcpkg-l1:
    + [ADB] Correctly determine the source package version for packages
      with epoched versions.  Based on a patch by Raphael Geissert.
      (Closes: #514641)

 -- Adam D. Barratt <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>  Mon, 09 Feb 2009 23:59:00 +0000

lintian (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low

  * Summary of tag changes:
    + Added
      - description-possibly-contains-homepage
      - dfsg-version-in-native-package
      - dfsg-version-with-period
      - dfsg-version-misspelled
      - experimental-to-unstable-without-comment (pedantic)
      - homepage-for-cpan-package-contains-version
      - maintainer-script-without-set-e (pedantic)
      - source-contains-prebuilt-binary (pedantic)
      - source-contains-prebuilt-windows-binary (pedantic)
      - using-first-person-in-description
    + Removed
      - non-us-spelling

  * checks/changelog-file{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Add pedantic check for a distribution of unstable when the last
      version had a distribution of experimental and there's no comment
      about the change.  (Closes: #483845)
  * checks/common-data.pm:
    + [ADB] Remove the obsolete non-US from the list of recognised archive
      sections.
  * checks/copyright-file:
    + [RA] Treat License: GPL-2+ as "GPL version 2 or later" for the
      purposes of the check for a correctly versioned license reference.
      Patch from Evgeni Golov.  (Closes: #513946)
  * checks/cruft{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Downgrade all source-contains-* tags to pedantic.  These are
      upstream problems the packager can't do much about and they have
      no practical effect on the Debian package.  Wishlist implies that
      a wishlist bug against the package would be appropriate, which
      seems too strong.
    + [RA] Add pedantic check for binaries in the upstream source.  Patch
      from Raphael Geissert.  (Closes: #127494)
  * checks/description{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Check for using first person in package descriptions, similar
      to the existing check for debconf questions.  Patch from Raphael
      Geissert.  (Closes: #514491)
    + [RA] Add check (wishlist/wild-guess) for apparent home page URLs in
      the long description with no Homepage field.  Based on a patch by
      Paul Wise.  (Closes: #339829)
  * checks/fields{,.desc}:
    + [ADB] Remove checks for the capitalisation of the obsolete non-US
      archive section.
    + [RA] Warn about Homepage fields pointing to search.cpan.org pages
      containing a version number.  Based on a patch by Paul Wise.
    + [RA] Warn of dfsg versions in native packages.
    + [RA] Warn of ".dfsg" versions and recommend "+dfsg" for version
      sorting reasons.  Thanks, Paul Wise.  (Closes: #514203)
    + [RA] Warn of the "dsfg" typo in versions.  Thanks, Paul Wise.
    + [RA] Use Lintian::Relation and the new Lintian::Collect support for
      retrieving parsed relationship fields.
  * checks/files:
    + [ADB] Don't report duplicate-font-file for udebs.  Patch by Raphael
      Geissert.  (Closes: #514095)
  * checks/scripts{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Add pedantic check for maintainer scripts using #!/bin/sh -e
      instead of set -e in the script body.  (Closes: #119045)

  * collection/file-info{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Also run file-info for source packages.  Patch from Raphael
      Geissert.

  * lib/Lintian/Collect.pm:
    + [RA] Defer loading of the subclasses until the constructor to avoid
      circular dependencies at compilation time.
  * lib/Lintian/Collect/Binary.pm:
    + [RA] New method relation() to return a Lintian::Relation object for
      a given relationship field or set of relationship fields.
  * lib/Lintian/Collect/Source.pm:
    + [RA] New methods relation() and relation_noarch() to return
      Lintian::Relation objects for a given build relationship field or
      set of fields.  New method binary_relation() to return a
      Lintian::Relation object for a given relationship field in a binary
      package built from this source package.
    + [RA] Add file_info() method to return file information for source
      packages.  Patch from Raphael Geissert.
  * lib/Lintian/Relation.pm:
    + [RA] New class based on the existing Dep module that handles package
      relationship analysis.  Now includes documentation, uses a more
      object-oriented structure, and removes a special case handling of
      Perl alternatives.  This module will eventually replace Dep.
  * lib/Lintian/Relation/Version.pm:
    + [RA] New module containing the version comparison code from Dep.
      This module will only be needed until Lintian is converted to
      Dpkg::Version or AptPkg::Version.
  * lib/Spelling.pm:
    + [RA] Add some additional typo and case corrections.  Patch from
      Raphael Geissert.

  * t/runtests:
    + [RA] Copy test suite data based on checksum, not size and time,
      since some files change one character and Git doesn't preserve
      timestamps.  Patch from Raphael Geissert.  (Closes: #514496)

  * unpack/list-{binpkg,udebpkg}:
    + [RA] Preserve the source_version field from the previous list when
      adding new packages, remove some dead code, and restructure for
      improved readability.  Thanks to Jordà Polo for the analysis.
      (Closes: #507849)
    + [RA] Generate an index of files in the upstream source tarball.
      Patch from Raphael Geissert.

 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>  Sat, 07 Feb 2009 19:19:45 -0800

lintian (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low

  The "this is why spooky action at a distance is bad" release.

  * checks/copyright-file:
    + [ADB] Treat the new copyright file format's "License-Alias: Perl" as
      indicating that the package is licensed under the same terms as Perl.
      Thanks, gregor herrmann.  (Closes: #513831)
  * checks/debconf:
    + [RA] Reset $/ before issuing duplicate-fields-in-templates to
      prevent problems if -i was given.
  * checks/debhelper:
    + [RA] Remove stray localization of $/, which broke -i when issuing
      tags about ${misc:Depends}.
  * checks/fields:
    + [RA] Stop pointlessly setting $/ while parsing debian/rules and then
      restoring it to the wrong value, which broke -i when issuing some
      tags if they were the first tags issued.
  * checks/scripts:
    + [RA] Add nickle as a known interpreter.  Patch from Julien Cristau.
      (Closes: #513823)

  * lib/Util.pm:
    + [ADB] Localise a use of $_ in control file parsing to avoid overwriting
      it and leading to uninitialized value warnings in check scripts.
      (Closes: #513795)

 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>  Sun, 01 Feb 2009 11:11:36 -0800

lintian (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Summary of tag changes:
    + Added
      - copyright-refers-to-symlink-license (pedantic)
      - copyright-refers-to-versionless-license-file
      - debhelper-compat-not-a-number
      - debhelper-compatibility-level-not-a-number
      - duplicate-font-file
      - font-in-non-font-package

  * checks/copyright-file{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Add checks for references to the versionless FSF license files,
      pedantic if the package license allows relicensing under later
      versions.   Patch from Raphael Geissert.  (Closes: #497346)
  * checks/debhelper{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Use binary_field() to read control fields for binary packages.
      Patch from Raphael Geissert.
    + [RA] Read only the first line of debian/compat, matching debhelper's
      behavior.  Improve the parsing of DH_COMPAT to pick up values that
      aren't numbers.  Warn of compatibility levels that aren't numbers.
      Use the same compatibility level that debhelper would use in some
      other checks.  Patch from Raphael Geissert.  (Closes: #513767)
    + [RA] default-jdk and default-jdk-builddep provide dh_nativejava as a
      special case.  (Closes: #513423)
  * checks/fields:
    + [RA] Allow but do not require a libmodule-build-perl dependency if
      the Build script is referenced in clean.  Thanks, Charles Plessy and
      gregor herrmann.  (Closes: #421549)
  * checks/fields{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Run dbg-package-missing-depends against the source package
      instead of the binary package and check that it has a dependency
      against another binary package built from the same source rather
      than making assumptions about the package name.  Patch from Raphael
      Geissert.  (Closes: #513336)
    + [RA] Use binary_field() to read control fields for binary packages.
      Patch from Raphael Geissert.
  * checks/files{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Add check for fonts in non-font packages.  Thanks, Paul Wise
      and Raphael Geissert.  (Closes: #513650)
    + [RA] Add check for fonts that duplicate already packaged fonts.
      Patch from Raphael Geissert.  Thanks to Paul Wise for analysis and
      data.  (Partly addresses #298545)
  * checks/shared-libs.desc:
    + [RA] Add references to the UsingSymbolsFiles wiki page in the tags
      requesting generation of a symbols file.
    + [RA] Provide details on how to manually check some of the shared
      library problems that Lintian diagnoses.  (Closes: #513086)
  * checks/standards-version:
    + [RA] Be robust against unparsable timestamps in changelog files.
      Patch from Raphael Geissert.  (Closes: #513766)
  * checks/version-substvars:
    + [RA] Use binary_field() to read control fields for binary packages.
      Patch from Raphael Geissert.

  * data/files/fonts:
    + [RA] New file listing all font filenames in Debian and the
      containing package names.  Generated by private/refresh-fonts-data.
  * data/output/manual-references:
    + [RA] Manual reference data used for formatting tag descriptions.
      Moved from lib/manual_refs and added an explanatory header.

  * frontend/lintian-info:
    + [RA] Use Lintian::Tag::Info instead of Read_taginfo.

  * lib/Lintian/Collect/Source.pm:
    + [RA] Add binary_field() method to return a binary package field from
      debian/control for a source package.  Based on a patch by Raphael
      Geissert.
    + [RA] Rewrite the binaries() method to use binary_field().  Based on
      a patch by Raphael Geissert.
  * lib/Lintian/Output.pm:
    + [ADB] Add a colour for pedantic tags to avoid warnings when colourised
      output is used and make the combination more useful.  Thanks, gregor
      herrmann.  (Closes: #513132)
    + [RA] Use Lintian::Tag::Info instead of Read_taginfo.
    + [RA] Force early exporting of functions to be more robust in the
      face of circular library dependencies.  The circular dependencies
      had already existed but not previously caused problems.
  * lib/Lintian/Output/LetterQualifier.pm:
    + [ADB] Add support for pedantic tags.
    + [RA] Use Lintian::Tag::Info instead of Read_taginfo.
  * lib/Lintian/Tag/Info.pm:
    + [RA] New module providing an interface to tag metadata.  Currently,
      this only supports formatting the tag description, merging the
      actions previously done by Manual_refs.pm and Read_taginfo.pm.  It
      defers loading of manual references until they're needed, which
      removes the requirement that LINTIAN_ROOT be already set in the
      environment before running the reporting harness.  It also saves a
      small amount of time in runs without -I.
  * lib/Manual_refs.pm:
    + [RA] Removed, merged into Lintian::Tag::Info.
  * lib/manual_refs:
    + [RA] Moved to data/output/manual-references.
  * lib/Read_taginfo.pm:
    + [RA] Removed, merged into Lintian::Tag::Info.
  * lib/Util.pm:
    + [RA] Force early exporting of functions to be more robust in the
      face of circular library dependencies.

  * man/lintian.1:
    + [ADB] Fix the spelling of "pedantic".  Thanks, Michal Čihař.
      (Closes: #513083)

  * private/refresh-fonts-data:
    + [RA] New script to refresh the list of font filenames and containing
      packages in Debian.  Based on a script by Raphael Geissert.
  * private/refresh-manual-refs:
    + [RA] Renamed from manual_refs_update.pl.  Add a section heading to
      the output file and update the file in Lintian's data directory
      directly rather than printing to standard output.

  * reporting/config:
    + [RA] Set a bin directory and disable signature checks by default.
  * reporting/harness
    + [RA] Add the bin directory to the path and create a gpg link to
      /bin/true if signature checks are disabled.  This is a hack to work
      with the etch version of dpkg-source.  In lenny, the --no-check flag
      will be used instead.  Patch from Raphael Geissert.
  * reporting/html_reports:
    + [RA] Use Lintian::Tag::Info instead of Read_taginfo.

  * t/runtests:
    + [RA] Add support for selecting a different test package skeleton.
  * t/templates/pedantic{,.upstream}:
    + [RA] New template that passes all pedantic checks.

 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>  Sat, 31 Jan 2009 20:20:46 -0800

lintian (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low

  * Summary of tag changes:
    + Added
      - direct-changes-in-diff-but-no-patch-system (pedantic)
      - no-homepage-field (pedantic)
      - no-upstream-changelog (pedantic)
      - package-depends-on-hardcoded-libc
      - weak-dependency-on-misc-depends

  * checks/*.desc:
    + [RA] Replace `' "balanced" quotes with straight double-quotes.  The
      old style looks strange with modern fonts.  Based on work by Raphael
      Geissert.
  * checks/binaries:
    + [FL] Fix check for directories in the package in RPATH check.
  * checks/changelog-file{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Use Lintian::Collect to read the changelog.
    + [RA] Enable no-upstream-changelog as a pedantic check, since it's
      often incorrect for multiple binary packages generated from the same
      source.  Patch from Raphael Geissert.  (Closes: #470912)
  * checks/control-file{,.desc}:
    + [ADB] Fix a typo ("arne't").  Thanks, Raphael Geissert.
    + [RA] Check for hard-coded package dependencies on libc.  Patch from
      Evgeni Golov.  (Closes: #512196)
    + [RA] Check package-depends-on-itself for Suggests as well.
  * checks/debhelper{,.desc}:
    + [ADB] Remove no longer required "Type" fields from a couple of
      entries.  Thanks, Raphael Geissert.
    + [ADB] Fix a couple of typoes.  Thanks, Raphael Geissert.
    + [RA] Allow ${misc:Depends} in Pre-Depends and warn of
      ${misc:Depends} in Recommends or Suggests.  Patch from Raphael
      Geissert.  (Closes: #512478)
  * checks/fields{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Add pedantic check for no Homepage control field.  Patch from
      Raphael Geissert.
  * checks/files:
    + [RA] Add swfobject.js to embedded-javascript-library.  Thanks, Paul
      Wise.  (Closes: #512363)
  * checks/nmu{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Use Lintian::Collect to read the changelog.
    + [RA] Only treat the mention of NMU as a maintainer acknowldegement
      if the "ack" string appears before the mention of NMU.  Avoids
      changelog-should-mention-nmu false positives for "NMU with ACK from
      maintainer."  Thanks, Evgeni Golov.  (Closes: #512738)
  * checks/patch-systems{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Add pedantic check for changes to the upstream source in the
      diff without using a patch system.  Thanks, Raphael Geissert.
  * checks/standards-version{,.desc}:
    + [ADB] Add source-control-file to the list of information needed by
      the script.  Thanks, Raphael Geissert.  (Closes: #512563)
    + [RA] Use Lintian::Data to get the standards versions and release
      dates.  Dates are now in seconds since epoch, so remove the date
      conversion code.
  * checks/version-substvars.desc:
    + [RA] Mention when the binary:Version and source:Version substvars
      were introduced.  Thanks, Steffen Moeller.

  * collection/*.desc:
    + [RA] Replace `' "balanced" quotes with straight double-quotes.  The
      old style looks strange with modern fonts.  Based on work by Raphael
      Geissert.

  * data/standards-version/release-dates:
    + [RA] Known standards versions and their release dates in seconds
      since epoch, taken from checks/standards-version.

  * frontend/lintian:
    + [RA] Add --pedantic option to display pedantic tags.  Patch from
      Raphael Geissert.  (Closes: #373767)

  * lib/Checker.pm:
    + [ADB] Remove some unused code.
  * lib/Lintian/Collect/Binary.pm:
    + [RA] Add a changelog() method to return the parsed changelog.
  * lib/Lintian/Collect/Source.pm:
    + [ADB] Add a missing "use Util" as the module uses the fail() function
      from that module.  Thanks, Raphael Geissert.  (Closes: #512560)
  * lib/Text_utils.pm:
    + [ADB] Add a missing "use Util" as the module uses the fail() function
      from that module.  Thanks, Raphael Geissert.
  * lib/Tags.pm:
    + [RA] Add support for pedantic tags.  Patch from Raphael Geissert.

  * man/lintian.1:
    + [RA] Document the new --pedantic option.

  * reporting/html_reports:
    + [RA] Add support for a new tag index sorted by severity and
      certainty.  (Closes: #511496)
  * reporting/templates/index.tmpl:
    + [RA] Link to the new tag index.
  * reporting/templates/tags-severity.tmpl:
    + [RA] Template for a tag index sorted by severity and certainty.

  * t/runtests:
    + [RA] Add support for specifying the Lintian options to use when
      checking a test package.  Patch from Raphael Geissert.
      (Closes: #512678)
    + [RA] Expect the desc files for tests to be in the test directory
      rather than at the top level and move the sequence number to an
      attribute in the test description rather than in the desc file
      name.

 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>  Sat, 24 Jan 2009 16:43:32 -0800

lintian (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low

  * Summary of tag changes:
    + Added
      - diff-contains-cmake-cache-file
      - diff-contains-hg-tags-file
      - duplicate-uploader
      - empty-debian-diff
      - malformed-changes-file
      - missing-comma-after-substvar
      - source-contains-hg-tags-file

  * checks/control-file{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Check for missing commas after substvars in dependency fields.
      Thanks, Jari Aalto.  (Closes: #409099)
  * checks/cruft{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Error on CMakeCache.txt files added or modified in the diff.
      Thanks, Joerg Jaspert.  (Closes: #510957)
    + [RA] Warn about .hgtags files in the diff and source.  Thanks,
      Holger Levsen and Chris Lamb.  (Closes: #464837)
    + [RA] Warn if the Debian diff or a non-native package is entirely
      empty.  (Closes: #498668)
  * checks/debhelper:
    + [RA] Ignore architecture when checking whether sufficient build
      dependencies are present for dh_* commands.  If the maintainer has
      architecture-restricted build dependencies, they presumably know
      what they're doing.  (Closes: #511859)
  * checks/fields{,.desc}:
    + [ADB] Warn about an individual uploader appearing multiple times
      in Uploaders.  Thanks, Joerg Jaspert.  (Closes: #511536)
    + [RA] Ignore architecture qualifications when checking for missing
      build dependencies.
  * checks/lintian.desc:
    + [RA] Add tag description for malformed-changes-file.
  * checks/menus:
    + [RA] Recognize type as a way of checking for binaries, even though
      it's a bashism, so that we don't issue confusing duplicate tags for
      one same problem.  (Closes: #512119)
  * checks/nmu{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Suppress NMU warnings for packages with "local" in the version
      number or "local package" in the first line of the changelog.
      Thanks, Zack Weinberg.  (Closes: #501523)
  * checks/scripts{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Mention type as a bashism and recommend which or command -v.
    + [RA] Recognize type as a way of checking for binaries, even though
      it's a bashism, so that we don't issue confusing duplicate tags for
      one same problem.
  * checks/standards-version.desc:
    + [RA] Add a pointer to the debian-policy upgrading-checklist.txt.gz
      in out-of-date-standards-version and ancient-standards-version.

  * frontend/lintian:
    + [RA] Check that .changes files have at least a Format key.  If not,
      issue malformed-changes-file and skip them.  This catches .changes
      files that were PGP-signed twice.  (Closes: #315538)

  * lib/Dep.pm:
    + [RA] New function, parse_noarch(), which ignores architecture
      qualifications when parsing a dependency field.

  * t/runtests:
    + [RA] Add pre_upstream hook to modify the upstream source before
      generation of the .orig.tar.gz.

 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>  Sat, 17 Jan 2009 13:35:04 -0800

lintian (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low

  * Summary of tag changes:
    + Added
      - changed-by-address-is-on-localhost
      - changed-by-address-looks-weird
      - changed-by-address-malformed
      - changed-by-address-missing
      - changed-by-name-missing
      - duplicate-long-description
      - duplicate-short-description
      - malformed-deb-archive

  * checks/control-file{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Tag (severity: wishlist) duplicate short or long descriptions
      in packages built from the same source.  (Closes: #30020)
    + [RA] Clarify the binary-control-field-duplicates-source tag.
      (Closes: #511213)
  * checks/deb-format{,.desc}:
    + [RA] New check for the format of *.deb ar archives.  Most cases will
      fail during unpack, but dpkg-deb is more forgiving than dak and
      allows ordering problems and extra members that dak rejects.
      (Closes: #292055)
  * checks/fields:
    + [RA] Use check_maintainer from Lintian::Check, which suppresses
      duplicate tags for some ill-formed maintainer fields.
  * checks/lintian.desc:
    + [RA] New tag descriptions for Changed-By field tests.
  * checks/rules:
    + [RA] Consider a define command to be the end of a list of target
      commands, avoiding binary-arch-rules-but-pkg-is-arch-indep false
      positives when an empty rule is followed by a definition.
      (Closes: #510869)

  * frontend/lintian:
    + [RA] Run maintainer well-formedness checks on the Changed-By field
      of the *.changes file.  (Closes: #183642)

  * lib/Lintian/Check.pm:
    + [RA] New module for checks run from multiple places.
  * lib/Lintian/{Output.pm,Output/*.pm}:
    + [RA] Expect a single string of extra information rather than an
      array, removing duplicate code to convert it to a string.
  * lib/Lintian/Schedule.pm:
    + [RA] Fix Perl warnings triggered by missing fields in the control
      file of a binary package.
  * lib/Tags.pm:
    + [RA] Avoid Perl warnings if Severity or Certainty isn't set for a
      tag.  (Closes: #507278)
    + [RA] Record statistics for certainty correctly.
    + [RA] Canonicalize the extra tag information once and pass it as a
      string to the other output methods.  Based on a patch by Raphael
      Geissert.  (Closes: #498883)
    + [RA] Fix override checking with extra tag information that Perl
      evaluates to false (such as a bare 0).

  * man/lintian.1:
    + [RA] Document new deb-format check script.

  * t/runtests:
    + [RA] Add support for running lintian on changes files in t/changes
      and checking the tag output.
    + [RA] Add support for building a Debian package using basic tools,
      with more complete control over the contents, and running lintian on
      the results.
    + [RA] Fix exit status when a test fails but -k was given.

 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>  Sat, 10 Jan 2009 21:59:57 -0800

lintian (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low

  * Summary of tag changes:
    + Added
      - binary-control-field-duplicates-source
      - brace-expansion-in-debhelper-config-file
      - control-interpreter-in-usr-local (split from
         interpreter-in-usr-local)
      - control-interpreter-without-depends
      - copyright-refers-to-bad-php-license
      - copyright-refers-to-problematic-php-license
      - copyright-with-old-dh-make-debian-copyright
      - dh-clean-k-is-deprecated
      - desktop-mimetype-without-update-call
      - forbidden-postrm-interpreter
      - games-package-should-be-section-games
      - preinst-interpreter-without-predepends
      - script-calls-init-script-directly
      - unknown-control-interpreter (split from unusual-interpreter)
      - version-refers-to-distribution
    + Removed
      - desktop-file-but-no-dh_desktop-call
      - interpreter-without-predep

  * checks/changelog-file{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Warn of Debian version numbers containing "testing", "stable",
      or "unstable", or with release code names for uploads not targeted
      at that release, except in NMUs.  Based on a patch by Raphael
      Geissert.  (Closes: #498876)
  * checks/control-file{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Warn (severity: wishlist) of binary control stanzas duplicating
      fields of the source control stanza.  (Closes: #497348)
  * checks/copyright-file{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Warn (severity: wishlist) about the old dh_make packaging
      copyright, which used (C) without the word or symbol.  Based on a
      patch by Raphael Geissert.  (Closes: #497347)
    + [RA] Clean up checks of a symlinked /usr/share/doc directory and
      avoid making package info global.
    + [RA] Warn about older PHP licenses.  Based on a patch by Raphael
      Geissert.  (Closes: #498875)
  * checks/cruft:
    + [RA] Keep the hash of files for which warnings were already issued
      local to each package, reducing memory consumption and false
      negatives for archive-wide runs.
  * checks/debhelper{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Check for use of shell brace expansion in debhelper config
      files that list filenames, which is not supported.  Based on a patch
      from Raphael Geissert.  (Closes: #480939)
    + [RA] If dh is used, require debhelper tokens in maintainer scripts.
    + [ADB] Warn about packages declaring a debhelper compatibility level
      of 7 or above and using dh_clean -k, which has been deprecated in
      favour of dh_prep.
    + [RA] Add dh_auto_* and dh_prep to the debhelper scripts that require
      a particular version of debhelper.
    + [RA] De-duplicate the list of scripts with specific version
      requirements before issuing tags.
    + [RA] Upgrade package-lacks-versioned-build-depends-on-debhelper to
      certain (although still minor), making it a warning.  debhelper(7)
      explicitly recommends a versioned build dependency on debhelper.
      Rewrite the tag description accordingly.
  * checks/fields:
    + [RA] dh-make-php provides a CDBS rule fragment and hence should go
      into Build-Depends, not Build-Depends-Indep.  Thanks, Mathieu
      Parent.  (Closes: #509286)
  * checks/files{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Packages whose executables are all in /usr/games should
      probably be in section games.  (Closes: #509147)
  * checks/menu-format{,.desc}:
    + [RA] If a *.desktop file contains a MimeType key, check that the
      postinst calls update-desktop-database.  (Closes: #488832)
    + [RA] Stop keeping a separate hash of all files in the package and
      use Lintian::Collect information.  The hash was being reused across
      packages, possibly leading to excessive memory consumption and false
      negatives for archive-wide runs.
  * checks/menus:
    + [RA] Keep the hash of files and symlinks local to each package,
      reducing memory consumption and false negatives for archive-wide
      runs.
  * checks/patch-systems.desc:
    + [RA] Improve the patch-system-but-direct-changes-in-diff long
      description.  (Closes: #496516)
  * checks/rules{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Remove desktop-file-but-no-dh_desktop-call.  The only action of
      dh_desktop is now checked by desktop-mimetype-without-update-call;
      dh_desktop is unnecessary with other *.desktop files.
  * checks/scripts{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Overhaul checking of maintainer script and config interpreters:
      - postrm scripts must use an essential interpreter.
      - Only preinst scripts require Pre-Depends; Depends is sufficient for
        postinst and prerm scripts.  (Closes: #508307)
      - Separate unknown-control-interpreter from unusual-interpreter
        since it's much more likely to be an error.
      - Separate control-interpreter-in-usr-local from
        interpreter-in-usr-local since the severity is higher.
      - unusual-control-interpreter is certain, not possible.
      - Suppress some cases of multiple tags about the same basic problem.
    + [RA] Check for scripts in /etc that call init scripts directly
      without using invoke-rc.d.  Based on a patch by Raphael Geissert.
      (Closes: #381485)
    + [RA] Allow dpkg-dev to satisfy a make dependency.  (Closes: #510190)
    + [ADB] More intelligently remove comments from shell scripts, to avoid
      removing some constructs that aren't comments, such as those in
      [ $# -gt 2 ] and "foo # bar".
    + [ADB] Flag the source bashism when its argument is quoted or a bare
      filename.
  * checks/watch-file:
    + [RA] Recognize additional SourceForge URLs and recommend the
      redirector.  Thanks, Riccardo Stagni.  (Closes: #510398)

  * collection/copyright-file:
    + [RA] Copy copyright files that are relative links, provided that the
      link is safe, and otherwise treat symlinked copyright files as if
      they were empty.  Fixes a Lintian crash on packages where the
      copyright file is a relative symlink.

  * debian/copyright:
    + [RA] Add an explicit key to initials used in changelog entries.
  * debian/rules:
    + [RA] New check-tag target which runs all test cases in the new test
      suite that check for or against a particular tag.

  * data/debhelper/filename-config-files:
    + [RA] New file listing debhelper config files containing filenames.

  * frontend/lintian:
    + [RA] When processing the entire archive, do so in sorted order.

  * private/update-never-seen:
    + [RA] Merge data from both test suites and use the tag files for the
      old test suite rather than relying on runtests -v.

  * reporting/html_reports:
    + [RA] We only care about the first line of the archive timestamp.

  * t/runtests:
    + [RA] Check that a test produces all tags listed in Test-For and
      doesn't produce any tages listed in Test-Against.
    + [RA] Support finding and running all tests for or against a
      particular tag.
    + [RA] Correctly set up non-native packages for dpkg-source.
  * t/tests/README:
    + [RA] Add documentation of the new test suite.

 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>  Sat, 03 Jan 2009 16:40:30 -0800

lintian (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low

  * Summary of tag changes:
    + Added
      - debian-watch-file-should-use-sf-redirector
      - debian-watch-file-specifies-wrong-upstream-version
      - debian-watch-file-specifies-old-upstream-version
      - extended-description-is-probably-too-short
      - shlib-without-versioned-soname

  * checks/description{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Check for extended descriptions shorter than three lines; they
      probably don't contain enough information.  Patch from Raphael
      Geissert.
  * checks/files{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Exclude __init__.py files and Doxygen-generated *.map files
      from zero-byte-file-in-doc-directory.  Improve the tag description
      to add a rationale and a suggestion for when overrides are
      appropriate.  Lower the certainty to possible.  (Closes: #507273)
    + [RA] Move the check for override files in the wrong location so that
      the check for subdirectories of /usr/share/lintian/overrides works
      and improve the tag description.
  * checks/nmu:
    + [RA] Recognize Ubuntu native packages by the target distribution and
      suppress NMU tags for them.  Based on a patch by Adrien Cunin.
      (Closes: #507740)
  * checks/shared-libs{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Remove special shlibs exception for NSS modules.  libc6 now
      includes shlibs entries for them.
    + [RA] Report a more specialized tag for shared libraries with SONAMEs
      that have no version and exclude them from the shlibs file tests
      since they cannot be represented there.  Reported by Raphael
      Hertzog.  (Closes: #506673)
    + [RA] Use the same regexes as dpkg-shlibdeps when parsing version
      information from SONAMEs.
  * checks/version-substvars:
    + [RA] Skip version substvar checks when the dependency is on a
      package whose name is formed by expanding substvars at build time.
      Thanks, Bastian Blank.  (Closes: #507763)
  * checks/watch-file{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Merge a set of changes by Raphael Geissert:
      - Correctly parse multiple line continuations.
      - Don't attempt any detailed checks on version one watch files.
      - Recognize versionmangle in addition to [du]versionmangle.
      - Add line information to some of the tags.
      - Detect watch files that specify SourceForge download servers
        directly and suggest use of the QA sf.net redirector instead.
      - Detect watch files specifying an upstream version that matches a
        non-native Debian package version in debian/changelog.
      - Detect watch files specifying an upstream version for an older
        changelog entry when the current changelog entry has a newer
        upstream version.

  * data/changelog-file/ubuntu-dists:
    + [RA] New shared list of Ubuntu distributions.

  * frontend/lintian:
    + [RA] Recognize Ubuntu native packages by the target distribution and
      check them against the correct set of distributions.  Based on a
      patch by Adrien Cunin.  (Closes: #507740)

  * lib/Lab.pm:
    + [ADB] Ensure that the output of unpack/list-*pkg is correctly captured
      so that the reporting harness can use the information to decide which
      packages to process in an incremental run.
  * lib/Lintian/Data.pm:
    + [RA] New all() method that returns all valid keywords.
  * lib/Read_pkglists.pm:
    + [JP] Add a new "source version" field to binary and udeb info files.
      Bump binary and udeb format version to 3 and 2 respectively.

  * reporting/html_reports:
    + [JP] Group packages by source version instead of binary version.
      (Closes: #507849)
  * reporting/templates/maintainer.tmpl:
    + [ADB] Print tags affecting udeb packages under a heading for that
      package, rather than merging them in to whichever binary package
      was last displayed (or the source package if the udeb is first
      alphabetically).
    + [ADB] Separate tags affecting a binary package from those of a source
      package with the same name when the binary is the first package produced
      from the source for which there are issues.
    + [JP] Include binary package version in subtitles when it isn't the same
      as the source version.

  * t/runtests:
    + [RA] Parameterize the package section in the skeleton.

  * unpack/list-{bin,udeb}pkg:
    + [JP] Extract source package version from source field.

 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>  Sat, 27 Dec 2008 14:17:18 -0800

lintian (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low

  * frontend/lintian:
    + [ADB] Accept "html" as a valid argument for --color again.

  * lib/Lintian/Output.pm:
    + [ADB] Re-introduce support for HTML coloured output.  (Closes: #508341)

  * man/lintian.1:
    + [ADB] Document that "--color=html" is supported again.

 -- Adam D. Barratt <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>  Wed, 10 Dec 2008 20:12:48 +0000

lintian (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Summary of tag changes:
    + Added
      - latest-debian-changelog-entry-changed-to-native

  * checks/changelog{,.desc}:
    + [ADB] Warn when the version of a package changes to Debian native.
      Based on a patch by Michal Čihař.  (Closes: #504070)
  * checks/fields.desc:
    + [RA] Improve the recommendation for dependencies in debug packages
      to include the case of a debug package corresponding to multiple
      other packages.
  * checks/files:
    + [ADB] Add tests for several more embedded PHP libraries.  Patch
      by Raphael Geissert.
  * checks/patch-systems{,.desc}:
    + [ADB] Don't complain about a missing quilt build-dependency if
      the package contains a directory named debian/patches/series.
      (Closes: #507761)
    + [ADB] Lower the severity of {quilt-,d}patch-missing-description from
      minor to wishlist.
  * checks/scripts:
    + [ADB] Enhance the test for command-with-path-in-maintainer-script to
      better match executions of the command rather than the use of its name
      in pattern matching expressions.  (Closes: #499847)

  * collection/{fileinfo,md5sums}:
    + [ADB] Use blocking filehandles to pass the list of filenames to check
      to the spawned file / md5sum.  By default the handles were non-blocking
      which could lead to problems with larger file lists.  (Closes: #507461)

  * debian/{control,copyright}:
    + [ADB] Add Adam D. Barratt to Uploaders and copyright.

  * frontend/lintian:
    + [ADB] Don't call lintian-info when --info is specified.  Set a new
      flag on the Lintian::Output module instead.
  * frontend/lintian-info:
    + [ADB] Add missing "use Text_Utils".  It used to be indirectly pulled
      in via Read_taginfo.

  * lib/Lintian/Output{.pm,/*.pm}:
    + [ADB] Flag a tag as issued when printing it.
  * lib/Lintian/Output.pm:
    + [ADB] Make sure the default list of colours is initialised before
      attempting to use it.  Thanks, gregor herrmann.  (Closes: #507241)
    + [ADB] Maintain a list of tags which have been issued.
    + [ADB] Optionally include the description of a tag when displaying it.
  * lib/Lintian/Output/ColonSeparated.pm:
    + [ADB] Fix uninitialized value warnings by displaying the type code
      rather than the (no longer present in description files) Type field
      and handling non-overriden tags.
  * lib/Lintian/Output/LetterQualifier.pm:
    + [ADB] Optionally include the description of a tag when displaying it.
  * lib/Lintian/Output/XML.pm:
    + [ADB] Add a missing angle bracket to the closing "tag" tag, so that
      the XML is well-formed.

  * lib/Lab.pm:
    + [FL] Fix breakage of populate_with_dist() I introduced in 2.1.0.
  * lib/Read_taginfo.pm:
    + [ADB] Move the work of formatting a tag's description to a separate
      function so that it can be called from multiple locations.
    + [ADB] Properly export those functions which are called from other
      modules.
  * lib/Spelling.pm:
    + [RA] Don't add unnecessary backslashes in the list of spelling
      corrections.  They're copied into the output.  Thanks, Micah
      Anderson.  (Closes: #507331)
  * lib/Tags.pm:
    + [ADB] Don't output a "Processing binary package foo.changes" message.
      Thanks Sandro Tosi for pointing the issue out.
  * lib/Text_utils.pm:
    + [ADB] Properly export those functions which are called from other
      modules.

  * reporting/html_reports:
    + [ADB] Add missing "use Text_Utils".  It used to be indirectly pulled
      in via Read_taginfo.

 -- Adam D. Barratt <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>  Mon,  9 Dec 2008 00:09:21 +0000

lintian (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low

  * Summary of tag changes:
    + Added
      - debhelper-but-no-misc-depends
      - missing-build-dependency-for-dh_-command
      - quilt-patch-missing-description
      - shlib-calls-exit

  * checks/common_data.pm:
    + [FL] New variable $known_shells_regex which matches known shell
      names.  This removes some synchronisation issues between the
      different regexes in use.
  * checks/debconf{,.desc}:
    + [CW] Update my e-mail address.
    + [ADB] Don't detect the use of "?" as a literal character or wildcard
      as part of a question in an extended template description.  Based
      on a patch by Stephen Gran.  (Closes: #500661)
  * checks/debhelper:
    + [FL] Use Lintian::Data for list of debhelper commands that modify
      maintainer scripts.  Patch by Raphael Geissert.
    + [FL] Add new tag missing-build-dependency-for-dh_-command for
      debhelper commands that are not from the debhelper package.
      Patch by Raphael Geissert.
    + [FL] Add new tag debhelper-but-no-misc-depends which warns
      about missing misc:Depends if you use commands that might
      set it.  Patch by Raphael Geissert.  (Closes: #499737)
  * checks/fields:
    + [ADB] Ignore non-dependency fields when considering whether a
      versioned dependency is satisfied by the perl core packages.
      Based on a patch by Niko Tyni.  (Closes: #500720)
    + [RA] Stop checking for a libmodule-build-perl build dependency since
      Module::Build now comes with Perl.  Thanks, Raphael Hertzog.
      (Closes: #506697)
  * checks/files:
    + [ADB] Apply patches from Raphael Geissert to update the list of
      embedded PHP libraries:
      - Add detection for the Snoopy and GeSHi libraries and the use of
        phpmailer.inc (rather than .php).
      - Enable the libmarkdown-php check, as the package is now in unstable.
      - Add support for the (not currently packaged and thus disabled) IXR
        and kses libraries.
  * checks/infofiles:
    + [FL] Use $known_shells_regex from common_data.
  * checks/menus:
    + [FL] Use $known_shells_regex from common_data.
  * checks/patch-systems{,.desc}:
    + [ADB] Don't include dpatch comment lines containing no content
      when determining whether the patch includes a description.
      (Closes: #503695)
    + [ADB] Add missing "diffstat" to the Needs-Info field.
    + [ADB] Check whether quilt patches include a description.
      (Closes: #498892)
  * check/scripts:
    + [FL] Use $known_shells_regex from common_data.
    + [FL] Add icmake as a known interpreter as requested by
      Frank B. Brokken.  (Closes: #505868)
  * checks/shared-libs{,.desc}:
    + [ADB] Don't issue both symbols-file-contains-debian-revision and
      symbols-file-contains-current-version-with-debian-revision for any
      given symbol, as the latter implies the former and may thus create
      noise in the tests' output.  (Closes: #505826)
    + [ADB] Add an experimental tag flagging shared libraries that call
      _exit() or exit() without at some point calling fork() (a somewhat
      inaccurate heuristic, but one which should weed out a number of
      false positives).  (Closes: #504257)
  
  * collection/objdump-info:
    + [ADB] Only use readelf to emulate objdump if objdump returned "file
      format not recognized".  In cases where the objdump output was "invalid
      operation", the output of etch's readelf is not particularly useful
      and it's easier to simply let the checks scripts handle the objdump
      output.
  
  * debian/control:
    + [FL] Add dependency on libipc-run-perl for Lintian::Command.

  * doc/lintian.sgml:
    + [ADB] Correct a few typos in the "overrides" section.

  * frontend/lintian:
    + [FL] Convert to use Lintian::Output.
    + [CW] Add jaunty as an allowable distribution for Ubuntu, and remove
      the EOLed edgy and feisty.
    + [ADB] Don't complain about unused overrides if the check script
      for the overriden tag hasn't been run (or --tags was used and
      the overriden tag not specified).  (Closes: #501722)
  
  * lib/Lintian/Output:
    + [FL] New module to bundle output methods.
  * lib/Tags/{ColonSeparated,LetterQualifier}.pm:
    + [FL] Move to lib/Lintian/Output and convert to subclasses of
      Lintian::Output.
  * lib/Lintian/Output/XML.pm:
    + [FL] New experimental output format.
  * lib/Lintian/Command:
    + [FL] New utility module as a replacement for Pipeline. Provides
      a convenient wrapper around IPC::Run.
  
  * lib/Lab.pm:
    + [FL] Convert to use Lintian::Output.
  * lib/Tags.pm:
    + [FL] Convert to use Lintian::Output.
  * lib/Pipeline.pm:
    + [FL] Remove, replaced by Lintian::Command.
  * lib/Spelling.pm:
    + [RA] Add subversion to Subversion correction for package descriptions.
      Thanks, Sandro Tosi.  (Closes: #506793)
    + [ADB] Don't check text contained within square brackets for
      capitalisation mistakes.  This allows for lists such as "[ cvs |
      subversion ]" to be included.
  * lib/Util.pm:
    + [FL] Convert to use Lintian::Output.
    + [FL] Add some new utility functions: delete_dir copy_dir gunzip_file
      touch_file.
  
  * private/refresh-debhelper-data:
    + [FL] New script to update debhelper related data by Raphael Geissert.
      - data/debhelper/miscDepends_commands: debhelper commands that set
         misc:Depends
      - data/debhelper/maint_commands: debhelper commands that edit
         maintainer scripts
      - data/debhelper/dh_packages: packages that contain debhelper commands
      - data/debhelper/dh_commands: mapping of debhelper commands to
         packages they are contained in

  * testset/{diffs,filenames}:
    + [ADB] Generate the files "files/'\ " and "filenames.c~" at build time 
      instead of including it in the source package, to allow lintian to be
      imported in to Bazaar.

 -- Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>  Sun, 28 Sep 2008 10:35:47 +0200

lintian (2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low

  The "and this is only the beginning" release.

  * checks/fields:
    + [RA] Allow tildes in the optional version number in the Source
      field.  Thanks, Rene Engelhard.  (Closes: #500063)

  * checks/scripts:
    + [ADB] Detect brace expansions with either a leading or trailing
      blank component (e.g. "{foo,}"). Thanks to Jonny Lamb for pointing
      this out.
  
  * frontend/lintian:
    + [FL] Fix config file parsing which I completly broke in ~rc1.
  
  * lib/Lintian/Schedule.pm:
    + [FL] Fix parsing of source package entries in package lists.

  * man/lintian.1:
    + [FL] Remove a stray backslash.
  
  * reporting/harness:
    + [FL] Include STDERR output in lintian.log.

 -- Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>  Sun, 28 Sep 2008 01:08:41 +0200

lintian (2.0.0~rc2) experimental; urgency=low

  * Summary of tag changes:
    + Added:
      - package-superseded-by-perl
  
  * checks/copyright-file:
    + [FL] Also detect v1.1 of CeCILL license, not only v2.0.
      (Closes: #498994)
  * checks/debhelper:
    + [FL] Use new Lintian::Collect::Source->binaries method.
  * checks/fields{,.desc}:
    + [FL] Warn about Perl module packages superseded by Perl
      core.  Patch by Niko Tyni.  (Closes: #498897)
  * checks/rules:
    + [FL] Do not issue desktop-file-but-no-dh_desktop-call if the
      package uses dh.  (Closes: #497247)
  * checks/scripts:
    + [FL] Accept the ocaml virtual packages as providing ocamlrun.
      Based on a patch by Stephane Glondu.  (Closes: #495431)
  * checks/standards-version:
    + [FL] Use new Lintian::Collect::Source->binaries method to
      fix udeb detection.  Thanks to Raphael Geissert.
      (Closes: #498096)
  
  * frontend/lintian:
    + [FL] Add support for ranges to --display-level.
  
  * lib/Lintian/Collect/Source.pm:
    + [FL] New binaries method that returns a hash with binary package
      names and types.

 -- Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>  Sun, 21 Sep 2008 15:56:51 +0200

lintian (2.0.0~rc1) experimental; urgency=low

  * [FL] Merge the results of the GSoC project by Jordà Polo,
    which fully implements a tag classification system in two
    dimensions (Severity and Certainty).
    The default output is unchanged, see the documentation on
    how to utilize the new features.
  
  * Summary of tag changes:
    + Added:
      - description-contains-dh-make-perl-template
      - doc-base-uses-applications-section (actually a split of
         doc-base-unknown-section in two tags)
      - embedded-pear-module
      - embedded-php-library
      - improbable-bug-number-in-closes
      - maintainer-also-in-uploaders
      - maintainer-script-ignores-errors
      - manpage-has-errors-from-pod2man
      - ored-build-depends-on-obsolete-package (actually a split of
         build-depends-on-obsolete-package in two tags)
      - versioned-dependency-satisfied-by-perl
      - windows-devel-file-in-package
    + Removed:
      - package-needs-python-policy-debhelper
  
  * checks/*.desc:
    + [ADB] Fix a number of spelling mistakes and typoes.
  * checks/changelog-file{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Warn about closing a bug number less than 100; this is likely
      a typo or placeholder.  Thanks, Raphael Geissert.  (Closes: #497350)
  * checks/debconf:
    + [ADB] Avoid flagging a template as unused if its definition is
      followed by a string of whitespace.
  * checks/debhelper{,.desc}:
    + [FL] Do not require versioned build-depends for compat level 5
      anymore.  Sarge is not supported anymore.  (Closes: #496826)
    + [FL] Drop package-needs-python-policy-debhelper.  Sarge is not
      supported anymore.
  * checks/description{,.desc}:
    + [FL] Warn about left-over dh-make-perl statement.
  * checks/fields{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Check for a maintainer also listed in uploaders.  Patch from
      Raphael Geissert.
    + [ADB] Don't issue an error tag for obsolete packages in Build-Depends
      fields if the package is part of an "ORed group" of packages and is
      not listed first.  As with Depends, an info tag will still be issued
      for such packages.  (Closes: #496875)
    + [FL] Check Enhances together with the other relational fields.
    + [FL] Add ant to @rule_clean_depends.  (Closes: #498135)
    + [FL] Due to a logical error "source-field-malformed" was never actually
      checked.  Patch by Raphael Geissert.  (Closes: #498197)
    + [FL] Check for unnecessary versioned dependencies on Perl core modules.
      Patch by Niko Tyni.  (Closes: #497887)
  * checks/files{,.desc}:
    + [RA,FL] Patches from Raphael Geissert:
      - Check for embedding copies of jsjac and jsMath.
      - Check for embedded copies of tinymce/2 and allow the usage of
        regexes on pkgs names.
      - Add xinha on the embedded js lib check, which is not yet in the archive
        thus disabled.
      - Add experimental check for embedded copies of PEAR PHP modules.
    + [ADB] Rework the description for embedded-javascript-library to make
      it clear that the listed libraries are examples rather than an
      exclusive list.  Also fix a spelling mistake.
    + [ADB] Re-add an accidentally removed slash to the check for embedded
      Javascript libraries, removing some false positives.  (Closes: #497215)
    + [FL] Check for Windows Development files in packages.  Based on a patch
      by Raphael Geissert.
  * checks/manpages{,.desc}:
    + [FL] Warn about the POD ERRORS sections pod2man generates.
      (Closes: #497864)
  * checks/menus{,.desc}:
    + [FL] Do not complain if the unknown doc-base section is the subsection
      of a known section.  The doc-base documentation seems to suggest that
      this is o.k.  (Closes: #495836)
    + [FL] Issue a special tag if the doc-base section would be valid except
      for a prefixed App(lication)s.
  * checks/scripts:
    + [FL] Change all regular expressions in depends_needed to
      require spaces after the command and not \b. There are
      very few cases where this would produce false negatives
      but there are reported false positives for the current
      expressions.
    + [RA] Improve the check for possibly insecure /tmp files to check
      variable assignment as well and reduce false positives by ignoring
      uses with $RANDOM or without a filename.  Based on a patch from
      Raphael Geissert.
    + [FL] Update lists of available interpreter versions (remove: jruby1.1,
      pike7.7, php4, octave2.9, add: tcl8.6, tk8.6).  (Closes: #485954)
    + [FL] Add . and + to regex for command-with-path-in-maintainer-script.
      Based on a patch from Raphael Geissert.
    + [FL] Check for missing set -e in maintainer scripts. Patch by
      Raphael Geissert.
    + [FL] Add mksh as a valid interpreter.  (Closes: #498075)
    + [FL] Handle continued lines in maintainer shell scripts correctly.
      Based on a patch by Rafael Laboissiere.  (Closes: #495176)

  * collection/objdump-info:
    + [ADB] Correctly handle shared objects with no symbol versioning when
      using readelf.
    + [ADB] Update the readelf version table parsing code to handle hidden
      symbols.
  
  * data/fields/perl-provides:
    + [FL] Data about Perl modules that are available both in Perl and as
      separate packages.
  * private/refresh-perl-provides:
    + [FL] Script to update data/fields/perl-provides.  By Niko Tyni.
  
  * doc/lintian.sgml:
    + [FL] Document wildcard support in overrides.

  * frontend/lintian:
    + [RA] Ensure we close the pipe to lintian-info before exiting, since
      otherwise lintian-info may print the rest of our output after
      lintian exits, producing confusing output interleaved with the
      shell prompt.  (Closes: #496295)
    + [FL] Actually make package version available to output formatters.
      Currently used only by experimental colon-separated output.
    + [FL] Use new module Lintian::Schedule and make package architecture
      available to output formatters if possible.
      Currently used only by experimental colon-separated output.
  
  * lib/Tags.pm:
    + [FL] Add support for specifying wildcards in overrides.
      (Closes: #253884)
  * lib/Tags/ColonSeparated.pm:
    + [FL] Update for new features and make a little bit easier to read
      for humans:
      - Update the format to include the new severity/certainty info.
      - Include information whether the tag is experimental.
      - Move the detailled override info to the end but include info
        flag about the override status in the same column that also
        includes the experimental flag info.
  * lib/Lintian/Schedule.pm:
    + [FL] Factor out some scheduling code.
  * lib/Lintian/Data.pm:
    + [FL] Extend Lintian::Data to handle key/value pairs.  Patch by
      Niko Tyni.
  
  * man/lintian.1:
    + [FL] Document udeb support in description for --packages-file.
  
  * reporting/templates/maintainer.tmpl:
    + [ADB] Don't list packages in the summary at the top of the main
      report page if all of the issues reported for the package were
      "info" or "experimental".  (Closes: #498617)

  * t/runtests:
    + [FL] Copy the changes to testset/runtests from JP's branch.
    + [FL] Remove global tests that were duplicated from testset/runtests,
      which will not go away in the forseeable future.
    + [FL] Print a warning if no tests were run.  Based on a patch by
      Raphael Geissert.
    + [RA] Fix single test mode.
  * testset/runtests:
    + [FL] Print a warning if no tests were run.  Based on a patch by
      Raphael Geissert.

 -- Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>  Sun, 14 Sep 2008 03:31:54 +0200

lintian (1.24.4) unstable; urgency=low

  The "[JP] is Jordà Polo" release.
  
  * checks/*.desc:
    + [JP] Update, fix and unify various manual references. 
  * checks/copyright-file:
    + [ADB] Don't flag copyright files using phrases such as "previously
      distributed under the GNU GPL" as lacking a reference to the license.
      Thanks Raphael Geissert.
  * checks/cruft{,.desc}:
    + [FL] Add new check for outdated libtool files.
      (Closes: #293296)
    + [FL] Don't exclude all of lintian, but only files in the test suites.
  * checks/files{,.desc}:
    + [ADB] Don't warn about embedded Javascript libraries in the package
      that actually provides the library. Thanks Raphael Geissert for
      pointing out the problem.  (Closes: #494577)
    + [ADB] Enhance the description of package-contains-empty-directory to
      mention how to remove such directories when building the package.
      Thanks Chris Lamb.  (Closes: #495153)
    + [ADB] Add libjs-yui (the Yahoo User Interface Library) to the list of
      packages which contain Javascript libraries and should be depended upon
      rather than embedded in other packages.  Patch from Chris Lamb.
      (Closes: #495155)
  * checks/manpages:
    + [RA] Also ignore "cannot adjust line" errors from man for lines that
      contain URLs.  Thanks, Stéphane Glondu.  (Closes: #491578)
  * checks/scripts:
    + [ADB] Split the "read without variable or with invalid options" bashism
      test in two, thus enabling the checks to be more accurate and avoiding
      an uninitialized variable warning.  (Closes: #494450)
    + [RA] Add dash to the recognized characters in a command in
      command-with-path-in-maintainer-script to avoid truncation.  Thanks,
      Thijs Kinkhorst.  (Closes: #494723)
    + [RA] Add jruby1.1, thanks Sebastien Delafond.  (Closes: #494919)
  * checks/shared-libs{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Clarify that shlibs-declares-dependency-on-other-package can be
      issued for a version mismatch.  (Closes: #494400)
    + [ADB] Correctly match alternative dependency templates in symbols
      files which specify an unversioned dependency.
  * checks/standards-version:
    + [FL] Avoid Perl warning if only the timestamp could not be parsed.

  * collection/objdump-info:
    + [ADB] Correctly parse a readelf symbol version block containing the
      definition of a single symbol.

  * debian/rules:
    + [FL] Use $(PERL) instead of a hardcoded path.
    + [FL] Clean-up the binary-indep code.
    + [FL] Add build stamp file.
  
  * doc/README{,.in}:
    + [FL] Move README to README.in and add the listing of lintian
      options on build time from lintian --help.
  
  * frontend/lintian:
    + [FL] Do not try to use fail() before the lintian libraries are
      loaded.
    + [JP] Allow tags from the "lintian" checkset to be specified with --tags.
  
  * lib/manual_refs:
    + [JP] Regenerate with new manual_refs_update.pl script.
      (Closes: #493660)
  * lib/Read_taginfo.pm, lib/Manual_refs.pm:
    + [JP] Add support for new manuals, allow specifying manual
      sections by id and not only by section number.
    + [JP] Link manpages to manpages.debian.net.
  
  * private/manual_refs_update.pl:
    + [JP] Add support for many more manuals (FHS, debconf-spec,
      {menu,python,perl}-policy, libpkg-guide).

 -- Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>  Fri, 22 Aug 2008 07:43:52 +0200

lintian (1.24.3) unstable; urgency=low
  
  The "greetings from Argentina" release.

  * checks/binaries:
    + [ADB] Use Lintian::Collect throughout rather than reparsing file-info
      and objdump-info.
  * checks/changelog-file{,.desc}:
    + [ADB] Use Lintian::Collect instead of reading the fields/*, file-info
      and objdump-info files.
    + [ADB] Remove a misplaced word from the description of the tag
      "debian-changelog-file-contains-invalid-email-address".
  * checks/copyright-file{,.desc}:
    + [ADB] Drop the "copyright line too long" check.  Most of the issues
      it flags aren't easily fixable, particularly where the copyright file
      is (semi)automatically generated.  (Closes: #491302, #491365, #491685)
    + [ADB] Use Lintian::Collect for accessing control fields and reading the
      list of files in the package.
    + [ADB] Don't flag use of version 1 of the GPL, or licenses using phrases
      such as "compatible with the GPL" (for example, the W3C Software
      License) as missing a reference to common-licenses
    + [ADB] Replace references to the GPL in GFDL and LGPL related tags
      with the appropriate license.  Also remove a misplaced word.
  * checks/cruft:
    + [ADB] Use Lintian::Collect for accessing control fields
  * checks/debconf:
    + [ADB] Don't complain about unused debconf templates in udebs.
      (Closes: #491135)
    + [RA] Try to recognize at least some debconf template uses in Perl.
    + [ADB] Replace fields/* and scripts access with Lintian::Collect
    + [ADB] Don't flag the shared templates used for dictionaries-common
      co-ordination as unused.
    + [FL] Remove debconf-error-requires-versioned-depends since post-lenny
      a tag for the sake of sarge-backports clearly makes no sense anymore.
      (Closes: #493920)
  * checks/description:
    + [RA] Don't warn about a synopsis that ends in "etc."  Patch from
      Chris Lamb.  (Closes: #491252)
    + [ADB] Use Lintain::Collect to read the package's description.
  * checks/etcfiles:
    + [ADB] Walk Lintian::Collect->index instead of reading the "index" file.
  * checks/fields{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Warn about packages that depend exclusively on makedev.
      Thanks, Josh Triplett.  (Closes: #491625)
    + [ADB] Use Lintian::Collect::field() to determine the content of fields
      from control files rather than reading the fields/* files. This and
      similar changes to other scripts should improve performance as the
      Collect object caches the lookup result.
    + [ADB] Reformat a couple of tags' descriptions.
  * checks/files{,.desc}:
    + [ADB] Switch to using Lintian::Collect.
    + [ADB] Fix a couple of bugs in the parsing of the list of scripts
      contained within a package which led to scripts in /usr/share/doc
      being incorrectly tagged as executable-in-usr-share-doc.
    + [ADB] Update a couple of Policy references.  Thanks Jordà Polo.
    + [ADB] Warn when a package embeds a copy of the Universal Feed Parser.
      Patch from Chris Lamb.  (Closes: #493156)
    + [FL, ADB] Don't issue tag file-in-unusal-dir for files where we already
      issued one of the specific dir-or-file-in-* tags.  (Closes: #493921)
    + [ADB] Add a missing "have" to package-contains-ancient-file's
      description.
  * checks/huge-usr-share:
    + [ADB] Replace (the single) direct access to fields/* with ::field()
    + [ADB] Replace an outdated link to the Developer's Reference.
      Thanks Jordà Polo.
  * checks/infofiles{,.desc}:
    + [ADB] Use Lintian::Collect to retrieve information about the files
      being processed.
    + [ADB] Update the tag "install-info-not-called-with-quiet-option"'s
      Policy reference.  Thanks Jordà Polo.
  * checks/init.d.desc:
    + [ADB] Update a Policy reference.  Thanks Jordà Polo.
  * checks/lintian.desc:
    + [ADB] Add a Policy reference to bad-section-in-changes-file.  Thanks
      Jordà Polo.
  * checks/manpages{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Suppress warnings about inability to break a line that contains
      a URL.  URLs often can't be usefully broken.  Based on a patch by
      Damyan Ivanov.  (Closes: #491578)
    + [ADB] Update the Policy reference for manpage-has-wrong-extension.
    + [ADB] Use Lintian::Collect rather than parsing the "index" and
      "file-info" files.
    + [FL] In description for manpage-has-errors-from-man note how to
      reproduce this errors outside of lintian.  (Closes: #492930)
  * checks/menu-format{,.desc}:
    + [ADB] Use Lintian::Collect to parse the list of files in the package.
    + [ADB] Don't raise menu-command-not-in-package for 'sensible-browser'
      or 'sh'.  Thanks Raphael Geissert.
    + [RA] Warn about .kdelnk files and [KDE Desktop Entry] headings in
      desktop files.  Patch from Raphael Geissert.
  * checks/menus{,.desc}:
    + [ADB] Fix a typo; thanks Jordà Polo.
    + [ADB] Use the file list from Lintian::Collect.
  * checks/nmu{,.desc}:
    + [ADB] Use Lintian::Collect for maintainer / uploader information
    + [ADB] Add a DevRef reference to changelog-should-mention-nmu.  Thanks
      Jordà Polo.
  * checks/patch-systems:
    + [RA] Combine all patch-system-but-direct-changes-in-diff instances
      into a single message to reduce the noise from packages that rebuild
      all auto-generated files outside the patch system.  Thanks, Julien
      Cristau.  (Closes: #491296)
    + [ADB] Migrate fields/* reading to use ::Collect::field().
  * checks/po-debconf{,.desc}:
    + [ADB] Check that at least one complete translation exists.  Thanks Jordà
      Polo.
  * checks/rules:
    + [ADB] Use ::Collect for field access.
    + [FL] Do not complain about using dh in a unused binary-* target.
  * checks/scripts{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Warn about maintainer scripts that prepend a path to commands.
      Based on a patch by Raphael Geissert.  (Closes: #376184)
    + [ADB] Don't read fields/*, scripts, index or file-info directly as the
      contents have almost certainly been cached in Lintian::Collect already.
    + [ADB] Update a couple of Policy references.  Thanks Jordà Polo.
  * checks/shared-libs.{,desc}:
    + [ADB] Improve the description of no-symbols-control-file.
    + [ADB] Migrate to using ::Collect instead of parsing the index, file-info
      and objdump-info files directly.
    + [ADB] Disable ldconfig-symlink-before-shlib-in-deb as it can never be
      tested correctly using the information currently available to the
      scripts
  * checks/watch-file:
    + [FL] Do not issue debian-watch-file-should-mangle-version for
      empty watch files.

  * data/doc-base/sections:
    + [ADB] Resynchronize with doc-base's section list (adding
      Programming/OCaml).  (Closes: #491440)

  * debian/postrm:
    + [FL] Do not try to remove /var/spool/lintian if it doesn't exist
      (dpkg might already removed it at this point).

  * doc/desc-files:
    + [ADB] Update the description of tags to include experimental and info
      tags.
  * doc/README:
    + [ADB] Add -E / --show-experimental, -T / --tags and --tags-from-file
      to the option list.
  
  * frontend/lintian:
    + [FL, ADB] Add new --tags/-T option to limit the amount of checks
      run not by check names but by names of tags you're interested
      in.  Requested by Joerg Jaspert for ftpmaster.  (Closes: #493903)
    + [FL] Add --tags-from-file option to make it easier to specify
      a long list of tags.

  * lib/Lintian/Collect/Binary.pm:
    + [ADB] When parsing objdump-info, indicate whether a shared object is
      an Ocaml executable.  Also add information on segments which various
      checks scripts use which hadn't made it here yet.
    + [ADB] Make index() return a hash rather than an array
    + [ADB] Add support for parsing the "scripts" index file
  * lib/Read_taginfo.pm:
    + [FL] Handle URLs in the Ref: field.
  * lib/Tags.pm:
    + [ADB] If --tags was used, don't issue tags that aren't in the provided
      list.

  * man/lintian.1
    + [ADB] Update the list of check scripts, removing the no longer present
      deb-format and perl and adding the nmu script.
    + [FL] Document the new --tags/-T option.
    + [FL] Document the new --tags-from-file option.

  * reporting/templates/index.tmpl:
    + [RA] Add a link to lintian.log.  Suggested by Stefano Zacchiroli.

  * t/:
    + [FL] Begin work on a new testsuite.
  
  * testset/fields:
    + [ADB] New testset from Tobias Quathamer (including some tags which
      previously weren't tested)
  * testset/tags.scripts{,.sed}:
    + [ADB] Munge .changes filenames so that the tests produce consistent
      output across architectures

 -- Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>  Sat, 09 Aug 2008 00:35:13 -0300

lintian (1.24.2) unstable; urgency=low

  The "welcome Adam D. Barratt!" release.
  
  * checks/binaries.desc:
    + [ADB] Add some FHS references.  Thanks Jordà Polo.
  * checks/changelog-file{,.desc}:
    + [ADB] Add missing "use Dep". Thanks gregor herrmann (Closes: #488397)
    + [RA] Ignore "CNRI OPEN SOURCE GPL-COMPATIBLE LICENSE AGREEMENT" when
      looking for missing GPL references.  Thanks, Scott Kitterman.
      (Closes: #490264)
    + [ADB] Fix a typo in the description of syntax-error-in-debian-changelog.
      Thanks Jordà Polo.
  * checks/copyright-file{,.desc}:
    + [ADB] Check for over-long lines in copyright files.  (Closes: #479651)
  * checks/cruft{,.desc}:
    + [ADB] Check for BTS control directories in source packages and diffs
      in addition to the existing binary package checks.  (Closes: #481787)
  * checks/debconf{,.desc}:
    + [ADB] Warn about the use of "_Choices" in templates file and suggest
      using "__Choices" instead (Closes: #481152)
    + [ADB] Check all maintainer scripts for issues, rather than just config
      and postinst.
    + [ADB] Detect debconf templates which appear to be unused.
    + [ADB] Replace the {config,postinst}-loads-obsolete-confmodule tags
      with a new loads-obsolete-confmodule test which is used for all
      maintainer scripts and outputs the script name as part of its extra data.
  * checks/description{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Warn about duplicated words in the description.  Patch from
      Raphael Geissert.  (Closes: #424746)
  * checks/fields{,.desc}:
    + [FL] Do not complain about obsolete packages if there are
      non-obsolete alternatives specified and if the obsolete
      package is not listed first.  Issue an info tag for them
      though.  Patch by Adam D. Barratt.  (Closes: #486145)
    + [ADB] Update and add some Policy and DevRef references and fix some
      typoes.  Thanks Jordà Polo.
    + [RA] Recognize and do not warn about Ubuntu security update version
      numbers for multiple releases.  (Closes: #489222)
  * checks/files{,.desc}:
    + [ADB] Warn if the package contains embedded copies of separately
      packaged Javascript libraries.  Patch by Chris Lamb.  (Closes: #489191)
    + [ADB] Fix a typo in the description of executable-is-not-world-readable
  * checks/infofiles{,.desc}:
    + [ADB] Warn if the package's postinst installs info directory entries
      but the prerm doesn't remove them.  (Closes: #182512)
    + [ADB] Treat --remove-exactly as indicating removal of an info directory
      entry as well as --remove.
  * checks/menus{,.desc}:
    + [ADB] Check that menu-method files include menu.h (Closes: #184104)
  * checks/nmu:
    + [RA] When comparing maintainers, treat the right-hand side of the
      e-mail address as case-insensitive.  (Closes: #486795)
  * checks/patch-systems{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Check quilt patches as well as dpatch patches, and also check
      quilt patches when using the 3.0 (quilt) package format.  Fix build
      dependency checking and check all dpatch files.  Patch from Raphaël
      Hertzog.  (Closes: #484549)
    + [ADB] Treat 00list* as dpatch series files rather than just 00list.
      (Closes: #482040). Also rename dpatch-index-references-non-existant-patch
      to dpatch-index-references-non-existent-patch.
  * checks/rules{,.desc}:
    + [RA] Warn about use of DEB_BUILD_OPTS.  Patch from Raphael Geissert.
  * checks/scripts:
    + [FL] Apply File::Spec->canonpath() to rpaths to improve
      matching with directories.
    + [FL] Do not check zsh scripts, since zsh -n gives false
      positives.  Downgrades #485885 to wishlist.  Also see
      #175467.  Patch by Raphael Geissert.
    + [FL] Remove "quoted quotes". They're likely to be inside
      another pair of quotes; we're not interested in
      them for their own sake and removing them makes finding
      the limits of the outer pair far easier.  Patch by
      Adam D. Barratt.
    + [FL] Improve heredoc detection.  Patch by Adam D. Barratt.
    + [FL] Improve script_is_evil_and_wrong() to catch more scripts.
      Patch by Adam D. Barratt.
    + [ADB] Update bashism regexes to add new checks, improve performance
      and reduce false positives. (Closes: #490227)
  * checks/shared-libs{,.desc}:
    + [ADB] Implement syntax and sanity checking for symbols files
      (Closes: #452216)
    + [ADB] Check symbols files for dependencies that are not satisfied by
      the package itself (Closes: #461575)
  * checks/standards-version{.desc,}:
    + [RA] Only issue out-of-date-standards-version once.  Noticed by
      Raphael Geissert.
    + [RA] Base the two-year clock for ancient-standards-version on when
      the Policy version was superseded, not when it was issued.  Thanks,
      Scott Kitterman.  (Closes: #487780)
    + [RA] Warn for packages declaring a standards version released after
      the date of the most recent changelog entry.  Based on a patch by
      Raphael Geissert.
  * checks/watch-file{,.desc}:
    + [FL] Check for more Debian specific strings in version
      number.  Issue an info tag if the watch file uses
      uversionsmangle to add the Debian specific string. Patch
      by Raphael Geissert.  (Closes: #485879)
    + [RA] Warn about watch files in native packages and check those watch
      files for other problems anyway.  Allow whitespace around the
      version declaration.  More correctly handle continuation lines.
      Patch from Raphael Geissert.
    + [RA] Check for using the Sourceforge QA redirector with deprecated
      arguments.  Patch from Raphael Geissert.
    + [RA] Be more explicit when warning about missing watch files that
      Lintian recommends adding a watch file containing only comments for
      any non-native package where it's not possible to write a meaningful
      watch file, not only for packages unmaintained upstream.

  * collection/objdump-info:
    + [ADB] If objdump from binutils 2.17 fails to parse a file then
      attempt to gather the required information using readelf instead.
      This allows us to process 64-bit packages on etch/i386 again
      (i.e. on lintian.d.o)  (Closes: #487746)

  * data/fields/obsolete-packages:
    + [RA] mailx is not obsolete.  It's a virtual package.  Thanks, martin
      f krafft.  (Closes: #488114)
    + [RA] Add the cupsys packages, all of which have been renamed to cups.
      Patch from Raphael Geissert.
  
  * debian/control:
    + [FL] Adapt VCS-* headers for move from SVN to git.
  * debian/copyright:
    + [FL] Add Patrick Schoenfeld (for checks/watch-file).
    + [ADB] Update repository information and GPL2 URL.
    + [RA] Add Adam D. Barratt to the maintainer list so that readers can
      expand initials in the changelog.
  * debian/{prerm,postrm}:
    + [RA] Move prerm to postrm and remove the default /var/spool/lintian
      lab using shell instead of lintian.  We only want to remove the lab
      on purge, and purge is only passed to postrm, not prerm, by which
      point the lintian frontend is gone.  (Closes: #489860)
  
  * doc/CREDITS:
    + [FL] Add Raphael Geissert and Adam D. Barratt.
  * doc/lintian.sgml:
    + [ADB] Add reference to new option to display experimental tags.

  * frontend/lintian:
    + [ADB] Add a new --show-experimental / -E option which indicates
      that experimental tags should be displayed.
    + [RA] Exit with the correct exit status if no packages were found
      because non-existent packages were specified on the command line.

  * lib/Lintian/Collect/Binary.pm:
    + [FL] Add support for file-info file.
    + [FL] Add support for objdump-info file.
  * lib/Spelling.pm:
    + [RA] Add a couple more spelling corrections and capitalization
      checks for LaTeX and TeX.  Thanks, Raphael Geissert.
  * lib/Tags.pm:
    + [ADB] (Re-)Add support for experimental tags.
  
  * man/lintian.1:
    + [FL] Document watch-file check.
    + [ADB] Document new option to display experimental tags.
    + [RA] Refer to lintian-info(1) for printing tag descriptions.  Patch
      from Chris Lamb.  (Closes: #490374)
  
  * reporting/harness:
    + [ADB] Process packages using -E so that experimental tags are included.
  * reporting/html_reports:
    + [FL] Mark the tag pages with the correct code.
  * reporting/lintian.css:
    + [RA] New style for marking packages that override a tag on the tag
      summary page.  Patch from Jordà Polo.
  * reporting/templates/clean.tmpl:
    + [ADB] Note that the full report includes experimental tags.
  * reporting/templates/tag.tmpl:
    + [FL] Mark overridden tags.
    + [RA] Mark packages that override all instances of a given tag.
      Patch from Jordà Polo.
  * reporting/templates/maintainer.tmpl:
    + [FL] Add useful links for each source package.
      With layout help by Jordà Polo.
    + [FL] Include Co-maintained packages in the summary
      at the top of the page.  Also sort the list.  Patch
      by Jordà Polo.
    + [ADB] Note that the full report includes experimental tags.

  * testset/runtests:
    + [ADB] Support experimental tags

 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>  Sun, 13 Jul 2008 17:28:08 -0700

lintian (1.24.1) unstable; urgency=medium
  
  The "mostly for the benefit of lintian.debian.org only" release.

  * frontend/lintian:
    + [FL] Increase LAB_FORMAT to 8. This should have happened
      in 1.23.47, since the unpack-binpkg-l1 then produced a
      new file which checks depend upon.  Since this only
      affects static labs and only if packages get rechecked
      (i.e. not on harness -i runs) it only got noticed now.
      Use urgency=medium for this fix.
  
  * checks/watch-file:
    + [FL] Fix the order of two regular expression to use
      the more specific one first.  Patch by Raphael Geissert.
      (Closes: #485884)
  
  * unpack/unpack-binpkg-l1:
    + [FL] Don't include version number from Source: field in
      the source symlink.  Noted by RA.  (Closes: #485474)
  
  * lib/Lintian/Collect/Binary.pm:
    + [FL] New module for retrieving binary package information.
  
  * reporting/checkout-release:
    + [FL] New helper script for lintian.d.o maintenance.
  * reporting/config:
    + [FL] Generate files in $HOME/www directly instead
      of $HOME/www/reports.
  * reporting/html_reports:
    + [FL] Allow inclusion of the new shared templates by
      convenient functions. Remove some duplicated data
      setting while I'm on it.
    + [FL] Generate the manual and lintian.log symlinks
      dynamically, so that we don't need the reports subdirectory
      anymore.  Also generate a reports -> . symlink for
      backwards compatibility.
  * reporting/templates/{head,foot}.tmpl:
    + [FL] New templates meant for inclusion by other templates
      for common header and footer parts
  * reporting/templates/index.tmpl:
    + [FL] Remove obsolete reports/ subdirectory from the links.    
  * reporting/templates/maintainer.tmpl:
    + [RA] Redisplay the tag name for each separate binary package, also
      fixing list nesting problems in some cases.  Patch from Jordà
      Polo.
  * reporting/templates/*.tmpl:
    + [FL] Replace common headers/footers with calls to the
      new head()/foot() functions.

 -- Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>  Thu, 12 Jun 2008 17:28:44 +0200

lintian (1.24.0) unstable; urgency=low

  The "Policy 3.8.0, infrastructure evolution, and real web design"
  release.
  
  * checks/binaries:
    + [RA] Fix code for filtering out NSS modules from SONAME checks.
    + [RA] When checking SONAMEs against package names, convert all
      underscores to dashes, not just the first one.  Thanks, Gonéri Le
      Bouder.  (Closes: #482450)
    + [RA] Remove several-sonames-in-same-package.  This is frequently not
      an error and Lintian doesn't have enough information to know.
  * checks/common_data.pm:
    + [RA] armel is now a standard architecture.
    + [RA] Remove %known_obsolete_packages, now handled via data.
    + [RA] Merge %non_standard_archs into %known_archs.
  * checks/control-file{.desc,}:
    + [RA] Check for self-dependencies in the source package since the
      current dpkg-gencontrol silently fixes them but they may indicate
      other problems.  Thanks, Patrick Matthäi.  (Closes: #471740)
  * checks/copyright-file{.desc,}:
    + [RA] Check for copyright files containing the Apache 2.0 license,
      which is now in common-licenses.
  * checks/cruft:
    + [RA] Format: 3.0 (quilt) packages are not native even though they
      have no *.diff.gz.  Thanks, Raphael Hertzog.  (Closes: #483384)
    + [RA] Use the new Lintian::Collect interface to check whether a
      package is native.
  * checks/debconf:
    + [RA] Don't warn about using db_input in postinst if a config script
      also exists and uses db_input.  The package maintainer probably
      knows what they're doing.
  * checks/fields:
    + [RA] Syntax-check Breaks like other relationship fields.  Warn if
      any packages use Breaks for right now.  Only check for duplicate
      libraries and Tcl versions in dependency fields, not Breaks,
      Conflicts, and other similar fields.  Warn if Breaks is used without
      a version.  Check that Breaks is not inconsistent with other
      dependency fields.
    + [RA] Use Lintian::Data to load the obsolete package list.
    + [RA] When checking whether a debug package has proper dependencies,
      allow a dependency on any package name that starts the same as the
      debug package up to the first dash.  This will hopefully produce
      fewer false positives.  Thanks, Josselin Mouette.  (Closes: #476587)
    + [RA] Remove non-standard-architecture-in-source-relation and
      non-standard-architecture.  These aren't bugs.
  * checks/filenames{.desc,}:
    + [RA] Warn about BTS data directories in packages (.be and
      .ditrack).  Patch by Ben Finney.  (Closes: #481787)
  * checks/init.d:
    + [RA] Try to allow for postinst scripts written in Perl and still
      recognize the update-rc.d calls.
  * checks/manpages{.desc,}:
    + [RA] Only ignore errors about wrapping lines for Asian locale man
      pages, since that's where the groff trouble lies.  Ignore character
      set errors for all man pages with old versions of man and no man
      pages with current versions of man since the new character set
      handling should cope.  (Closes: #474052)
    + [FL] Ignore more unicode issues with old man.
    + [RA] Warn about inclusion of the country name in the localized man
      page directory unless it's one of the known exceptions.
    + [RA] Mention in binary-without-manpage that the case of the man page
      should match the case of the binary even if man can find it anyway.
      (Closes: #484028)
  * checks/md5sums:
    + [FL] Don't complain about missing md5sums file if the
      package only contains conffiles.  (Closes: #482869)
  * checks/nmu:
    + [RA] Don't treat "Ack NMU" as an NMU declaration.  Thanks, Joe
      Nahmias.  (Closes: #484600)
    + [RA] Binary NMUs of QA-maintained packages are fine.
  * checks/rules{.desc,}:
    + [RA] Add some basic checks for whether debhelper programs are called
      in a reasonable order.  (Closes: #471869)
    + [RA] Support pattern rules.  (Closes: #483475)
  * checks/scripts:
    + [RA] Catch deprecated chown syntax even when options are given to
      chown.  Patch by Raphael Geissert.  (Closes: #483775)
    + [RA] $((var+1)) now works in dash and is in POSIX, so remove it from
      bashisms.  Patch by Adam D. Barratt.  (Closes: #473156)
  * checks/standards-version{.desc,}:
    + [RA] Largely rewritten.  Now contains a list of standards versions
      with the date when they were released, adding 3.8.0.  Only emit tag
      out-of-date-standards-version if the newer version predates the date
      of the package.  Base ancient-standards-version on whether the
      standards version of the package is more than two years old.  Remove
      package-declares-source-relation-but-has-older-standards-version;
      policy 3.1.0 was a long time ago.  (Closes: #472513)
  * checks/watch-file{.desc,}:
    + [RA] New checks for watch files, based on work by Patrick
      Schoenfeld.  (Closes: #234202, #409104, #456629, #472499)

  * data/fields/obsolete-packages:
    + [RA] Moved from common_data.pm.  Removed many very old packages that
      nothing depends on and added many new packages identified by Riku
      Voipio.  (Closes: #475400)

  * debian/control:
    + [RA] Update standards version to 3.8.0.
    + [RA] Depend on libtimedate-perl for convenient date parsing.

  * frontend/lintian:
    + [RA] Create a new Lintian::Collect object for each package being
      checked and pass it into Checker::runcheck.

  * lib/Checker.pm:
    + [RA] Pass a Lintian::Collect object as the third argument to the run
      function of each check.
  * lib/Lintian/Collect.pm:
    + [RA] New module to retrieve package information.
  * lib/Lintian/Collect/Source.pm:
    + [RA] New module to retrieve source package information.

  * reporting/html_reports:
    + [RA] Copy over images.  Set the maintainer name to "Unknown
      Maintainer" if not known.  Pass the code for a tag into the per-tag
      page.  Based on a patch by Jordà Polo.
  * reporting/images/*:
    + [RA] New logo images from Jordà Polo.
  * reporting/lintian.css:
    + [RA] Significant overhaul of the lintian.d.o design by Jordà Polo.
  * reporting/templates/*:
    + [RA] Significant overhaul of the lintian.d.o design by Jordà Polo.
  * reporting/templates/clean.tmpl:
    + [FL] Include link to full maintainer report.  Suggested by
      Kartik Mistry.

 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>  Sat, 07 Jun 2008 21:09:54 -0700

lintian (1.23.49) unstable; urgency=low

  The "Business as usual" release.

  * checks/binaries:
    + [FL] Ignore rpaths to directories present in the same binary
      package.  Also ignore $ORIGIN since that obviously fulfills
      that criterion.  (Closes: #480636)
  * checks/copyright-file{,.desc}:
    + [FL] Implement new check for dh-make-perl boilerplate.
    + [FL] New check for example URL from dh-make.  Based on
      a patch by Michal Čihař.  (Closes: #481368)
  * checks/debhelper:
    + [FL] dh_lintian needs debhelper >= 6.0.7. Patch by David Paleino.
      (Closes: #479088)
    + [FL] Add basic support for debhelpers new dh utility.
      (Closes: #477628)
    + [FL] Suppress maintainer-script-lacks-debhelper-token for
      single-udeb-only packages as well.  (Closes: #471853)
  * checks/files:
    + [FL] Drop xresources-file-in-etc-without-proper-conflicts, since
      the last package that conflict applies to was released with hamm!
      Reported by Julien Cristau.  (Closes: #480574)
  * checks/menu-format:
    + [FL] Don't issue false positives about menu files in format menu-2.
      We don't check them for errors yet, though.  (Closes: #478578)
  * checks/patch-systems:
    + [FL] Add basic support for dpatch list files which use cpp for
      preprocessing.  Patch by Jörg Sommer.  (Closes: #477057)
  * checks/scripts:
    + [FL] Always use /bin/bash for shell script syntax check to give
      consistent errors on systems with changed /bin/sh.  Suggested
      by Raphael Geissert.  (Closes: #478192)
  
  * frontend/lintian:
    + [FL] Don't issue a warning about Distribution: UNRELEASED in
      .changes files.  It can be annoying to have to ignore this error
      during testing and dupload/dput/dak/etc... all will error out
      on it anyway.  Suggested by martin f krafft.  (Closes: #382327)
    + [FL] Add a --keep-lab option to make it easier to debug temporary
      labs.  (Closes: #401046)
  
  * lib/Util.pm:
    + [FL] Only require Digest::SHA if the code path is really used.
      This makes it unnessesary to install libdigest-sha-perl on
      lintian.debian.org for now.
  
  * man/lintian.1:
    + [FL] Document --keep-lab option.
    + [FL] Fix error in checkname: s/patch-system/patch-systems/.
      Reported by Jörg Sommer.
  
  * reporting/html_reports:
    + [FL] Escape $email variable for usage in URI query strings.  
      Currently it is not used for anything else, so it is most simple
      to do it in the actual code.  Reported by Sandro Tosi.
      (Closes: #481256)

 -- Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>  Tue, 20 May 2008 22:03:58 +0200

lintian (1.23.48) unstable; urgency=low

  The "Perl 5.10 compatibility" release.

  * checks/common_data.pm:
    + [FL] Add 8.5 versions to known_tcls and known_tks.
  * checks/copyright-file:
    + [FL] Also apply the "possible-gpl-code-linked-with-openssl" checks
      to Pre-Depends.
  * checks/menus:
    + [RA] Stop using a deprecated Perl construct that Perl 5.10 no longer
      supports.  Patch from Adam D. Barratt.  (Closes: #479318)
  * checks/shared-libs:
    + [RA] Fix an unescaped | in the regular expression parsing postinst
      files for ldconfig invocation.  The regex had always been broken,
      but in Perl 5.10 it causes a recursion error in the regex engine.
  * checks/version-substvars:
    + [FL] Also apply the "not-binnmuable-*" checks to Pre-Depends.
      (Closes: #472247)

  * frontend/lintian:
    + [RA] Work around a Perl 5.10 bug with Getopt::Long and sub handlers.

  * testset/runtests:
    + [RA] dpkg-source now enables the -i and -I regexes by default.
      Replace the defaults with ones that never match so that we can
      continue testing for cruft left in source packages.

 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>  Sun, 04 May 2008 12:57:48 -0700

lintian (1.23.47) unstable; urgency=low

  The "long time no upload" release.

  * checks/binaries{.desc,}
    + [RA] Permit architecture: all packages to have binaries in the
      multiarch directories.  (Closes: #469301)
    + [RA] Suggest an override for arch: all packages containing binaries
      independent of the host architecture (such as for cross-compiles).
  * checks/changelog-file:
    + [RA] Quash more Perl warnings on badly malformed NEWS.Debian files.
  * checks/control-files:
    + [FL] Add 'triggers' as a valid control file.  Thanks, Joey Hess.
      (Closes: #473840)
  * checks/copyright-file{.desc,}:
    + [RA] Document handling of false positives for GPL, GFDL, and LGPL
      license references and catch the GFDL 1.1 false positive.
    + [FL] Add CeCILL license to false positives list for
      copyright-should-refer-to-common-license-file-for-gpl.  Thanks,
      Alexandre Fayolle.  (Closes: #472933)
  * checks/cruft:
    + [RA] Subversion conflicts generate three files, two with revision
      numbers and one with .mine.  Only warn about the revision numbers;
      .mine probably won't occur alone and may be a false positive.
  * checks/etcfiles:
    + [RA] /etc/init.d/{skeleton,rc,rcS} are not conffiles, and README
      files in /etc need not be.
  * checks/fields.desc:
    + [FL] Remove obsolete section base from list of valid sections in
      unknown-section.  (Closes: #471751)
  * checks/files{.desc,}:
    + [RA] /etc/init.d/{skeleton,README} don't need to be executable.
    + [RA] Warn about linda overrides since linda has been removed from
      the archive.  Thanks, Y Giridhar Appaji Nag.  (Closes: #469603)
    + [RA] Check for numeric owners or groups outside of the reserved
      static ranges.  Patch from Håkon Stordahl.  (Closes: #469924)
    + [RA] Issue errors for installing files under /var/www.  This isn't
      in FHS, may not be the document root, and may break local files if
      it is the document root.  Thanks, Joerg Jaspert.  (Closes: #470403)
    + [RA] Don't consider files in bin directories that contain "copying"
      or "license" to be extra license files.
    + [FL] Don't complain about empty directories under
      /usr/share/python-support since those might be needed.  Thanks,
      Josselin Mouette.  (Closes: #473428)
    + [RA] Ignore extra license files in examples subdirectories of
      /usr/share/doc.  Thanks, Daniel Jacobowitz.  (Closes: #476149)
  * checks/lintian.desc:
    + [FL] Rename md5sum-mismatch-in-changes-file to
      checksum-mismatch-in-changes-file.
  * checks/nmu{.desc,}:
    + [RA] Add support for +nmuX versioning for NMUs of native packages.
      Patch from James Vega.  (Closes: #475026)
    + [RA] Don't consider an NMU changelog entries that mention NMU with
      a variation of the word "incorporate."
  * checks/scripts:
    + [RA] Attempt to quash some Perl warnings.
    + [RA] *.py files in /usr/{lib,share}, /etc/init.d/skeleton, and *.ex
      files do not need to be executable even if they look like scripts.
    + [RA] Add clisp, procmail, and rrdcgi, and another way interpretors
      are templated in *.in files.
    + [RA] Expect unversioned dependencies on OCaml packages rather than
      versioned dependencies since the version changes frequently and
      unversioned dependencies are what people are already using.  Thanks,
      Hideki Yamane.  (Closes: #476417)
    + [RA] Add inetutils-inetd and xinetd as additional update-inetd
      providers.  Patch from Guillem Jover.  (Closes: #474077)
    + [RA] If the call to some supporting program like update-inetd is
      conditional on the existence of the program, assume the maintainer
      knows what they're doing and don't warn.
  * checks/shared-libs:
    + [RA] Move the default ld.so search path into data.  Drop obsolete
      /usr/lib/libg++-dbg, /usr/X11R6/lib/Xaw3d, and libc5 compatibility
      directories in the process.
    + [RA] Allow and expect ldconfig, SONAMEs, and shlibs treatment of
      libraries in multiarch directories.

  * data/binaries/multiarch:
    + [RA] New file listing multiarch binary directories.
  * data/shared-libs/ldconfig-dirs:
    + [RA] New file listing directories searched by ld.so.

  * debian/compat:
    + [FL] Increase debhelper compat level to 5. There is really
      no need anymore to support building on sarge.
  * debian/control:
    + [FL] Add dependency on libdigest-sha-perl.
    + [FL] Increase debhelper dependency to >= 5

  * frontend/lintian:
    + [RA] Qualify relative --root directories so that we don't break
      later.  Patch from Håkon Stordahl.  (Closes: #469925)
    + [CW] Add intrepid as an allowable distribution for Ubuntu.
    + [FL] Support Checksums-* fields in .changes files. Follows
      the same rules as the md5sum check. Add new option --checksums
      as alias for --md5sums.  (Closes: #476565)

  * lib/Spelling.pm:
    + [RA] Avoid Perl warnings when called with an uninitialized value.
    + [RA] Correct "meta package" and "meta-package" in descriptions to
      "metapackage".  Thanks, Frank S. Thomas.  (Closes: #476681)
  * lib/Util.pm:
    + [FL] Rename function get_file_md5sum to get_file_checksum and
      support SHA1 and SHA256.

  * man/lintian.1:
    + [FL] Drop linda from SEE ALSO since it is obsolete now. Suggested
      by Hideki Yamane. (Closes: #474478)
    + [FL] Add new --checksums option.

  * reporting/html_reports:
    + [RA] Base the generation of clean report pages on the maintainer URL
      rather than the full maintainer string so that maintainers with
      different forms of their name won't have clean reports that
      overwrite dirty ones.
    + [RA] Fix the counts in qa-list.txt, which were broken in several
      respects.
    + [RA] Don't consider a maintainer's page error/warning free if there
      are errors or warnings in their co-maintained packages.
  * reporting/templates/maintainer.tmpl:
    + [RA] Always add anchors to the package names even for uploaders.
  
  * testset/copyright:
    + [FL] New testcases by Tobias Toedter.  (Closes: #472665)
  * testset/description:
    + [FL] New testcases by Tobias Toedter.  (Closes: #471838, #477471)

  * unpack/list-srcpkg:
    + [RA] Fix syntax error introduced by Uploaders support.
  * unpack/unpack-binpkg-l1:
    + [RA] Extract a tar listing with numeric owners and groups into
      index-owner-id in the lab.

 -- Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>  Thu, 01 May 2008 15:04:08 +0200

lintian (1.23.46) unstable; urgency=low

  The "five Lintian committers!" release.

  * checks/binaries:
    + [RA] Anchor file matches for Perl libraries and debugging symbols so
      as to not match partial paths.  Based on a patch from Niko Tyni.
      (Closes: #466501)
    + [RA] Also check for make -i when checking if errors from make clean or
      distclean are ignored.  Thanks, Jörg Sommer.  (Closes: #469024)
  * checks/changelog-file:
    + [RA] Adjust for the extra space added by Parse::DebianChangelog when
      checking line length.  Thanks, Robert Millan.  (Closes: #467019)
  * checks/common_data.pm:
    + [RA] Accept (and ignore for now) the new Checksums-Sha1,
      Checksums-Sha256, and Checksums-Md5 fields in source packages.
      Thanks, Raphael Hertzog.  (Closes: #466979)
  * checks/control-file:
    + [RA] Skip empty dependencies for stronger-dependency-implies-weaker.
  * checks/control-files{.desc,}:
    + [FL] Warn about empty control files. I can't see any use for
      them. Exclude udebs though, since they might differ there.
  * checks/copyright-file{.desc,}:
    + [RA] Tests for copyright notices must be case-insensitive.  Patch
      from Chris Lamb.  (Closes: #464992)
    + [RA] When looking for cases where Copyright is separated from a year
      by a newline, also allow (C) before or after the newline.  Thanks,
      Michael Meskes.  (Closes: #465258)
    + [RA] Further explain why lintian looks for a valid copyright notice.
      (Closes: #466714)
    + [RA] Suggest an override if only the Debian packaging or some other
      part of the package not linked with OpenSSL is covered by the GPL.
      Thanks, Andrew Pollock.  (Closes: #469106)
  * checks/cruft{.desc,}:
    + [FL] Add hg to the list of <vcs>-control-dir tags.
    + [RA] In the long description of outdated-autotools-helper-file,
      point to autotool-dev's documentation.  (Closes: #465132)
    + [RA] Remove now-unnecessary workarounds for calling File::Find with
      symlink starting directory.
  * checks/debian-readme{.desc,}:
    + [RA] Warn of references to /usr/doc in README.Debian.  Thanks,
      Guillem Jover.  (Closes: #465192)
  * checks/files{.desc,}:
    + [FL,RA] Merge all the tags for vcs ignore files, inventory files,
      and vcs control dirs. Since the explanations don't actually differ,
      different tags make no sense. While at it, add the mercurial
      equivalents as well and update some of the tag descriptions. Partly
      based on a patch by Chris Lamb.
  * checks/md5sums{.desc,}:
    + [FL] Remove tag md5sums-control-file-is-empty in favour of
      a more general tag in control-files.
  * checks/manpages.desc:
    + [RA] Mention in binary-without-manpage that if the man pages are
      provided by another package on which this package depends, a lintian
      override is appropriate.
  * checks/menu-format:
    + [RA] When the menu or desktop file invokes a quoted command via an
      su program, don't try to check whether the command is in the
      package.  Thanks, Paul Wise.  (Closes: #466665)
  * checks/menus{,desc}:
    + [RA] Check that doc-base files are encoded in UTF-8.  Thanks, Robert
      Luberda.  (Closes: #468759)
    + [RA] Check doc-base sections against the new canonical list.
      Thanks, Robert Luberda.  (Closes: #463474)
  * check/patch-systems:
    + [HE] Warn if the .diff.gz contains changes while the package uses
      a patch system. (Closes: #452215)
  * checks/scripts{.desc,}:
    + [FL] Warn if a maintainer script is a valid shell script but
      doesn't seem to have any actual code.  Based on an idea
      by Justin Pryzby.  (Closes: #410042)
    + [RA] Update regexes based on checkbashisms to remove additional
      false positives and add additional checks.  Thanks, Adam D. Barratt.
    + [RA] Add kaptain.  Thanks, Tobias Toedter.  (Closes: #466701)
    + [RA] Allow zsh-beta as an alternative to zsh.  Thanks, Joost van
      Baal.  (Closes: #468362)
    + [RA] Add yorick.  Thanks, Thibaut Paumard.  (Closes: #468370)
    + [RA] Add warnings for dpkg --assert* flags for features that have
      been guaranteed for nearly a decade.  Thanks, Bernhard R. Link.
      (Closes: #467642)
  * checks/shared-libs{,desc}:
    + [RA] Rename sharedobject-in-library-directory-not-actually-a-shlib
      to sharedobject-in-library-directory-missing-soname for clarity.
      Thanks, Peter Eisentraut.  (Closes: #467425)

  * data/doc-base/sections:
    + [RA] New file listing known doc-base sections.

  * debian/dirs:
    + [RA] Install the base directory for the Lintian root here.
  * debian/rules:
    + [RA] Redo the installation rules to support arbitrary nesting under
      the copied directories.  As a side effect, install
      lib/Tags/ColonSeparated.pm, unbreaking the experimental
      colon-separated output format.

  * frontend/lintian:
    + [CW] Make the presence of an Ubuntu release name in the version number
      trigger the Ubuntu distribution field checks.
    + [RA] Fix option parsing bug leading lintian to incorrectly reject -a
      or -p without a package.

  * lib/Dep.pm:
    + [RA] Skip empty dependencies, avoiding false positives for
      stronger-dependency-implies-weaker.  Patch from Adam D. Barratt.
      (Closes: #469222)
  * lib/Lintian/Data.pm:
    + [RA] New module for loading and querying lists of keywords.
  * lib/Read_pkglists.pm:
    + [RA] Extract Uploaders from the source package list.
  * lib/Spelling.pm:
    + [RA] Add another spelling correction.
    + [RA] Merriam-Webster and the OED have both given up on publically
      vs. publicly, so we should as well.  (Closes: #466617)

  * reporting/html_reports:
    + [RA] Load the correct configuration file.
    + [RA] Include packages for which one is an uploader in one's
      maintainer page, marked accordingly.  (Closes: #421011)
  * reporting/templates/*:
    + [TK] Correct Lintian maintainers address in page footers.
  * reporting/templates/maintainer.html:
    + [RA] Include packages for which the maintainer is an uploader.

  * unpack/list-srcpkg:
    + [RA] Include Uploaders in the package list.
  * unpack/unpack-srcpkg-l2:
    + [RA] Don't rely on the output format of dpkg-source to learn the
      source directory and create a symlink.  Instead, tell dpkg-source to
      unpack the source directly into the unpacked directory.  Discard
      output of dpkg-source to allow for the current version, which prints
      things even with -q (fixed in later versions).  Thanks, Raphael
      Hertzog.  (Closes: #468927)

 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>  Mon, 03 Mar 2008 18:21:32 -0800

lintian (1.23.45) unstable; urgency=low

  The "100 open bugs is magical" release.

  * checks/debconf:
    + [RA] Recognize require as well as use when loading debconf modules
      in Perl.  Thanks, Manoj Srivastava.  (Closes: #464775)
  * checks/fields:
    + [RA] Fix coding error that didn't allow python-all-dev to satisfy a
      Python build dependency.  Thanks, Joerg Jaspert.  (Closes: #464709)
  * checks/manpages:
    + [RA] Ignore another undefined macro generated by pod2man (will be
      fixed with the Pod::Man in Perl 5.10).
  * checks/po-debconf:
    + [RA] Also accept nnn_NN names for po files.  nds_DE and nds_NL are
      valid locales.  Thanks, Christian Perrier.
  * checks/scripts{.desc,}:
    + [RA] Warn of use of start-stop-daemon in maintainer scripts unless
      used with --stop.  Thanks, Kurt Roeckx.  (Closes: #381180)

 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>  Fri, 08 Feb 2008 22:58:32 -0800

lintian (1.23.44) unstable; urgency=low

  The "I can't release a quick fix without *some* other work" release.

  * checks/binaries:
    + [RA] Make an architecture specification after perlapi optional.
      Thanks, gregor herrmann.  (Closes: #464626)
  * checks/copyright-file{.desc,}:
    + [RA] Check the copyright file to ensure it contains at least one
      copyright statement with a date or the term "public domain".  It's
      hard to be thorough without false positives, but this should catch
      the most obvious omissions.  Thanks, Justin Pryzby and Jari Aalto.
      (Closes: #286842, #409131)
  * checks/fields:
    + [RA] Warn of build-dependencies on a Debian revision of -1.  They
      make backporting unnecessarily difficult.  Thanks, Erich Schubert.
      (Closes: #345487)
  * checks/po-debconf:
    + [RA] Accept three-character language codes for po files.  Thanks,
      Patrick Winnertz and Eddy Petrișor.  (Closes: #464511)

  * lib/Spelling.pm:
    + [RA] Don't strip hyphens before checking spelling.  Move all D-Bus
      corrections to the picky list since the correction is too confusing
      even if accurate without capitalization.  Thanks, Nelson A. de
      Oliveira.  (Closes: #464461)

 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>  Thu, 07 Feb 2008 20:07:45 -0800

lintian (1.23.43) unstable; urgency=low

  The "37 bug fixes is enough for one release" release.

  * checks/binaries{.desc,}:
    + [RA] Don't require objdump's errors on files with bad dynamic tables
      to start at the beginning of the line.  Patch from Chris Lamb.
      (Closes: #459509)
    + [RA] Warn for packages that have binaries requiring libc but which
      don't depend on libc.  Patch from Niko Tyni.  (Closes: #461350)
    + [RA] Remove check for libc5 binaries.  libc5 is long-gone.
    + [RA] Remove various dead tag descriptions we no longer issue.
    + [RA] Warn on packages that provide Perl modules but don't depend on
      perlapi-*.  Thanks, Niko Tyni.  (Closes: #463142)
    + [RA] Check files in /usr/lib/debug directories mirroring the main
      file system to verify they are detached debugging symbols and not
      full libraries or executables.  Thanks, Neil Williams and Niko
      Tyni.  (Closes: #462456)
  * checks/changelog-file:
    + [RA] Decode the changelog entry from UTF-8 before doing length
      checks.  Thanks, Cyril Brulebois.  (Closes: #461822)
    + [RA] Check for mismatches between the latest changelog and
      NEWS.Debian entries if they're for the same package version.
      Thanks, Cyril Brulebois.  (Closes: #461823)
  * checks/common_data.pm:
    + [RA] Add Bugs, Origin, and Breaks to known binary and udeb fields
      and Bugs to known source fields, matching current dpkg.  Thanks,
      Raphaël Hertzog.  (Closes: #459787)
  * checks/debhelper:
    + [RA] CDBS now defaults to a debhelper compatibility level of V5.
    + [FL] Update list of debhelper commands that modify maintainer
       scripts. Add dh_icons, dh_installudev, dh_pysupport, dh_pycentral
       and rename dh_installtexfonts to dh_installtex.
    + [RA] Add checks for versioned debhelper dependencies for dh_icons
      and dh_installifupdown.  Thanks, Evgeni Golov.  (Closes: #463028)
  * checks/fields{.desc,}:
    + [RA] The CDBS ant rules are in class, not rules.  Thanks, Cyril
      Brulebois.  (Closes: #460168)
    + [RA] Versioned Python dependencies satisfy a Python debian/rules
      requirement.  Add a separate tag for Python build dependencies to
      explain the dependency possibilities.  Ignore dh_python if
      debian/pyversion or a Python-Version control field are present.
      Thanks, Loïc Minier.  (Closes: #460625)
    + [RA] Check that -dbg packages depend on their base package.  Patch
      from Chris Lamb.  (Closes: #458785)
    + [RA] Check the value of Dm-Upload-Allowed.
    + [RA] Warn about packages with a list as the maintainer and no
      Uploaders.  Thanks, Sune Vuorela.  (Closes: #462635)
    + [RA] Remove the package-has-duplicate-relation test.  It gets
      relations with different version strictness in different levels of
      dependency wrong and what it gets right dpkg-gencontrol strips out.
  * checks/files{.desc,}:
    + [RA] In many of the long descriptions for symlink-related tags,
      mention that running dh_link will fix symlink problems.
    + [RA] Fix a long-standing error in the regex checking for *.desktop
      files in /usr/share/gnome/apps that caused the tag to never be
      issued.  Remove the check for /usr/share/applnk, since obsolete or
      not KDE appears to actively use it still.
    + [RA] Check for *.devhelp{2,} files not linked into devhelp's search
      path.  Based on a patch by Bradley Smith.  (Closes: #273309)
    + [RA] Warn about /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly} scripts that
      won't be executed by run-parts because of periods in the name.
      Patch from Chris Lamb.  (Closes: #458742)
    + [RA] Warn of .gitignore files installed by the package.  Patch from
      Chris Lamb.  (Closes: #459502)
    + [RA] Warn of more language extensions on files in the user's path.
      Patch from Chris Lamb.  (Closes: #459514)
    + [RA] Remove the tag for empty Perl directories.  The underlying
      issue is fixed in Perl 5.10; there's no need to add code to
      debian/rules when 5.10 is landing soon.  (Closes: #463138)
  * checks/infofiles:
    + [RA] Don't issue unknown-intepreter for maintainer scripts with
      weird interpreters.  checks/scripts already handles this and the tag
      wasn't defined.  Thanks, Thijs Kinkhorst.  (Closes: #460964)
    + [RA] Fix Perl warnings given a zero-byte maintainer script.  Thanks,
      Thijs Kinkhorst.  (Closes: #460966)
  * checks/init.d{.desc,}:
    + [RA] Downgrade a missing LSB Short-Description keyword to info since
      it's not required for functionality.  Thanks, Petter Reinholdtsen.
      (Closes: #460499)
  * checks/manpages{.desc,}:
    + [RA] Make hyphen-used-as-minus-sign more conservative to avoid false
      positives with non-ASCII text and catch hyphens at the start of
      lines.  Thanks, Michal Čihař.  (Closes: #459871)
    + [CW] Use man's new --warnings option to catch use of undefined
      strings, macros, or diversions in manual pages, which usually indicate
      mistaken use of "." or "'" at the start of a line. This check is only
      enabled if man 2.5.1 or later is installed.  (Closes: #377392)
  * checks/menu-format:
    + [RA] Avoid a Perl warning for desktop entries without Exec.
    + [RA] Fix a bug that prevented Exec keys in desktop files from being
      checked at all.  Thanks, Raphael Geissert.  (Closes: #462601)
    + [RA] Exempt packages providing the su wrappers from the check for
      using su-to-root.  Thanks, Raphael Geissert.
  * checks/menus:
    + [RA] Don't issue unknown-interpreter for maintainer scripts with
      weird interpreters.
    + [RA] Fix Perl warnings given a zero-byte maintainer script.
  * checks/po-debconf:
    + [RA] Exclude from not-using-po-debconf template files with only the
      shared templates used for coordination with dictionaries-common.
      Thanks, Thomas Bushnell BSG.  (Closes: #460731)
  * checks/rules.desc:
    + [RA] To fix an ignores-make-clean-error, suggest removing "-" for
      static makefiles.  Thanks, Andrea Colangelo.  (Closes: #458164)
  * checks/scripts{.desc,}:
    + [RA] Re-add php4-cli as a valid interpreter for those who want to
      maintain stable compatibility.  Thanks, Thomas Goirand.
    + [RA] Be clearer in the tag name that php-cli dependencies should be
      versioned.  Add more explanation to the long description of several
      interpreter tags about limitations and requested bug filings.
    + [RA] Remove tcl as a valid interpreter since tclx8.3 is obsolete.
      (tclsh is the standard interpreter name.)
    + [RA] Require versioned dependencies for OCaml scripts.  Each version
      is ABI-incompatible.  Thanks, Samuel Mimram.  (Closes: #462065)
    + [RA] Add tcl and tk metapackages.  Thanks, Sergei Golovan.
      (Closes: #463281)
    + [RA] Catch exec wrappers that use $* instead of $@ (not that this is
      a good idea).  Thanks, Adam D. Barratt.  (Closes: #463476)
    + [RA] Integrate several more bashism checks from checkbashisms in
      devscripts.  Patch from Adam D. Barratt.  (Closes: #464026)

  * debian/control:
    + [RA] Suggest man-db >= 2.5.1 for better warning support.
    + [RA] Wrap Uploaders.

  * frontend/lintian:
    + [RA] Include info tags in the broken-down description of the
      override count since they're included in the total.  Based on a
      patch by Chris Lamb.  (Closes: #459851)
    + [RA] Don't try to report overrides when not checking a package.
      Thanks, Håkon Stordahl.  (Closes: #461978)
    + [RA] Cope with a relative path to the lab.  Patch from Håkon
      Stordahl.  (Closes: #461982)
    + [RA] Don't require *.changes files for source-only uploads to have a
      Description field.  Thanks, Cyril Brulebois.  (Closes: #462586)

  * lib/Spelling.pm:
    + [RA] Add spelling corrections for PostgreSQL and OCaml and lots of
      new capitalization corrections.  (Closes: #460347)

 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>  Tue, 05 Feb 2008 21:07:30 -0800

lintian (1.23.42) unstable; urgency=low

  The "what did you do on your Christmas vacation?" release.

  * checks/binaries:
    + [RA] Don't warn about unstripped binaries in .../lib/debug.  Some
      packages include debugging symbols in the main package.
    + [RA] Allow rpath pointing to /usr/lib/games/<package>.  Thanks, Bas
      Wijnen.  (Closes: #456318)
    + [RA] Exclude nsswitch modules from multiple SONAME and package
      naming checks.
  * checks/changelog-file{.desc,}:
    + [RA] Don't spell-check lines that include the word "spelling".
      Thanks, Andreas Hoenen.  (Closes: #456515)
    + [RA] Allow long no-whitespace lines even when spaces or bullets
      precede the text.
  * checks/common_data.pm:
    + [RA] Remove the obsolete base section.  (Policy change pending).
  * checks/control-file{.desc,}:
    + [RA] Include the package name in stronger-dependency-implies-weaker.
    + [RA] Fix stronger-dependency-implies-weaker description cut and
      paste error.  Thanks, Rafael Laboissiere.  (Closes: #456405)
  * checks/copyright-file{.desc,}:
    + [RA] Warn about packages covered by the GPL and linked with libssl
      that don't list other common licenses or mention a license exception
      or exemption.  Requested by Joerg Jaspert.  (Closes: #454238)
  * checks/cruft:
    + [RA] Ignore debian/config.cache.
  * checks/debconf{.desc,}:
    + Remove partially-translated-question at the request of Christian
      Perrier.  Only the translator could fix this, and debconf doesn't
      show the translation unless it's complete.  (Closes: #459293)
  * checks/debian-readme{.desc,}:
    + Combine readme-debian-{is,contains}-debmake-template and be less
      particular about the exact formatting of the dh-make template.
      Triggering off the template text is enough and matches linda.
      Thanks, Joerg Jaspert.  (Closes: #458074)
  * checks/description{.desc,}:
    + [RA] Do picky spelling and capitalization checks on the description
      and note and explain this in the long description.
  * checks/fields:
    + [RA] Handle double-colon rules when checking that build dependencies
      match debian/rules.  (Closes: #457501)
    + [RA] Allow python-setuptools in Build-Depends for arch-independent
      Python packages.  Thanks, Vincent Bernat.  (Closes: #459042)
  * checks/fields.desc:
    + [RA] Remove X.X.X versions from the debian-revision-not-well-formed
      long description.  (Closes: #456286)
    + [RA] Update references and binary-NMU version descriptions.
  * checks/files:
    + [RA] Ignore zero-length files in /usr/share/doc/examples.
    + [RA] The underFooLicense.docbook files from KDE are not license
      files.  Thanks, Sune Vuorela.  (Closes: #458831)
    + [RA] Allow /emul as a top-level directory and files in
      /emul/ia32-linux/{lib,usr/lib}.  (Closes: #459254)
  * checks/files.desc:
    + [RA] Remove a stray variable from the config-file-reserved tag.
  * checks/init.d{.desc,}:
    + [RA] Warn on init scripts that list S in their Default-Stop LSB
      keyword.  Thanks, Petter Reinholdtsen.  (Closes: #458596)
  * checks/menu-format{.desc,}:
    + [RA] Fix non-wm-module-in-wm-modules-menu-section pluralization to
      match the check and reword the long description to be hopefully
      clearer.  Thanks, Martín Ferrari.  (Closes: #457527)
    + [RA] Warn about use of su wrappers other than su-to-root for desktop
      and Live CD support.  Thanks, Daniel Baumann.  (Closes: #453931)
    + [RA] Only check for desktop files in /usr/share/applications.  The
      ones elsewhere are too strange.  (Closes: #459252)
  * checks/menus{.desc,}:
    + [RA] Spelling errors in doc-base files should only be warnings.  Do
      picky spelling and capitalization checks on the abstract and title
      fields.
  * checks/patch-systems:
    + [RA] dpatch permits multiple patches to be listed on the same line
      of 00list.  Patch by Chris Lamb.  (Closes: #457523)
  * checks/scripts{.desc,}:
    + [RA] Add lua40 and lua5.1.  Thanks, Enrico Tassi.  (Closes: #457219)
    + [RA] Improve recognition of heredocs.
    + [RA] Recognize quoted strings that start at beginning of the line.
    + [RA] Rewrite script path and dependency checking.  Remove scripts
      and packages no longer in the archive.  Add new versions of
      versioned scripts and packages.  Fix the dependencies for pike
      interpreters.  (Closes: #458896)
    + [RA] Reformat long descriptions and collapse some tags.
    + [RA] For consistent results, only syntax-check sh and bash scripts.
      Also ignore all dpatch files, not just those in /usr/src.
  * checks/shared-libs{.desc,}:
    + [RA] New check for version numbers in symbol files.  Based on a
      patch from Raphael Hertzog.  (Closes: #457067)
    + [RA] Exclude nsswitch modules from shlibs file checks.
    + [RA] ld.so may also look in /emul/ia32-linux/{lib,usr/lib}.

  * debian/control:
    + [RA] Suggest libtext-template-perl, needed for HTML reporting.
  * debian/copyright:
    + [RA] Add my copyright statement.
    + [RA] Reference GPL-2, not the GPL symlink, reflecting our license.

  * frontend/lintian:
    + [RA] Merge all override messages into a single message per run.  Add
      -q/--quiet option to suppress that message.  (Closes: #457513)
    + [RA] Allow + and . in tag names in overrides.  Thanks, Stefan
      Fritsch.  (Closes: #454790)
    + [RA] Check that the argument to --color is valid.
    + [RA] Warn about no package arguments unless --setup-lab or
      --remove-lab are given.  Thanks, Damyan Ivanov.  (Closes: #455732)
    + [RA] Add support for HTML coloring.  (Closes: #458376)
  * frontend/lintian-info:
    + [RA] Allow for HTML color tags.
    + [RA] Add -a to annotate an override file.

  * lib/Dep.pm:
    + [RA] Allow substvars instead of package names so that dependency
      checks against the source debian/control file don't treat all
      substvars as equivalent.  Thanks, Julien Cristau.  (Closes: #456802)
  * lib/Spelling.pm:
    + [RA] Stop doing capitalization checks on all files; there's too much
      of a risk of false positives.  Instead, provide a separate picky
      spelling check function for package descriptions and similar cases
      where we're more sure of the contents.
    + [RA] Expand the picky capitalization checks to catch Debian, GNOME,
      KDE, and Linux.  (Closes: #456582)
  * lib/Tags.pm:
    + [RA] Add support for HTML coloring.

  * man/lintian.1:
    + [RA] Document the --color=html and -q/--quiet options.
  * man/lintian-info.1:
    + [RA] Document the --annotate option.

  * reporting/html_reports:
    + [RA] Rewritten.
      - Include info, experimental, and overridden tags in the tag pages.
      - Generate a second report for each maintainer showing all tags.
      - Correctly handle multiple different maintainer strings with the
        same e-mail address.
      - Correctly report the version number of a binary package when it
        differs from the source package.  (Closes: #458036)
      - Formatting changes (hopefully improvements) to the web pages.
      - New template-driven system for easier revision of the HTML.
  * reporting/lintian.css:
    + [RA] New minimal style sheet for the HTML reports.
  * reporting/templates/*:
    + [RA] New Text::Template page templates for the HTML reports.

  * testset/runtests:
    + [RA] Test tags for valid characters.

 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>  Sat, 05 Jan 2008 17:16:32 -0800

lintian (1.23.41) unstable; urgency=low

  The "it would be lovely if there were an actual desktop file standard"
  release.

  * checks/*.desc:
    + [RA] Escape all literal angle brackets and fix unclosed and unknown
      HTML tags.  Based on a patch by Thijs Kinkhorst.  (Closes: #455211)
  * checks/field{.desc,}:
    + [FL] Add some checks for the Homepage field:
      - warn about enclosing < and >
      - warn about non-absolute URLs
  * checks/menu-format{.desc,}:
    + [RA] Add Actions to the KDE-specific desktop file keys.  Add
      Application as an acceptable Main Category even though it's not
      listed in the standard; given how widely it's used, it doesn't
      appear to be worth warning about right now.  (Closes: #444651)
    + [RA] Add GNUstep as an acceptable Main Category, since it's used as
      a non-standard category by GNUstep applications.
    + [RA] Warn about desktop files containing CRLF line endings (and then
      strip the CR for later checks).  The standard is explicit that each
      line ends in only LF.
  
  * debian/control:
    + [FL] Add liburi-perl to Depends for the Homepage checks.
    + [RA] Wrap Depends for readability.

  * testset/runtests:
    + [RA] Check all tag descriptions for unknown or unclosed HTML tags
      and for stray angle brackets.

 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>  Sun, 09 Dec 2007 20:03:03 -0800

lintian (1.23.40) unstable; urgency=low

  The "Russ's brown paper bag bug" release.

  * checks/doc-base:
    + [RA] My mistaken precedence fiddling with the doc-base checks caused
      them to warn about every abstract containing a period.  Patch from
      Chris Lamb.  (Closes: #454941)

  * lib/Spelling.pm:
    + [RA] Add common mistakes for publicly and spelling.

 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>  Sat, 08 Dec 2007 12:15:33 -0800

lintian (1.23.39) unstable; urgency=low

  The "Ubuntu and doc-base patch merge, with extra fixes" release.

  * checks/*.desc:
    + [RA] Remove the unused Standards-Version header.
  * checks/changelog-file{.desc,}:
    + [RA] Check the latest entry of the Debian changelog and any
      NEWS.Debian file for common spelling errors.  (Closes: #36017)
    + [RA] If this looks like a new package (Debian revision of -1 and
      only one changelog entry), warn if it doesn't close a bug.  Thanks,
      Margarita Manterola.  (Closes: #356051)
    + [RA] Check for lines over 80 columns in the most recent entry.
      Thanks, Guillem Jover.  (Closes: #435963)
  * checks/copyright-file{.desc,}:
    + [RA] Moved spelling-error-in-copyright check to here.
  * checks/debconf:
    + [RA] Go back to not warning about "no" in boolean debconf
      questions.  The word is too common in normal English prose for
      reasons other than assuming a particular debconf interface.  Thanks,
      Rafael Laboissiere.  (Closes: #453177)
  * checks/debian-readme{.desc,}:
    + [RA] Moved spelling-error-in-readme-debian check to here.
  * checks/description{.desc,}:
    + [RA] Moved spelling-error-in-description check to here.
  * checks/fields:
    + [RA] Python documentation packages should still be in section doc.
      Thanks, Michal Čihař.  (Closes: #454688)
    + [RA] Warn about lib.*-dev packages not in section libdevel.
    + [RA] Warn about debug packages that aren't priority: extra.  Thanks,
      Joerg Jaspert.  (Closes: #454358)
    + [RA] Ignore Original-Maintainer if the version contains ubuntu.
    + [RA] Only warn about Section for Python packages starting with
      python-, not py, since py picks up too many things that aren't
      Python modules.
    + [RA] Only warn about Section for Perl packages matching lib.*-perl
      to avoid false positives for things like dh-make-perl.  Thanks,
      Damyan Ivanov.  (Closes: #454723)
  * checks/files:
    + [RA] Warn about packages providing files in /usr/lib/debug that
      aren't named -dbg.  Thanks, Joerg Jaspert.
  * checks/lintian.desc:
    + [RA] Add bad-ubuntu-distribution-in-changes-file, merged from the
      Ubuntu patch.
    + [RA] Fix the malformed-override long description.  Thanks, Stefan
      Fritsch.
  * checks/menus{.desc,}:
    + [RA] Substantial overhaul and expansion of the doc-base control file
      checks.  Patch from Robert Luberda.  (Closes: #448783)
  * checks/nmu:
    + [RA] No packages with ubuntu in the version number are NMUs.  Merged
      from the Ubuntu patch.
  * checks/patch-systems:
    + [RA] Ignore blank lines in 00list and don't report them as patches
      without descriptions.  Thanks, Julien BLACHE.  (Closes: #454730)
  * checks/spelling{.desc,}:
    + [RA] Subsumed into other check scripts and lib/Spelling.pm.

  * frontend/lintian:
    + [RA] If the version number indicates an Ubuntu package, check
      against a different list of allowable distributions.  Merged from
      the Ubuntu patch.
    + [RA] Skip check and collection *.desc files whose names start with a
      period (mostly to avoid testing artifacts from editor lock files).
    + [RA] Restore previous override parsing and make the package name
      optional again.  Thanks, Stefan Fritsch.  (Closes: #454790)
    + [RA] Check overrides for implausible tags.

  * lib/Spelling.pm:
    + [RA] New module to do general spelling checks for specific
      misspellings.  Based on the previous checks/spelling and a patch by
      Robert Luberda.

 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>  Fri, 07 Dec 2007 22:12:56 -0800

lintian (1.23.38) unstable; urgency=low

  * The "HE's brown paper bag bug" release

  * checks/changelog-file:
    + [RA] Don't warn about version numbers going backwards in the
      changelog file if the comment says this is a backport.
  * checks/patch-systems:
    + [FL] Try appending .dpatch to patchnames found in 00list.
           Patch by Leo Antunes. (Closes: #454516, #454518)
  
  * lib/Dep.pm:
    + [FL] Fix "uninitialized value" warning in pred_implies().

 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>  Wed, 05 Dec 2007 17:21:44 -0800

lintian (1.23.37) unstable; urgency=low

  The "Policy 3.7.3" release.

  * checks/binaries:
    + [HE] Fix RegEx to re-enable 'binary-in-etc' and
           'arch-dependent-file-in-usr-share' checks. (Closes: #452336)
    + [HE] When checking that a lib is linked against libc, search for
           libc.so, not any library beginning with libc. Thanks for
           the bug and patch to Ruben Porras <nahoo82@gmail.com>. (Closes:
           #448652)
    + [RA] Ignore the gf suffix from the gfortran migration when checking
      whether the package name matches the SONAME.  Thanks, Kevin
      B. McCarty.  (Closes: #448207)
  * checks/changelog-file{.desc,}:
    + [RA] Check that the latest changelog entry has a later version than
      the previous entry.  Thanks, Thijs Kinkhorst.  (Closes: #449257)
  * checks/common_data.pm:
    + [RA] Add Dm-Upload-Allowed as a control field.  (Closes: #453779)
  * checks/control-file{.desc,}:
    + [RA] Diagnose stronger dependencies that imply weaker dependencies,
      such as the same dependency in both Depends and Recommends or
      Recommends and Suggests.  Thanks, Joerg Jaspert.  (Closes: #453302)
    + [RA] Upgrade no-section-field-for-source to warning at the request
      of Joerg Jaspert.
  * checks/control-files:
    + [RA] Add symbols as a known control file for debs and udebs.
  * checks/copyright-file:
    + [HE] Check that encoding of copyright file is UTF-8. Patch by
           gregor herrmann <gregor+debian@comodo.priv.at>. (Closes: #451689)
    + [HE] Add warning copyright-contains-dh_make-todo-boilerplate
           if the maintainer left the dh_make boilerplate in the
           copyright file. Based on patch by Cyril Brulebois
           <cyril.brulebois@enst-bretagne.fr>. (Closes: #448677)
    + [RA] Check for the complete GFDL included in the copyright file and
      expand copyright-file-contains-full-gpl-license to look for GPL v3
      references.  Also check for correct references to common-licenses
      for the GFDL and LGPL.
  * checks/deb-format:
    + [HE] Remove, not needed any more. (Closes: #447257)
  * checks/debconf:
    + [HE] Explicitly allow the phrase "no longer" in boolean debconf
      questions. (Closes: #447718)
  * checks/description.desc:
    + [RA] Upgrade the legacy Homepage tag to a warning.
  * checks/fields:
    + [HE] Add 'doc-package-should-be-section-doc',
           'python-package-should-be-section-python',
           'perl-package-should-be-section-perl'. Ideas shamelessy
           stolen from linda. (Closes: #452839)
    + [RA] Allow Python dependencies in Build-Depends when using another
      variant for calling Python in the clean target.  Thanks, Bernd
      Zeimetz.  (Closes: #444642)
  * checks/files{.desc,}:
    + [HE,RA] Add 'package-contains-empty-directory' check, but ignore
      dirs in /var and /etc and handle /usr/lib/perl5 and /usr/share/perl5
      directories separately with a lower priority level since they're
      very common.  (Closes: #452316, #357838)
    + [HE] Add checks for game packages that contain no game executables
           (package-section-games-but-contains-no-game) or that contain
           anything in usr/bin at all, which is usually a mistake.
           (package-section-games-but-contains-no-game). (Closes: #451668)
    + [RA] Downgrade symlink-should-be-relative to a warning since it's a
      Policy should.  Thanks, Thijs Kinkhorst.  (Closes: #454239)
  * checks/lintian.desc:
    + [RA] Add critical as a recognized urgency.
  * checks/patch-systems:
    + [HE] Add complete new check script, intended to check for usual
           problems when using patch systems. Start with three
           checks for common dpatch problems. Idea loosely based on
           patch by Carl Fürstenberg <azatoth@gmail.com>. (Closes: #437959)
  * checks/po-debconf.desc:
    + [RA] not-using-po-debconf is now an error per Policy section 3.9.1.
  * checks/rules:
    + [HE] Implement 'binary-arch-rules-but-pkg-is-arch-indep', checking
           for rules in binary-arch when the package is arch: all.
           (Closes: #409109, #119097)
    + [HE] Implement 'desktop-file-but-no-dh_desktop-call', checking for
           missing dh_desktop calls when .desktop files are installed in
           a debhelperized package. (Closes: #409138)
  * checks/scripts:
    + [HE] Allow packages to drop snippets into /etc/csh/login.d
           without a dependency on csh. Files there should also
           be allowed to have csh in the shebang line. (Closes: #453417)
    + [HE] Allow packages to drop snippets into /etc/fish.d/ without
           a dependecy on fish. (Closes: #453416)
    + [RA] Remove possible-non-posix-code-in-maintainer-script entirely.
      Debian Policy now allows local and test -a/-o specifically and this
      is pointless portability.
  * checks/standards-version:
    + [RA] 3.7.3 is now the current Standards-Version and anything older
      than 3.6.2 is ancient.

  * debian/control:
    + [TK] Add Vcs-* fields to point to Lintian's repository.
    + [RA] Update standards version to 3.7.3.
  * debian/dirs:
    + [RA] Stop creating empty /usr/share/lintian/{overrides,info}
      directories.  The latter is no longer used and the former is shipped
      with packages that include overrides.

  * frontend/lintian:
    + [RA] Add critical as a recognized urgency.
    + [RA] Diagnose malformed override entries; don't just ignore them.
    + [RA] Fix some odd formatting.
    + [RA] Display a summary of overridden tags as an N: output line.
      Requested by Steve McIntyre.  (Closes: #452804)

  * man/lintian.1:
    + [RA] Be clearer about what files lintian takes as arguments; in
      particular, mention that source packages are checked by providing
      the .dsc file as an argument.  (Closes: #441636)
    + [RA] Fix a slight spacing problem with the --color flag.
    + [RA] Remove mention of unused /usr/share/lintian/info directory.

  * lib/DebVersions.pm:
    + [RA] Remove.  This isn't used by anything and would produce
      incorrect results (it doesn't understand ~), and Dep.pm provides
      version comparison routines that use dpkg.
  * lib/Tags.pm:
    + [RA] Keep statistics on overrides by severity.

  * reporting/html_reports:
    + [RA] Change the layout of the per-maintainer lintian pages.  Now,
      each report will be in /reports/maintainer/<email>.html where
      <email> is the maintainer's e-mail address with unsafe characters
      replaced by _.  This should allow better links from the QA pages.
      Thanks, Stefano Zacchiroli.

  * unpack/list-srcpkg:
    + [RA] Escape ; and newline characters in all package fields before
      writing them to the index (uncovered when someone accidentally
      appended a package description to Standards-Version).

 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>  Tue, 04 Dec 2007 16:43:13 -0800

lintian (1.23.36) unstable; urgency=low

  The "grand open change and desktop cleanup" release.

  * {checks,collection,depcheck,frontend,lib,reporting,unpack}/*:
    + [RA] Use the three-argument form of open uniformly, whether needed
      or not, to head off further quoting and whitespace interpretation
      bugs.
  
  * checks/files{.desc,}:
    + [RA] Catch .DS_Store.gz files as well.
    + [RA] Warn about ._ Mac OS X resource files in the package.
    + [RA] Add a hopefully helpful note about how cruft from other
      operating systems can show up in binary packages.
  * checks/menu-format:
    + [RA] Fix detection of commands for menu entries when the command is
      given with its full path.  (Closes: #446796)
    + [RA] Remove Actions from known desktop keys again, as I believe the
      root problem was our willingness to inspect desktop types other than
      Application (also fixed in the previous release).
    + [RA] Fix Perl flow error when skipping some desktop files.
    + [RA] Skip unknown and deprecated key warnings and encoding key
      warnings in desktop files if they were of an unknown type.

  * lib/Dep.pm:
    + [RA] Fix negative implication in some boundary cases when comparing
      two versioned relationships in the same direction.  Thanks to
      Raphael Hertzog for the analysis and fix.  (Closes: #446768)

 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>  Mon, 15 Oct 2007 21:23:16 -0700

lintian (1.23.35) unstable; urgency=low

  The "frantic bug catchup" release.

  * checks/changelog-file{.desc,}:
    + [RA] Add some basic checks for NEWS.Debian files: naming,
      compression, encoding, a syntax check with Parse::DebianChangelog,
      and unreleased for the distribution.  (Closes: #437707)
  * checks/common_data.pm:
    + [RA] Allow Homepage in source and binary packages.
  * checks/control-file:
    + [RA] Support and ignore comments in debian/control.  Thanks, Julien
      Cristau.  (Closes: #440830)
    + [RA] Check for XS-Vcs-* headers and recommend (at info level) that
      they be changed to Vcs-* headers.  (Closes: #444661)
  * checks/cruft.desc:
    + [RA] Fix incorrect tag name for patch failure files.  Thanks, Romain
      Francoise.  (Closes: #437463)
  * checks/debconf:
    + [RA] A cdebconf that supported error was released with sarge, so
      don't require a versioned cdebconf dependency.  Thanks, Thijs
      Kinkhorst.  (Closes: #438860)
    + [RA] Various improvements from Thomas Huriaux: Diagnose select
      templates with only yes/no options, diagnose more question prompts,
      warn on any questions in the extended description, allow yes/no
      mentions in non-boolean templates, and catch more first-person
      language.  (Closes: #439508)
    + [RA] More exactly follow the Developer's Reference recommendations
      by only requiring open prompts for string and password prompts and
      only complaining about imperative wording for select and multiselect
      templates.  Thanks, Steve Langasek.  (Closes: #442711)
  * checks/description{.desc,}:
    + [RA] Warn (at info level for now) about Homepage pseudo-fields in
      the extended description.  (Closes: #444336)
  * checks/fields:
    + [RA] Allow python-all as yet another way of satisfying a Python
      build dependency.  (Closes: #444642)
  * checks/fields.desc:
    + [RA] Properly escape < and >.
  * checks/files{.desc,}:
    + [RA] Warn about Thumbs.db files, which are usually useless Windows
      thumbnail databases.  Thanks, Paul Wise.  (Closes: #438202)
    + [RA] Warn about .DS_Store files, used by Mac OS X to store extended
      folder attributes.  Thanks, Paul Wise.  (Closes: #438203)
    + [RA] Improve the recommended command to remove .packlist files.
      Thanks, Justin Pryzby.
    + [RA] Don't think hard links are zero-length files.
    + [RA] Diagnose files with names ending in whitespace.
  * checks/infofiles:
    + [RA] Emacs 22 now allows embedded images in info files, so accept
      and ignore PNG files in the info directory.  More image types may be
      needed.  Thanks, Andreas Metzler.  (Closes: #438602)
  * checks/menu-format{.desc,}:
    + [RA] Reserved categories are okay in .desktop files if OnlyShowIn is
      present, and generally deserve their own separate tag regardless.
      Thanks, Michael Biebl.  (Closes: #442709)
    + [RA] Ignore categories beginning with "X-", reserved for category
      extensions.  Thanks, Josselin Mouette.  (Closes: #443827)
    + [RA] Allow Actions keys.  This isn't in the desktop standard but
      is widely used.  Thanks, Raphael Geissert.  (Closes: #444651)
    + [RA] Ignore desktop files not for one of the known types.  This
      should significantly reduce the noise for KDE packages.
    + [RA] Only check whether a program referenced by Exec is in the
      package if the desktop file is in /usr/share/applications.  Too many
      applications use Exec for desktop files elsewhere without the
      standard PATH.
    + [RA] Ignore Exec fields pointing to kcmshell.
    + [RA] Ignore desktop files in /usr/share/doc or that appear to be
      templates.
    + [RA] Avoid uninitialized warnings on all-whitespace commands.
  * checks/menus:
    + [RA] Find the targets of hard links correctly.  (Closes: #444355)
    + [RA] Use the three-argument form of open to not fail on doc-base
      files ending in whitespace.  Error on doc-base files with Document
      fields that end in whitespace, since currently they break multiple
      tools.  Thanks, Ian Zimmerman.  (Closes: #444889)
  * checks/nmu.desc:
    + [RA] Remove obsolete note about binary NMUs.  Patch from Thijs
      Kinkhorst.  (Closes: #437925)
  * checks/scripts{.desc,}:
    + [RA] We now have a csh package.  Allow it as an alternative for csh
      script dependencies.  Thanks, Bernd Zeimetz.  (Closes: #440825)
    + [RA] Allow install-sgmlcatalog --remove in postinst as well as
      prerm and suggest removing it entirely in the long description.
  * checks/version-substvars.desc:
    + [RA] Properly escape < and >.

  * collection/changelog-file{.desc,}:
    + [RA] Collect NEWS.Debian as well as changelog.

 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>  Sun, 14 Oct 2007 22:29:51 -0700

lintian (1.23.34) unstable; urgency=low

  The "brown paper operator" release.

  * frontend/lintian:
    + [RA] Use =~ with regexes, not eq.  Thanks, Guillem Jover.
      (Closes: #436180)

 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>  Sun, 05 Aug 2007 19:58:38 -0700

lintian (1.23.33) unstable; urgency=low

  The "menu and cruft reorganization" release.
  
  * checks/common_data.pm:
    + [CW] Add automaken as a known virtual package.
    + [CW] Update architectures to dpkg 1.14.5, adding solaris-* and lpia.
    + [RA] Add %known_obsolete_emacs.
  * checks/cruft{.desc,}:
    + [RA] Check for .git directories in source packages.  Thanks, Julien
      Cristau.  (Closes: #433516)
    + [RA] Substantially rewrite how all cruft checking against source
      packages is done, incorporating debdiff in the process.  There are
      now two tags for most source package cruft problems: one for files
      introduced in the Debian diff or in a native package, and one for
      files present upstream.  The former is at warning severity and the
      latter is at info severity, since it's usually not worth repackaging
      the upstream source to remove such files.  In the process,
      standardize the names of all of the tags and pull the regexes out
      into data instead of code for easier maintenance.  (Closes: #434744)
  * checks/debdiff{.desc}:
    + [RA] Removed, incorporated into checks/cruft.
  * checks/debian-readme:
    + [RA] Replace all uses of tag_error and tag_warn with just tag.
  * checks/fields{.desc,}:
    + [RA] Tag packages listing emacs21 as the preferred Emacs flavor in a
      dependency.  Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita.  (Closes: #434978)
    + [RA] Start tagging unversioned dependencies on coreutils again since
      the transition from fileutils is long-since finished.  Thanks,
      Guillem Jover.  (Closes: #436058)
  * checks/files{.desc,}:
    + [RA] Check for .git directories in binary packages.
  * checks/menu-format{.desc,}:
    + [RA] Switch to the new menu hierarchy, which will be in the next
      release of Policy.  Add specific checks for the major renamings to
      hopefully cut down on the confusion and provide some specific
      guidance.  Remove the code that allowed for applications to create
      new sub-menus, since the current menu documentation says not to do
      that.  (Closes: #431844)
    + [RA] Add checks of desktop files.  The checks so far are basic, but
      do include key and category verification.  Based heavily on work by
      Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña.  (Closes: #277441, #433411)
  * checks/scripts{.desc,}:
    + [RA] If rm output is redirected to /dev/null, don't think that rm is
      removing /dev/null.  Thanks, Robert Luberda.  (Closes: #431259)
    + [RA] xjed also provides jed-script.  Thanks, Jörg Sommer.
      (Closes: #431629)
    + [RA] Don't complain about ruby libraries in /usr/lib/ruby that have
      shebang lines.  This is a common means for embedding unit tests in
      Ruby libraries.  Thanks, Paul van Tilburg.  (Closes: #431545)
    + [RA] Don't push depending directly on update-inetd in the long
      description of maintainer-script-needs-depends-on-update-inetd.
      Most packages should depend on inet-superserver.  Leave the check
      the same for the time being, however.
    + [RA] Replace all uses of tag_error and tag_warn with just tag.
  * checks/shared-libs:
    + [RA] Exclude udebs from dependency checking in the shlibs files
      since binary packages may legitimately declare udeb dependencies on
      other packages.  Thanks, Loïc Minier.  (Closes: #431395)
  * checks/spelling:
    + [RA] Replace all uses of tag_error and tag_warn with just tag.
  * checks/version-substvars:
    + [RA] Don't skip other checks for binNMUability when warning about
      the deprecated ${Source-Version} substvar.  Thanks, Lior Kaplan.
      (Closes: #432959)

  * frontend/lintian:
    + [RA] Add \w+-backports to the known distribution list.  Thanks,
      Vincent Danjean.  (Closes: #432268)

  * lib/Tags.pm:
    + [RA] Replace any newlines in the extra information to the tag
      function with \n.

  * man/lintian.1:
    + [RA] Remove the mention of the debdiff check script.

 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>  Sun, 05 Aug 2007 11:59:15 -0700

lintian (1.23.32) unstable; urgency=low

  The "stability of output" release.

  * checks/binaries:
    + [RA] Sort the package SONAMEs to provide more stable lintian tags.
      Patch from Cyril Brulebois.  (Closes: #428681)
  * checks/files{.desc,}:
    + [RA] Limit the Zope license exception to only .dtml, .pt, and .cpt
      files.  Thanks, Bernd Zeimetz.
    + [RA] Sort the files listed in package-contains-hardlink so that the
      lintian output is stable regardless of the hash order of the
      directory when the tar file was built.
    + [RA] Don't incorrectly skip all other file location checks for hard
      links.
    + [RA] Check for files installed in /usr/lib/sgml.  This transition
      was probably completed long ago, but checking for regression can't
      hurt.  (Closes: #90019)
  * checks/manpages{.desc,}:
    + [RA] Check for dh_make man page templates (by looking for the
      template whatis entry).  Thanks, Bill Allombert.  (Closes: #173583)
  * checks/menus:
    + [RA] Avoid a quadratic search of the files in the package on
      doc-base files that list tons of files individually.  This speeds up
      a lintian check of openoffice.org-dev-doc enormously.
  * checks/po-debconf:
    + [RA] Close the template file handle between files so that the line
      numbers for translated default fields are correct.
  * checks/rules{.desc,}:
    + [RA] Check for ignoring all errors from make clean or make distclean
      and recommend skipping the call if there's no Makefile instead.
      Thanks, Branden Robinson.  (Closes: #325372)
  * checks/scripts{.desc,}:
    + [RA] Add Octave as an interpreter, and allow both versioned and
      unversioned forms.  Thanks, Sebastian Harl.  (Closes: #428403)
    + [RA] Check for deprecated install-sgmlcatalog usage.
  * checks/shared_libs:
    + [RA] Report the correct file for shlib-with-nonpic-code rather than
      the last shlib in the package.  (Closes: #429840, #429528)

  * frontend/lintian:
    + [RA] Don't require -v in order to report unused overrides; they're
      already info-level tags, which is enough hiding.
    + [RA] Remove old dead unused override code.

  * reporting/html_reports:
    + [RA] Fix a Perl warning when generating the clean maintainer pages.

  * unpack/unpack-binpkg-l1:
    + [RA] Sort the output of tar tfv by filename so that the lintian
      output will be stable regardless of the hash order of the directory
      when the tar file was built.

 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>  Thu, 21 Jun 2007 01:47:53 -0700

lintian (1.23.31) unstable; urgency=low

  The "back under 100 open bugs" release.

  * checks/changelog-file:
    + [RA] Only check for missing colons in bug closers in the most recent
      changelog entry.  Thanks, Thijs Kinkhorst.  (Closes: #423171)
  * checks/common_data.pm:
    + [RA] Update architectures to dpkg 1.14.1.  Remove all linux-*
      architectures and add armel.  (Closes: #421995)
  * checks/control-files.desc:
    + [RA] Change unknown-control-file to a warning, since Policy only
      discourages it and doesn't outlaw it.  (Closes: #287209)
  * checks/cruft:
    + [RA] Allow any automake package to satisfy the autotools-dev build
      dependency for suppressing warnings about out of date autotools
      helper files.  (Closes: #417067)
  * checks/fields:
    + [RA] Require libmodule-build-perl in Build-Depends if the clean rule
      runs perl Build.  Hopefully this isn't too aggressive.  Thanks, Ian
      Beckwith.  (Closes: #421549)
  * checks/files:
    + [RA] Don't warn about LICENSE files in Zope products, since they may
      be used for runtime display.  (Closes: #424164)
  * checks/manpages:
    + [RA] Avoid false positives on binaries with X11 in the name.  Patch
      from Kevin B. McCarty.  (Closes: #423229)
  * checks/menu-format.desc:
    + [RA] Improve the pkg-not-in-package-test long description and add a
      manual reference.  (Closes: #423519)
  * checks/menus:
    + [RA] Allow multiple blank lines between doc-base sections and
      trailing blank lines in the file.  doc-base is fine with this.
      Reported by Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz.  (Closes: #423096)
  * checks/scripts:
    + [RA] Add pagsh, provided by openafs-client and heimdal-clients.
    + [RA] Diagnose removal of device files in maintainer scripts per
      Policy 10.6.  (Closes: #268688)
    + [RA] Add jruby1.0.  Thanks, Sebastien Delafond.  (Closes: #426950)
    + [RA] Add jed and friends.  Thanks, Jörg Sommer.  (Closes: #426469)
    + [RA] Move several maintainer script checks specific to shell scripts
      inside the conditional so that they won't run on maintainer scripts
      not written in shell.
    + [RA] Diagnose maintainer scripts looking at /var/lib/dpkg/status
      directly.  Thanks, Guillem Jover.  (Closes: #426628)
    + [RA] Diagnose direct modifications to /etc/services, /etc/protocols,
      /etc/rpc, and /etc/inetd.conf in maintainer scripts.  (Yes, an
      eight-year-old bug!)  (Closes: #32532)
  * checks/version-substvars{.desc,}:
    + [RA] Add a check for deprecated ${Source-Version} substvars.  Patch
      from Guillem Jover.  (Closes: #427577)

  * frontend/lintian-info:
    + [CW] Fix uninitialized value warning after reading a blank line.

 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>  Mon, 04 Jun 2007 20:29:55 -0700

lintian (1.23.30) unstable; urgency=low

  The "beating false positives off with a stick" release.

  * checks/common_data.pm:
    + [RA] Add mktemp and sysvinit-utils as known essential packages.
    + [RA] Add Vcs-Mtn and Vcs-Browser to the known source package
      fields.
    + [RA] Add Kernel-Version to known udeb control fields.
  * checks/control-files:
    + [RA] Allow clilibs, but don't try to check the syntax of it yet.
      Thanks, Sebastian Dröge.  (Closes: #378088)
  * checks/copyright-file:
    + [RA] Exclude the Affero General Public License from the check for
      references to the shared GPL copy.  (Closes: #420077)
    + [RA] Replace yet another hand-rolled dependency parser with Dep.
  * checks/cruft{.desc,}:
    + [RA] Check for svk commit message files.
  * checks/debconf{.desc,}:
    + [RA] Remove the dependency check for SETTITLE since all debconf
      implementations back to oldstable support it.
    + [RA] Reduce the dependency check for error templates to info since
      all debconf implementations back to stable support it.
  * checks/debhelper{.desc,}:
    + [RA] Downgrade the dependency check for dh_python and the Python
      policy to info since all debhelpers back to stable support it.
    + [RA] Downgrade the dependency check for compatibility level V5 to
      info since all debhelpers back to stable support it.
  * checks/fields{.desc,}:
    + [RA] The CDBS Python rules only call pycentral or pysupport during
      the binary targets, so those dependencies can be safely moved to
      Build-Depends-Indep.  Still allow them in Build-Depends, though,
      since that's where CDBS likes to put them.  Thanks, Tristan
      Seligmann.  (Closes: #420526)
    + [RA] Allow the Python core packages themselves to depend on
      python-minimal.
    + [RA] Remove the version constraints for python-central and
      python-support dependencies since stable released with a working
      version and they weren't in oldstable.
    + [RA] Remove the dependency check on dh_installxfonts for the X.Org
      transition since the debhelper released with stable does the right
      thing and this dependency is not useful for backports to oldstable.
    + [RA] Remove the version on the quilt dependency check.  It's not
      worth the effort to maintain a separate version check for oldstable
      backports.  (Closes: #420160)
  * checks/files{.desc,}:
    + [RA] Check for svk commit message files.
    + [RA] Don't consider {copying,license}.dtd extra license files; the
      Mozilla suite uses them for non-licenses.  (Closes: #420558)
    + [RA] Use $pkg rather than reading fields/package for the x11-common
      pre-depend check.
    + [RA] Allow x11-common to install /usr/X11R6/bin.
    + [RA] Downgrade the pre-depends on x11-common requirement for
      packages installing into /usr/include/X11 or /usr/lib/X11 to info
      since it's only needed for upgrades from sarge or early etch.
  * checks/md5sums:
    + [RA] Don't warn about a missing md5sums file if the package contains
      nothing for which we would generate an MD5 checksum.  Thanks,
      Andreas Beckmann.  (Closes: #420465)
  * checks/manpages:
    + [RA] Cope with more uses of - in *roff escapes that don't need
      hyphen warnings.
    + [RA] Don't consider a binary an X binary if it's a symlink into
      /etc/X11.  (seyon does something weird but probably legitimate.)
    + [RA] Fix manpage-for-non-x11-binary-in-wrong-directory and
      manpage-for-x11-binary-in-wrong-directory output.  (Closes: #295072)
  * checks/menus{.desc,}:
    + [RA] In doc-base control files, check for Index fields for HTML and
      Info documents and require that each section after the header have a
      Format field.  Thanks, Bernhard R. Link.  (Closes: #419847)
  * checks/rules:
    + [RA] Listing a rule as a dependency of .PHONY is sufficient to mark
      it as present for GNU make and hence sufficient for Policy's
      requirement.  Thanks, Peter Eisentraut.  (Closes: #419446)
  * checks/scripts{.desc,}:
    + [RA] Packages calling update-xmlcatalog must depend on xml-core.
      Also avoid false positives when a package itself provides the
      program its maintainer scripts use.  Thanks, Daniel Leidert.
      (Closes: #419461)
    + [RA] Check for maintainer scripts calling read (but exclude those
      that include /usr/share/debconf/confmodule on the grounds that
      they're probably only using it as a fallback).  Based on a patch by
      Luk Claes.  (Closes: #231770)
    + [RA] Add pike7.6 and ruby1.9 as valid interpreters.
    + [RA] Diagnose use of /bin/env with a more specific message than the
      generic unusual interpreter tag.
    + [RA] Remove the version constraint on the gconf-schemas check since
      all versions of gconf2 back to stable provide this script and it's
      not worth maintaining a separate check for oldstable backports.
  * checks/shared-libs{.desc,}:
    + [RA] Warn if a package declares dependencies in its shlibs control
      file that cannot be satisfied by that package (including via
      Provides).  (Closes: #56440)

  * reporting/harness:
    + [RA] Include overridden tags in the lintian output so that we can do
      statistical reporting on them and see them in lintian.log.
  * reporting/html_reports:
    + [RA] Create stub pages for maintainers with only lintian-clean
      packages.  (Closes: #305173)
    + [RA] Sort packages on each maintainer's page.
    + [RA] Report statistics on info tags as well.
    + [RA] Generate better file names for maintainer pages with weird
      characters.
    + [RA] Fix Perl warnings.

 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>  Sat, 28 Apr 2007 16:31:31 -0700

lintian (1.23.29) unstable; urgency=low

  The "look at all the stuff that accumulated during the etch freeze"
  release.

  * COPYING:
    + [CW] Update to current text of GPL v2 (which talks about the GNU
      Lesser General Public License rather than Library, etc.; no functional
      changes).

  * checks/changelog-file{.desc,}:
    + [RA] Check for bug closers without a colon after closes, but only if
      there are at least six digits in the bug number and no non-digits.
      Suggestion from Jari Aalto.  (Closes: #373918)
  * checks/copyright-file{.desc,}:
    + [JA] Update usr-doc-* test to report user-share-doc-* instead.
      New tests added: postinst-should-not-set-usr-doc-link,
      doc-base-file-references-usr-doc.
      Patch from Thijs Kinkhorst.  (Closes: #406349).
  * checks/common_data.pm:
    + [JA] Perl syntax corrections.
    + [JA] Support the Autobuild: and Vcs-* fields in .dsc files.
      Applied patch to implement this by Ian Beckwith.  (Closes: #403553).
  * checks/control-file:
    + [RA] Allow source in main to generate contrib packages.  Thanks,
      Bdale Garbee.  (Closes: #401881)
  * checks/cruft{.desc,}:
    + [RA] Use Dep to check autotools-dev build dependency rather than
      rolling our own dependency parsing, thus avoiding problems when it's
      the first dependency.  Thanks, Tilman Koschnick.  (Closes: #412406)
    + [RA] Mention that including CVS or .svn directories in a release
      tarball should generally be reported as an upstream bug.  Qualify
      the statement that export should be used instead of checkout to
      refer to snapshot packaging.  Thanks, Jari Aalto.  (Closes: #373668)
    + [RA] Allow a build dependency on automake to satisfy the
      autotools-dev requirement since users may use autoreconf to update
      config.{sub,guess}.  Thanks, Jordà Polo.  (Closes: #417067)
  * checks/debconf:
    + [RA] Rather than munging dependencies to cope with the various
      implementations of debconf, take advantage of our new dependency
      comparison routines and check the full correct dependency.  This
      should really fix problems with checking the dependencies for
      settitle.  Patch from Damyan Ivanov.  (Closes: #349616)
    + [RA] Check that an appropriate versioned dependency on debconf
      and/or cdebconf is present if error template types are used.
      Thanks, Christian Perrier.  (Closes: #416140)
  * checks/debhelper.desc:
    + [RA] Use consistent file naming when diagnosing possibly conflicting
      debhelper compat settings.  Thanks, Jari Aalto.  (Closes: #409122)
  * checks/fields{.desc,}:
    + [RA] Add an exception to maintainer-not-full-name for Wookey and a
      comment to consider removing the check if we get more false
      positives.  Thanks, Neil Williams.  (Closes: #406731)
    + [RA] Rename build-depends-indep-should-be-build-depends to
      clean-should-be-satisfied-by-build-depends to make the reason for
      the message clearer without running lintian -i.  Thanks to Osamu
      Aoki for the suggestion.  (Closes: #405840)
    + [RA] Recognize the +bX convention for binary NMUs.  Warn about use
      of the old three-part version numbers.
  * checks/files{.desc,}:
    + [RA] Diagnose creation of subdirectories of /usr/bin other than mh
      and the legacy X11 directory.  (Closes: #417912)
  * checks/manpages:
    + [RA] When checking for hyphen used as a minus sign, avoid false
      positives on \s-1 (small font) and \*(-- (pod2man long dash).
    + [RA] Display the full path for binary-without-manpage tags to make
      it easier to track down problems.
    + [RA] Ignore binaries in subdirectories of the normal binary
      directories (other than /usr/bin/X11 and /usr/bin/mh).  These should
      be caught by other checks and the man page warnings would likely be
      confusing noise.
  * checks/menu-format{.desc,}:
    + [RA] If a menu icon isn't an absolute path, only look for it in
      /usr/share/pixmaps, not in the old X11R6 paths.  Update the long tag
      description accordingly.
  * checks/menus:
    + [JA] Perl syntax corrections.  Removed extra empty newlines.
  * checks/lintian.desc:
    + [RA] List emergency as a valid urgency.
  * checks/nmu{.desc,}:
    + [RA] List the exact phrases recognized by lintian as marking an NMU.
      Reported by Jari Aalto.  (Closes: #409108)
    + [RA] Recognize the +bX convention for binary NMUs.
  * checks/po-debconf:
    + [RA] Now that we're passing --use-untranslated to msgcmp, we have to
      compare the generated pot file with the one in the package both
      directions to catch all out of date errors.  Thanks, Thomas
      Huriaux.  (Closes: #402662)
  * checks/rules{.desc,}:
    + [RA] Fix the policy section for debian-rules-missing-required-target
      and debian-rules-not-a-makefile.  Thanks, Daniel Kahn Gillmor.
      (Closes: #414964)
    + [RA] Warn about use of $(PWD) instead of $(CURDIR).
    + [RA] Setting DH_COMPAT globally in debian/rules is now deprecated in
      favor of debian/compat.  Patch from Luk Claes.  (Closes: #330025)
  * checks/scripts{.desc,}:
    + [RA] update-inetd is now its own package and netbase may not always
      depend on it.  Update the check to require a dependency on
      update-inetd, inet-superserver, or one of the inet-superserver
      packages that provides update-inetd.  Reported by Tatsuya Kinoshita.
      (Closes: #402319)
    + [RA] Mention SUSv3 in the bashism and non-posix tag descriptions,
      note that use of test -a/-o and local aren't bugs but may still be
      worth avoiding, and mention short circuiting of && and ||.  (Thanks
      to Jari Aalto for the latter).
    + [RA] Add /usr/bin/gbr2, provided by gambas2-runtime.  Thanks, José
      "L. Redrejo" Rodríguez.  (Closes: #403515)
    + [RA] Add /usr/bin/jruby0.9, provided by jruby0.9.  Thanks, Sebastien
      Delafond.  (Closes: #418105)

  * doc/README:
    + Document --color option.  Based on a patch from Loïc Minier.

  * depcheck/deppages.pl:
    + [JA] Perl syntax corrections.
  * depcheck/report2html.pl:
    + [JA] Perl syntax corrections.

  * frontend/lintian:
    + [JA] Removed trailing spaces and other perl syntax corrections.
    + [RA] Add --color option to optionally colorize lintian tags based on
      their severity.  Based on a patch from Loïc Minier.
    + [RA] Accept emergency as a valid urgency and check urgencies
      case-insensitively since that's what Policy specifies.  Thanks, Joey
      Hess.  (Closes: #412577)
  * frontend/lintian-info:
    + [RA] Ignore ANSI color sequences when parsing lintian tags.

  * lib/Checker.pm
    + [JA] Perl syntax corrections.
  * lib/Lab.pm
    + [JA] Perl syntax corrections.
  * lib/Tags.pm
    + [JA] Perl syntax corrections.
    + [RA] Support for colorizing lintian tags based on their severity.
      Based on a patch from Loïc Minier.  (Closes: #399714)

  * man/lintian.1:
    + [RA] Document --color.  Based on a patch from Loïc Minier.

  * unpack/unpack-*pkg*
    + [JA] Perl syntax corrections.

 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>  Tue, 10 Apr 2007 21:08:23 -0700

lintian (1.23.28) unstable; urgency=high

  * collection/objdump-info:
    + [RA] Remove unsafe temporary file creation in left-over debugging
      code added accidentally when fixing #399456.  Thanks, Josh
      Triplett.  (Closes: #414237)

 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>  Fri,  9 Mar 2007 22:58:59 -0800

lintian (1.23.27) unstable; urgency=low

  The "we haven't run this against the whole archive in a while" release

  * checks/binaries{.desc,}:
    + [RA] Tag unrecognized ELF binaries as apparently corrupted rather
      than failing with a note that binutils-multiarch is required.  Some
      packages have had ELF binaries recognized by file but unreadable.
      Reported by Bill Allombert.  (Closes: #399456)
  * checks/infofiles:
    + [RA] Don't consider /usr/share/infon to be an info directory.
      Reported by Joachim Breitner.  (Closes: #399857)
  * checks/md5sums:
    + [RA] Also don't complain about missing md5sums for files in
      /var/lib/ispell as they're changed after installation.  Thanks,
      Agustin Martin.  (Closes: #401070)
  * checks/po-debconf:
    + [RA] gettext 0.16's msgcmp requires --use-untranslated when checking
      for newer templates than PO files or it gives false positives for
      every package.  Thanks, Damyan Ivanov.  (Closes: #400957)
    + [RA] Don't consider directories to be stray template files even if
      named template.  Thanks, Thomas Huriaux.  (Closes: #401442)
  * checks/shared-libs:
    + [RA] Don't report shlib-with-non-pic-code unless we're sure that
      we're looking at a shared library.  Otherwise, we get many false
      positives on some platforms where text relocations are normal for
      binaries.  Reported by Bill Allombert.  (Closes: #399525)

  * collection/file-info:
    + [RA] Unescape non-ASCII characters escaped by tar before running
      file on the resulting filename.  Otherwise, file can't find the
      file, exits with an error, and lintian aborts.  Reported by Bill
      Allombert.  (Closes: #399392)
  * collection/objdump-info:
    + [RA] Include unrecognized format errors from objdump in the output
      rather than aborting; some packages contain apparently corrupt ELF
      binaries.

  * debian/control:
    + [RA] Depend on gettext 0.16 or later for --use-untranslated.

  * lib/Lab.pm:
    + [RA] Preserve the old package lists when setting up a static lab so
      that the unpack programs can build a list of changed packages and
      incremental mode works.  Thanks, Bill Allmobert.  (Closes: #400342)

  * unpack/list-udebpkg:
    + [RA] Handle compressed udeb Packages files.  Thanks, Bill
      Allombert.  (Closes: #400338)

 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>  Sun,  3 Dec 2006 11:06:33 -0800

lintian (1.23.26) unstable; urgency=low

  * checks/binaries{.desc,}:
    + [RA] Add a policy reference for unstripped-binary-or-object.
      Thanks, Bas Wijnen.  (Closes: #394419)
    + [RA] Add a special exception to the shared library dependency check
      for the dynamic loader itself.
  * checks/changelog-file.desc:
    + [RA] Downgrade to a warning several errors with changelog files,
      including compression and a text version of HTML changelogs, that
      are only shoulds in Policy.  (Closes: #289723)
    + [RA] Cleaned up language and use of unbalanced single quotes in
      numerous descriptions.
  * checks/control-file{.desc,}:
    + [RA] Diagnose a control file that creates binary packages in a
      different archive category from the source package or the other
      binary packages.  Idea from Yann Dirson.  (Closes: #394720)
    + [RA] Close opened files.
    + [RA] Add info-level check for Section in the source section of the
      control file.  (Closes: #322244)
  * checks/cruft{.desc,}:
    + [RA] Tighten the timestamp check on config.{sub,guess} to look for
      files dated 2004 or newer, since that's when x86_64 was added.
      Increase to an error at the request of Ryan Murray since we already
      suppress this warning of config.{guess,sub} are modified by the
      Debian patch or if the package build-depends on autotools-dev.
      (Closes: #190897)
  * checks/debconf{.desc,}:
    + [RA] Take into account comma escaping when checking the number of
      translated choices.  Reported by Frans Pop.  (Closes: #395028)
    + [RA] Only require debconf be loaded in the postinst script if a
      config script exists.  Reported by Josselin Mouette.
    + [RA] Require pre-depends on debconf if debconf is used in the
      preinst script.  Update the long description to deprecate only
      depending on debconf and falling back on another configuration
      system.  Reported by Josselin Mouette.  (Closes: #395468)
    + [RA] Warn of debconf notes displayed with low or medium priority,
      with an exception for Policy-required device file warnings.  Based
      on a patch by Thomas Huriaux.  (Closes: #389070)
    + [RA] Close files after opening them, fixing incorrect line numbers
      when reporting problems with config scripts.
  * checks/debdiff{.desc,}:
    + [RA] Check for creation of ~ and .xxx.swp backup files in the Debian
      diff, but only at the info level for now since they cause no harm.
      (Closes: #332770)
  * checks/fields{.desc,}:
    + [RA] Clarify in missing-build-dependency why lintian does not take
      into account transitive build dependencies.  (Closes: #393975)
    + [RA] Avoid Perl warning when diagnosing a Python-Version of the form
      "all, >= 2.4".  Thanks, Thijs Kinkhorst.  (Closes: #394104)
    + [RA] Teach the debian/rules parsing about make conditionals and
      don't require build dependencies for lines encountered inside a
      conditional (in other words, assume people using conditionals know
      what they're doing).  Fixes a false positive due to the unusual
      arch-specific build dependencies for openoffice.org, reported by
      Rene Engelhard.  (Closes: #380286)
  * checks/files{.desc,}:
    + [RA] Check for vim .swp files in the package.
    + [RA] Split the warning for NFS temporary files into a separate tag
      from the warning for editor backup files.
  * checks/infofiles:
    + [RA] Close opened files.
    + [RA] debhelper no longer adds a --section flag to install-info, so
      don't warn about any install-info invocation without --section.
      Instead, check each info file for INFO-DIR-SECTION and diagnose
      calling install-info without --section if any info file is missing
      this information.  (Closes: #97502, #398670)
    + [RA] Checks for the compression and suffixes of info files were not
      being run due to a mistake in specifying either /usr/info or
      /usr/share/info as an info directory.  Re-enable them.
  * checks/md5sums{.desc,}:
    + [RA] Add a tag for a missing md5sums control file, but only at info
      level, at least for now.  (Closes: #133027)
    + [RA] Do better syntax checking of the md5sums control file and
      report malformed lines as a tag rather than aborting lintian.
    + [RA] Downgrade file-missing-in-md5sums to a warning since it doesn't
      break the package or debsums and may be intentional.
  * checks/menu.desc:
    + [RA] Remove stray commas in Ref strings since the reporting code
      considers commas to be separating two different references.
  * checks/menu-format{.desc,}:
    + [RA] Support the sux, gksu, and kdesu wrappers in menu commands as
      well as su-to-root.  (Closes: #360227)
    + [RA] Fix tag name for menu-icon-cannot-be-parsed.  Thanks, Bill
      Allombert.  (Closes: #399245)
  * checks/po-debconf{.desc,}:
    + [RA] Check for misnamed PO files in debian/po, which cause
      translations to be merged into the template with the wrong names and
      not found.  Based on a patch by Thomas Huriaux.  (Closes: #387360)
  * checks/shared-libs:
    + [RA] Calling ldconfig is also required for libraries installed in
      various subdirectories of its standard search path based on hardware
      capabilities.  Reported by Aurelien Jarno.  (Closes: #396278)

  * debian/rules:
    + [RA] Exclude testset/diffs/binary.c~ from dh_clean.

  * frontend/lintian:
    + [RA] Add --fail-on-warning option to exit with non-zero status if
      any warnings were found.  Thanks, Daniel Bonniot.  (Closes: #189656)

  * man/lintian.1:
    + [RA] Document --fail-on-warning.

 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>  Sat, 18 Nov 2006 17:21:22 -0800

lintian (1.23.25) unstable; urgency=low

  The "dependency and debconf" release

  * checks/debconf:
    + [CW] Don't trigger partially-translated-question when Choices-C exists
      but not Description-C.
    + [RA] Remove select-with-translated-default-field since there are
      cases where this is correct and we can perform a better check
      against the source package.  Patch from Thomas Huriaux.
    + [RA] Fix Perl warnings when a template has no type.
  * checks/debdiff:
    + [RA] Remove the source-tar-is-posix-tar tag.  This was only a
      problem for woody and earlier, and woody support is no longer
      needed.  Reported by Loïc Minier.  (Closes: #385833)
  * checks/fields{.desc,}:
    + [RA] Improve the long descriptions of the warnings about dependencies
      on essential or build-essential packages to make it clearer that the
      correct resolution is normally to omit the dependency and why.
    + [RA] Add a check for duplicate build dependencies.  (Closes: #359178)
  * checks/files:
    + [RA] Don't consider files named license.rb to be extraneous
      licenses.  Patch from NIIBE Yutaka.  (Closes: #387269)
  * checks/init.d:
    + [RA] Correctly handle LSB keywords which are present but have an
      empty value.  Reported by Erich Schubert.  (Closes: #386968)
  * checks/lintian.desc:
    + [RA] Add tags for missing and bad Urgency fields in *.changes files.
    + [RA] Improve the no-description-in-changes-file information.
  * checks/md5sums:
    + [RA] aspell dictionary packages may ship files in /var/lib/aspell
      that should not have MD5 checksums in md5sums because they change
      after installation.  Don't complain that those files are missing.
  * checks/po-debconf:
    + [RA] Avoid Perl warnings on .po files that don't contain msgstr
      lines.  Patch from Thomas Huriaux.  (Closes: #387357)
    + [RA] Check templates for a translatable Default or DefaultChoice
      field and warn if there isn't a translator comment.  Patch from
      Thomas Huriaux.  (Closes: #388824)
  * checks/scripts:
    + [RA] Add /usr/bin/gosh from the gauche package to the list of valid
      interpreters.  Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita.  (Closes: #386798)
    + [RA] Add a separate tag for tclsh dependencies to explain about the
      virtual package and improve the description of the wish virtual
      package in its tag.  Fix inverted logic that got the wish dependency
      backwards.  Reported by Hamish Moffatt.  (Closes: #387845)
    + [RA] Allow tcsh to satisfy a csh dependency.  Reported by Yann
      Dirson.  (Closes: #389615)
    + [RA] Improve the check for shell scripts that are actually exec
      wrappers around scripts written in another language.
    + [RA] Allow update-inetd to fulfill the dependency requirements for
      the update-inetd script.  Thanks, Michael Holzt.  (Closes: #389960)

  * frontend/lintian:
    + [RA] Check the existence and value of the Urgency field in *.changes
      files.  (Closes: #384219)

  * lib/Dep.pm:
    + [RA] Improve the dependency resolution engine so that it can prove
      aa|bb implies aa|bb|cc.  Fix the comparison of dependencies for
      inverse implication to catch many more cases.  (The latter code
      isn't currently used in lintian.)
    + [RA] Add an unparse function to take an internal representation and
      convert it back to human-readable text.
    + [RA] Significantly improve and rewrite the get_dups function to only
      find relations that imply each other and to return the complete
      duplicate dependencies in sets.

  * man/lintian.1:
    + [RA] Document setting TMPDIR to change the location of lintian's
      temporary lab.  (Closes: #388786)

 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>  Sun,  8 Oct 2006 12:57:05 -0700

lintian (1.23.24) unstable; urgency=low

  The "LSB init script" release

  * checks/control-files:
    + [RA] perm2oct definition moved to Util.pm.
  * checks/cruft{.desc,}:
    + [RA] Remove the (info-level) check for .cvsignore files in the
      source tarball.  This isn't an error; those files contain metadata
      that may be useful for people making modifications and it's quite
      common to distribute them.
  * checks/debconf{.desc,}:
    + [RA] Diagnose unknown priorities in db_input and db_text
      invocations.  Patch from Thomas Huriaux.  (Closes: #386014)
  * checks/fields{.desc,}:
    + [RA] Depending on versioned variants of python-minimal is also an
      error.  Thanks, Adeodato Simó.  (Closes: #384476)
  * checks/files:
    + [RA] perm2oct definition moved to Util.pm.
  * checks/init.d{.desc,}:
    + [RA] Added a warning for init scripts missing an LSB keyword
      section, checks of the syntax of such a section if present, and
      some basic semantic checks of the easiest fields.  Based on initial
      work by Carlos Villegas.  (Closes: #377740)
  * checks/menus:
    + [RA] perm2oct definition moved to Util.pm.
  * checks/scripts:
    + [RA] Properly concatenate the dependencies for a package when
      checking whether the dependency for an interpreter is included.
      Thanks, Vincent Danjean.  (Closes: #385178)
  * checks/shared-libs:
    + [RA] perm2oct definition moved to Util.pm.

  * lib/Util.pm:
    + [RA] Move perm2oct to here and improve recognition of s, S, t, and T
      characters.  Thanks to Justin B. Rye for patch.  (Closes: #376119)

 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>  Mon,  4 Sep 2006 12:03:16 -0700

lintian (1.23.23) unstable; urgency=low

  The "new Python policy" release

  * checks/binaries.desc:
    + [RA] Greatly expand the binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath long
      description based on recent discussion in debian-policy.  Add a
      reference to the wiki page.  (Closes: #378054, #378055)
  * checks/changelog-file{.desc,}:
    + [RA] Diagnose changelog files that are symlinks, using the new way
      the changelog-file collection script processes them.
  * checks/common_data.pm:
    + [RA] Add Python-Version as a known source and binary field.
  * checks/copyright-file:
    + [RA] Catch "<fill in http/ftp site>" as well as the string without
      "http/".  Thanks, Jari Aalto.  (Closes: #374167)
  * checks/deb-format{.desc,}:
    + [RA] Remove deb-created-with-broken-tar; the bug was actually in
      dpkg, and the dpkg in stable has been fixed.  Thanks Jari Aalto and
      Thijs Kinkhorst.  (Closes: #375638, #376030)
  * checks/debconf:
    + [RA] Diagnose a missing template description only once and avoid
      Perl warnings.  Thanks, Thomas Huriaux.  (Closes: #377654)
  * checks/debhelper:
    + [RA] Use the standard control file parser rather than a custom
      parser that can't handle continuation lines.
    + [RA] Warn if dh_python is used without debian/pycompat in non-CDBS
      packages and check for the debhelper version required for Python
      policy.  Thanks, Raphaël Hertzog.  (Closes: #375318)
  * checks/fields{.desc,}:
    + [RA] Don't warn virtual-package-depends-without-real-package-depends
      for Recommends and rewrite the tag description to be more accurate.
      Thanks to Martin F. Krafft for the report.  (Closes: #370720)
    + [RA] ~ is now permitted in version numbers.  (Closes: #381965)
    + [RA] Catch and check dependencies correctly for debconf-updatepo run
      from the clean target.  Thanks, James Westby.  (Closes: #380399)
    + [RA] Warn when encountering an aspell dictionary package that isn't
      arch: all.  Thanks, Piotr Engelking.  (Closes: #374899)
    + [RA] Check the syntax of the new Python-Version field.
    + [RA] Check for missing build dependencies on python-central or
      python-support.  Thanks, Raphaël Hertzog.
    + [RA] Check for old << dependencies on Python in Python packages that
      lack a Python-Version control field, as these are probably packages
      that don't follow the new Python policy.  Thanks, Raphaël Hertzog.
  * checks/files{.desc,}:
    + [RA] Provide a better explanation of why Debian packages shouldn't
      ship files in /srv.  (Closes: #379176)
    + [RA] Warn about files installed into /etc/gconf/schemas.
    + [RA] Warn about files in /usr/lib/site-python.  Thanks, Thomas
      Viehmann and Raphaël Hertzog.  (Closes: #372748)
  * checks/manpages{.desc,}:
    + [RA] Warn about manpage short descriptions of the form "manual page
      for program" (usually generated by help2man).
  * checks/menu:
    + [RA] Ignore trailing whitespace in doc-base files.  Patch from Bas
      Zoetekouw.  (Closes: #379749)
  * checks/nmu{.desc,}:
    + [RA] When checking for an NMU changelog entry, require "NMU" be
      surrounded by word boundaries.
    + [RA] Warn if the changelog incorrectly indicates an NMU.  Thanks to
      George Danchev for the report.
  * checks/scripts{.desc,}:
    + [RA] Except mkstemp from possibly-insecure-handling-of-tmp-files for
      maintainer scripts written in Perl.
    + [RA] Mention [[ ]] explicitly in the possible-bashism long
      description as requiring a Korn shell and make it clearer that the
      primary arbiter of this test is the POSIX shell specification.
      (Closes: #381800 by clarification)
    + [RA] Use the Dep library to check dependencies.  Add php5 to the
      interpreter list and correctly handle the dependencies for
      version-less PHP scripts.  (Closes: #379558)
    + [RA] Check for proper dependencies if gconf-schemas is called in
      maintainer scripts and diagnose calling gconftool(-2) directly.
      Thanks, Josselin Mouette.  (Closes: #333311)
  * checks/version-substvars{.desc,}:
    + [RA] New check from Adeodato Simó for proper use of substvars for
      versioned dependencies between packages built from the same source
      package so that NMUs will work properly.  Also catch use of such a
      substvar for a versioned dependency on a package not built from the
      same source.  (Closes: #377141, #376596)

  * collection/changelog-file:
    + [RA] Be much more careful about changelog files that are symlinks.
      Don't skip over changelog symlinks just because they point to
      non-existant files, mark unsafe symlinks or symlinks to non-existent
      files by creating copyright as a symlink to a non-existent file in
      the lab, and don't create an empty dummy changelog if we couldn't
      find a changelog.  Correctly handle changelog files that are
      symlinks to other files in the same directory.

  * debian/copyright:
    + [RA] Add Subversion repository location.

  * frontend/lintian:
    + [JvW] Give error if there is no "Description" field in .changes, this is
      required by dak

  * frontend/lintian-info:
    + [RA] Add the -t or --tags option that, given a tag name, prints out
      the description.  (Closes: #376109)

  * lib/Tags.pm:
    + [RA] If a tag has been overriden via any mechanism, do not add it to
      any of the statistics (tag, severity, or significance).  Before, the
      override only suppressed a record for the specific statistic the
      override was based on, meaning that classic tag-based overrides
      didn't suppress severity statistics.  Overridden error tags would
      therefore cause lintian to exit with non-zero status.  Thanks,
      Andree Leidenfrost and Martin F. Krafft.  (Closes: #377182, #374314)

  * man/lintian.1:
    + [RA] Better document the --archivedir and --dist options and how
      lintian constructs the path to an archive.  (Closes: #383203)
    + [RA] Document new version-substvars check script.
  * man/lintian-info.1:
    + [RA] Document the new -t or --tags option.

  * reporting/html_reports:
    + [RA] Include the lintian version in HTML page footers.  Thanks,
      Thijs Kinkhorst.  (Closes: #377616)

 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>  Mon, 21 Aug 2006 10:28:14 -0700

lintian (1.23.22) unstable; urgency=low

  * checks/debconf:
    + [JvW] Teach lintian to know about the 'error' debconf template
      question type. (Closes: #374399)
    + [RA] Exclude debconf templates with "for internal use" in the short
      description from style checks and document this in the log
      description of the tags most likely to trigger on internal
      templates.  (Closes: #368206)
  * checks/common_data.pm:
    + [RA] Add amd64 to the standard architectures.  (Closes: #367324)
  * checks/debhelper:
    + [RA] Use the Dep library to check debhelper build dependencies
      rather than parsing Build-Depends with regexes.  This avoids false
      positives due to matching package names ending in debhelper.
      Reported by Fabio Tranchitella.  (Closes: #366531)
  * checks/fields:
    + [RA] Allow build-depend on quilt if clean depends on the xsfclean
      rule, for packages maintained by the X Strike Force.
    + [RA] CDBS packages that use the python-distutils class should list
      Python in Build-Depends, not Build-Depends-Indep, since CDBS wants
      to use it in debian/rules clean.  Thanks, Jan Lübbe.
    + [HE] Add check for build-deps on build-essential. Yes, people do that.
    + [RA] Recognize direct invocations of quilt in clean rules and allow
      Build-Depends on quilt in that case.  Reported by Sam Hocevar.
      (Closes: #374878)
    + [RA] Fix handling of versioned Build-Depends to avoid spurious
      build-depends-without-arch-dep warnings.  Reported by Marcus
      Better.
    + [RA] Don't require Build-Depends on perl even if run explicitly in
      debian/rules clean, since perl-base may be sufficient.  Catch more
      ways perl could be run, including the common idiom for packages that
      use Build.PL.
    + [RA] Downgrade build-depends-without-arch-dep to info from warning.
      Policy doesn't require using Build-Depends-Indep for
      arch-independent packages and the test has a lot of false positives.
    + [RA] Require ant in Build-Depends when using the CDBS ant rule.
    + [RA] Bypass the build-depends-without-arch-dep check entirely when
      using ant, since determining which Java dependencies are then
      permissible in Build-Depends is too complex to do a proper job.
      Reported by Peter Eisentraut.  (Closes: #372190)
    + [RA] Only allow patch in Build-Depends for yada unpatch, don't
      require it, since yada depends on patch.  (Closes: #375479)
  * checks/po-debconf:
    + [RA] Don't consider templates.in to be a stray translated template
      file.  Thanks, Thomas Huriaux.  (Closes: #367534)

  * lib/Util.pm:
    + [RA] Pass the --wildcards option to tar, now required by a change in
      the default tar semantics.  (Closes: #375246)

 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>  Tue, 27 Jun 2006 17:50:05 -0700

lintian (1.23.21) unstable; urgency=low

  * checks/menus:
    + [RA] Tell Perl where common_data.pm is since we're now including it.
      Doh.  Thanks, Nelson A. de Oliveira.  (Closes: #366481)

 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>  Mon,  8 May 2006 18:52:45 -0700

lintian (1.23.20) unstable; urgency=low

  The "Policy backlog clearing is a wonderful sight" release

  * checks/debconf{.desc,}:
    + [RA] Add checks for the Developer's Reference guidelines for debconf
      templates.  Based on a patch by Thomas Huriaux.  (Closes: #362145)
  * checks/fields{.desc,}:
    + [RA] xfonts-encodings is also not an xfont package.  Thanks, Drew
      Parsons.  (Closes: #365503)
    + [RA] Report errors for dependencies on python-minimal.  Thanks to
      Steve Langasek for the analysis.
    + [RA] Allow a build-dependency on patchutils when using CDBS with one
      of the patch systems, as patchutils may be optionally used to check
      for bad patches.  Thanks, Marc Dequènes (Duck).  (Closes: #365466)
    + [RA] Since some packages should be in Build-Depends and some should
      be in Build-Depends-Indep, report all of the misplaced ones rather
      than just the first one.  That way, users know which to move.
    + [RA] Allow perl in Build-Depends if invoked in clean rules.
    + [RA] Allow patch in Build-Depends if yada unpatch is invoked in
      clean rules.
  * checks/files{.desc,}:
    + [RA] Add an explicit check for non-world-readable executables to
      provide a more detailed explanation and tighten the accepted
      permissions of setuid and setgid executables to just the permissions
      mentioned in Policy 10.9.  Add Policy 10.9 references to the
      descriptions.  Reported by Piotr Engelking.  (Closes: #365452)
    + [RA] Add a request to the descriptions of setuid and setgid tags to
      add a lintian override for documentation if the permissions are
      intentional.
    + [RA] Report a more specific tag for binaries that are owned by group
      games but are not setgid.
    + [RA] Remove the check for files in /usr/lib/cgi-bin.  This policy
      change was reverted.
    + [RA] Allow files installed in /usr/include/X11 and /usr/lib/X11 but
      require Pre-Depends on x11-common (>= 1:7.0.0).  Remove the
      duplicate check for files in /usr/bin/X11 since it no longer adds
      additional information.
  * checks/menus{.desc,}:
    + [RA] Check that all files referenced in doc-base control files are
      present in the package, based on a patch by Robert Luberda.  Also
      check that Index references only one file and that Format names a
      known format.  (Closes: #196122)
    + [RA] Fix incomplete diagnosis of missing calls to update-menus.
    + [RA] Change postrm to prerm in the check for a useless install-docs
      call; calling install-docs in postrm is always a warning and useless
      calls in prerm were not being diagnosed.
  * checks/po-debconf{.desc,}:
    + [RA] Exempt packages that use yada from the POTFILES.in check and
      from checking for up-to-date templates, since yada does this at
      build time.  Reported by Piotr Roszatycki.  (Closes: #321139)
    + [RA] Check for stray debconf-mergetemplate files in packages
      using po-debconf.  Thanks, Martin Quinson.  (Closes: #232442)
    + [RA] General cleanup of tag descriptions for grammar and markup.
      Move man page references into Ref fields.
  * checks/shared-libs.desc:
    + [RA] Document that exceptions to the -fPIC rule for shared libraries
      are possible and ask that such exceptions be documented with lintian
      overrides.
  * checks/standards-version:
    + [RA] Update to 3.7.2.  (Closes: #366233)
    + [RA] Report the current standards version when warning about too old
      or too new versions.  Thanks, Jari Aalto.  (Closes: #366104)

  * debian/control:
    + [RA] Update standards version to 3.7.2 (no changes required).
    + [RA] Update description to note calibration for Policy 3.7.2.

 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>  Mon,  8 May 2006 13:22:03 -0700

lintian (1.23.19) unstable; urgency=low

  The "Policy 3.7.0" release

  * checks/fields{.desc,}:
    + [RA] python-all-dev also satisfies dh_python's requirements.
      Thanks, Marc Dequènes (Duck).  (Closes: #364943)
    + [RA] Allow python in Build-Depends if it's invoked explicitly in the
      clean rule.  Thanks, Marc Dequènes (Duck).  (Closes: #365030)
    + [RA] Recognize the CDBS included rule files that indicate dpatch or
      quilt will be used, check those dependencies, and require that they
      be in Build-Depends since they're used for clean.  Thanks, Marc
      Dequènes (Duck).  (Closes: #365041)
  * checks/files{.desc,}:
    + [RA] Add the references to Policy for the deprecation of X11R6
      directories now that Policy has been updated in 3.7.0.0.
    + [RA] Policy now mandates FHS 2.3.  Update tag descriptions.
    + [RA] Warn about files installed in /usr/lib/cgi-bin.  Policy now
      states they should be installed in /usr/lib/cgi-lib.
    + [RA] Warn about scripts installed on the user's PATH with names that
      include language extensions (.sh, .pl, .py), per Policy 10.4.
    + [RA] Report directories under /usr/share/man that don't match the
      directory layout specified in the FHS.  (Closes: #176683)
    + [RA] Fix a very long-standing bug that caused the check for
      executable manpages to be silently skipped.
  * checks/scripts:
    + [RA] Debian etch release policy explicitly forbids scripts without
      #! magic and they rely on being run from a shell.  Revert the change
      that permitted the Perl magic without a #! line.  Thanks to Piotr
      Engelking and Steve Langasek for pointing this out.
    + [RA] Don't syntax-check *.dpatch scripts in /usr/src.  bash -n
      doesn't stop at exit 0 and then may choke on the patch.  Thanks,
      Matthias Klose.  (Closes: #364521)
  * checks/scripts.desc:
    + [RA] Using invoke-rc.d is now required by Policy.
  * checks/standards-version:
    + [RA] Update to 3.7.0.

  * debian/control:
    + [RA] Update standards version to 3.7.0 (no changes required).
    + [RA] Update description to note calibration for Policy 3.7.0.

 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>  Sat, 29 Apr 2006 01:06:59 -0700

lintian (1.23.18) unstable; urgency=low

  The "brown paper Python" release

  * checks/fields{.desc,}:
    + [RA] Redo handling of build dependencies to allow a custom tag to be
      specified and to allow a general dependency string to be required
      rather than a simple package name.  As a result, dh_python handling
      is no longer a buggy special case.  Allow either python or
      python-dev for dh_python and the cdbs Python rules.  Thanks, Torsten
      Merek and Aaron M. Ucko.  (Closes: #364297, #364330)
    + [RA] Require at least quilt 0.40 if /usr/share/quilt/quilt.make is
      included.  Thanks, Michele Baldessari.
    + [RA] Packages using dh_installxfonts must build-depend on 5.0.31 or
      later of debhelper for the X.Org 7 transition.

 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>  Sat, 22 Apr 2006 16:17:14 -0700

lintian (1.23.17) unstable; urgency=low

  The "happy Nanaimo hacking" release

  * checks/binaries:
    + [RA] Detect klibc binaries from their requested interpreter and
      allow them to appear static.  (Closes: #328850)
  * checks/common_data.pm:
    + [RA] Include all combinations of cpu and os from the dpkg cputable
      and ostable files (as of dpkg 1.13.16).  (Closes: #337034, #357433)
    + [RA] Include a list of known X metapackages.
  * checks/control-file{.desc,}:
    + [RA] Warn if debian/control in a source package is a symlink.
  * checks/copyright-file{.desc,}:
    + [RA] Don't assume mentions of GPL or GNU General Public License
      after what look like mail headers are referring to the license of
      the package.  Be a bit more specific in the old FSF address check
      to avoid false positives on other Cambridge, MA addresses.  Reported
      by Adam C. Powell IV.  (Closes: #205934)
  * checks/debconf:
    + [RA] Allow Indices as a template field.  cdebconf uses it and
      debconf ignores it.  Reported by Frans Pop.  (Closes: #361986)
  * checks/debdiff{.desc,}:
    + [RA] Warn if the diff contains debian/substvars.  Based on a patch
      by Michael Ablassmeier.  (Closes: #359646)
  * checks/debhelper.desc:
    + [RA] When explaining the warning about deprecated debhelper
      compatibility versions, mention that debhelper defaults to version 1
      if not set anywhere.  (Closes: #360711)
    + [RA] Move simple man page references from Info into Ref.
  * checks/fields{.desc,}:
    + [RA] Allow dpatch in Build-Depends for arch-independent packages if
      it is invoked in clean, build-arch, or binary-arch.
    + [RA] Only list examples of non-standard architectures, since there
      are now too many combinations to list completely.
    + [RA] Catch dependencies on X metapackages, based on a patch by Josh
      Triplett.  No packages are allowed to build-depend, and only
      packages that look like metapackages (arch: all, no files outside of
      /usr/share/doc) are allowed to depend.  (Closes: #347169)
    + [RA] Look for an explicit section of unknown, probably left over
      from dh_make templates, and diagnose it with an error rather than a
      warning.  Reported by Jari Aalto.  (Closes: #355032)
    + [RA] Reorganize dependency checking based on debian/rules analysis.
      Diagnose missing build dependencies on the helper packages we know
      about, catch cases where Build-Depends-Indep should be Build-Depends
      because of the clean target, and make sure users of dh_python
      build-depend on python.  yada is no longer a special case.
      (Closes: #242789, #278290)
    + [RA] Check for conflicting with dependencies and build-conflicting
      with build dependencies.  (Closes: #122760)
    + [RA] Allow xfonts-utils in dependencies.  It's not actually an X
      font package.
  * checks/files{.desc,}:
    + [RA] For the X.Org 7 transition, add explicit checks for fonts and
      binaries installed in /usr/X11R6.  Rename the existing check for
      other files in /usr/X11R6 since the tag had a pluralization error
      and we want package maintainers to see the error again and
      reconsider whether to ignore it.  No packages should be installing
      files in /usr/X11R6 going forward.  Remove the policy cross-refs for
      right now until policy catches up.
  * checks/manpages:
    + [RA] Use system_env instead of system and sanitize the environment
      before running man -l out of caution and to avoid extraneous output
      when CDPATH is set.  Reported by Marc Haber.  (Closes: #360217)
  * checks/nmu{.desc,}:
    + [RA] Warn if debian/changelog in a native source package is a
      symlink and skip checks rather than aborting if it was a symlink to
      a file we didn't unpack.  (Closes: #257650)
  * checks/po-debconf:
    + [RA] Use system_env instead of system out of caution and to avoid
      extraneous output when CDPATH is set.
  * checks/rules{.desc,}:
    + [RA] A new set of checks that parses debian/rules and checks for
      required rules, debian/rules as a symlink, and the correct first
      line.  Based heavily on previous work by René van Bevern.
      (Closes: #294926, #311786)
  * checks/scripts{.desc,}:
    + [RA] Ignore text inside single quotes and, for most checks, text
      inside double quotes when checking for bashisms.  Reported by Frank
      Küster.  (Closes: #344266)
    + [RA] Change canonical zsh path to /bin/zsh at the request of the zsh
      maintainer.  (Closes: #360534)
    + [RA] Change the check for broken error handling with invoke-rc.d to
      maintainer-script-hides-init-failure to be more generic and explain
      what the test looks at.  Add the script name and line number and fix
      a typo.  Thanks, Marc Haber.  (Closes: #360214, #360216)
    + [RA] Warn when maintainer scripts run init scripts directly and
      don't use invoke-rc.d.  Thanks, Lars Wirzenius.  (Closes: #353659)
    + [RA] Find missing ucf dependencies and restructure the code to allow
      easier addition of similar checks.  (Closes: #261891)
    + [RA] Add python2.5, lua50, gbx, and gbx2 to the list of valid
      interpreters.  (Closes: #361601, #361644, #362566)
  * checks/shared-libs:
    + [RA] Limit shlib-without-PT_GNU_STACK-section to only those
      architectures where gcc always adds the section.  Thanks to Frans
      Pop for the report and Bastian Blank for the architecture list.
      (Closes: #357636)

  * collection/objdump-info:
    + [RA] Unset CDPATH before running cd to avoid strange effects from
      the user's environment.
    + [RA] Run readelf -l to collect interpreter information.

  * lib/Dep.pm:
    + [RA] Add initial support for analyzing architecture information in
      dependencies instead of ignoring it.
  * lib/Read_taginfo.pm:
    + [RA] Add support for formatting man page references from Ref.
  * lib/Util.pm:
    + [RA] Add system_env, like system but sanitizing the environment.

  * man/lintian.1:
    + [RA] Mention the new rules check class.

 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>  Fri, 21 Apr 2006 09:36:34 -0700

lintian (1.23.16) unstable; urgency=low

  The "What's this Russ guy up to?" release

  * checks/binaries{.desc,}:
    + [RA] Add a check for the new "Invalid operation" error from
      objdump -T.  Skip shared-lib-without-dependency-information for
      files in /usr/lib/debug.
  * checks/changelog-file:
    + [FL] Add line number to output of wrong-bug-number-in-closes.
      Inspired by #349761 from Steinar H. Gunderson.
  * checks/common_data.pm:
    + [FL] Add armeb to %non_standard_archs as requested by
      Martin Michlmayr. (Closes: #350653)
  * checks/debconf:
    + [RA] Packages that depend on dbconfig-common are allowed to have
      config scripts without templates or an explicit debconf dependency.
      Reported by Marcus Better.  (Closes: #344421)
  * checks/debconf.desc:
    + [RA] Clarify the necessary dependencies for packages using SETTITLE.
      (Closes: #349616)
  * checks/debhelper:
    + [RA] Recognize setting DH_COMPAT with := in addition to = in
      debian/rules.  (Closes: #349272)
    + [RA] CDBS sets DH_COMPAT to 4 but doesn't export it.  It does create
      debian/compat with that value if none was present.  Reflect this
      behavior to avoid spurious compat level warnings when using CDBS.
      Based on a patch by Jay Berkenbilt.  (Closes: #350228)
  * checks/fields:
    + [RA] Allow a quilt build-dependency for arch-independent packages if
      the quilt makefile rules are included.  (Closes: #349273)
    + [RA] If clean depends on a rule that calls dh_clean rather than
      calling it directly, still allow debhelper in Build-Depends for
      arch-independent packages.  Reported by Michael Stilkerich.
    + [JvW] Commented that Uploaders no longer will hit the multiline field
      issue, updated testsuite accordingly
  * checks/manpages:
    + [FL] Ignore more warnings ("cannot adjust line", "can't break
      line") in non-English manpages. (Closes: #349792)
    + [RA] cd into the parent directory before checking man pages with man
      so that .so inclusions are processed correctly.  Based on a patch by
      Nicolas François.  (Closes: #349614)
  * checks/menu-format:
    + [RA] Look for binaries in /usr/X11R6/bin, not /usr/bin/X11, per
      Policy 11.8.7.  Thanks, Matej Vela.  (Closes: #354890)
  * checks/menu-format.desc:
    + [RA] Use "menu manual" rather than "menu" for references to more
      clearly distinguish from the Debian Menu Policy.  (Closes: #347510)
  * checks/po-debconf:
    + [RA] If there are template files in debian, assume the package uses
      debconf; don't require a dependency or config script.  Patch by
      Thomas Huriaux.  (Closes: #353294)
  * checks/scripts:
    + [RA] Allow /tmp in variable settings.  It's likely to be a false
      positive.  Reported by Frank Küster.  (Closes: #344998)
    + [RA] Make the syntax checking of shell scripts more robust against
      filenames containing shell metacharacters.  Reported by Michael
      Stilkerich.
    + [RA] Add fish and expectk to the list of valid interpreters.
      (Closes: #351624, #353770)
    + [RA] /usr/bin/tcl is provided by tclx8.3, not tcl.  Reported by
      James R. Van Zandt.  (Closes: #351324)
    + [RA] Allow more variations on leading magic to invoke some
      interpreter rather than then shell.  Bypass the ELF magic check for
      scripts using magic that relies on having no leading #! line.
      Reported by Frank Küster.  (Closes: #344269)
    + [JvW] Add check against package suffering from debhelper bug #337664,
      per Joey Hess, which had broken error detection (Closes: #358523)
  * checks/shared-libs:
    + [JvW] Fix postinst-must-call-ldconfig to also get emitted when there is
      no postinst at all, instead of just one lacking a ldconfig call
    + [JvW] Implement checks for "udeb:" lines in shlibs files
      (Closes: #357541)
    + [JvW] Consider also the soname version for shlibs checking, preventing
      some bogus 'duplicate' warnings, and actually throw a warning when
      soname version doesn't match
    + [JvW] Added error when udeb postinst calls ldconfig, that must never
      happen (thanks to Frans Pop for noticing, see #203056)

  * debian/{control,copyright}:
    + [RA] Add Russ Allbery to Uploaders and copyright.
    + [JvW] Version dpkg-dev requirement to >= 1.13.17, for
      unpack/unpack-srcpkg-l2

  * frontends/lintian-info:
    + [RA] Avoid Perl uninitialized value warnings when given output that
      looks like lintian messages without tags.  (Closes: #352606)

  * collection/objdump-info:
    + [RA] Pass "Invalid operation" errors from objdump -T on to the check
      scripts instead of failing.  (Closes: #249435)

  * man/lintian.1:
    + [RA] Add references to dh_make, debhelper, dpkg-buildpackage, and
      linda in new reference sections.  (Closes: #322288)
  * man/{lintian.1,lintian-info.1}:
    + [RA] Left-justify and disable hyphenation for readability.

  * unpack/unpack-srcpkg-l2:
    + [JvW] Use -q with dpkg-source to surpress warnings about unsigned source
      packages. Requires dpkg-dev 1.13.17

 -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar <jeroen@wolffelaar.nl>  Sun, 26 Mar 2006 15:38:37 +0200

lintian (1.23.15) unstable; urgency=low

  * The "www.no-name-yet.eu" release

  * debian/changelog:
    + [FL] Fix wrapping of last changelog entry (Closes: #344899)

  * checks/common_data.pm:
    + [FL] Add xlibs-dev and debmake to %known_obsolete_packages
  * checks/debconf:
    + [CW] Show template name for empty-translated-choices,
      mismatch-translated-choices, and unknown-field-in-templates.
  * checks/debhelper:
    + [FL] Also check for debhelper build-dependency in debhelper-using
      cdbs based packages
    + [FL] Indicate where we found which compat version in
      declares-possibly-conflicting-debhelper-compat-versions
      (Closes: #329953)
    + [FL] Add dh_installtexfonts to list of commands that modfiy
      the maintainer scripts
    + [FL] Try a little harder to find the DH_COMPAT setting in debian/rules
      (Closes: #348380)
  * checks/fields:
    + [FL] Allow version numbers of 0 by correctly checking the output
      of _valid_version for definedness and not the boolean value
      (Closes: #345005)
    + [FL] Better check for false postives of build-depends-without-arch-dep.
      Should fix false positives for cdbs, dbs, dpatch and yada. Based on
      a patch by Russ Allbery (Closes: #344609, #321135, #339750)
    + [FL] Also check for build-dependencies on obsolete packages not
      only dependencies (Closes: #234531)
  * checks/fields.desc:
    + [JvW] Fix typo in description
  * checks/init.d:
    + [FL] Only try to validate update-rc.d calls where the name of the
      script matches [\w.-]+. That accounts for all today known init
      scripts and eliminates false positives like shell variables in the
      name (Closes: #343865)
  * checks/manpages:
    + [FL] Fix stupid mistake in regex to strip of filenames from roff
      output (which was hidden by another stupid mistake in the test
      suite). Patch by Nicolas François (Closes: #347999)
  * checks/scripts:
    + [FL] Make mknod-in-maintainer-script an error since this is now
      a must in policy. Pointed out by Bartosz Fenski (Closes: #344928)
    + [FL] dpkg --print-installation-architecture is deprecated
      so delete dpkg-print-architecture-in-maintainer-script
    + [FL] Add parrot to list of valid interpreters (Closes: #346335)

 -- Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>  Thu, 19 Jan 2006 15:13:02 +0100

lintian (1.23.14) unstable; urgency=low

  * The "fix those frontend regressions" release

  * frontend/lintian:
    + [FL] Fix exit status computing so that we exit with 1 again
      if we found any error. (Closes: #329458)
    + [FL] Re-enable reporting unused overrides.

  * lib/Tags.pm:
    + [FL] Some fixes to the statistics code to make the fixes
      in frontend/lintian possible

  * checks/binaries{.desc,}:
    + [FL] support c2a suffix in soname check, too (Closes: #340856)
    + [FL] fix typo in description of package-name-doesnt-match-sonames
      (Closes: #339360)
    + [FL] The Debian specific patches from coreutils to call strip with
      --remove-section arguments on install -s have been dropped. Adapt
      description of binary-has-unneeded-section accordingly and demote
      it to "info" because many packages will get this now.
  * checks/debconf{.desc,}:
    + [FL] drop seen-flag-requires-versioned-depends and
      multiselect-without-dependency and drop version requirement from
      missing-debconf-dependency-for-preinst. All due to the fact that
      woody shipped with 1.0.x and therefor versioned depends on versions
      lesser than that don't make much sense anymore (Closes: #333736)
  * checks/debhelper:
    + [FL] debhelper compat level 3 is deprecated as well now (Closes: #340222)
  * checks/files:
    + [FL] forgot /lib(32|64) (more #328612 fixes)
  * checks/menu-format:
    + [FL] Drop su-to-root-with-usr-bin and su-to-root-without-usr-sbin,
      and add su-to-root-with-usr-sbin to adapt to current menu package
      and policy (Closes: #332400)
  * checks/po-debconf:
    + [FL] Fix logical error in search for files (Closes: #342707)
  * checks/scripts{.desc,}:
    + [FL] Drop install-fvwmgenmenu as valid interpreter. Was dropped
      from menu package before sarge. (also for #332400, see
      checks/menu-format)
    + [FL] Change path for install-menu from /usr/sbin to /usr/bin (also
      for #332400)
    + [FL] Merge most of the wrong-path-for-* and *-script-but-no-*-dep
      tags to two tags wrong-path-for-interpreter and
      missing-dep-for-interpreter. This makes maintaining the list of
      valid interpreters way easier. Some tags with special text have
      been special cased (php\d? and (m|g)awk).
    + [FL] Add speedy and slsh to list of valid interpreters
      (Closes: #333955, #336700)
  * checks/shared-libs:
    + [FL] forgot /lib(32|64) (hopefully finally closes: #328612)

 -- Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>  Sun, 18 Dec 2005 02:04:46 +0100

lintian (1.23.13) unstable; urgency=low

  * The "doesn't contain all the fixes I would like but that's no
    reason to let the others wait forever" release

  * debian/control:
    + [FL] Fix typo in description. Noted by Bill Allombert
      (Closes: #327859)

  * checks/copyright-file:
    + [JvW] Demote FSF address check to warning
  * checks/description:
    + [HE] Change description-synopsis-is-duplicated to only be emitted if
      the synopsis is copied without being extended. (Closes: #316523)
  * checks/files:
    + [FL] Add some formats to the exception list for extra-license-file
      (jpe?g, gif and svg) (Closes: #324944)
    + [FL] Don't complain about lib(32|64) as unusual directories. Noted
      by Matthias Klose (partly fixes #328612, see checks/shared-libs for
      the rest)
  * checks/infofiles:
    + [FL] Don't issue install-info-not-called-with-section-option if
      the call in postinst is really a removal. Experienced by Ben Pfaff
      in autoconf (Closes: #329170)
  * checks/po-debconf:
    + [FL] Previously we only run the checks if we found a templates file
      and a debconf dependency. Since the latter is mostly generated by
      ${misc:Depends} nowadays, we now also run the checks if we find
      a templates and a config file. (Closes: #331672)
  * checks/scripts:
    + [FL] PythonX.Y dependency can also be satisfied with pythonX.Y-minimal.
      Noted by Matthias Klose (Closes: #326643)
    + [FL] Only match 'local' at the beginning of a line. The check is too
      ambigious otherwise. Reported by Marc Haber (Closes: #330548)
    + [FL] Better reflect the current discussions wether some of the
      XSI:sms should be allowed in shell scripts by moving some of
      them to a separate check possible-non-posix-code-in-maintainer-script.
      Not doing that for kill -NAME as reuqested since -s NAME is available
      and should be perfectly portable. (Closes: #323053)
  * checks/shared-libs:
    + [HE] Apply patch from Bastian Blank to check for executable stacks in
      binaries. New checks are called shlib-without-PT_GNU_STACK-section,
      shlib-with-executable-stack, thanks waldi. (Closes: #321750)
    + [FL] Add lib(32|64) to ldso directories. Pointed out by
      Matthias Klose (Closes: #328612)

 -- Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>  Thu, 13 Oct 2005 15:19:05 +0200

lintian (1.23.12) unstable; urgency=low

  * The "bad, bad SONAME check" release

  * all files:
    + [FL] Update FSF address

  * debian/control:
    + [FL] Depend on dpkg-dev since we use dpkg-source. How old exactly is
      this bug? (Closes: #324673)

  * checks/binaries:
    + [FL] Only use sonames from files in common library directories for
      the soname checks. This avoids many false positives. Patch by
      Russ Allbery (Closes: #321564)
    + [FL] Convert the SONAME to lower case before comparing with
      package name. Suggested by Josh Triplett (Closes: #321206, #325225)
    + [FL] Try to remove strings added for transition purposes from
      library package names before comparing package name with SONAME.
      Pointed out by Rene Engelhard (Closes: #322241, #324121)
    + [FL] Also remove -udeb strings and substitute lib64 with lib in
      package name before comparing with SONAME
    + [FL] Replace any occurence of _ in the SONAME with - since the
      former isn't allowed in package names but occasionally used in
      sonames
    + [FL] Remove trailing .so from SONAMEs
    + [FL] Also ignore static binaries in sub directories of /boot,
      not only in /boot itself. Patch by Guillem Jover
      (Closes: #320382)
  * checks/changelog-file:
    + [FL] Detect old FSF address additionally to the even older
      one
  * checks/{cruft,files}{,.desc}:
    + [FL] Also check for .arch-ids/ {arch}/ .arch-inventory and .bzr/
      in packages and sources (Closes: #324255)
  * checks/debhelper{,.desc}:
    + [FL] Warn about using debhelper compat version lower than 3
      like debhelper itself
    + [FL] Drop package-lacks-versioned-build-depends-on-debhelper
      tag for compat versions < 5. With debhelper 4 even in oldstable
      issuing an error here is silly
    + [FL] Fix typo (s,debian/control,debian/compat,) in description of
      declares-possibly-conflicting-debhelper-compat-versions
  * checks/description{,.desc}:
    + [FL] Avoid double warning about description-is-dh_make-template
      in the same way we do it for the corresponding debmake tag
    + [FL] Policy section of Description field has changed
  * checks/fields{,.desc}:
    + [FL] Fix a lot of off-by-one errors in the policy references
      (caused by the addition of the Uploaders field). Unknowningly
      pointed out by Russ Allbery
    + [FL] Also use non_standards_archs when checking source package
      relations. Patch by Russ Allbery (Closes: #322291)
  * checks/manpages:
    + [FL] Don't issue warnings about 8bit characters in translated
      man pages. Patch by Denis Barbier (Closes: #321650)
  * checks/scripts:
    + [FL] Don't issue bashism warning on POSIX character classes ([[:foo:]]).
      Noted by Stephen Gran (Closes: #323098)
    + [FL] Remove some useless groupings in the bashism regexes

 -- Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>  Sun, 28 Aug 2005 22:05:54 +0200

lintian (1.23.11) unstable; urgency=low

  * frontend/lintian:
    + [FL] Don't use dpkg --print-installation-architecture since
      it is deprecated, use dpkg --print-architecture instead.

  * debian/control:
    + [FL] Depend on libparse-debianchangelog-perl, require
      >= 0.6 since prior versions have bugs regarding parse
      error handling

  * checks/binaries:
    + [FL] Check that the package name of a shared library matches
      the SONAME as defined in the "Library Packaging guide"
      (Closes: #305575, #313118)
  * checks/changelog-file{,.desc}:
    + [FL] Use libparse-debianchangelog-perl to parse the changelog,
      which detects a lot of syntax errors
    + [FL] Add a new tag debian-changelog-file-missing-or-wrong-name
      which is issued if we found no Debian changelog but an upstream
      changelog since the further checks will treat the
      latter file as the Debian changelog and only issuing
      debian-changelog-file-missing would be confusing then
      (Closes: #285152)
    + [FL] Detect closes: statements with non-valid bugnumbers,
      suggested by martin f. krafft (Closes: #294409)
  * checks/common_data.pm:
    + [FL] Fix typo (hurd-386 -> hurd-i386) from last release
      that lead to spurious warnings about unknown architectures
      (Closes: #318110)
  * checks/control-file:
    + [CW] Break control paragraphs at lines containing only whitespace, not
      just on zero-length lines. (Closes: #319370)
  * checks/fields:
    + [FL] Actually mention which architecture we're complaining about
  * checks/manpages:
    + [FL] Report errors from man when parsing man pages. Based on
      a patch by Kevin Ryde (Closes: #285540)
  * checks/po-debconf:
    + [FL] Abort check if the package doesn't seem to use debconf to
      avoid false positives in case maintainers use debian/po for
      other Debian specific strings (Closes: #262749)
  * checks/scripts:
    + [FL] increase search limit for exec hack by not counting comments
      and empty lines (Closes: #294661)
    + [FL] detect more bashisms, suggested by Clint Adams and
      martin f krafft (Closes: #253498, #296233 and addresses #253012
      partly).
    + [FL] Adjust check for positional arguments after ". file" to detect
      more shell control and piping commands that are all allowed.
      Noted by Thomas Hood. (Closes: #319212)

  * reporting/html_reports:
    + [FL] Fix counting of binary package names
    + [FL] Generate mostly valid HTML (id and name attributes still
      aren't valid in all cases)

 -- Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>  Mon, 11 Jul 2005 15:50:10 +0300

lintian (1.23.10) unstable; urgency=low

  * The "Ah, it's LinuxTag and I still have free time!" release

  * debian/control:
    + [HE] Updated description to say that we're calibrated for Policy
      version 3.6.2. As the changes between 3.6.{1,2} aren't stuff we
      (can) check, this is actually true! (Closes: #317049)

  * testset/runtests:
    + [HE] Fix symlinking of original tarballs to allow run directories
      outside the lintian source tree.

  * checks/control-file
    + [HE] Check for duplicated fields. (Closes: #299792)

  * checks/fields:
    + [HE] Change unknown-architecture a bit: We don't complain about
      "known" non-standard archs (like amd64, ppc64, *bsd-i386) and only
      print out an info message for those. (Closes: #253405, #311471)

  * checks/files:
    + [HE] Allow backupninja configuration files in /etc/backup.d/ to be
      0600. (Closes: #307639)

  * checks/scripts:
    + [HE] Allow Scripts in /etc/Xsession.d/ to be not executable, as they're
      not directly called, but only sourced. (Closes: #309203)
    + [HE] Check for use of adduser and update-inetd and warn if the package
      has no (pre-)dependency on adduser/netbase. Patch by Russ Allbery,
      thanks for the work. (Closes: #308569)
    + [HE] Check for use of "." as a deprecated separator between user and
      group names in chown call. (Closes: #88340)
    + [HE] Fix to work $interpreter-script-but-no-$pkg-dep with more than one
      dependency if needed. First use case is depending on build-essential
      to provide /usr/bin/make. (Closes: #294894)
    + [HE] Add lefty as a valid interpreter and check for a correct dependency
      on graphviz. (Closes: #295093)

  * checks/shared-libs:
    + [HE] Don't allow non-PIC shared libraries. This conforms to the new
      etch release policy. Thanks for the report and patch to Kurt Roeckx
      <kurt@roeckx.be>. (Closes: #309220)

 -- Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt <he@debian.org>  Sun, 10 Jul 2005 16:20:42 +0200

lintian (1.23.9) unstable; urgency=low

  * The "Wow, so much time at hand" release

  * [FL] Convert build process to debhelper
    - debian/rules    - adapted
    - debian/compat   - new
    - debian/dirs     - new
    - debian/docs     - new
    - debian/control  - add build depends
    - debian/postinst - remove (Closes: #292981)
    - debian/conffiles- remove
    - debian/prerm    - adapted
  * debian/control:
    + [FL] Update Standards-Version to 3.6.2

  * checks/conffiles:
    + [JvW] Warn on /var files being a conffile too (Closes: #293443)
  * checks/debconf:
    + [FL] Also report postinst-does-not-load-confmodule and
      postrm-does-not-purge-debconf if the related files don't
      exist at all. Spotted by Gerfried Fuchs (Closes: #301056)
  * checks/menus:
    + [FL] New check menu-file-in-usr-lib because /usr/lib/menu is
      deprecated
    + [FL] Also find menu files in /usr/share/menu (Closes: #314187)
    + [FL] Rename executable-in-usr-lib-menu to executable-menu-file
  * checks/menu-format:
    + [FL] Adapt to changes in collections/menu-files
  * checks/standards-version:
    + [FL] Update to 3.6.2 (Closes: #314879)

  * collections/menu-files:
    + [FL] Also collect files from /usr/share/menu

 -- Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>  Fri, 17 Jun 2005 02:17:52 +0200

lintian (1.23.8) unstable; urgency=low

  The "Hm, this is the team's one year anniversery of maintaining lintian"
  release[1], and still using the "temporary" subversion repository...

  Featuring Steve "R." Langasek in a guest appearance.

  [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-lint-maint/2004/01/msg00014.html

  * checks/*.desc,doc/lintian.sgml:
    + [JvW] Stop bugging us for exceptions, mmkay, just install overrides.
      Hints like this should be in the general documentation anyway, not in
      per-tag descriptions. The general documentation will now only ask to
      contact us if in doubt
  * checks/changelog-file{,desc}:
    + [JvW] (new test) Bark on @toplevel email signatures in changelogs
    + [JvW] Display invalid debmake email address upon detection
  * checks/common_data.pm:
    + [CW] Add tclx8.4 to %known_tclxs.
  * checks/description:
    + [SRL] Do not generate warnings when a short description starts with an
      article; this is good grammar and should not be discouraged.
      (Closes: #290505)
    + [JvW] Drop description-synopsis-starts-with-a-capital-letter by popular
      demand (Closes: #288568)
  * checks/files{,.desc}:
    + [JvW] Warn only for hardlinks in /etc or amongst different directories
      (Closes: #288634)
    + [JvW] Only check for desktop files in GNOME's and KDE's obsolete places,
      not in all the package, as KDE uses .desktop files also for other
      purposes (Closes: #289773)
  * checks/nmu.desc:
    + [JvW] Be more precise in explaining why lintian thinks this is a NMU,
      and copy explanation to changelog-should-mention-nmu
  * checks/scripts{,.desc}:
    + [CW] Add checks for tclsh8.4 and wish8.4. (Closes: #288287)

 -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar <jeroen@wolffelaar.nl>  Mon, 31 Jan 2005 23:14:01 +0100

lintian (1.23.7) unstable; urgency=high

  * lib/Lab.pm:
    + Fixed creation of static lab if the directory already existed, this
      failed in 1.23.6
    + In temporary lab mode, try to create the directory several
      times before giving up

  * testset/runtests: Extend the static lab test

 -- Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>  Sat,  8 Jan 2005 21:41:21 +0100

lintian (1.23.6) unstable; urgency=low

  The "Let's see if I can upload myself now" release, made by Marc, Frank and
  Colin, uploaded by Jeroen.

  * checks/description
    + [HE] Warn if the short description start with an article or a capital
      letter. Patch by Tobias Toedter <t.toedter@gmx.net>, thanks. (Closes:
      #258824)
  * checks/fields:
    + [HE] Warn if the debian revision has three parts, as this is the sign of
      a binary NMU. New check's name is binary-nmu-debian-revision-in-source.
      (Closes: #244830)
    + [HE] Warn if people use the Bugs field to refer to the Debian BTS, the
      new check is called redundant-bugs-field. (Closes: #245883)
  * checks/files:
    + [HE] Check that .desktop files are placed in /usr/share/applications.
      This seems to be the standard place for those files that are used
      to create menus. The check is called desktop-file-in-wrong-dir.
      (Closes: #200171)
  * checks/manpages:
    + [HE] Don't compare the manpage filename extension and the content of
      .TH case-sensitive. Report + patch by Jay Berkenbilt <ejb@ql.org>,
      thanks. (Closes: #285335)
    + [HE] Emit binary-without-english-manpage if a package only provides
      translated manpages for a binary. (Closes: #259227)
    + [HE] Skip all comment lines when checking for .so links in manpages.
      Thanks for the report and fix suggestion to Steinar H. Gunderson
      <sgunderson@bigfoot.com>. (Closes: #284662)
  * checks/md5sums:
    + [HE] Strip off ./ at the beginning of the filenames in md5sums
      files (this seems to happen on some systems, though we don't know
      how). (Closes: #284728)
  * checks/standards-version:
    + [CW] By definition, udebs aren't required to conform to policy, so
      don't issue no-standards-version-field for them. (If they happen to
      have a Standards-Version field anyway, we still check that it's
      valid.)

  * lib/Lab.pm, frontend/lintian:
    SECURITY (CAN-2004-1000):
    + [FL] Overhaul lab directory handling. This also fixes the issue
      of removing a lab that never was created (Closes: #286681)

 -- Debian Lintian Maintainers <lintian-maint@debian.org>  Mon, 27 Dec 2004 05:40:13 +0100

lintian (1.23.5) unstable; urgency=low

  The "learn how to use intltool-debian correctly the hard way" release

  * checks/po-debconf: Set INTLTOOL_EXTRACT to fix invocation
    of intltool-update (Closes: #285419, #285471)

 -- Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>  Mon, 13 Dec 2004 18:16:52 +0100

lintian (1.23.4) unstable; urgency=low

  The "A little pause from the sarge release work" release.

  * checks/changelog-file:
    + [FL] file has apparently changed its output format for
      symlinks sometime in the past. This broke symlink detection.
      (Closes: #276504)
  * checks/deb-format, unpack/unpack-binpkg-l1, unpack/unpack-binpkg-l2:
    + [CW] Fix binary package data member extraction to work with arbitrary
      compression algorithms instead of hardcoding data.tar.gz.
  * checks/debconf{,.desc}:
    + [FL] The SETTITLE command was introduced in debconf version
      1.3.22. Check the depends for that (Closes: #261890)
    + [FL] Warn about incorrect usage of commas in translated Choices
      fields. Patch by Denis Barbier after a suggestion by Andreas
      Metzler (Closes: #282030)
  * checks/debhelper:
    + [FL] Update list of debhelper scripts that modify maintainer
      scripts
  * checks/menu-format.desc:
    + [FL] Adjust references to the menu documentation. Noted by
      Jack Moffitt (Closes: #277393)
  * checks/po-debconf{,.desc}:
    + [FL] Check for outdated .pot files when using po-debconf.
      This requires a new dependency on intltool-debian. Patch
      by Denis Barbier with corrections by JvW (Closes: #242345)
  * checks/scripts{,.desc}:
    + [FL] Fix copy-and-paste error in description
      of wrong-path-for-gnuplot (Closes: #276945)
      Thanks to Lionel Elie Mamane for reporting.
    + [FL] Add tclsh8.3 to list of valid interpreters as it is used
      in at least one package. (Closes: #280080)
    + [FL] Issue wrong-path-for-{ruby,python} even if the path contained
      a version number. Change the description of the tag to reflect that.
      (Closes: #257904)

  * frontend/lintian-info:
    + [FL] Overrides start with O:, not with 0:, d'oh!
      (Closes: #258815)

  * lib/Tags.pm:
    + [FL] Add missing "use Util;", noted by Robert Luberda
      (Closes: #278513)

  * testset/debconf/*,testset/tags.debconf:
    + [FL] New test package for debconf and udeb tests
  * testset/diffs:
    + [JvW] Remove the shipped ELF binary, can be compiled at test-time
  * testset/runtests:
    + [FL] Make checks of udeb packages possible

 -- Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>  Mon,  6 Dec 2004 01:41:21 +0100

lintian (1.23.3) unstable; urgency=low

  The ``the others must be busy releasing Sarge or something'' release,
  prepared by yours truly

  * checks/conffiles.desc:
    + Note the most likely cause for duplicate-conffile in the description
      (thanks Chris Anderson for running into this problem and asking me
      about it)
  * checks/copyright-file:
    + Revert the extra pedantic check introduced in 1.23.0 that
      complained about unstrict dependencies when one as a
      /usr/share/doc/<package> that is a symlink (Closes: #249414)
  * checks/debconf:
    + Don't warn when the Choices field of a debconf question is
      not translated, often it makes no sense to translate it
      (Closes: #262649)
  * checks/debhelper:
    + dh-make also creates sample files named .EX, so make that check
      case-insensitive (Closes: #251262)
  * checks/fields.desc:
    + Adjust package-has-a-duplicate-relation to warning, and note that
      this sometimes happens to you when using ${shlibs:Depends}, and you
      shouldn't bother too much if that's the case (Closes: #274286)
      Thanks Peter Eisentraut for the suggestion
    + Fix English language depends-on-essential-package-without-using-version,
      thanks to Peter Eisentrautf for noticing (Closes: #261603)
    + [FL] Clone depends-on-essential-package-without-using-version as
      build-depends-on-essential-package-without-using-version to give
      correct policy reference (Closes: #261602)
  * checks/init.d:
    + Don't warn for missing init.d scripts in package and conffile list
      if a variable is used instead of a real name (Closes: #264218)
  * checks/manpages.desc:
    + Demote binary-without-manpage to warning, and adjust description,
      to be consistent with policy, which says a manpage should be available
      (and doesn't use "must" for it). Thanks to Robert Millan for his patch
      (Closes: #271014)
  * checks/nmu.desc:
    + Note in source-nmu-has-incorrect-version-number's description that
      the mistake could also be the other way around (Closes: #258604)
  * checks/po-debconf:
    + Don't give missing-file-from-potfile-in on empty lines
      (Thanks Adam Conrad for noticing)
  * checks/scripts:
    + The php commandline interpreter is now provided by php4-cli, and
      not php4-cgi, update dependency check accordingly (Closes: #268077)
    + Give an error if the 'config' script uses a non-essential
      interpreter (Closes: #274832)
  * checks/shared-libraries:
    + Ignore comments in shlibs files (Closes: #275124)

  * doc/lintian.sgml:
    + Document that you can use comments in overrides (Closes: #87805)

  * frontend/lintian:
    + Fix overrides so that they allow all of (1) <package> <type>:,
      (2) <package>:, and (3) <nothing> as prefix to tags you want to
      override, and modify documentation accordingly. This used to be buggy
      (Closes: #261435)

 -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar <jeroen@wolffelaar.nl>  Wed, 13 Oct 2004 02:45:36 +0200

lintian (1.23.2) unstable; urgency=low

  * The "of course it had to go wrong on my first own lintian
    upload" release.
  * Tigthen versioned Build-Depends on sed to (>= 4.1-4) to avoid
    be hitten by a bug in sed that changes the permissions of files
    when processed with sed -i (Closes: #259109)

 -- Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>  Tue, 13 Jul 2004 13:36:45 +0200

lintian (1.23.1) unstable; urgency=low

  The ``Now featuring over 500 checks'' release, prepared by the usual
  suspects.

  * checks/*:
    + [JvW] Changed from executables to check-plugins
    + [HE] Drop the misuse of charset when we want to say "encoding".
      Renamed 2 tests for that:
      unknown-charset-in-po-file -> unknown-encoding-in-po-file
      debian-changelog-file-uses-obsolete-national-charset ->
      debian-changelog-file-uses-obsolete-national-encoding
      (Closes: #248194)
  * checks/binaries:
    + [FL] Change check for binary-compiled-with-profiling-enabled on
      hppa to look for _mcount instead of __gmon_start__ since the
      latter can't be used as an indicator on that arch (Closes: #207063)
    + [JvW] Exempt ocaml binaries from the 'is the binary stripped?' test,
      since they cannot be stripped harmlessly. See #256900 (Closes: #252695)
    + [JvW] Parse the output of file a little bit more strict, and make it
      consequent across checks (Closes: #257898)
  * checks/changelog-files{,.desc}:
    + [HE] New check latest-debian-changelog-entry-without-new-date, comparing
      the dates of the last 2 changelog entries. (Closes: #111215)
    + [FL] New tag invalid-date-in-changelog which is issued if
      latest-debian-changelog-entry-without-new-date encounters a
      parse error
  * checks/common-data.pm:
    + [JvW] Add libgl(u)-dev to list of virtual packages (Closes: #255595)
    + [JvW] Added amd64 to list of known architectures, as the name has
      settled and it'll likely enter the archive soonish (Closes: #257503)
  * checks/control-file{,.desc}:
    + [HE] Introduced new check script. New checks:
      - build-info-in-binary-control-file-section, triggered
        by a Build-* field in a binary section (Closes: #94928)
      - debian-control-file-uses-obsolete-national-encoding, stolen from
        changelog-file (Closes: #247197)
  * checks/cruft{,.desc}:
    + [JvW] cvsignore-file-in-source is now info, because it happens so often
      by upstream, and is only very minor in size
    + [HE] New check: source-contains-cvs-conflict-copy, triggered by
      .#file.version files. They are created by cvs when it tries to merge
      local changes and an update from the repo. (Closes: #246060)
    + [JvW] Also check for source-contains-svn-conflict-copy (for .r123 and
      .mine files)
  * checks/debhelper:
    + [FL] Avoid Perl warning about undefined values. Noted by JvW.
  * checks/fields{,.desc}:
    + [JvW] Added debian-revision-should-not-be-zero, suggested by Adam
      Conrad
    + [FL] Downgrade build-depends-without-arch-dep to warning as it's
      heuristic. Reword explanation. This partly handles #247171.
    + [JvW] For build-depends-without-arch-dep, fix detection of debhelper
      usage in clean when used by means of CDBS (combined with above change,
      now fully closes: #247171)
    + [HE] Check Build-Depends(-Indep) for virtual packages without a
      real dependency. Fix based on patch by Steinar H. Gunderson
      <sgunderson@bigfoot.com>. (Closes: #255593)
    + [HE] Don't issue virtual-package-depends-without-real-package-depends
      if this happens in Suggests. (Closes: #254367)
    + [FL] Allow whitespace in relations after the version number
  * checks/huge-usr-share:
    + [FL] Skip check for packages that don't have usr/share at all
      (Closes: #247708)
  * checks/manpages:
    + [FL] Comment check for no-manpage-in-correct-directory out until
      I know if it's worth keeping it at all (Closes: #253011)
      Thanks to Stephen Stafford for pointing this out.
  * checks/menus:
    + [FL] Fix regex which checks for update-menus calls (missing
      whitespace) and allow path before executable name (perhaps this
      should be another warning, though?) (Closes: #254420)
    + [FL] Some clean-up and warn that wm-menu-config is deprecated
      (Closes: #248997)
    + [FL] Demote executable-in-usr-lib-menu to warning as executables
      are supported (but seldomly used) (Closes: #254498)
  * checks/menu-format:
    + [FL] Fix su-to-root checks to cope with the new -X option and
      improve the option parsing to better handle unknown options
    + [FL] Allow a comma separated list in the package test. Pointed
      out by Gerfried Fuchs (Closes: #246507) Change incorrect-package-test
      to pkg-not-in-package-test which is issued when the package is
      not in the list. Don't issue menu-command-not-in-package when
      we have a list.
    + [FL] Commands for window manager's modules can't be expected
      to be available as executables, so don't issue
      menu-command-not-in-package in this case. Thanks to
      Manoj Srivastava for reporting (Closes: #247805)
    + [HE] Change menu-command-not-in-package to also look into the standard
      PATH. (Closes: #255155)
  * checks/po-debconf:
    + [JvW] Simply fail if stuff from gettext is missing.
  * checks/scripts:
    + [FL] Don't issue executable-not-elf-or-script for files
      that are named *.exe (Closes: #251075, #255083)
    + [CW] Add python2.4 as a valid interpreter (Closes: #254482)
    + [FL] Add ruby1.[68] as valid interpreters, introduce new
      ruby-script-but-no-ruby-dep error, copied from the python stuff
    + [FL] Don't issue script-not-executable for menu-methods. There
      are reasons why they are sometimes not executable (Closes: #250632)
    + [FL] 'and' and 'or' are no bash keywords (Closes: #194283)
  * checks/shared-libs:
    + [FL] Don't report shlib-with-executable-bit and
      shlib-with-bad-permissions on symbolic links to such files
    + [JvW] Fix the pic-detection code (Closes: #185816)

  * debian/{control,rules}, frontend/lintian:
    + [JvW] Insert version number at package build time, no need to commit a
      change to frontend/lintian on every version number change... Requires
      sed version 4 at build-time.
    + [JvW] Start depending on gettext.
    + [JvW] Start depending on libdigest-md5-perl on woody, for using md5 on
      files.

  * frontend/lintian:
    + [JvW] Partial rewrite: checks are now plugins loaded into lintian,
      rather than executed as separate executables. Makes it easy to make
      common functions available, tags are done centrally, etc etc. Should
      also save quite a number of forks, thus more speedier.

  * lib/Util.pm:
    + [FL] dpkg supports comments in control files now, handle them
      correctly
    + [FL] a space after the colon is not mandatory in dpkg control
      files

  * man/lintian.1:
    + [FL] Document new control-file check script

  * reporting/harness:
    + [FL] Correctly support udeb packages
  * reporting/html_reports:
    + [FL] Correctly support udeb packages
    + [FL] Remove some unused code for bug references
  * reporting/bug.status:
    + [FL] Remove

  * testset/filenames:
    + [JvW] Fix two lintian warnings in lintian itself by touching files only
      on clean target, and not distributing them in the source

  * unpack/list-srcpkg:
    + [FL] Some packages don't specifiy a standards-version, e.g. d-i ones.
      Prevent Perl warnings.
  * unpack/list-udebpkg:
    + [FL] Fix sort of copy & paste error which caused the whole
      script to behave ill
  * unpack/unpack-binpkg-l2:
    + [FL] While fixing permissions, also enable write access
      so we get no problems on removal. Disable group write
      permissions, we need nobody to interfere with us.

 -- Debian Lintian Maintainers <lintian-maint@debian.org>  Tue, 13 Jul 2004 01:23:20 +0200

lintian (1.23.0) unstable; urgency=low

  The ``moving forward'' release, prepared by Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt,
  Frank Lichtenheld and Jeroen van Wolffelaar.

  * [FL] add udeb support (Closes: #216117)
    Thanks to Joey Hess for his input. Many changes, mostly to
    frontend/lintian, checks/debconf and checks/files

  * checks/binaries:
    + [JvW] Ignore static binaries in /usr/lib/debug
  * checks/changelog-file:
    + [HE] Check for the debmake template email address in the changelog
      entries. Patch by Steffen Moeller <moeller@pzr.uni-rostock.de>,
      thanks! (Closes: #199903)
    + [JvW] Loosen up checks for -0.x versions, could be either native or
      upstream + Debian revision, so some tests cannot be performed because of
      that uncertainty
  * checks/copyright-file:
    + [HE] Change usr-doc-symlink-to-foreign-package check to throw an
      error when a package doesn't depend on the *same* version of the
      package its /usr/share/doc/$foo dir is symlinked to. This is supposed
      to ensure that both come from the same source and the same source
      version. (Closes: #201470)
  * checks/cruft.desc:
    + [HE] Reworded some parts and bumped the Standards-Version after
      checking for changes. (Closes: #235735)
  * checks/debconf{,.desc}:
    + [JvW] Add an error for a bogus default for a boolean template
      (Closes: #236846)
    + [HE] Check for duplicate fields in templates. Fix based on
      patch by Denis Barbier <barbier@linuxfr.org>, thanks! (Closes: #233116)
    + [HE] Check if the translation of a Choices: field is empty, leading to
      skipped questions. (Closes: #149451)
  * checks/debdiff:
    + [HE] Check for accidental native packaging. This is done by checking for
      a dash in the version number (though -0.\d+ and -0.\d+.\d+ are allowed
      for (binary) NMUs) and the existence of a .diff.gz. (Closes: #216327)
    + [JvW] Implement source-tar-is-posix-tar, which checks for upstream
      tarballs that are tar --posix tarballs, which cannot be untarred by the
      tar version in woody (Closes: #245138)
  * checks/debhelper{,.desc}:
    + [JvW] Add error if debian/compat is empty, happens once in current
      sid and gave internal error before
  * checks/debian-readme:
    + [HE] Add check for the debmake template email address. Patch by Steffen
      Moeller <moeller@pzr.uni-rostock.de>, thanks!
  * checks/deb-format:
    + [HE] Add a check for the data member of a deb. dpkg 1.11 introduces
      support for configurable compression algorithms (bzip2, for example),
      but this shouldn't be allowed before dpkg 1.11 hits stable.
      (Closes: #159874)
  * checks/fields:
    + [HE, FL] Nearly complete rewrite for clean up:
      - bad-relation seems to work better now (Closes: #171763)
      - duplicate relations checking now works for different fields, too
        (Closes: #234978, #235356)
    + [HE] Add check for an Origin field with "Debian" as value.
      (Closes: #119618)
    + [HE] Reintroduce build-depends-without-arch-dep check with the patch
      I proposed in #214231. (Closes: #242484)
    + [JvW] Check for well-formed Debian-revision
    + [JvW] Check for correct realname when QA mailaddress used
  * checks/fields.desc:
    + [FL] Fix some wrong policy references
  * checks/files:
    + [HE] New check for compiled python files (*.pyc). Patch by David
      Kimdon <david@kimdon.org>, thanks. (Closes: #236606)
    + [HE] Check for gzipped zero byte files. (Closes: #172052)
    + [FL] Don't complain about read-only *.ali files as requested by
       Ludovic Brenta. This makes #226879 wishlist again.
    + [FL] Warn about ancient files with the value of
      Dinstall::CutOffPastYear from dak CVS as limit.
      (Closes: #204801, #218304)
    + [HE] Check for *.ali files introduced, warn if their permissions are !=
      0444. (Closes: #226879)
    + [HE] New checks for deprecated X11 dirs (/usr/{bin,lib,include}/X11 and
      usr/X11R6/*). (Closes: #81004)
    + [HE] Check for README for other distributions/platforms and warn if
      they're installed. Based on patch by Jay Bonci. (Closes: #178441)
  * checks/init.d:
    + [FL] output-of-updaterc.d-not-redirected-to-dev-null should be
      only a info tag since it is more a aesthetical issue, not a
      policy violation. (Closes: #149700)
  * checks/lintian.desc:
    + [JvW] Added missing Type: tags
  * checks/manpages:
    + [FL] New checks:
       - Section number of directory and file differ
       - Section number of file differs from what is expected
         from the location of the binary. (Closes: #203831)
    + [FL] Parse contents of man page and implement more new checks:
      - Section number of file and header differ (Closes: #89488)
      - Try to search for hyphens that should be minus signs
        (Closes: #205924). First patch by Eduard Bloch, final
        regex by Josip Rodin.
      - Search for FSSTND directories referenced in man pages. Only
        an info tag. (Closes: #111098)
    + [FL, HE] Fix false positives of
      manpage-for-non-x11-binary-in-wrong-directory when a link
      from a normal bin/ is pointing to a binary in an X11 dir. Based
      on patch by FL. (Closes: #203389)
    + [JvW] x11-games-should-be-in-usr-games is now error, because it's
      mandated by policy
  * checks/menus:
    + [JvW] Stricter checking for whether update-menus is actually called
      (Closes: #244628)
  * checks/menu-format:
    + [FL] Only issue one warning about needs=dwww, not two
    + [HE] Check if the command given with command= is in the package
      (Closes: #199346)
  * checks/nmu{,desc}:
    + [JvW] New series of checks: Check whether NMU's have correct NMU version
      number, and whether maintainer uploads have correct maintainer version.
      Also, check whether NMU's and QA uploads are identified as such in the
      changelog (Closes: #111948)
  * checks/scripts:
    + [FL] Add /usr/bin/php as valid interpreter. (Closes: #239115)
      Thanks to Peter Eisentraut for pointing this change out
    + [FL] Reflect new suidperl handling. /usr/bin/suidperl
      shouldn't/can't be called directly anymore so add a new
      error and remove it from the list of usual interpreters.
      (Closes: #240806)
    + [HE] Don't warn about files with a shebang line which are not executable
      when they are called *in, as they're probably just templates. (Closes:
      #114740)
  * checks/shared-libs:
    + [HE] Add some new logic to cope with symlinks from /usr/lib to another
      dir to fix false positives of postrm-has-useless-call-to-ldconfig and
      friends. (Closes: #190714)
    + [HE] Also handle case statements in postrm scripts. (Closes: #179435)
  * checks/standards-version:
    + [JvW] Also emit warning if standards version is 3.6.0, and not yet 3.6.1

  * collection/diffstat
    + [HE] The diff.gz file name does not include the the epoch, so strip it
      before trying to get the file.
  * collection/override-file:
    + [FL] add support for source overrides (Closes: #129510)
      See the User Manual for more information.
  * collection/source-control-file:
    + [FL] New collection script to extract field information
      from debian/control in source packages. Currently used
      in checks/debhelper to guess udeb packages.

  * debian/control,debian/copyright:
    + [FL] Add Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt to Uploaders and
      to copyright file

  * doc/lintian.sgml:
    + [FL] Some updates, some more verbatim explantions
      (Closes: #197955)
    + [FL] Reworked the override section to handle udeb and
      source packages, too
  * doc/README:
    + [FL] Update options

  * frontend/lintian:
    + [HE] Added a --dont-check-parts|-X option to allow users to specify
      which tests should not be run. Also added infos about this to the
      manpage. (Closes: #206674)
  * frontend/lintian-info:
    + [JvW] Fixed that lintian -I also displays info for I: entries

  * lib/Dep.pm:
    + [FL] Fixed some semantic errors (since noone ever observed the
      correspoding perl warnings the fixed parts are probably never
      used in the current code)
  * lib/Utils.pm
    + [HE] Changed {read,parse}_dpkg_control a bit to cope with the fact
      that template files sometimes contain lines consisting only of
      whitespace which do *not* separate to blocks. (Closes: #242479)

  * testset/runtests:
    + [JvW] Rewrote so that it is actually useful:
      - sort output to nullify filesystem directory ordering differences
      - run lintian just once
      - check that all tests that are triggered have a description, if verbose
        specified, warn about tests that are not tested

  * unpack/list-binpkg:
    + [HE] Try to open Packages.gz if no Packages file can be found. Fix
      based on patch by Robert Lemmen <robertle@semistable.com>, thanks!
      (Closes: #198617)

 -- Debian Lintian Maintainers <lintian-maint@debian.org>  Fri, 23 Apr 2004 12:32:36 +0200

lintian (1.22.12) unstable; urgency=low

  The ``Fix those false positives, mkay'' release, prepared for all Debian
  Maintainers by Frank Lichtenheld and Jeroen van Wolffelaar.
  Best served cold.

  * debian/control:
    + [FL] Make Uploaders a single line field. It didn't really
      break, but at least DDPO had its difficulties

  * man/lintian.1:
    + [FL] sync man page with the --help output by adding missing options
      Based on a patch by Robert Lemmen. (Closes: #198615)
    + [FL] sync man page with the current list of checks and collection
      scripts

  * checks/binaries:
    + [FL] Don't complain about non-stripped kernel modules.
      Patch by Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsaker (Closes: #203373)
    + [JvW] Exclude binaries and packages named *-static from the
      binary-is-static test. Exception for sash removed. (Closes: #215235)
  * checks/changelog-file:
    + [FL] Check that encoding of changelog file is UTF-8, based on a patch by
      Denis Barbier (Closes: #175318)
  * checks/copyright-file{,.desc}:
    + [FL] Don't advise to point to the perl packages' copyright file.
      Thanks to Martin Orr for pointing this out. (Closes: #193293)
    + [FL] Fixed false positives of
      copyright-should-refer-to-common-license-file-for-gpl due to
      the GFDL. Thanks to Ross Burton for reporting this. (Closes: #192278)
  * checks/deb-format{,.desc}:
    + [JvW] Fix perl variable-name clash causing unusually formatted error
      output (only important if you do automatic processing on it)
    + [FL] The current script is by Denis Barbier, correcting author in
      .desc file
  * checks/debhelper.desc:
    + [FL] correct reference to debhelper manpage. It's debhelper(7), not
      debhelper(1). Thanks to Brian Nelson for pointing this out
      (Closes: #188245)
  * checks/debconf:
    + [JvW] Update valid types, since currently 'title' is supported now too
      (Closes: #234379, #234608)
  * checks/description:
    + [FL] fix description-is-dh_make-template check. (Closes: #215125)
      Fix suggested by Josip Rodin
  * checks/etcfiles.desc:
    + [FL] correcting abbrevation of etcfiles to 'etc', was 'ini' which
      is already used by init.d
  * checks/fields:
    + [FL] Really check only "real" dependency fields for needlessy
      depends (Closes: #185035)
    + [JvW] Don't consider depending on coreutils bad, as this is in a way a
      versioned depend (Closes: #216536)
    + [FL] 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
      (Closes: #192037, #202950, #214231)
    + [JvW] Test syntax of Uploaders: too
    + [JvW] Accept more whitespace in relations, which is allowed according to
      policy, thanks Adrian Bunk for noticing, FL for patch (Closes: #200280)
  * checks/filenames:
    + [JvW] 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)
  * checks/files:
    + [FL] only issue package-installs-nonbinary-perl-in-usr-lib-perl5 if
      there is no binary perl file at all in the package, since this
      reflects the way the Installer module behaves (Closes: #199898)
  * checks/huge-usr-share:
    + [JvW] Check for a big /usr/share (currently 1-2MB will trigger it) in
      arch-dependent packages. Currently just I:. Thanks Steve McIntyre for
      the idea. (Closes: #232849)
  * checks/menus{,.desc}:
    + [FL] Remove non-exectuable-in-etc-menu-methods as it doesn't
      reflects the current menu manual (Closes: #229460)
  * checks/po-debconf:
    + [JvW] Check whether files listed in debian/po/POTFILES.in actually
      exist, and only positively detect po-debconf usage if dependency is
      there. (Patch by Denis Barbier <barbier@debian.org>, only minimally
      modified)
  * checks/scripts:
    + [FL] Fix check for "exec ..." line. Fix suggested by Josip Rodin.
      (Closes: #212811)
    + [JvW] Tighten up mknod, dpkg --print-architecture and killall detection
      in maintainer scripts, would need rewrite to be really sane.
      (Closes: #148548, #161820, #192300)
  * checks/shared-libs:
    + [FL] Be more tolerant to variations when checking for
      postrm-unsafe-ldconfig. Thanks to Martin Godisch, Steinar H. Gunderson
      and Aidas Kasparas for their input. (Closes: #218543, #233740)

  * unpack/unpack-binpkg-l1:
    + [FL] tar uses now h to signal hardlinks which breaks a lot of our code.
      so sed'ing it away. Many many thanks to Theodore Y. Ts'o for bringing
      this to our attention (Closes: #234545)

 -- Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>  Mon,  8 Mar 2004 00:46:15 +0100

lintian (1.22.11) unstable; urgency=low

  Jeroen van Wolffelaar <jeroen@wolffelaar.nl>
   * Upgrade lintian itself to policy 3.6.1
     + Drop question about removing lab on purge, just do it.
   * Update to Debian Policy 3.6.1, all references broken by
     section-reorganization are updated (Closes: #194257, #208945, #214949,
     also closes: #217384, #231884)
     (Patch by Nicholas Breen <nbreen@ofb.net>)
   * Support for dash scripts (Closes: #194787)
     (Patch by Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>)
   * checks/binaries.desc:
     + Fix typo (Closes: #202856)
   * checks/deb-format, debian/control:
     + Rewrite by Denis Barbier, slightly cleaned up, renders
       libarchive-tar-perl dependency unneeded (Closes: #232875)
   * checks/filenames (and more):
     + Check for Subversion version control leftovers (Closes: #190067)
     + Ignore empty __init__.py files in /usr/share/doc (Closes: #215234)
       (based on patch by Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>)
   * checks/cruft:
     + Check for CVS and Subversion cruft in source packages (Closes: #189776,
       also closes: #190067)
   * checks/po-debconf
     + Rewrite in Perl
     + Obsolete PO files are no more checked because po2debconf now
       automatically runs debconf-updatepo if PO files are older than
       templates files.  Of course PO files might be outdated (e.g. when
       downloaded from a BR), but it should occur seldom.
     + PO files are processed through msgfmt to ensure they are valid.
     + Based on patch by Denis Barbier <barbier@debian.org>, Closes: #210576
     + Check whether po-debconf is used at all, and warn if it isn't
     + Check for required POTFILES.in and template.pot in debian/po
   * checks/menu-format
     + Drop menu-icon-has-bad-colors, it doesn't apply anymore (Closes: #199341)
     + Menu sub-policy 3.6.0 added two sections (Closes: #207529)
     + Added three checks for correct su-to-root usage (Closes: #188095)
     + Understand icon32x32 and icon16x16 (Closes: #200046)
     + Missing required tags are now an error (and check name changed)
     + Check tag-quotation
     + Rewrite needs check properly, being more precise what is allowed
     + Complain about needs="dwww", as this is obsolete accordint to menu
       maintainer
       (parts menu-format updates based on patch by Bill Allombert
       <ballombe@debian.org>)
   * checks/scripts
     + Recognise the 'tcl' interpreter, not the same as tclsh (Closes: #230182)

  Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>
   * checks/debhelper:
     + fix parsing debian/compat for needed
       version (Closes: #198611)
     + update list of existing debhelper commands
   * checks/manpages:
     + push back the extension after testing for
       manpage-not-compressed (Closes: #225293)
   * checks/copyright-file: don't complain about missing reference to
      the GPL if we already detected a wrong reference (Closes: #225837)
   * checks/debconf:
     + don't complain about partially-translated-question, if
       Choices is only a substitution variable (Closes: #200802,#222648)
     + fix testing of dependencies to eliminate false
       positives of missing-debconf-dependency (Closes: #195201)

 -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar <jeroen@wolffelaar.nl>  Mon, 16 Feb 2004 21:17:59 +0100

lintian (1.22.10) unstable; urgency=low

  * Lintian maintainance is now in the hands of the `Debian Lintian
    Maintainers' group
  * Add check for tar bug #230910
    (tar check written by Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt <marc@marcbrockschmidt.de>)

 -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar <jeroen@wolffelaar.nl>  Fri, 13 Feb 2004 01:00:48 +0100

lintian (1.22.9) unstable; urgency=low

  * config.* files from 2000-09-05 and such had the timestamp in a
    variable called version, not timestamp, so check for that as well
    to detect the really old ones as well.
  * Made sharedobject-in-library-directory-not-actually-a-shlib an E
    because it uses the same method as
    pkg-has-shlibs-control-file-but-no-actual-shared-libs does, and that
    one's pretty reliable and already E, closes: #197951
  * Fixed logic error in detecting whether the uncompressed changelog
    file is really a symlink, closes: #198171.
  * Ripped out those few remaining bits of code that watched over /usr/doc,
    closes: #193598.
  * Don't whine about policy 3.5.10. No changes.
  * Avoid install-docs' --no-update-menus when checking for update-menus
    calls, closes: #183193.
  * Close the IN filehandle in menus:check_script() so that $. gets
    properly reset (sloppy coding -- argh!).
  * Fixed a $1 overwriting thinko in debhelper checks.
  * Demoted build-depends-without-arch-dep from E to W. "Most likely"
    isn't non-heuristic, dammit.

 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org>  Sat, 06 Sep 2003 22:05:22 +0200

lintian (1.22.8.1) unstable; urgency=high

  * Fixed a small logic oversight in the new debhelper compat check,
    closes: #187415.

 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org>  Thu,  3 Apr 2003 12:27:55 +0200

lintian (1.22.8) unstable; urgency=low

  * Updated the list of valid archive sections, closes: #187111.
  * Ignore symlinks in the image-file-in-usr-lib check, closes: #180280.
  * Updated the list of virtual packages, closes: #179614, #180421.
  * Fixed typo in the LaTeX license exception, closes: #184640.
  * Removed anal-retentive check for a bug in debconf << 1.2.9,
    closes: #185721.
  * Updated policy version in the description, closes: #185882.
  * Checks in debian/compat for debhelper compat version, and warns
    if it finds that as well as DH_COMPAT, closes: #186269.

 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org>  Wed,  2 Apr 2003 19:22:37 +0200

lintian (1.22.7) unstable; urgency=low

  * Adjusted Policy references for changes in the shared library stuff.
    Updated standards-version checks to recognize 3.5.9, and shifted
    old/ancient borders to 3.5.7/3.5.2.
  * Allow for ${1+"$@"} as well in the evil exec line check, closes: #179145.
  * Removed the CXXABI check because it's not reliable enough, not all
    C++-linked programs include libsupc++ which provides those symbols.
    Sorry. Closes: #179278, #184729.
  * Allow /usr/lib/$pkg in the rpath check, thanks to Matej Vela,
    closes: #173610.
  * Added /usr/share/pixmaps to the icon file path, closes: #181552.
  * Ignored symlinks in the gzip -9 check for changelogs, closes: #181899.
  * Ignore LaTeX license in the common-licenses check for GPL, thanks
    to Peter van Rossum, closes: #184640.
  * Included (tcl|tk)8.4 on their respective lists, thanks to Chris Waters,
    closes: #184655.
  * Ignore alternatives in the check for duplicate relations, closes: #184660.
    It's still not inclusive, but the remaining cases should be rare enough.
  * Added Denis Barbier's po-debconf checks, closes: #173823.

 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org>  Fri, 14 Mar 2003 23:21:41 +0100

lintian (1.22.6) unstable; urgency=low

  * Added missing description for empty-manual-page.
  * Adjusted some descriptions for -dev symlinks.
  * Updated the policy section for copyright files from 13.6 to 13.5,
    closes: #177769.
  * Updated the policy section for changelog files from 13.8 to 13.7,
    closes: #176946.
  * Added extended-description-line-too-long, closes: #176784.
  * Warn against lack of CXXABI, thanks to Colin Watson, closes: #175920.
  * Allow for all the other tricks scripts play with their interpreters
    by making the check generic, /^\s*exec\s*.+\s*.?\$0.?\s*.?\$\@/.
    Thanks to Colin Watson, closes: #175602.
  * Changed the dh_testversion checks to also find disparities between
    DH_COMPAT and debhelper build-dep version, closes: #175295.
  * Ignore packages that build-depend on autotools-dev in the config.*
    date check, since they probably copy stuff around, closes: #178347.

 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org>  Thu, 30 Jan 2003 17:03:15 +0100

lintian (1.22.5) unstable; urgency=low

  * Ignore Zope's license in
    copyright-should-refer-to-common-license-file-for-gpl, thanks to
    Matej Vela, closes: #172211.
  * Don't require \S+ but .+ while parsing @packages, closes: #172444.
  * Rewrote the chunk of code dealing with names of manual pages, because
    it was done all wrong, closes: #173548.
  * Ignore files consisting merely of .so links completely, thanks to
    Matej Vela, closes: #173609.
  * Added code to check for bad-so-link-within-manual-page.
  * Also added code to check for empty-manual-page.
  * Added a few more cases of safe ldconfig invocation in postrm,
    closes: #174042. Didn't handle the one with the "case" statement,
    it's too bothersome. Oh well, the check is a warning instead of
    an error for a reason.
  * Added a check for the timestamp line in config.guess/sub files,
    closes: #171295.
  * Renamed the full-stop check to
    description-synopsis-might-not-be-phrased-properly and rephrased its
    description. This is where I draw the line :) closes: #174150.
  * Added a warning on .pl and .pm files within /usr/lib/perl5,
    closes: #174595.
  * Renamed pkg-without-shlibs-has-shlibs-control-file to
    pkg-has-shlibs-control-file-but-no-actual-shared-libs and improved
    its long description.
  * Added sharedobject-in-library-directory-not-actually-a-shlib,
    which should properly address the issue of SONAME-less libraries,
    closes: #174928.
  * Exclude files that match "LICENSE AGREEMENT FOR PYTHON 1.6.1" from the
    copyright-should-refer-to-common-license-file-for-gpl check,
    closes: #174929.

 -- Josip Rodin <jrodin@jagor.srce.hr>  Sat, 11 Jan 2003 12:32:33 +0100

lintian (1.22.4) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fixed typo in the description of description-synopsis-ends-with-full-stop,
    closes: #172049.
  * Slightly clarified the text as well, and added a pointer to Policy 5.7.1.
  * Made it a warning, not an error which it was by mistake, closes: #172541.
  * Removed an extra colon from copyright-file-lacks-pointer-to-perl-license.

 -- Josip Rodin <jrodin@jagor.srce.hr>  Wed, 11 Dec 2002 20:39:38 +0100

lintian (1.22.3) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fixed typo in copyright-should-refer-to-common-license-file-for-gpl
    which caused it to have no description. Also moved the opening of
    the pipe to lintian-info before the first print E: line so that
    bad-distribution-in-changes-file and other tags in lintian.desc
    actually get displayed, closes: #171737.
  * Updated the description of link-to-undocumented-manpage to better
    match the current Policy and be more helpful.
  * Added missing \Q and \E around the variable in
    description-synopsis-is-duplicated, closes: #171721.
  * Don't warn on _any_ mention of update-rc.d in postinst, just those that
    follow whitespace or something else and a semicolon, closes: #171472.

 -- Josip Rodin <jrodin@jagor.srce.hr>  Thu,  5 Dec 2002 12:25:17 +0100

lintian (1.22.2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Fixed some random glitches.
  * Change rgb-vs-cmap to first include the hex codes of colors in cmap.xpm,
    and then go searching for names in rgb.txt. Updated the cmap.xpm
    location in the description. This hopefully really closes: #170860.
  * Added exception in the shell syntax checks for evil rep scripts,
    thanks to Kevin Ryde, closes: #171175.
  * Added checks for multiple dependencies on libstdc, tcl, tclx, tk, tkx
    and libpng packages. This is currently beind done in a hardcoded manner,
    but that should do for now, closes: #80447, #129548.
  * Added a regression test as part of the relations regression test for
    the above multiple dependencies.
  * Don't barf on /var/local in the FSSTND-dir-in-var check, just in
    non-standard-dir-in-var, closes: #119414. The normal packages
    shouldn't install anything there anyway, and base-files can have
    overrides :)
  * Prepend a slash to the file names in file-in-etc-not-marked-as-conffile,
    closes: #122285. We already don't have the prepended thing normalized,
    so why not indulge this.
  * Added dh_suidregister-is-obsolete, closes: #94031.
  * Added copyright-lists-upstream-authors-with-dh_make-boilerplate,
    closes: #107815. I am now the official maintainer so I get to do that >:)
    This time I've written the description much better, so there should
    be no confusion like there was the last time.
  * Added description-synopsis-is-duplicated first by comparing the
    lowercased synopsis with the lowercased start of the extended
    description, and then if that fails, the letters and numbers are
    removed and the strings are compared. This may not catch _everything_,
    but should be satisfactory, and it closes: #118098.
  * Added a regression test for the above error to the other relations test.
    It seemed handy. :)
  * Added an error for depending on libdb1-compat, just in case, as advised
    by Colin Watson.

 -- Josip Rodin <jrodin@jagor.srce.hr>  Fri, 29 Nov 2002 22:22:54 +0100

lintian (1.22.1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Handle the $statistics_file rotation in harness.
  * Warn on dh_dhelp use, thanks to Chris Tillman, closes: #130016.
  * Exempt awk from the virtual-package-depends-without-real-package-depends
    check, and add an error when there's a non-versioned dependency on awk,
    closes: #136831. The description may be considered vague for some
    cases, but I'll wait until someone actually complains about that
    before rewriting it.
  * Moved the generic exceptions before the script-without-interpreter check,
    which should fix Daniel Kobras' dx false positive, closes: #165574.
  * Added a warning for full stop in the synopsis line, thanks to
    Colin Walters, closes: #131747.
  * Added a warning for daemon stopping stuff in postinst, without
    a dependency on debconf (>= 1.2.9), thanks to Martin Godisch,
    closes: #168621.
  * Based on hints from in Jim Van Zandt's otherwise rather flawed patch
    posted in bug #94928, moved the diff file stuff from the cruft check
    into the diffstat collector, and made it simply extract the patch into
    a file called "debian-patch" which is then used elsewhere, instead of
    zcatting it over and over again.
  * Added a regression test for the debian/files and config.* checks.
  * Added config.log to the list of configure-generated files to warn about.
  * Updated menu icon colors with a little script I wrote, closes: #170860.
  * It appears File::Find has changed semantics since woody and now refuses
    to follow a symlink as the name of the directory to scan. Obviously,
    a simple readlink() fixes it.
  * I realized that bug #122855 couldn't have been fixed the diff scanning
    code anyhow, since dpkg-source ignores file deletions in the first place.
    Removed the hours of work and simply expanded on the description of the
    error instead. Oh well.
  * Added an error for GPL copyrights that don't refer to
    /usr/share/common-licenses, thanks to Edward Betts, closes: #99885.
  * Added a warning for some popular architecture-independent image files
    in /usr/lib which suggests moving them to /usr/share per FHS, thanks to
    Bill Allombert, closes: #114474.

 -- Josip Rodin <jrodin@jagor.srce.hr>  Wed, 27 Nov 2002 20:00:05 +0100

lintian (1.22) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Further updated the python script checks to ignore obsolete -base
    packages and watch versioned python interpreters better, thanks
    to Federico Di Gregorio and Luca De Vitis, closes: #169872.
  * Added an exception for sash in the statically-linked-binary check,
    as reported by H. S. Teoh.
  * Moved descriptions for two manual page location consistency checks
    from shared-libs.desc (?!) to manpages.desc, and clarified them,
    as reported by Othmar Pasteka.
  * Accept /var/games as an exception for setgid stuff, closes: #169382.
  * Removed the /etc/ppp perms exception as per discussion on debian-devel.
  * Fixed the add-log-mailing-address check by not re-my-ing the prefix
    and suffix variables in each iteration of the loop, closes: #129581.
    Added the word obsolete in the name of the error and a paragraph break
    to further clarify it.
  * Added Apps/Science as a valid menu section. This and the removal of
    the error for calling ldconfig anywhere in the postinst in 1.21.5
    make Lintian Policy 3.5.8 compliant, closes: #170093.
  * Exclude .png files from the extra-license-file check, closes: #164017.
  * Exclude .php files from the extra-license-file check, closes: #116384.
  * Added documentation-package-not-architecture-independent warning in
    the cruft check, closes: #120261.
  * Check if $action is defined before comparing it to avoid a warning with
    the -C option, closes: #129582.
  * Added Kevin Ryde's patch that implements menu-icon-too-big,
    menu-icon-has-bad-colors, menu-icon-cannot-be-parsed, closes: #71396.
  * Make .nfs* files trigger the backup-file-in-package check, closes: #95140.
  * Added an error for .xvpics directories, closes: #169831.
  * Added more misspellings from Matt Zimmerman, without the British
    English stuff, with the four language names in a special arrangement,
    closes: #119786.
  * Made package-contains-CVS-dir an error, closes: #147301.
  * Added an error for /usr/share/doc/<something>/examples/examples
    directory, closes: #153144.
  * Added an error for referring to the Perl license terms without actually
    pointing to their location on the file system, thanks to Gergely Nagy,
    closes: #157449.
  * Check for localhost(.localdomain) in the Maintainer fields,
    closes: #162248.
  * Fixed the needs=dwww exception in the menu file check for an empty
    section, thanks to Colin Watson, closes: #170437.
  * Check for debian-qa@l.d.o in Maintainer fields, thanks to Colin Watson,
    closes: #126687.
  * Updated standards-version check to declare anything lesser than 3.2
    ancient (1999!), and anything lesser than 3.5.6 old (2001).

 -- Josip Rodin <jrodin@jagor.srce.hr>  Mon, 25 Nov 2002 14:38:55 +0100

lintian (1.21.6) unstable; urgency=high

  * Fix two regexps in the scripts check in order to fix *sh -n checking,
    closes: #167079.
  * Added duplicate-conffile error, closes: #131632.
  * There doesn't appear to be any provision in the Policy or in the FHS
    for random compatibility symlinks, so I've just added "or symbolic
    link" to the description of file-in-unusual-dir, closes: #135546.
  * Fixed the regexp for package-contains-CVS-dir to actually recognize
    directories that are printed with the trailing slash, closes: #146831.
  * Made unregistered-script-in-etc-init.d a warning, renamed it to
    script-in-etc-init.d-not-registered-via-update-rc.d and updated
    its description to mention why it may not be an error, closes: #118823.
  * Added dash into the regexps in the scripts check.
  * Added a crude check for code within another shell (foosh -c something).
    I say crude because it works with oneliners only -- anything that spans
    lines sounds like pretty much impossible to do in without actually
    _being_ a shell script interpreter :) closes: #166483.
  * Added an exception for /etc/ppp being 750 root:dip, and complain if
    it exists and it's not like that, closes: #169260.
  * Expunged the notion of a global override file from the tag descriptions.

 -- Josip Rodin <jrodin@jagor.srce.hr>  Sat, 16 Nov 2002 17:26:07 +0100

lintian (1.21.5) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Removed postinst-unsafe-ldconfig warning as per the discussion in
    #120585, which also conveniently closes: #117260, #114123.
    Note that postrm-unsafe-ldconfig stays!
  * Further improvements to reporting/harness, reporting/html_reports
    and related code.
  * Fixed the display of info for python-script-but-no-python-dep on
    python1*.

 -- Josip Rodin <jrodin@jagor.srce.hr>  Wed, 13 Nov 2002 16:37:09 +0100

lintian (1.21.4) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Just check for bashisms in sh files, thanks to Jay Bonci for
    pointing me a this.
  * Recognize python source packages called pythonX.Y, which should fix
    third-party-package-in-python-dir for all of them, closes: #114281.
    Also extend the checking of that directory on all X.Y and not just 1.5.
  * Fixed policy references in several init script related tags, made the
    init.d not conffile check a warning since Policy allows otherwise and we
    can't check reliably, extended the rc.d file check on rc(\d|S).d and
    excluded sysvinit and file-rc from the check. All this closes: #118824.

 -- Josip Rodin <jrodin@jagor.srce.hr>  Mon, 11 Nov 2002 11:52:47 +0100

lintian (1.21.3) unstable; urgency=high

  * Do _not_ close STDERR before running dpkg-source in unpack-srcpkg-l2.
    The logname stuff has been fixed ages ago so there shouldn't be any
    remotely valid reason to do this. This should explain bugs like #159474
    and #162813 to the submitters, but I'll have to wait and see, since
    I still can't reproduce it myself.
  * Fixed the cruft check not to check the diff file just once, not for
    every damn subdirectory of the source, d'oh.
  * Backed out the --remove-lab move to postrm, lintian doesn't exist there
    any more, silly, closes: #166309.

 -- Josip Rodin <jrodin@jagor.srce.hr>  Sun, 27 Oct 2002 12:48:57 +0100

lintian (1.21.2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Changed the default path for ksh to /bin/ksh, as per the change
    in the pdksh package, closes: #131484.
    Maybe /usr/bin/ksh should still be allowed, but it seems inconsistent
    to allow several paths like that... perhaps the same should be done
    for zsh? Although, I suppose there are less zsh scripts out there
    compared to ksh.
  * Added $link to the usr-doc-symlink-to-foreign-package error message,
    hopefully properly closes: #116309 (untested).
  * Eradicated the remaining Packaging Manual references, from
    Chris Tillman's patch in #116488. Also removed FSSTND references.
  * Fixed typo in description-is-dh_make-template, closes: #145802.
  * Replaced /usr/share/doc with /usr/doc in checks/copyright-file.desc,
    thanks Matej, closes: #157423.
  * Set binary mode to be able to grok UTF-8 with Perl 5.8 when reading
    override files, thanks to Colin in #158119. Maybe this is all wrong,
    but it shouldn't hurt anyway. :)
  * Added Colin's patch check manual pages for correctness with lexprog,
    along with the appropriate versioned dependency on man-db, closes: #52524.
  * Cleaned up some typos in copyrights.
  * Added *sh -n checking for syntax errors in shell scripts, closes: #42348.
  * Moved script checks from control-files to the second part of scripts,
    and also noticed and fixed a bug -- if a script e.g. called killall and
    had a bashism on the same line, it would escape undetected.
  * Check the .diff.gz file (if it exists) for config.(cache|status) that
    includes no added and a number of removed lines and don't print the
    configure-generated-file-in-source error for those files, closes: #122855.
    The diff output analysis isn't perfect, but it oughta work.
  * Clarified the virtual-package-depends-without-real-package-depends
    warning with an additional paragraph, closes: #164813.
  * Updated the testset/check_info.pl to work, similarly to lintian-info.
  * Updated the testsets (this verified my s/elsif/if/g bug fix in
    checks/scripts mentioned above).
  * Updated %known_essential as per my sid available file.
  * Updated %known_virtual_packages as per Policy's virtual packages list.

 -- Josip Rodin <jrodin@jagor.srce.hr>  Thu, 17 Oct 2002 13:57:00 +0200

lintian (1.21.1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Removed FHS transition stuff from lintian's own maintainer scripts.
    Lintian is now Lintian-clean. :o)
  * Moved the purge stuff from the old prerm to postrm, and made the
    (possibly redundant; to-do) question more forgiving.
  * Added a doc-base file and run install-docs, closes: #129509.
  * Removed spurious no-manpage exception for binaries that end in
    numbers, closes: #118479.
  * Fixed lintian-info's broken $ENV{LINTIAN_ROOT} use.
  * Fixed --setup-lab to ignore already-existing packages, thanks to
    Chris Tillman, closes #83593. Let's hope it all works out :o)
  * Updated the list of allowed distributions, closes: #150466.
  * Removed the leading ./ from filenames in %linked_against_libvga which
    actually makes it work, thanks to Matej Vela, closes: #157317.
  * Warn against all uncompressed changelogs, thanks again to Matej Vela,
    closes: #157318.
  * Nuked the code that checked that that for every /usr/share/doc/foo -> ...
    symlink there exists an equivalent /usr/doc/foo -> ... symlink;
    seems to be a leftover from the FHS transition days, thanks yet again
    to Matej Vela for the patch, closes: #161716.

 -- Josip Rodin <jrodin@jagor.srce.hr>  Mon,  7 Oct 2002 22:18:20 +0200

lintian (1.21) unstable; urgency=low

  * New maintainer.
  * Applied the ever so appropriately named ``unfuck'' patch to the lab
    code. It includes but is not limited to:
     + code to read the pool from Bas Zoetekouw
     + other changes to support new style distributions from myself
     + fixes for the breakage induced by Shaleh's blitheful insertion of
       "use strict" everywhere
     + an array of assorted fixes from Colin Watson, myself and perhaps
       others which I've accidentally forgotten.
    The lab code is now officially not entirely broken. Yay! :)
    There's still work to be done, but this still closes: #157369, #157942.

 -- Josip Rodin <jrodin@jagor.srce.hr>  Wed, 25 Sep 2002 19:18:57 +0200

lintian (1.20.19) unstable; urgency=high

  * revert the frontend to using require as use is a compile time only option
    which was causing the environment variables to not be read.
    Closes: #160819

 -- Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <shaleh@debian.org>  Fri, 13 Sep 2002 17:55:54 -0700

lintian (1.20.18) unstable; urgency=low

  * "I release once a year whether I need to or not" release
  * updated debhelper command list, closes: #119094
  * applied lab patch from Joy, et. al., closes: #157942
  * added python version 1.5, 2.{1,2,3} to checks/scripts, closes: #114164
  * applied Colin Watson's patch for needs=dwww handling in menu files,
    closes: 115486
  * renamed autoconf-generated-file-in-source to
    configure-generated-file-in-source, closes: #115744
  * updated php checks in checks/scripts, closes: #116386
  * yet another checks/script update.  This time we allow for unusual
    interpreters when the file is not in a bin/ directory, closes: #116584
  * updated policy revision, closes: 118694
  * applied Colin Watson's patch for a bug in deplib which made A | B => A,
    closes: #122742
  * applied Chris Tillman's patch to clean up policy references,
    closes: #123585
  * applied Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>'s patch to better check for emacs
    local variables in changelogs and updated the error message as well,
    closes: #129581, #138216
  * accept *-proposed-updates in distribution field, closes: #139288
  * removed check for postrm removing usr doc symlink and inverted the
    postinst check to now make sure the package does NOT set the symlink.
    Closes: #154005
  * removed global override file, it was getting ancient
  * converted all uses of 'require' to use statements
  * more use strict cleanups

 -- Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <shaleh@debian.org>  Fri, 13 Sep 2002 09:49:24 -0700

lintian (1.20.17) unstable; urgency=high

  * Colin patches:
    fixed typo in man page causing incorrect formatting, closes: #114118
    duplicate relations check is a lot more intelligent, closes: #119048
  * urgency set to high to reflect the fact that the relations check is
    reporting many packages violating policy when in fact they are following
    it correctly.  This is especially true for the new python policy.

 -- Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <shaleh@debian.org>  Sun, 25 Nov 2001 18:15:04 -0800

lintian (1.20.16) unstable; urgency=low

  * the "next day bug" release
  * give an error if a package declares a relation on the same package twice,
    i.e. Depends: libc6, libc6 (<< 2.0).  Closes: #27442.
  * objdump-info collection script now handles UPX binaries (closes: #113497)

 -- Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <shaleh@debian.org>  Tue, 25 Sep 2001 15:40:30 -0700

lintian (1.20.15) unstable; urgency=low

  * the "collecting unemployment and have time to code" release
  * no longer use syscall to exit from pipeline handler, now uses POSIX::_exit
    Closes: #112205.
  * Accept Joy's NMU patch (he applied it as 1.20.14.1).
    Closes: #110991, #109244.
  * Warn if the copyright file contains dh-perl-make boilerplate as suggested
    by James Troup.  In the process debmake-templates-in-copyright became
    helper-templates-in-copyright.  Closes: #110337.
  * Oops, used the same argument name (-s) twice.  Reverted back to -s meaning
    "source".  Updated manpage and source to reflect this.  Closes: #109631.
  * added a warning when hardlinks are used.  Closes: #103893, #97518.
    I am closing #97518 here as well which asked that I warn about hard links
    that link to files in another directory.  Since I warn about hardlinks
    existing adding a separate check for where they link seems silly.
  * applied Edward Betts patch to detect .cvsignore and CVS/.  Closes: #74684.
  * applied Daniel Schleper's patch for Build-Depends v. Build-Depends-Indep.
    Closes: #92472.
  * applied Edward Betts patch for detecting a misspelling in common-licenses.
  * added 'debain' to list of spelling errors.  Closes: #112083.
  * applied Steve Kowalik's patch that adds out-of-date-standards-version.
    This will be defined as the policy shipped with the last stable release.
    Closes: #112043.
  * Made doc-base-references-usr-doc inform which file is the culprit.
    Closes: #111020.
  * Applied Steve M. Robbins' patch for improved handling of ldconfig checks
    in maintainer scripts.  Closes: #110465, #113285.
  * do not complain about static binaries if they are called "foo.static".
    Closes: #98288.
  * testset/runtests now calls dpkg-buildpackage with a '-d' so build-depends
    are not checked.
  * oops I left 'debian' in the spelling check list.
  * backed out Gergely Nagy's suggestion for checking for 'Author(s)'.  That
    is just overly pedantic and lame.  Reopens: #107815, tagged wontfix.
  * checks/etcfiles now complains about ANY file found in /etc that is not a
    conffile.  The finer grain checks have been removed.  Closes: #103940.
    Added a new testset 'etcfiles' to go along with the test.
  * debconf check now looks for the 'seen' flag and gives an error if the
    package does not have a versioned dependency on debconf 0.5.00.
    Closes: #113164.

 -- Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <shaleh@debian.org>  Mon, 24 Sep 2001 12:20:00 -0700

lintian (1.20.14.1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Another non-maintainer upload blessed by the maintainer, to clean up
    after the last such NMU. :)
  * Fixed spurious postinst-has-useless-call-to-ldconfig warnings, patch
    from Colin Watson, closes: #109721. Also fixed the silly error in
    shared-libs which broke shlib-missing-in-control-file.
  * Fixed checking for /var/lib/games, patch from Andrew Suffield, amended
    by me not to warn for the files but just that dir, closes: #109970.
  * Have debian-changelog-file-contains-user-emacs-settings checked only
    at the start of the line (wonder if Emacs allows indentation in there?),
    closes: #109971.
  * Force LANG=C because of a bug in debiandoc-sgml, closes: #110891.

 -- Josip Rodin <jrodin@jagor.srce.hr>  Sat,  1 Sep 2001 21:01:30 +0200

lintian (1.20.14) unstable; urgency=low

  * Non-maintainer upload blessed by the maintainer. Kudos to Colin Watson
    and Steve Kowalik for helping in the preparation of this upload.
  * Skip shared objects which aren't in %ldso_dir in some shlib checks,
    as per changes in Policy 3.5.5, finally closes: #42399, #41613.
  * Fixed Policy section in package-contains-upstream-install-documentation,
    closes: #94267.
  * Added Adrian Bunk's patch for pike/pike7 stuff, along with pike7 stuff
    in checks/scripts.desc so it's consistent, closes: #94902.
  * Added an error for leaving files generated by autoconf in the source
    package, patch from Colin Watson, closes: #107679, #94316.
    This pulled in renaming checks/debian-cruft* to cruft*, logically.
  * Added checks/infofiles* for everything related to info files, moved
    parts of checks/menus* in it and added compression related errors,
    closes: #95785.
  * Added Brendan O'Dea's patch for checking Perl module directories,
    and for not checking the source for each matching file in a !$is_python
    package, closes: #96350.
  * Removed lc() from checks on whether a debconf field value is valid,
    closes: #106324.
  * Improved binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath description, closes: #94901.
  * Fixed the references to /usr/doc in the manual page using the patch
    from Stephen Stafford, closes: #103177.
  * Added debconf's "config" among %maintainer_scripts in
    checks/control-files, closes: #108123.
  * Added "Debian/GNU Linux" among the corrections in checks/spelling,
    closes: #35761. It required some other modifications but oh well.
  * Added a new warning, doc-base-file-references-usr-doc, closes: #46582.
    This required adding collection/doc-base-files* and using that in
    checks/menus*.
  * Added a new error, debian-changelog-file-contains-user-emacs-settings,
    closes: #84750. This required using collection/changelog-file in
    checks/changelog-file (doh! :).
  * Complains on manual pages located in /usr/(share|X11R6)/man instead of
    man* subdirs, closes: #93056.
  * Added php4 as a valid interpreter, closes: #94534.
  * Fixed a little bug in checks/spelling.desc, it lacked a comma in its
    Needs-Info field.
  * Added a warning when there's common-licenses and not
    /usr/share/common-licenses/ in the copyright file, closes: #99886.
  * Added a warning when there's "Upstream Author(s)" in the copyright file,
    closes: #107815.
  * Removed -v from command(1) invocation check, patch from Colin Watson,
    closes: #96227.
  * Mention the language in select-with-translated-default-field and
    partially-translated-question, patch from Colin Watson, closes: #95795.
    Also, fixed some thinkos in the code for the latter warning.
  * No longer barfs on debhelper-generated safe ldconfig calls, patch from
    Paul Martin, closes: #82479.
  * Added the recent Policy versions up to 3.5.6 to standards-version,
    and moved the threshold for ancient versions up to 3.2.0 because that
    version was released a bit more than one year ago, closes: #104766.
  * Added a new error, package-depends-on-an-x-font-package. The pattern
    is ^xfont.*, that ought to work fine (xfntil2 et al will go undetected,
    but that's obsolete).
  * Colin tweaked lib/text_utils.pl to display indented and empty stuff in
    Info: tags properly.

 -- Josip Rodin <jrodin@jagor.srce.hr>  Sat, 18 Aug 2001 18:46:34 +0200

lintian (1.20.13) unstable; urgency=low

  * debhelper check for lacks #DEBHELPER# token now checks if -n was passed
    to the dh_ script. Thanks Chip for pointing this out. (closes: #92624)
  * list of debhelper programs that want to write to maintainer scripts updated
  * now check for Build-Depends on essential or build-essential packages
    (closes: #92372)

 -- Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <shaleh@debian.org>  Thu,  5 Apr 2001 16:00:10 -0700

lintian (1.20.12) unstable; urgency=low

  * 'farewell to Fabrizio Polacco' release
  * checks/debhelper's dh-make-template check did not include the $type in
    its output.
  * removed spurious debug message from zero-byte-file check in checks/files
  * lintian no longer runs its regression test when it builds (closes: #92192)
  * unpack-src-l2 now ensures that we have sufficient permissions to later
    remove the package (closes: #92224)
  * bashism check now looks for bash style arrays, thanks Torsten Landschoff.
    also added to testset.

 -- Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <shaleh@debian.org>  Mon,  2 Apr 2001 12:30:20 -0700

lintian (1.20.11) unstable; urgency=low

  * 'where is my mind release'
  * added science to list of known sections, Closes: #91798
  * cleanup override handling, was using chop instead of chomp
  * checks/binaries checks a binary for profiling symbols now, Closes: #91837
  * removed false report of prerm failing to remove a doc link when there is
    no doc dir, just a symlink to another package.

 -- Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <shaleh@debian.org>  Mon, 26 Mar 2001 11:22:22 -0800

lintian (1.20.10) unstable; urgency=low

  * 'I think I remember perl' release
  * checks/menu-format would die if the last line of a menu had a line
    continuation character.  Seems the function was not getting called with
    all 5 arguments.
  * added a list of exempt paths for static binaries, currently only /boot
    is listed.

 -- Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <shaleh@debian.org>  Mon, 19 Mar 2001 14:14:41 -0800

lintian (1.20.9) unstable; urgency=low

  * 'rule monger' release
  * checks/debhelper: make regex case insensitive, Closes: #89070
  * checks/debhelper: modify search logic so it does not report false postives
    when both Build-Depends and Build-Depends-Indep are defined, Closes: #89069
  * Fix the decription for package-contains-upstream-install-documentation,
    Closes: #89257
  * dh_testversion is deprecated, patch applied.  Closes: #89624
  * lintian now detects that the deb/dsc/changes file it was told to parse is
    zero bytes and skips it.

 -- Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <shaleh@debian.org>  Fri,  9 Mar 2001 14:16:24 -0800

lintian (1.20.8) unstable; urgency=low

  * 'wearing my "fuck redhat" shirt and loving it' release
  * checks/menus, the check for whether or not the doc symlink is removed
    fails for people who do not use the -f option to rm (or any other options)
    thanks Oliver Elphick, Closes: #88182
  * checks/scripts handles 'wish' better (I hope), Closes: #88333
  * checks/debconf, the registry check is ignore if the package being tested
    is debconf itself.  Closes: #88526
  * frontend handles files that are referenced but do not exist better
  * this is looking like one of the last releases for a while

 -- Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <shaleh@debian.org>  Wed,  7 Mar 2001 10:42:03 -0800

lintian (1.20.7) unstable; urgency=low

  * 'test everything' release
  * updated architecture list -- hppa, ia64, mips, mipsel, s390, sh added
  * added 'Enhances' to list of known fields
  * removed libwraster2 from list of obsolete packages, Closes: #85584
  * Colin Watson's debconf checks added, still need a testset though,
    Closes: #85876, #84759
  * checks/menus now checks for proper use of install-info,
    Closes: #25823, #30192
    need a testset for this too
  * checks/files.desc now points to the FHS in /usr/share/doc/debian-policy
  * applied Joey Hess' app-defaults patch.  This allows app-defaults to be
    conffiles as well as adding a check for app-defaults in old dirs.
    Closes: #86707, #76811
  * lintian now knows more about 3.5.x's X policy in 12.8.  Added check for
    Xresources file but no conflicts on xbase (<< 3.3.2.3a-2).  Closes: #63542
  * applied Joey Hess's perl patch.  Now know that pm's in /usr/share have
    no need for the +x bit.  Closes: #86709
  * check for INSTALL in /usr/share/doc now knows about INSTALL\..+ (i.e.
    INSTALL.gz)
  * checks/standards-version has an error for packages which declare a source
    relation (ie Build-Depends) but are not at least policy 3.1.x.
    Closes: #86711
  * checks/fields now checks that the arch definition in source relations
    follows policy.  Closes: #86710
  * added wish8.3 to list of known interpreters in checks/scripts
  * warning description cleanups, Closes: #87528
  * added more bashism checks -- '|&', '$[foo]', '${parm:len[:offset]}',
    '${parm/pat[/str]}', '${parm//pat[/str]}'
    Closes: #32113 (the suiregister stuff happened a release or three ago)
    you guessed it, need a testset
  * bashism check now tells you what it thinks the bashism was.
    Closes: #81738
  * bashism checks now ignore here documents, Closes: #87527
    teset/maintainer-scripts now has a here document in a script and extended
    bash triggers.
    Also, various other bashism test cleanups and improvements.
  * typo in scripts fixed, now I really do work on python2, thanks Jerome.
    Closes: #87772
  * hmm, versioned-provides message was often wrong, made it better and it
    reports the perceived relation, i.e. foo (= 4).
  * removed the -w and strict from reporting/ scripts
  * update-menus checks enhanced with knowledge about wm-menu-config.
  * added 'asmodule' to list of known menu tags
  * depends-on-essential-package-without-using-version now is only reported
    for actual depends or pre-depends.
  * interpreter checking handles arbitrary whitespace now
  * fixed scripts check for ocaml, now know about ocamlrun.
  * unusual-interpreter messages were being caused by not prepending '.' to
    the interpreter name when checking %executables in checks/scripts.
  * still more fun with ++ )-:  menus is now even more paranoid with
    quotemeta().
  * ensure $setuid, $setgid is set in checks/files, thanks to the luxman
    package for triggering the perl oops.
  * collections/scripts handles files that only contain '#!'.

 -- Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <shaleh@debian.org>  Wed, 14 Feb 2001 08:55:09 -0800

lintian (1.20.6) unstable; urgency=low

  * 'people who depend on side effects should be flogged' release
  * lintian had code which set a variable to undef, then used it.  Without
    -w and use strict, this silently became a zero, but now it causes errors.
    So, since it obviously was meant to be zero, I set it to zero instead of
    undef.  Closes: #85326
    Fun part was this only happened when run on more than one version of a
    single package i.e. lintian foo_1.changes foo_2.changes.
  * checks/scripts updated to deal with python2.x and there being two versions
    of python.  Closes: #85441
    while doing this, collections/scripts was updated to support the use of
    /usr/bin/env.  I probably added bugs here )-:
    added a scripts testset, very early still.
  * my modification to checks/menus to support /usr/share/doc/package -> other
    had a problem with special chars.  Now calls quotemeta().  Annoying because
    I have a ++ package name but it did not trigger this particular case.
    So, I added a package to foo++ which links to foo++.  Closes: #85530
  * added a TODO to the private dir.
  * left off a closes in the big perl closings 2 revisions ago, Closes: #80192

 -- Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <shaleh@debian.org>  Sat, 10 Feb 2001 14:28:19 -0800

lintian (1.20.5) unstable; urgency=low

  * 'people who name a lib libfoo-X.X.so should be shot' release
  * checks/shared-libs handles libraries of the form 'libfoo-X.X.so' now
  * the virtual package check I added in the last release failed to check
    the field it was testing, so errors were reported on fields other than
    Depends.  Ooops.  The description also should have referred to packaging
    not policy.  Closes: #85225

 -- Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <shaleh@debian.org>  Wed,  7 Feb 2001 13:55:10 -0800

lintian (1.20.4) unstable; urgency=low

  * 'why would you ever do THAT?' release
  * lintian-info sets $ENV{'LINTIAN_ROOT'} if it is not set
  * added a check to checks/files for packages which ship the upstream INSTALL
    document.  This is almost always useless for users of a package.
    testset/binary now includes such a file
    Closes: #81970
  * checks/menus -- the walk over package contents now has logic to run file
    tests on files, link tests on links, etc.
  * checks/menus -- if there is a /usr/share/doc/$pkg symlink, assume it links
    to a package it depends on and do not warn about setting the usr/doc
    symlink.  There is code in checks/copyright-file that makes sure policy is
    followed with regards to what is actually linked against.  Closes: #48048
  * checks/fields is now less strict about Section: non-US handling
  * added debconf files to list of known control files in checks/control-files
    Closes: #46863
  * perl mistakes are no longer checked for. Closes: #47076, #75889
  * FHS 2.1 cleanups, Closes: #75878
  * lintian will not complain if you symlink your doc directory to an essential
    package and leave off the depends, because since it is essential you must
    not depend on it.  Closes: #48296
  * lintian now gives and error when a package declares a depends on an
    essential package without using a versioned depends.  Closes: #33250
  * extra-license-file is not given if the file is just a symlink.
    Closes: #35224
  * checks/fields: now complain if a package declares a depends on a virtual
    package without first depending on a real packages as an alternative.
    Required adding a known_virtual_packages list to checks/common_data.pl.
    Also removed redundant info/registered-virtual-packages file.
    Closes: #70673
  * added a library (mostly empty right now) and non-us testset
  * runtests now runs the tests in alphabetical order
  * lintian's --version info is being updated automagically again
  * moved some hashes around in checks/ to common_data.pl
  * checks/changelog-file reorganized so it knows the size of the files.  Now
    it can check that the changelog is sufficiently large to require
    compressing.  Also modified the desc file to reflect this. Closes: #84400
  * --info now outputs all info.  Silly bug in how I used split and defined.
    Closes: #82970
  * added a testset/check_info.pl script.  It verifies that every lintian
    check referenced in a desc also has an info section.  runtests now runs
    this test as well.
  * suidregister warning is now an error.
  * checks/menus: fixed the if link case pattern match -- one more perl erro
    down, 3 billion hidden ones to go.
  * Following items thanks to Colin Watson
  * updated checks/standards-version so it does not give perl errors when it
    encounters a newer standards version than it knows about. Closes: #84083
  * updated references to policy for policy 3.5.0. Closes: #84088, #83969
  * Added a warning for packages containing a link to undocumented(7) as
    suggested on debian-policy list.  Also includes a testset (manpages)
    addition.
    Closes: #83188
  * At the moment checks/copyright-file just tests for a slash in the link;
    I've changed it here to test for an initial / or ../, and then after that
    check it strips off everything from the first slash on, so that tests on
    the package name work correctly when people link to subdirectories of
    other /usr/share/doc directories.  Closes: #84066
  * It was unpacking to level 2 even though I had Unpack-Level: 1 and no
    associated collection scripts. Of course, it wanted override files from
    /usr/share/lintian/overrides/$pkg. Fair enough - except that if I said
    --no-override it wanted the override file information anyway, and still
    unpacked to level 2.  No obeys non-overrides.  Closes: #84722

 -- Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <shaleh@debian.org>  Tue, 30 Jan 2001 14:26:04 -0800

lintian (1.20.3) unstable; urgency=low

  * 'Does the pain ever end?' release
  * oops, lintian can not create a static lab due to an error check too
    early in the code.  While fixing this I also added a static lab check in
    testset/runtests. Closes: #83411

 -- Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <shaleh@debian.org>  Wed, 24 Jan 2001 14:36:35 -0800

lintian (1.20.2) unstable; urgency=low

  * 'Where or where did my changes go' release
  * fixed --help option to not show escaped chars
  * changed regression test to also do a run with --info on
  * seems lintian always used the lintian-info script from the path, changed
    to look in LINTIAN_ROOT if passed
  * perl problems cleaned up, Closes: #82970
  * removed randomization of output strings when refering to policy documents,
    not only is this silly but it makes regression tests impossible
  * moved manual_refs.pl list of policy manuals to an external file.  This will
    allow automated updating when releases occur.  It also removes the perl
    warnings (-:

 -- Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <shaleh@debian.org>  Sat, 20 Jan 2001 12:21:30 -0800

lintian (1.20.1) unstable; urgency=low

  * the change hurts release
  * every perl script now calls use strict and passes -w to perl
    The long road of bug tracking because of this has begun.  Thanks Joey H.
  * testset/filenames now has a lengthy-symlink bug to show how that code works
  * typo in checks/control-files in a bashism check, the correct POSIX call
    is 'read foo' however the code was checking for the existance of whitespace
    before the call, not the existance of the variable to read into due to a
    mixed up regex.  Thanks Adam Heath for pointing this out. Closes: #81453
  * checks/control-files, the check for whether '.' takes more than one
    argument did not take into account things like 'and'.  It does now.
    Closes: #81737
  * fixed interpreter check code to hand a space between the #! and the
    interpreter (really), also allows bash,ksh,ash as valid sh shells. Also
    knows to look for an ELF header and stop parsing the script. Thanks
    Colin Watson.  Closes: #80348, #82541
  * testet/binary-1 added.  This is a small C program to test lintian's
    handling of binary files.  See the changelog in this directory for info
  * fixed message for 'manpage-has-wrong-extension', Closes: #82452
  * 'N: Unknown interpreter' message now only printed once per script,
    Closes: #81644
  * added equivalent file-directly-in-usr-share-doc messages (et al.),
    Closes: #82654
  * added new message: suidregister-used-in-maintainer-script. this replaces
    the old messages suidregister-used-in-maintainer-script-other-than-postinst
    and suidunregister-not-called-in-postrm due to suidregister being phased
    out of Debian.  Closes: #81868
  * binary-has-unneeded-section upgradeed from info to warning

 -- Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <shaleh@debian.org>  Wed,  3 Jan 2001 13:04:20 -0800

lintian (1.11.15) unstable; urgency=low

  * Hack Hack
  * checks/perl disabled until it can be improved
  * fixed typo in checks/description: s/%type/$type/
  * fixed mental typo in checks/*: $foo == 'string' is not the same as
    $foo eq 'string', Closes: #80813
  * Added Colin Watson's patches, Closes: #80373, #80376, #80377

 -- Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <shaleh@debian.org>  Fri, 22 Dec 2000 16:02:58 -0800

lintian (1.11.14) unstable; urgency=low

  * more fun with interpreter checking, seems a space is allowed between bang
    and the interp path.  So, fixed the regex (again).  Also store the name
    of the interpreter in $interp and use that rather than $is_sh, this will
    allow for other interpreter checks later.  Closes: #80348

 -- Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <shaleh@debian.org>  Fri, 22 Dec 2000 15:51:10 -0800

lintian (1.11.13) unstable; urgency=low

  * (Joy) fixed a typo in binaries.desc
  * (Joy) checks/debhelper now passes $type with the lintian message
  * (Joy) libs/text_utils.pl, reporting/html_reports fix maintainer name
  * checks/control-files now checks if the postrm calls update-alternatives
    with the --remove option, this is considered harmful, Closes: #80255
    checks/control-files.desc explains the problem in detail
  * fixed checks/menus setting of is_sh, $foo = split() sets foo to the number
    of items, not the first item -- duh (-:  How did this make it thru testing?
    added a maintainer-scripts testset to help catch this in the future

 -- Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <shaleh@debian.org>  Thu, 21 Dec 2000 10:34:43 -0800

lintian (1.11.12) unstable; urgency=low

  * new command line option: --show-overrides, displays tags even if
    they have been overriden, marked 'O: .....'
  * shared-libs.desc text changed to give more info when a shared library is
    present, but the SONAME is not set or set improperly, Closes: #78277
  * removed references to libtool-workarounds.txt (it never died ....),
    Closes: #78420
  * my reformat of the code in checks/menu-format changed the regex from
    m/^#/ to m/^	#/, I changed it back (kind of).  The test is now
    m/^\s*\#/ just in case a space snuck in.  Also modified the code so it
    does a if (m//) { next;} rather than if (! m//) { ........ }.
    Closes: #78532
  * checks/menus now checks which interpreter the maint script uses and varies
    its checks accordingly -- works for sh and perl currently, Closes: #78880
    Updated menus.desc while I was at it.
  * fixed typo in scripts.desc, pike error message should have referred to pike
    not to make, Closes: #79744
  * killed use of \b in bashism checks, now uses (^|\s+), Closes: #80122

 -- Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <shaleh@debian.org>  Thu, 21 Dec 2000 10:20:30 -0800

lintian (1.11.11) unstable; urgency=low

  * Finally, lintian's version number is automagically set
  * lintian.sgml updated to document per package overrides info.
  * the /usr/share/lintian/overrides/<package> actually works now (-:

 -- Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <shaleh@debian.org>  Thu, 16 Nov 2000 14:19:22 -0800

lintian (1.11.10) unstable; urgency=low

  * Dammit, + sign in package name problems again
    added a regression test for a foo++ package. Closes: #77216
  * removed the libtool text in the rpath message, libtool no longer sets rpath
    the upstream finally saw the light.

 -- Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <shaleh@debian.org>  Thu, 16 Nov 2000 09:02:50 -0800

lintian (1.11.9) unstable; urgency=low

  * Moved the override files from /usr/share/doc/<package> to
    /usr/share/lintian/overrides/<package>
    also added a check to catch override files in the old directory
  * Removed calls to defined in checks/perl, Closes: #76339
  * copyright-file-is-gpl renamed to copyright-file-contains-full-gpl-license
  * magicfilter should be in /usr/sbin, not /usr/bin, Closes: #76686
  * modified testset/empty.  dpkg-genchanges now requires a Maintainer
    field.

 -- Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <shaleh@debian.org>  Thu,  9 Nov 2000 12:23:43 -0800

lintian (1.11.8) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fixed Description too long message, Closes: #75570
  * removed description-may-be-too-long
  * Fixed description of package-uses-debhelper-but-lacks-build-depends,
    I left the 's' off of lacks
  * zero-byte-file-in-usr-doc changed to zero-byte-file-in-doc-directory
  * added documentation for zero-byte-file-in-doc-directory, Closes: #75744
  * renamed package-source-contains-debian/files to
    debian-files-list-in-source, Closes: #75746

 -- Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <shaleh@debian.org>  Fri, 27 Oct 2000 16:09:09 -0700

lintian (1.11.7) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fixed lintian's handling of autouse, Closes: #75115
    Thanks Stefan Hornburg for helping me with this
  * Fixed silly manpage filename parsing bug, Closes: #75246
  * Removed now out of date libtool-workarounds.txt, Closes: #75324
  * unpack-srcpkg-l2 used a silly regex to parse dpkg-source output, this
    has been fixed to simply read some string of non-whitespace, Closes: #58943
  * checks/spelling should now work with high ascii chars, Closes: #70974
  * added debiandoc-sgml Build-Depends-Indep, Closes: #74751
  * added checks/debian-cruft.  Checks for the debian/files file, Closes: #38710
  * fixed checks/debhelper -- it actually works now.
  * added tixwish to list of known interpreters, Closes: #47775

 -- Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <shaleh@debian.org>  Tue, 24 Oct 2000 15:29:14 -0700

lintian (1.11.6) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fixed manpages check to handle oddly named files, now uses
    File::Basename
  * fixed debhelper check so it will detect a need for Build-Depends even if
    a script which needs to modify maintainer scripts is not used.
  * lintian-info now outputs info for source messages too, Closes: #51811
  * used a different syntax in checks/perl rather than set $2, Closes: #54710
  * if dh_testversion is called by a package, ensure that the package uses a
    versioned Build-Depends
  * Maintainer Upload (with Darren's blessing)

 -- Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <shaleh@debian.org>  Mon,  9 Oct 2000 13:23:51 -0700

lintian (1.11.5) unstable; urgency=low

  * /etc/pam.d are now checked to ensure they are conffiles, Closes: #50293
  * fixed the typo in checks/copyright-file, Closes: #53626
  * fixed description, lintian is at policy 3.2.0.0, Closes: #55083
  * fixed checks/standards-version, knows about policy version 3.2.0,
    Closes: #68655
  * check for zero byte length files in /usr/share/doc/<package>,
    Closes: #59508
  * added a fail function to frontends/lintian, Closes: #69259
  * checks/files.desc now refers to FHS 2.1, Closes: #69422
  * ran ispell on checks/*.desc files, Closes: #69423
  * added checks for suidregister and suidunregister, Closes: #29444
  * lintian now checks the length of the short description, Closes: #33411
  * lintian now verifies that /etc/cron.{d,daily,monthly,weekly} files are
    marked as conffiles, Closes: #46332
  * Description: is checked to make sure it is not a dh_make template,
    Closes: #59141
  * fixed URL in README, Closes: #59733
  * added magicfilter to list of interpreters, Closes: #60361
  * added check if debhelper is used by a package, it is included in
    Build-Depends, Closes: #70438
  * for menu files, if the menu needs=foo and foo is the package name, assume
    this is ok.  Also, sections that match the package name are also assumed
    to be ok.  This affects mostly window managers.  Closes: #64674
  * Checks whether the icon used in a menu file is in xpm format.
  * added {g,k,p,y}forth as valid interpreters, Closes: #51778
  * More checks/ dir cleanups

 -- Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <shaleh@debian.org>  Wed, 27 Sep 2000 15:31:38 -0700

lintian (1.11.4) unstable; urgency=low

  * Brought lintian.sgml up to date
  * cleaned up the layout of frontend/lintian
  * Dep::implies did not parse Depend: foo | bar | baz correctly, this is why
    things like wmakerconf gave bogus errors.  This is duct taped, real fix
    some day.
  * Closes: #43706

 -- Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <shaleh@debian.org>  Wed,  6 Sep 2000 19:13:20 -0700

lintian (1.11.3) unstable; urgency=low

  * Added 'Format' field to dsc file checks
    New dpkg versions seem to write a Format version to dsc files, lintian
    flagged them as an unknown field.
  * lintian failed lintian (-:
    changed copyright to point at /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL

 -- Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <shaleh@debian.org>  Fri,  1 Sep 2000 15:35:03 -0700

lintian (1.11.2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Official maintainer change
  * Package specified overrides
  * Fixed perl dep check bug
  * Added perl modules: (#46118) (#51457) (thanks ardo)
  * Added interpreter ocaml (#50933)
  * Cleaned up some overrides -hopefully not yours (#48703, #48769)
  * SUID allowed for packages named *-suid
  * Applied Frank Belew's patches (#39832 #48794)
  * Added checks for /usr/[share/]doc/copyrights references in copyright
    file
  * Added change in directory checks based on changes by the Great X
    Reorganization
  * Added check for text version of changelog no matter what
  * Added check for /var/lib/games
  * Added checks for Build-* source-depends fields
  * Updated standards-version to accept 3.1.0 and made anything 2.x ancient

 -- Darren Benham <gecko@debian.org>  Fri, 24 Sep 1999 09:59:35 -0700

lintian (1.10) unstable; urgency=low

  * Richard's changes:
  * Darren's changes:
    + changed rm of /usr/doc link to look for rm and rm -f (closes: #46740)
    + changed numerous overrides to account for tar (closes: #46903)
    + added doc-base override (closes: #45999)
    + changed of URI:: functions liburi-perl (closes: #45770)
    + added recognition of HTML::SimpleParse (closes: #45081)
    + added "hints" to the known menu tags (closes: #47248)
    + changed example checks to include ./ (closes: #44897)
    + moved data/dumper to perl|perl5 (closes: #42036)
    + changed perl|perl5 check to allow perl5|perl (ver) (closes: #44425)
    + caused lintian to skip many file related checks for the files in
      directories /hurd and /server (closes: #36680)

 -- Darren Benham <gecko@debian.org>  Fri, 24 Sep 1999 09:59:35 -0700

lintian (1.9.1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Richard's changes:
  * Darren's changes:
    + Added a check for /etc/pam.conf.  Precursor for reserved
      /etc/* files
    + Added a check of postinst and prerm for /usr/doc symlink manipulation
    + Added the /usr/doc symlink to lintians scripts

 -- Darren Benham <gecko@debian.org>  Mon, 13 Sep 1999 22:06:07 -0700

lintian (1.8.2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Richard's changes:
  * Darren's changes:
    + Added /var/lib to the FHS check
    + Fix for the new tar
    + Make libraster2, not libraster1 obsolete

 -- Darren Benham <gecko@debian.org>  Thu,  5 Aug 1999 00:13:28 -0700

lintian (1.7) unstable; urgency=low

  * Richard's changes:
  * Darren's changes:
    + This time.. added Help as a valid root level menu option
    + Changed FSSTND directory Infos to Josip's suggested wording.
    + Removed /var/lib from the FSSTND check
    + Fixed non-US/section check
    + Added text about bashism checks perfromed to N: tag
    + Fixed bad-link-to-undocumented.man.page N: tag

 -- Darren Benham <gecko@debian.org>  Thu, 29 Jul 1999 15:54:37 -0700

lintian (1.6) unstable; urgency=low

  * Richard's changes:
  * Darren's changes:
    + Added some bashism checks from Shalah
    + Added /usr/share/doc as valid directory
    + Added /usr/share/man as valid directory
    + Set warning for FSSTND directories
    + Added Help and App/Databases to valid menu entries
    + Added patch from Steve Haslam to recognise /etc/menu-methods and
      check for update-menus calls
    + Added overrieds for dh_make requested by C. Small
    + Added patch from Roderick Schertler to skip comments/blank lines at
      top of menu files.
    + Changed the relative shared-library check to look for either
      rela.text or rel.text, not just rel.text.  This is needed for PowerPC
      and other non-i386 architectures.
    + Added ruby as a valid interpreter
    + Added notice when unrecogized file format is found that it might be
      due to a missing package: binutils-multiarch

 -- Darren Benham <gecko@debian.org>  Sun, 11 Jul 1999 17:15:40 -0700

lintian (1.5) unstable; urgency=low

  * Richard's changes:
  * Darren's changes:
     + Changed file error message to indicate it's file's
       fault(closes: #37259)
     + Changed perl depends to perl | perl5 to cover both
	   Also added perl-5.004 and perl-5.005 since they are valid perls
	   (closes: #41041, closes: #39835)
     + Remove a undefine causing spurious unknown-tag error (close: #40699)
     + Ancient-ized standards-version 2.4.0 and 2.4.1
     + Added policy 2.5.1 to the accepted number for standards-version
     + Check for use of /etc/nntpserver.  Only major change in policy v2.5.1
     + Added perl-5.005 and perl-5.004 as valid interpreters (close: #39834)

 -- Darren Benham <gecko@debian.org>  Mon,  5 Jul 1999 11:46:53 -0700

lintian (1.4-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Richard's changes:
     + When reporting errors in .changes files, report filenames the way
       they were listed, rather than as absolute pathnames.
     + Don't exit with code 1 for errors that were overridden.
       This fixes bug#37353, reported by Wichert Akkerman.
     + Correctly handle escaped characters in menu items (bug pointed
       out by Raphael Herzog).
     + bltwish scripts should now depend on blt, not blt8.0.
       This fixes bug#38092, reported by Gordon Russell.
  * Darren's changes:
     + override requested by christian kurz for ppp.  Several of the
       files/dirs have non-standard permissions.
     + override requested by adam kleine for gtk-engines-gtkstep.  Contains
       libraries not meant to be linked.
	 + override requested by Manoj Srivastava for latex2html.  Fixes
       bug#38098.
     + hugs added to the list of interpreters.  Fixes bug#37668 reported by
       Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho.

 -- Darren Benham <gecko@debian.org>  Tue, 11 May 1999 13:24:27 -0700

lintian (1.3-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Richard's changes:
    + For install-docs, accept --remove as well as -r.  Fixes bug#35664,
      reported by James Van Zandt.
    + In explanatory text for prerm-does-not-call-installdocs, give a
      correct example for the prerm (not the postinst).  Fixes bug#35665,
      reported by James Van Zandt.
    + List gmp2 as obsolete package (replaced by libgmp2).
    + Don't generate depends-on-obsolete-package for -dev and -dbg packages
      that depend on their library.
  * Darren's changes:
    + override requested by julian gilbey for menu.  Menu can't call
      update-menus in postrm since it won't exist then.
    + added requested override for vtwm update menus.  Fixes bug#36457
      reported by Branden Robinson
    + override requested by Oliver Elphick for postgresql-pl.  Has shared
      libraries not loaded by ld.so

 -- Darren Benham <gecko@debian.org>  Mon, 05 Apr 1999 16:00:05 -0800

lintian (1.2-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Darren's changes:
  	+ added the -1 to denote purely packaging changes
  	+ added fvwmother to menu needs= check (fixes bug#35057)
  * Richard's changes:
    + Added new tag package-installs-packlist.
		This closes wishlist bug#33827, reported by Joey Hess.
    + Mark all versions of libgtk1.1 as obsolete for
		depends-on-obsolete-package tag.
    + For tag arch-indep-package-contains-binary-or-object,
		tighten up regexp that detects "ELF".  This fixes bug#35237,
		reported by Mark Brown.

 -- Darren Benham <gecko@debian.org>  Mon, 29 Mar 1999 16:31:05 -0800

lintian (1.1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Zapped compiled-with-bad-libc check.
  * Corrected spelling error in spelling check (it flagged "interchangeable"
    as a bad word; this should have been "interchangable").  This fixes
    bug#33252, reported by Santiago Vila.
  * Silenced non-standard-dir-in-usr check about /usr/$arch-linuxlibc1/,
    which will go away at some point and is not worth moving now.
    I'll file a policy proposal for it at some point.  This fixes
    bug#33114, reported by Marcus Brinkmann, and bug#33374, reported
    by James Troup
  * Silenced non-standard-dir-in-var check about /var/www/, since it's
    Debian policy to use it.

 -- Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl>  Thu, 25 Feb 1999 14:43:27 +0100

lintian (1.0) unstable; urgency=low

  * New tags:
      E: non-standard-toplevel-dir
      W: non-standard-dir-in-usr
      W: non-standard-dir-in-var
      W: file-in-unusual-dir
      E: dir-or-file-in-mnt
      E: binary-in-etc
      E: use-of-compat-symlink
      E: subdir-in-bin
    These cover much of the FSSTND and FHS.

  * No longer emit executable-in-usr-doc for scripts.  It's just too
    controversial.  I've added an info-level tag script-in-usr-doc
    for people who are interested.  This closes bug#28560, by
    Stephane Bortzmeyer.

  * Only emit compiled-with-bad-libc if the register_frame symbols
    are UNdefined.  This closes bug#31867, submitted by Michael Meskes.

  * Don't emit compiled-with-bad-libc for binaries linked to
    libgnustep_base.so.0, which also defines __register_frame_info.
    This closes bug#31004, submitted by Matthias Klose.

  * Changed a lot of "error:" messages to "internal error:", to make
    clear that they are errors in Lintian's execution, not in the package
    being checked.  This closes bug#31013, submitted by James Troup.

  * (frontend/lintian) Select STDOUT again after closing OUTPUT_PIPE.
    This fixes bug#31574, reported by Julian Gilbey.  Thanks for the patch!

  * (checks/copyright-file) Lintian was confused by "libident(=0.22-1)",
    i.e. without separating whitespace.  Fixed.  This closes bug#31821,
    reported by Paul Slootman.

  * Man page fix: mention that lintian can be run on .changes files.
  * Depcheck pages: fixed version comparison bug.

 -- Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl>  Wed, 27 Jan 1999 14:43:15 +0100

lintian (0.9.5) unstable; urgency=low

  * Do not abort when run as root; print a warning instead.
    --allow-root still overrides the warning.

  * Only generate non-standard-file-permissions-for-etc-init.d-script
    tag for regular files.  Reported by Martin Schulze.

  * Corrected libtool-workaround sample configure.in snippet:
    Look for *-*-linux-gnu, not *-pc-linux-gnu.
    Fixes bug#30756, reported by James Troup.

  * Made lintian abort with an error message when objdump can't handle
    a binary's file format.  Also made lintian Suggest binutils-multiarch.

  * New error tag: arch-dependent-file-in-usr-share
    This closes bug#30742, reported by Matthias Klose.

  * Added gnuplot as a known interpreter.  Suggestion by Rafael Laboissiere.

 -- Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl>  Sun, 20 Dec 1998 18:05:46 +0100

lintian (0.9.4) unstable; urgency=low

  * New features (summary):
    - 112 new spelling corrections.
    - Minor efficiency improvements.
    - Checks __register_frame_info problems.
    - Updated to policy 2.5.0

  * (lib/util.pl) Exit with code 2 when failing, like the manpage says.
  * (checks/files) Print octal permissions in
    bad-permissions-for-etc-cron.d-script, not decimal.
  * (checks/files)
    Ignore .xpm extensions too when hunting for extra license files.
  * (checks/conffiles, checks/conffiles.desc)
    Renamed -may-not-be- tags to -must-not-be-, for clarity.

  * Replaced most bash scripts with perl scripts, for faster startup times
    and fewer subprocesses.  This speeds up lintian by some 30% on my machine.
  * (collection/objdump-info)
    Add -T flag, to collect dynamic symbols table too.
  * (checks/binaries)
    Look for __register_frame_info and __unregister_frame_info.
    New tag: compiled-with-bad-libc

  * (checks/*.desc) Use new (2.5.0) section numbering for policy references.
  * (checks/changelog-file) Accept changelog.html.gz files.
  * (checks/standards-version) newer-standards-version is warning, not error.
    This fixes bug#29366, reported by Julian Gilbey <jdg@maths.qmw.ac.uk>.
  * (checks/standards-version) Updated to standards-version 2.5.0.

  * (info/overrides) New overrides.
    Fixes bug#29449 reported by Marcus Brinkmann (libc5 overrides)

  * (checks/standards-version.desc) Remove the link to the upgrading-checklist,
    which I can no longer find and which is probably not maintained anymore.

  * (checks/control-files) Fix check for mknod-in-maintainer script:
    pipes are made with p, not -p.

  * (debian/control) In the package description, mention which policy
    version Lintian checks.

 -- Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl>  Mon, 23 Nov 1998 14:46:32 +0100

lintian (0.9.3) unstable; urgency=low

  * (checks/binaries) Warn if a package with ELF binaries does not have
    a Depends line.  New tag: missing-depends-line.
    (Suggested by Charles Briscoe-Smith)

  * (checks/menus) Don't warn about /usr/lib/menu/README.
    (Noted by joost witteveen)

  * (checks/binaries.desc, checks/binaries, checks/shared-libs.desc)
    Renamed "shlib-without-dependency-information" to
    "shared-lib-without-dependency-information", to avoid confusion with
    the shlibs control file.  (Suggested by Branden Robinson)
    Also moved the tag info from shared-libs.desc to binaries.desc, where
    it belongs.

  * (checks/shared-libs)
    Suppress "shlib-with-executable-bit" error if a library has an
    INTERP header.  This catches the libraries (such as libc or libm)
    that print a little banner when executed.

  * (checks/fields)
    Report maintainer addresses that have no dots in the domain part.
    (Suggestion by James Troup)
  * Teach fields check about non-us.

  * (info/perl-modules)  Updated modules info.
  * (lib/deplib.pl)  Fixed handling of versioned dependencies.

  * (checks/files.desc)  In executable-in-usr-doc tag, suggest examples
    directory as a place for executables.
    (Suggestion by Stephane Bortzmeyer)

  * (checks/fields, checks/fields.desc)
    New tag: depends-on-obsolete-package, to flag dependencies on
    old libraries.

 -- Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl>  Tue, 27 Oct 1998 12:59:43 +0100

lintian (0.9.2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Look for more misspellings:
      dependant -> dependent, dependancy -> dependency,
      definate -> definite, definately -> definitely.
  * (checks/scripts) Correctly deal with the terminating newline when
    parsing dependency lines.  Fixed bug#27694, reported by Rob Tillotson.
  * (checks/menu-format) Added Apps/Technical and Apps/Hamradio as sections.
  * (checks/copyright-file)
    Don't report copyright-file-is-gpl unless it is GPL version 2.
    This fixes bug#27793, reported by Milan Zamazal.
  * (checks/menus) Add newline after bad-menu-file-name tag!
  * (lib/manual_refs.pl) Update urls to manual sections, so that
    they refer to www.debian.org.  Regenerate index of devref sections.

 -- Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl>  Thu, 15 Oct 1998 14:06:26 +0200

lintian (0.9.1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Added overrides for imap daemons being sgid mail.
  * Updated info/perl-modules from new Contents file.
  * (lib/read_pkglist.pl) Don't fail on 0-size package lists.
    This fixes bug#27121, reported by Adam P. Harris.

 -- Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl>  Wed, 30 Sep 1998 18:16:14 +0200

lintian (0.9) unstable; urgency=low

  * (frontend/lintian, reporting/html_reports, checks/*, collection/*)
    Make rigorous distinction between source and binary packages.
    Pass "source" or "binary" as second argument to check scripts.
    Report source package tags with "pkg source:" instead of just "pkg:".
    Binary package tags stay the same.
    (The check scripts always report "pkg type:", and the frontend strips
     the type again if it's "binary").
    This involves several changes in the web-report scripts as well.

  * Add command-line options for the things that could only be set via
    environment variables or the configuration file.  (--cfg, --root,
    --lab, --dist, --arch).

  * Really rename obsolete-ldconfig-call-in-postinst to
    postinst-has-useless-call-to-ldconfig.
  * Really rename changelog-file-missing-in-native-debian-package to
    changelog-file-missing-in-native-package

  * (checks/scripts) bltwish now lives in blt8.0, not blt4.2.

 -- Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl>  Sun, 20 Sep 1998 16:34:38 +0200

lintian (0.8.3) unstable; urgency=low

  * (checks/menu-format) Added "sort" as a known tag; it's documented in
    the menu package.  This fixes bug#26373, reported by Marcelo E. Magallon.

  * (checks/scripts, checks/scripts.desc)  Added /usr/bin/js as a known
    interpreter (in ngs-js), as suggested by Brian Bassett.

  * (checks/shared-libs)  Brian Bassett reported inaccuracies in detection
    of "ldconfig" calls in maintainer scripts.  Fixed.

  * (checks/menu-format)  Skip checks on "section" if the "needs" tag had an
    unknown value.  This deals with bug#26375, reported by Marcelo E. Magallon.

  * (checks/manpages)  Fixed: check for links to "undocumented" manpage
    should not react to link destinations like "ilu-undocumented".

  * changelog-file-missing-in-native-debian-package shortened to
    changelog-file-missing-in-native-package
  * wrong-name-for-changelog-file-of-native-debian-package shortened to
    wrong-name-for-changelog-of-native-package.

 -- Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl>  Thu, 10 Sep 1998 12:55:45 +0200

lintian (0.8.2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Ignore common programming-language extensions when looking for
    extra-license-files.  (Fixes bug#26252, reported by Manoj Srivastava,
    who had a file vm-license.el).

  * Use -z flag for tar, rather than piping through gzip -dc explicitly.
    This allows tar to detect and pass on errors reported by gzip.

 -- Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl>  Tue,  1 Sep 1998 11:57:53 +0200

lintian (0.8.1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Added /usr/bin/guile and /usr/bin/scsh as known interpreters.
    (This fixes bug#26093, reported by Karl M. Hegbloom <karlheg@debian.org>)

  * Renamed tags:
       postinst-contains-obsolete-call-to-updatemenus
    to postinst-has-useless-call-to-update-menus
       postrm-contains-obsolete-call-to-updatemenus
    to postrm-has-useless-call-to-update-menus
       postinst-contains-obsolete-call-to-installdocs
    to postinst-has-useless-call-to-install-docs
       postrm-contains-obsolete-call-to-installdocs
    to postrm-has-useless-call-to-install-docs
       obsolete-ldconfig-call-in-postinst
    to postinst-has-useless-call-to-ldconfig
    The first two are also downgraded from error to warning.
    (This fixes bug#26118, reported by Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>)

  * Renamed tag use-of-killall-in-maintainer-script to killall-is-dangerous.

  * More overrides.

 -- Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl>  Thu, 27 Aug 1998 18:56:03 +0200

lintian (0.8) unstable; urgency=low

  * (checks/perl) Don't emit warnings for perl scripts in /usr/doc.
    This closed bug#25728, reported by Manoj Srivastava.

  * (info/overrides) Change the non-standard-*-perm overrides to match
    the new format of those tags.  (was changed in 0.7.5)

  * (checks/control-files)
    "possibly-insecure-handling-of-tmp-files-in-maintainer-script" now knows
    about mkdir.
    New tag: W: possible-bashism-in-maintainer-script (Suggestion by Joey Hess)

  * (testset/filenames-2)  Don't rely on installer's umask for testset.

  * (collection/menu-files, collection/menu-files.desc,
     checks/menu-format, checks/menu-format.desc)
    New check for correct syntax in "menu" files, written by Joey Hess.
    New tags:
      E: old-format-menu-file
      E: whitespace-after-continuation-character
      E: bad-test-in-menu-item
      E: unparsable-menu-item
      W: incorrect-package-test
      W: duplicated-tag-in-menu-item
      W: menu-item-missing-important-tag
      W: menu-item-contains-unknown-tag
      W: menu-item-uses-icon-none
      W: menu-item-needs-tag-has-unknown-value
      E: menu-item-adds-to-root-menu
      W: menu-item-uses-apps-games-section
      W: menu-item-creates-new-section
      E: menu-item-creates-new-root-section
    The check follows current practice on two sections:
      Window-managers -> WindowManagers
      Screen/Screen-saver -> Screen/Save
    The menu docs will be updated to match.

  * (lib/pipeline.pl) Bugfix: Use syscall SYS_exit when exiting from
    children that failed to exec, because the perl function exit() would
    run END blocks and such.

  * (checks/standards-version) By now, 2.2.0.0 is more than one year old;
    mark it as 'ancient'.

  * (reporting/html_reports) Bugfix: Apply quotehtml() to the tag text
    *before* adding links to bug pages.

  * Many small adjustments to checks:
  * (checks/scripts) Be less picky about package names when checking
    dependencies.  (The check was confused by the package blt4.2)
  * (checks/description) Ignore case when looking for synopsis lines
    that start with the package name.
  * (checks/files) Don't give executable-in-usr-doc error for executables
    in /usr/doc/examples/, since that directory does contain examples, and
    it's already flagged by old-style-example-dir.
  * (checks/control-files) Don't warn about references to "/tmp" unless the
    full filename is "/tmp" or "/var/tmp".
  * (checks/binaries) Split tag "binary-not-linked-against-libc" into
    "program" and "library" tags.
  * (checks/files, checks/scripts) New tag "executable-manpage", which
    replaces "executable-not-elf-or-script" for manpages.
  * (checks/files) Shortened file-directly-in-usr-share-not-in-a-sub-directory
    and file-directly-in-usr-doc-not-in-a-sub-directory to just
    file-directly-in-usr-share and file-directly-in-usr-doc.
  * (checks/md5sums) Added md5sums-control-file-is-empty tag, to avoid
    spewing many file-missing-in-md5sums errors in that case.
  * (checks/scripts) Suppress interpreter-not-absolute tag if the
    filename ends in .in and the interpreter looks like #!@PERL@
  * (checks/control-files) Suppress mknod-in-maintainer-script tag if
    mknod was called with -p.
  * (checks/shared-libs) Emit no-shlibs-control-file tag for each shared lib
    found, rather than just once.
  * (checks/files) Emit old-style-example-dir only for directories, not for
    every file.
  * (checks/perl) perl-script-needs-dependency
    Bugfix: realize that a package does not need to depend on itself.
  * (checks/description) possible-unindented-list-in-extended-description:
    Only emit this tag if there are at least two things that look like
    list items.
  * (checks/scripts) List /usr/bin/env as a known interpreter.
  * (checks/binaries) unstripped-binary-or-object:
    Instead of an exception for /lib/modules specifically, suppress this
    tag for all .o files.
  * (checks/control-files) Bugfix: check for == bashism works now.
  * (checks/files) Introduced new tag lengthy-symlink, which supersedes
    and corrects the relative-symlink-enters-same-toplevel-directory tag.

  * (man/lintian.1) Document the check and collection scripts added to
    lintian in the last few months. (oops)

  * (collection/perlmods, checks/perl)
    Refined scanner so that fewer spurious perl-script-uses-unknown-module
    tags are emitted.
    Perl tags are no longer 'Experimental'.

 -- Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl>  Mon, 24 Aug 1998 18:01:40 +0200

lintian (0.7.5) unstable; urgency=low

  * (checks/perl) Exchanged order of arguments in
    perl-script-needs-dependency tag, for clarity.
  * (info/perl-modules) Added some module dependencies.

  * (info/overrides) More overrides.

  * (checks/shared-libs, checks/shared-libs.desc)
    Fixed: erroneous shlib-missing-in-control-file if a shared library
    had more than one symlink to it.
  * Renamed obsolete-shlib-entry-in-control-file to
    unused-shlib-entry-in-control-file.

  * (checks/copyright-file) Changed size-requirement for copyright-file-is-gpl
    tag from 17000 to 12000 bytes, because some packages (casio) extracted
    only the "TERMS AND CONDITIONS" part, which is shorter.

  * (reporting/html_reports) Count packages as well as tags, in tag index.

  * (checks/control-files, checks/control-files.desc)
    New tag: W: mknod-in-maintainer-script

  * (checks/files, checks/files.desc)
    New tags:
       W: package-installs-into-etc-rc.boot   (rc.boot is obsolete)
       W: extra-license-file                  (for COPYING files, etc)

  * (checks/shared-libs, frontend/lintian)
    Get rid of dependency on File::Basename; use a simple regexp instead.

 -- Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl>  Fri, 14 Aug 1998 17:33:37 +0200

lintian (0.7.4) unstable; urgency=low

  * (collection/perlmods)
    Fixed: perl script scanner is now POD-aware.
    This should cut down on the number of spurious warnings.

  * (doc/CREDITS)
    Install credits file.  My apologies if I have forgotten anyone.
    There were far more people than I would have guessed -- Thanks to all! :-)

  * (checks/perl)
    Skip 'autouse' keyword when parsing use and require directives.

  * (frontend/lintian)
    When processing a .changes file, turn md5sum checks OFF by default.
    A new -m flag is provided to turn them back on.
    The .dsc file is still always checked.

  * (frontend/lintian)
    Saner interrupt handling.  Lintian now dies immediately if ^C is hit,
    and does remove the temporary lab (if any).  This is mostly a side
    effect of avoiding system() (in favour of the new functions in
    lib/pipeline.pl), but did involve some tinkering about with perl's
    signal handling.  Thanks to Ruud de Rooij and Graydon Hoare for
    their help.  This closes bug#24975, reported by Yann Dirson.

  * (checks/copyright)
    Fixed copyright-is-gpl tag so that it actually works.

  * (lib/dep.pl, checks/perl, checks/perl.desc, info/perl-modules)
    Much smarter perl module analysis.  Lintian now has a list of
    perl modules and the packages that provide them (in info/perl-modules),
    and a dependency processor (in lib/dep.pl), and uses these to
    check "use" and "require" lines in perl scripts.
    New tags:
      W: perl-script-needs-dependency  (Experimental)
      W: perl-script-uses-unknown-module  (Experimental)
    Tag "script-needs-full-perl" has been dropped.

 -- Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl>  Mon, 10 Aug 1998 19:02:53 +0200

lintian (0.7.3) unstable; urgency=low

  * (frontend/lintian)
    Fixed: --display-infotags option wasn't working.

  * (reporting/harness, reporting/html_reports)
    Have the archive check generate infotags but not display them on the
    web pages.  This way they are still available in the log file.

  * (checks/fields, checks/fields.desc)
    New tag: W: doc-package-depends-on-main-package

  * (checks/menus, checks/menus.desc)
    New tag: E: bad-menu-file-name
    This is emitted for packages that install "/usr/lib/menu/menu", which
    overlaps with the menu package.  (I've seen it happen a couple of times).

  * (checks/binaries, checks/binaries.desc)
    Allow unstripped-binary-or-object for any package with "debug" in its
    name.  (This is in addition to the exeption already made for "-dbg").
    Allow binary-not-linked-against-libc for libc itself :-)

  * (lib/pipeline.pl)
    New helper functions for starting pipelines from perl scripts, without
    involving the shell.  This makes it easier to pass filenames literally,
    and often saves a shell invocation.
  * (collection/diffstat, frontend/lintian, unpack/*)
    Use the new pipeline functions.

  * (checks/description, checks/description.desc)
    New tag:
      E: description-is-debmake-template

  * (reporting/html_reports)
    Quote < and > in displayed tags (such as occurs in email addresses).
    This fixes the maintainer-name-missing tag output.

  * (checks/copyright-file, checks/copyright-file.desc)
    New tag:
      E: copyright-file-is-gpl
    Generated for copyright files that contain the complete GPL text.

 -- Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl>  Thu,  6 Aug 1998 23:39:18 +0200

lintian (0.7.2) unstable; urgency=low

  * (unpack/unpack-srcpkg-l1, unpack/unpack-binpkg-l1, unpack/unpack-binpkg-l2)
    Speedup: replaced system("mkdir ...") with mkdir() calls.
  * (unpack/unpack-binpkg-l1)
    Speedup: avoid extracting control info twice.
    More speedups are possible here.
  * (unpack/unpack-binpkg-l1, unpack/unpack-binpkg-l2)
    Speedup: avoid using dpkg-deb to unpack debs; construct a pipeline
    with ar, gzip, and tar instead.  It turns out to be far faster.
  * Together, these changes made for a speed increase of some 30%
    when checking packages that have to be unpacked.

 -- Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl>  Wed,  5 Aug 1998 19:18:44 +0200

lintian (0.7.1) unstable; urgency=low

  * (reporting/html_reports)
    Fixed: Print bug number with tags that were reported as bugs.

  * (checks/scripts, checks/scripts.desc)
    Added /usr/bin/expect (provided by expect) as known interpreter.

  * (unpack/unpack-srcpkg-l2)
    Fixed: chmod -R the right directory when unpacking a source package.

  * (collection/diffstat, collection/diffstat.desc)
    New collection script that runs diffstat on the Debian diff.
  * (debian/control)
    Depend on diffstat, version >= 1.27-1 so that it can parse Debian diffs.
  * (checks/debdiff, checks/debdiff.desc)
    New check that look at the filenames included in the Debian diff.
    New tag:
      W: patch-failure-file-in-diff foo.rej

  * (checks/control-files, checks/control-files.desc)
    New tag:
      W: dpkg-print-architecture-in-maintainer-script
    (dpkg --print-installation-architecture should be used there)

 -- Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl>  Wed,  5 Aug 1998 14:58:02 +0200

lintian (0.7) unstable; urgency=low

  * (reporting/html_reports)
    - Rewritten (more modular).
    - Create a page for each different tag, which gives the lintian-info
      for that tag and then lists all occurrences of that tag, with each
      tag line also being a link back to the page for the package in
      which it occurs.
      This closes bug#21390, reported by Gregory S. Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>.
    - Instead of listing the lintian-info text with every different tag
      in every package, make every tag a link to the page for that tag
      (which will have the lintian-info for it at the top).
      This should make the reports a lot smaller, and also more readable.
    - Make a "Sorted by tag types" page and link to it from the index page.
  * (doc/TODO) Entries [L3] and [L4] now complete.

  * (checks/spelling, checks/spelling.desc)
    Check README.Debian file as well, since we now collect it anyway
    for the readme-debian-is-debmake-template tag.
    New tag:
       E: spelling-error-in-readme-debian

  * (checks/fields) Added hurd-i386 to the list of known architectures, at
    the request of Marcus Brinkmann <brinkmds@rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>.

  * (checks/scripts, checks/scripts.desc)
    Added trs to the list of known interpreters, as /usr/bin/trs provided
    by konwert.  Suggestion by Yann Dirson <dirson@debian.org>.  This
    closed bug#24998.

  * (checks/files)
    - Fixed: tags dir-in-user-local and file-in-usr-local did not print
      the filename involved.
    - Fixed: some tags were erroneously output as "setuid-gid-binary"
      even though only one of suid or sgid was set.

  * (checks/fields)
    - Fixed: change a few cases of "maintainer-address-malformed"
      to "maintainer-name-missing".

 -- Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl>  Tue,  4 Aug 1998 19:45:47 +0200

lintian (0.6.1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Inserted GPL boilerplate text in every file whose format allowed comments.

  * (doc/lintian.sgml) Use new <url> tag.

  * (info/overrides) New override for the file in kbd-data with the strange
    name.  Having lintian handle that file correctly would be too expensive.
    This "closes" bug#25107.

  * (checks/control-files, checks/control-files.desc)
    New tag: use-of-killall-in-maintainer-script (experimental)
    Added at the recommendation of Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>.
    This closes bug#22206.

  * (depcheck/deppages.pl, reporting/html_reports)
    Added arm and hurd-i386 to the list of architectures to check.

  * (doc/libtool-rpath-workaround.txt, checks/binaries.desc)
    Revamped doc file at Rob Browning's suggestion, and renamed it to
    doc/libtool-workarounds.txt because it describes both -rpath and -lc
    workarounds.  Updated the info for the tags binary-not-linked-against-libc
    and binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath to refer to the new file.

  * (doc/desc-files)  Moved from private/DESC.
    Briefly describes the meanings of the fields used in lintian's .desc files.

  * (doc/TODO)
    Updated and restructured version of what used to be in private/TODO,
    various bugreports and mailed suggestions.  This will become the
    central place for potential improvements to lintian.  I hope that
    having it in /usr/doc/lintian will inspire some people to help.

 -- Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl>  Mon,  3 Aug 1998 16:07:54 +0200

lintian (0.6.0) unstable; urgency=low

  * (checks/shared-libs)
    Corrected bug that made lintian complain about shared modules without
    version info (thus ending in ".so") with a "non-dev-pkg-with-shlib-symlink"
    warning.

  * (info/overrides)  Added overrides:
    libtricks is like fakeroot; nothing is compiled with it.
      libtricks: no-shlibs-control-file
    slrnpull has been split off from slrn, and shares some of its overrides.
      slrnpull: non-standard-dir-perm var/spool/slrnpull/ 2755
      This fixes bug#24668, reported by Joey Hess.

  * (collection/perlmods)
    Collector script that greps perl scripts for use and require directives.
  * (checks/perl, checks/perl.desc)
    New check script that checks perl "use" and "require" directives.
    New tags:
       E: script-needs-perl-version   (Experimental)
       W: script-needs-full-perl      (Experimental)
       I: cannot-parse-perl-directive

  * (frontend/lintian)
    New flag --print-version that prints the unadorned version number.
  * (reporting/config, reporting/html_reports)
    Instead of requiring $LINTIAN_VERSION in the config file, query the
    lintian frontend for the version number.

 -- Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl>  Sun, 19 Jul 1998 16:41:39 +0200

lintian (0.5.2) unstable; urgency=low

  * (reporting/html_reports)
    Lintian web pages now use dists/unstable/main in the path for
    "Getting Lintian", rather than hamm/hamm, where it doesn't exist anymore.
    (Pointed out by Ruud de Rooij)

  * (checks/scripts)
    Add /usr/sbin/install-fvwmgenmenu as a known interpreter.
    This fixes bug#23783, reported by Joost Kooij.

  * (checks/binaries, checks/changelog-file, checks/manpages)
    [speedup] Don't skip blank lines in file-info file, since there
    shouldn't be any.

  * (checks/manpages.desc)
    - Added note to manpage-in-wrong-directory info that only
      sections 1 through 9 should be used.  Refer to policy 5.1.
    I had a rewrite of the manpages check in the works, but I deferred
    it to a later lintian version.

  * (info/overrides)
    New override from Joel Klecker: binutils: no-shlibs-control-file.
    Added overrides supplied by Joey Hess, in bugreport #24425.

  * (checks/changelog-file)
    Corrected regexp used for changelog-file-not-compressed;
    This really fixes bug#23683, reported by Joey Hess.

  * (checks/files)
    New warning: package-installs-perllocal-pod, inspired by
    Manoj Srivasta's recent bugreports about such files.

  * (checks/fields.desc)
    No longer experimental:
      E: alternates-not-allowed
      E: versioned-provides
      E: bad-version-in-relation

 -- Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl>  Sun, 12 Jul 1998 22:04:04 +0200

lintian (0.5.1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Added overrides supplied by Ray Dassen.

  * (frontend/lintian-info)
    Made lintian-info aware of X (experimental) tags.  (oops)
  * (lib/read_taginfo.pl)
    Add a paragraph to the info output for experimental tags that explains
    what experimental status means.

  * Added test package "relationships" to test weird dependency lines.

  * (frontend/lintian)
    Instead of specifying /usr/bin/lintian-info, use just lintian-info
    and let the path search find the script.

 -- Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl>  Tue,  7 Jul 1998 16:27:56 +0200

lintian (0.5.0) unstable; urgency=low

  * (checks/menus) The menu package doesn't need to check for the
    existence of update-menus :-)

  * (testset/runtests) A harness for running regression tests on Lintian.
  * (testset/*) A collection of broken packages on which to test Lintian.
    Currently, only an empty package is provided for testing.
  * (debian/rules) Run the tests in the build target.
  * (checks/*.desc) Added "Tested: empty" to tags that are tested for
    with the "empty" testpackage.

  * (collection/file-info) Use a better parser for the index file, so
    that weird filenames are handled correctly.  This fixes bug#24079.
  * (collection/md5sums) Adapt index-file parser from file-info collector,
    this saves a "find" operation on the unpacked tree.
  * New test package filenames-1, which contains various evil filenames.

  * (checks/shared-libs, checks/menus, checks/manpages, checks/files,
     checks/control-files)
    Handle filenames that contain spaces correctly.

  * (frontend/lintian, reporting/config)
    Update version number.  This fixes bug #23555, reported by Yann Dirson.
    These will have to be kept in sync manually, because the lintian
    source package has to be directly usable by the lintian web page
    generator.

  * (checks/changelog-file)
    Allow the upstream changelog to be a symbolic link.
    As a side-effect, allow it for the Debian changelog too.
    This handles bug#23300, reported by Manoj Srivastava.

  * (checks/changelog-file, checks/changelog-file.desc)
    The wrong-name tags are now warnings, not errors, because the
    relevant section of policy uses "should usually".
    This fixes bug#23757, reported by Gregory S. Stark.

  * (checks/changelog-file)
    Limited the changelog-file-not-compressed tag to only complain
    about changelog and changelog.Debian, because policy 5.8 does not
    mention other changelogs.  (These would fall under section 5.3, I guess.)
    This fixes bug#23683, reported by Joey Hess.

 -- Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl>  Sat,  4 Jul 1998 15:33:31 +0200

lintian (0.4.8) unstable; urgency=low

  * (checks/fields)
    New error tag: "multiline-field" flags control fields that span multiple
    lines when they shouldn't.  (According to the Packaging manual,
    "Except where otherwise stated only a single line of data is allowed").

  * (checks/fields)
    Check dependency relationship fields as well.
    New tags:
      E: alternates-not-allowed
           (generated for use of | in Provides, Conflicts, and Replaces fields)
      E: versioned-provides
           (generated for Provides fields that use a versioned package name)
      W: obsolete-relation-form
           (generated for use of < and > in versioned relationships)
      W: bad-version-in-relation
           (generated if the version number in a versioned relation
            is not syntactically correct)
      E: bad-relation
           (generated if lintian cannot parse an element of a dependency line)
      W: package-relation-with-self

  * (checks/fields)
    Bugfix to maintainer-not-full-name tag, it works now.
    Added maintainer-address-looks-weird warning for obscure cases.
    I doubt anyone will ever see it.

  * (checks/fields)
    Added new-essential-package warning, to highlight such packages.

  * (checks/fields.desc) Descriptions of new tags.

 -- Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl>  Sun,  7 Jun 1998 17:58:19 +0200

lintian (0.4.7) unstable; urgency=low

  * Removed Christian's name wherever it appeared as a contact address.

  * (depcheck/buglist) Entered newly reported bug numbers for dependency
    problems.

  * (checks/menus) Distinguish between install-docs and install-docs -r.
    (closes #23049).

  * (checks/files) Added new tag backup-file-in-package.  This warns
    about emacs-style backup files that got installed in a package.

  * (frontend/lintian) Allow I: tags to be overridden just like any other.

  * (frontend/lintian) Add support for "Experimental" tags.  These are
    handled like other tags, but an "Experimental: yes" flag in the tag
    description tells lintian to output them with "X:" rather than "E:"
    or "W:" or "I:".  This is used for new tags that might still misbehave.

  * (doc/lintian.sgml) Add a paragraph to explain the new tag type.
    "The displayed message is one of types listed above, but has been
     flagged as `experimental' by the Lintian maintainers.  This means
     that the code that generates this message is not as well tested as
     the rest of Lintian, and might still give surprising results.  Feel
     free to ignore Experimental messages that do not seem to make sense,
     though of course bug reports are always welcomed."

 -- Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl>  Sat,  6 Jun 1998 20:30:36 +0200

lintian (0.4.6) unstable; urgency=low

  * (debian/control)
    Lintian now depends on perl, since perl-base is not enough. It already
    uses Text::Wrap, which is only in perl, and soon it will also use
    Getopt::Long.

  * (reporting/html_reports)
    Report all dates in GMT, in rfc822 format.

  * (debian/rules)
    In clean target, delete byte-compiled python files (*.pyc) as well.

  * (depcheck/dependencies.py)
    Check "Cannot satisfy without packages in base" before checking
    "Cannot satisfy with required packages", because a dependency will
    be listed in only one category, and the former is more important
    to flag.

  * (frontent/lintian)
    Rewrote option handling to use Getopt::Long, thus allowing nifty
    features like bundling of single-character options.  Closes wishlist
    bug#22566.

 -- Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl>  Fri, 29 May 1998 11:25:31 +0200

lintian (0.4.5) unstable; urgency=low

  * (depcheck/) New directory, containing scripts for generating reports
    about broken dependency relationships in the main distribution.
    These are not installed by the lintian deb, they are intended for
    use by the lintian web pages, which use the source package directly.
  * (reports/harness) Added hooks to call the depcheck scripts to generate
    the depcheck page.
  * (reports/html_reports) Add links from the lintian root page to the
    depcheck page.

  * (checks/menus) A tag was still generating "existance" while its
    description had been corrected to "existence"; the html report
    generator complained about that.  Fixed.

  * (unpack/list-binpkg) Bugfix in lintian --setup-lab.  Instead of
    looking for files in binary-$arch and binary-all, look only in
    binary-$arch and follow the symlinks.

  * (lib/text_utils.pl) Changed "&maint;" name from Christian Schwarz
    to Richard Braakman, and changed mail address to lintian-maint@debian.org.

  * (checks/standards-version) If checking a package with a Standards-Version
    that is newer than the one lintian is written for, warn that lintian
    should be upgraded.  (closes: #22919).
  * (checks/standards-version.dsc)
    New tag: newer-standards-version

  * (checks/debian-readme) New check: at James Troup's suggestion,
    scan for unmodified deb-make templates in README.Debian files.
    New tags:
      readme-debian-is-debmake-template
      readme-debian-contains-debmake-template
  * (checks/debian-readme.desc) Describe new tags.
  * (collection/debian-readme) New collection script for README.Debian file.
  * (man/lintian.1) Describe new check and collection script.

  * (doc/libtool-rpath-workaround.txt) Explain how to achieve the same
    result without touching configure.in and rerunning autoconf, provided
    certain conditions hold.

  * (lib/text_utils.pl, frontend/lintian-info, reporting/html_reports)
    Do not split words that are longer than a line.  This fixes the
    "Poli cy" bug in the lintian HTML reports.

  * (checks/standards-version.desc) Corrected the URL to Christian's
    policy upgrading checklist, which seems to have changed from
    "upgrading.html" to "upgrading-checklist.html".

  * (info/override) Removed another *.pm warning, I missed it the last time.

 -- Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl>  Thu, 28 May 1998 15:51:37 +0200

lintian (0.4.4) unstable; urgency=low

  * (checks/scripts) Suppress script-not-executable warnings for files
    in /usr/lib that match *.pm.  These are perl modules, which often
    have a #!/usr/bin/perl line at the top but are not intended to be
    executed directly.
  * (info/override) Removed now-suppressed warnings from the overrides file.

  * (info/override) Added more overrides.  (closes #21028).

  * (checks/scripts) At Oliver Elphick's suggestion, do not emit
    *-script-but-no-*-dep tags or csh-considered-harmful tags for
    scripts that are not executable.  (These already produce a
    script-not-executable warning).

  * (checks/binaries) At Yann Dirson's suggestion, added a tag for
    stripped binaries that still have the .comment and .note sections.
    This tag is info-level, thus not normally displayed.
    dh_strip and install -s have been patched to strip these sections,
    but most of the distribution has not been recompiled with the patched
    versions.
  * (checks/binaries.desc) Described the new tag.
    (closes #22495).

  * (man/lintian.1) Documented the options that were added in lintian 0.4.3.

  * (checks/fields) Produce informational tags no-section-field and
    no-priority-field.  These were removed in a previous version, because
    nearly all packages do not pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol when building
    packages, but the new handling of info-level tags makes them useful again.

 -- Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl>  Sat, 16 May 1998 14:10:30 +0200

lintian (0.4.3) unstable; urgency=low

  * Christian added more overrides.
  * debian/control: New maintainer.
  * debian/copyright: Mention that lintian has no separate upstream source.
  * debian/rules: Got rid of 'dirs' file.
  * Moved manpages from doc/ to man/ in source package.
  * debian/rules: Restyled :-)
  * New overrides, read all about them in /usr/share/lintian/info/overrides.
    (closes #22001)
  * Corrected typo in frontend, added --allow-root option at Johnie Ingram's
    suggestion to override lintian's refusal to run as root.  (closes #22162).
  * Ran ispell over .desc files, fixing lots of typos, including the
    word "existance" which occurs in several tags.
  * checks/files: At the advice of the python maintainer, added a warning
    against files installed in /usr/lib/python1.5 that are not in the
    site-packages subdirectory.  (closes #22236)
  * checks/fields: Reduced unknown-field-in-dsc and unknown-field-in-control
    tags from "warning" to "info", because such fields can only be
    introduced deliberately anyway.  ("info" tags are not normally reported,
    but can be queried when someone is interested.)  (closes #20521)
  * Made the above comment about info tags true, by adding a --display-info
    option.

 -- Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl>  Mon,  4 May 1998 17:31:34 +0200

lintian (0.4.2) unstable; urgency=low

  * This release contains updates for Policy 2.4.1

  * Fixed `changelog' check:
    - don't report not-max-compression tag if changelog file is a symbolic
      link (thanks to Santiago for noticing that! fixes:bug#20842)

  * Improved `description' check:
    - recognize if extended description is `Missing'
      (fixes:bug#21091)

  * Changed `files' check:
    - symbolic links within /etc and /var have to be relative!

  * Fixed `scripts' check:
    - package name is "blt4.2", not "btl4.2" :)

  * Updated `shared-libraries' check:
    - check if postinst calls ldconfig if shared libraries are installed
      in a directory controlled by ld.so
      (fixes:bug#20414)
    [2 new tags]

  * Changed `standards-version' check:
    - added Standards-Version 2.4.1
    - only check first there digits of Standards-Version field

  * Changes to the `lintian' frontend:
    - unused overrides are displayed per package
    - display `Processing changes file...'
    - use $TMPDIR environment variable for creation of the temporary lab
      (fixes:bug#21092)
    - clean up lab if C-C is pressed

  * Added more overrides

 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>  Wed, 15 Apr 1998 19:57:09 +0200

lintian (0.4.1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fixed `changelog-file' check:
    - don't treat "NEWS" files as changelog files
      (thanks to Manoj for pointing this out! fixes:bug#20787)

  * internal: small changes to the reporting harness

 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>  Tue,  7 Apr 1998 21:42:51 +0200

lintian (0.4.0) unstable; urgency=low

  * Changes which make it possible to check the whole archive with Lintian
    each day without having to check all packages all the time:
    - Reworked creation and handling of info/{binary,source}-packages files:
      - the list files contain a version number now, which allows checking
        for old file formats
      - each entry has a timestamp now
      - don't remove $LAB/info/ directory on --setup-lab
      - just process changed packages when doing --setup-lab
    - added command line option: `-p X' makes lintian only process all
      packages which are listed in file X
    - changed meaning of command line option `-U': specifies info to
      collect _in addition to_ the usual info (necessary to extract
      the changelog files on master--see below)

  * Improved `binaries' check:
    - objects and binaries in a *-dbg package may be unstripped
    - libraries in lib/profile or lib/debug may not be stripped
      (suggested by Fabrizio)
    [1 new tag]

  * Added new `changelog' check
    (thanks to Juan Cespedes for the idea! fixes:bug#19695)

  * Improved `control-files' check:
    - improved RE that searches maintainer scripts for /tmp security bugs

  * Improved `description' check:
    - fixed RE to check for description-starts-with-package-name
      (thanks to Roderick Schertler)

  * Fixed `fields' check:
    - internal: check for source pkg using "-l dsc" instead of "-e dsc"

  * Fixed `files' check:
    - disabled possible-name-space-pollution tag since policy is not
      defined yet

  * Improved `manpages' check:
    - fixed silly typo in binary-without-manpage tag info
      (thanks to Robert Edmonds for noticing that!)
    - disabled tag binary-without-manpage for `versioned binaries'
      (thanks to Dirk for the suggestion! fixes:bug#20186)

  * Fixed `menu' check:
    - report maintainer-script-does-not-check... tag only once per package
      and maintainer script
    - recognize `$(which update-menus)' as valid check for the existance
      of update-menus; same for install-docs
      (thanks to Fabrizio for pointing this out!)
    - recognize `command -v update-menus' as valid check for the existance
      of update-menus; same for install-docs
      (thanks to Adam P. Harris for pointing this out! fixes:bug#20759)
    - fixed tag infos
      (thanks to Adam P. Harris for the input! fixes:bug#19810)

  * Improved `scripts' check:
    - added new interpreters:
        nawk, pike, rexx, regina, burlap, wish8.0, bltwish
      (fixes:bug#20223)

  * Improved `shared-libs' check:
    - added check if shared libraries contain non-pic code
      (thanks to Gregory S. Stark for the idea and the patch!
       fixes:bug#19249)
    [1 new tag]

  * Added `changelog' collector script
    This makes it possible for Lintian to extract all changelog files
    on master for use by Apt (fixes:bug#20546)

  * Incremented LAB_FORMAT version to 3 because of
    incompatible changes in the objdump-info collector script

  * Internal: fixed bug in read_dpkg_control() utility function: empty
    tags have not been handled correctly

  * Internal: html-reporting tool: don't chop of text after hash (#)

  * Added a lot new overrides and removed unused overrides
    (fixes:bug#20017,bug#20082,bug#19562)

 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>  Mon,  6 Apr 1998 21:58:42 +0200

lintian (0.3.4) unstable; urgency=low

  * Bug fix release:
    - check if lab in /tmp already exists (fixes security bug#19799)
      Thanks to James Troup for noticing this and thanks to Joey Hess
      for providing a patch!

  * Added one override entry

 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>  Tue, 17 Mar 1998 23:28:38 +0100

lintian (0.3.3) unstable; urgency=low

  * Bug fix release:
    - `unknown-control-file du' message disappeared
    - fixed `executable-in-usr-doc' to not display files in
      /usr/doc/<pkg>/example
    - fixed tag parameters for
        bad-owner-for-doc-file
        dir-or-file-in-opt

  * Added overrides

 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>  Mon, 16 Mar 1998 08:44:34 +0100

lintian (0.3.2) unstable; urgency=low

  * This is (intentionally) an `unstable' upload--we've decided to not
    include the lintian package in `frozen' since it doesn't make sense to
    maintain a `stable' and `unstable' version of a package in such an
    early state. The maintainers should get Lintian from the `unstable'
    distribution to check `frozen' uploads though.

  * Added `menus' check. This check checks for common mistakes WRT
    /usr/lib/menu and /usr/share/doc-base files.
    [16 new tags]

  * Fixed `shared-libs' check:
    - removed `shared-library-uses-its-soname' check since this produced
      way too many false alarms (thanks to David Engel for the input!)

  * Fixed `binaries' check:
    - skip `unstripped-binary-or-object' check for kernel modules
      (thanks to Michael Meskes for noticing that!)
    - fixed pattern which parses the `file' command's output to be able
      to handle files without info text correctly
      (thanks to James R. Van Zandt for pointing this out!)
    - mention in tag info that shared libs should be stripped with
      `--strip-unneeded' options (thanks to Brian for pointing this out!)

  * Improved `manpages' check:
    - check if manual pages are compressed with gzip -9
      (thanks to Holger Rusch for the idea!)
      [2 new tags]

  * Improved `files' check:
    - for files in /usr/doc:
      - executables may only be in /usr/doc/<something>/examples
      - files should be owned by root.root (thanks to Joey)
      - files should not be directly placed into /usr/doc/
  	(fixes:bug#19485)
    - no files may be installed into /tmp and /var/tmp
    - renamed file-directly-in-usr-share to
      file-directly-in-usr-share-not-in-a-sub-directory
      (thanks to Santiago)
    - fix tag info for "symlink-should-be-absolute"
    [3 new tags]

  * Improved `description' check:
    - lists (starting with a dash or asterisk) have to be indented
      (thanks to cpb4@ukc.ac.uk for the idea and the patch!
      fixes:bug#19481)
    [1 new tag]

  * Fixed `scripts' check:
    - packages with python scripts might depend on python or python-base
      (thanks to Gregor Hoffleit for pointing this out and to Richard for
      the patch! fixes:bug#19162)
    - remove wrong policy quotation for `script-not-executable' tag

  * Fixed `init.d' check:
    - ignore update-rc.d calls in preinst and postinst scripts, if
      "remove" option is specified (thanks to Roman Hodek and Herbert Xu
      for pointing this out--this change also removes a lot of other false
      alarms WRT update-rc.d calls)

  * Improved `control-files' check:
    - scan maintainer scripts for references to /tmp or TMPFILE since this
      might be insecure (thanks to Topi Miettinen for the help!)
    [1 new tag]

  * Improved `copyright-file' to issue a special error message if a
    symbolic link /usr/doc/foo refers to a directory outside of /usr/doc
    (thanks to Darren for pointing this out!)
    [1 new tag]

  * Fixed `fields' check:
    - added architecture `arm' (thanks to Roman Hodek)

  * Fixed `lintian' frontend:
    - run lintian scripts with LC_ALL=C
      (thanks to Yann for pointing this out! fixes:bug#19166)
    - changed handling of `#' comments: for comments in the overrides
      file, the hash (#) has to be in the first column
    - changed all tags which used `#' for comments

  * Fixed `lintian-info':
    - multiple HTML tags haven't been converted into text format in all
      cases
    - preformatted text is now handled correctly
    - merged with code that produced the HTML reports
    - code much cleaner now

  * Improved Lintian's documentation:
    - fixed libtool/rpath workaround file: don't wrap long line
      (Thanks to Yann for pointing this out!)
    - stress in docs that the "lintian-maint@debian.org" address should
      be used to contact the lintian authors (thanks to Adrian Bridgett
      for pointing this out!)

  * Added more overrides (fixes:bug#19163)

 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>  Sun, 15 Mar 1998 23:00:31 +0100

lintian (0.3.1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Added `scripts' checks and collector, written by Richard. This check
    checks the #! lines of scripts in a package.
    [40 new tags]

  * Added `spelling' checks, written by Richard. This check searches
    the "Description:" field and the "copyright" file for common spelling
    errors (typos).
    [2 new tags]

  * Improved `files' check: No package should install files directly into
    /usr/share.
    New tag:
      file-directly-in-usr-share

  * Fixed `files' check WRT files in /usr/lib/sgml and
    /etc/emacs/site-start.d:
      -	ignore directories and symbolic links when checking for correct
        file permissions
      - display permissions in octal format
    (fixes:bug#18866,#19026)

  * Fixed `control-files' check: really ignore `control' control file

  * Improved `lintian' frontend:
      - parse command line parameters before reading the configuration
        file. With that, `lintian -h' even works if the cfg file has
        errors.  (fixes:bug#19031)
      - issue a warning and ignore `-all' option if packages are specified
        at the same time (in older versions, this make lintian abort with
        an error message)
      - really check all packages listed in a .changes file
        (fixes:bug#18851)

  * Fixed `md5sums' check to handle file names with spaces correctly

  * Put conffile /etc/lintianrc back in (fixes:bug#19031)

  * Include information about libtool/rpath workaround by Yann Dirson
    (Thanks Yann!)

  * Added more overrides

  * Internal changes:
      - Each error tag has a (bug) `Severity' field now which can be used
        to file bug reports with the correct severity
      - Each helper script has an `Author' field now
      - Fixed `unused overrides' report

 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>  Sat,  7 Mar 1998 18:46:31 +0100

lintian (0.3.0) unstable; urgency=low

  * Lintian now also works without a configuration file and without
    a static laboratory!  (Since Lintian is so easy to use now, there
    are no excuses for not using it! ;-)

  * Changed handling of lab:
      - if no lab is specified, it is created dynamically by the
        `lintian' command (the average use does not have to worry
        about the lab anymore)
      - since the dynamically created lab is placed in /tmp, several
        users can run lintian at the same time without having to know
        of each other
      - the commands `lintian-setup' and `lintian-remove' have been
        removed (fixes: bug#18707).
      - a `static' laboratory can be created/updated or removed by
        specifying the `--setup-lab' or `--remove-lab' options for the
        `lintian' command
      - added a lot of sanity checks to make removal of lab less risky :)

  * Changed handling of configuration file:
      - configuration file is not necessary anymore
      - changed search path for the configuration file to:
          $LINTIAN_CFG/lintianrc
          $LINTIAN_ROOT/lintianrc
          $HOME/.lintianrc
          /etc/lintianrc
      - all configuration variables have reasonable defaults and can
        be overwritten by environment variables of the same name
      - removed configuration file /etc/lintianrc--the file is now
        installed as /usr/doc/lintian/lintianrc.example
      - renamed all configuration variables to LINTIAN_xxxx
      - relaxed syntax of configuration file. It's now also possible
        to use `~' and `$HOME' in the configuration file (fixes:
        bug#18559)
      - added LINTIAN_ARCH configuration variable so that Lintian
        handles distribution directories correctly if these contain
        several architectures

  * Changed parsing of command line arguments:
      - if a package name is specified (instead of a file), look for
        this package in the distribution directory and in the lab (in
        earlier version, only the distribution directory was searched
        for packages)
      - added `--all' option to check the whole distribution
        (in earlier version, this was the default operation)
      - removed buggy `-n' command line option (this option wasn't
        really useful anyways)
      - the `-h' option displays a short description of all available
        options now
      - debug option `-d' can be specified several times to increase
        the verbosity level
      - recognize `--' as the end of options on the command line

  * Improved overrides handling:
      - the override files does not include the leading `[EW]:'
        anymore
      - the parameters of an error tag may be omitted to disable
        a certain tag for a whole package
      - when checking the full distribution, unused overrides are
        displayed
      - cleaned up overrides file and added/removed a few overrides

  * Improved documentation:
      - there is now a `Lintian User's Manual' which explains how to
        setup and use Lintian to check ones packages, and which gives
        insight on the design issues behind Lintian
      - added a manual page for lintian-info (has been split off
        from lintian(1))
      - updated the documentation files and the example lintianrc file
      - merged QUICKSTART file into the README

  * Improved `binaries' check: check if a binary or shared library
    defines RPATH
    (Thanks to Ray Dassen for the suggestion! fixes: bug#18519)
    New tag:
      binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath

  * Improved `files' check:
     WRT symbolic links:
      - issue errors instead of warnings
      - links between different top-level directories should always be
        absolute
      - check for relative links which contain to many `../' segments
      - check for symbolic links which contain segments like `foo/../bar'
        (Thanks to Manoj for the patch and the ideas!)
     general:
      - some additional checks for wrong file permissions
    New tags:
      symlink-has-too-many-up-segments
      relative-symlink-enters-same-toplevel-directory
      symlink-contains-up-and-down-segments
      bad-permissions-for-etc-cron.d-script (renamed)
      bad-permissions-for-etc-emacs-script
      executable-in-usr-lib-sgml

  * Fixed `control-files' check: check file permissions correctly;
    also check file owners of control files
    New tag:
      control-file-has-bad-owner

  * Fixed `copyright' check: check for package dependencies correctly
    (fixes: bug#18611)

  * Improved `conffiles' check: files in /var/lib/games should not be
    tagged as conffile, in general.
    New tag:
      score-file-may-not-be-conffile

  * Improved `manpages' check: files in /usr/X11R6/man/man6 usually
    indicate X11 games in the wrong directory.
    New tag:
      x11-games-should-be-in-usr-games

  * Fixed `init.d' check: skip comments in init.d file
    (Thanks to Joey for pointing this out!)

      - don't collect info for unselected collector scripts (internal bug)

  * Internal changes:
      - don't refer to package `ftp.debian.org' for bugs in the
        $LINTIAN_DIST directory--refer to package `general' instead
      - made list-binpkg and list-srcpkg more verbose
      - made lintian-info less verbose (don't give detailed info more
        than once)
      - create control-index file which lists all files in control.tar.gz
      - fix permissions in the lab after a package has been unpacked
      - chdir to lab dir before running the checker and collection
        scripts (this makes it easier to write checks in awk or even sh)
      - pass vars to helpers via environment
      - don't link static info/* files into lab
      - implemented dpkg_read_control to parse all controls
      - don't use dpkg-deb to get control information about a .deb
      - collection and checking scripts `registry' is now done dynamically
      - move tag descriptions from collector and checker scripts into
        separate `.desc' files
      - each base directory in the lab has a .lintian-status file now, which
        can be used to detect incompatible lab changes, for example
      - moved unused files and internal documents into a private/ directory
        of the source package
      - cleaned up code

 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>  Sun,  1 Mar 1998 23:16:15 +0100

lintian (0.2.4) unstable; urgency=low

  * Added `fields' check for control fields. (That's the first check
    written by Richard--and it's all Perl!!! ;-)
    [32 new tags]

  * Added `binaries' check.
    [6 new tags]

  * Improved `shared-libraries' check:
      - use objdump instead of ldd and ldconfig
      - this should fix all problems where Lintian couldn't check
        python/perl dynamic objects, etc.
      - allow cross-checking of packages, e.g., to check non-i386 .debs
        on a i386 system (note, that this requires a multi-arch objdump)
      - recognize if the shared library uses its SONAME
    New tag:
      shared-library-uses-its-soname

  * Improved `control-files' check:
      - Don't check the `control' control file for correct
        permissions, because dpkg doesn't care and this file isn't
        installed on the systems anyways

  * Improved `files' check:
      - Games are allowed to be setgid games
      - svgalib programs are allowed to be setuid root
      - usually, files in /usr/doc/foo should not be executable
    New tag:
      executable-in-usr-doc

  * Fix bug in `manpages' check: symlinks in /usr/bin, etc. also need
    a manual page! (Thanks to Joey Hess for pointing this out!)

  * Use `.' instead of `source' in lintian-{remove,setup} /bin/sh scripts
    (fixes bug#18421)

  * Define default values for configuration variables in
    lintian-{remove,setup} scripts (fixes bug#18354)

  * Fix bug in `copyright-file' check: Don't report
    usr-doc-symlink-to-foreign-package if we don't know whether the
    referenced package comes from the same source or not.
    (Thanks to James A. Treacy for pointing this out!)

  * Internal change:
      - process source packages before binary packages so that a binary
        package check can use info from the source packages (if these
        are unpacked, too)

  * Added more override entries--and removed a few obsolete entries
    (the checks are smarter now! :)

  * Added "Depends: binutils" for `objdump'

  * Changed maintainer email address to lintian-maint@debian.org

 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>  Sat, 21 Feb 1998 22:39:46 +0100

lintian (0.2.3) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fixed manual-pages check: Check for the `undocumented' symbolic
    link failed on X11 manual pages (fixes #18343).

  * Improved files check. New tag:
      etc-cron.d-script-tagged-executable

  * Improved control-files check:
      - the `du' control file is not allowed anymore
      - check file permissions of control files
    New tags:
      control-file-has-bad-permissions

  * Fixed bug: ldd-info collection script stopped when ldd failed

  * Fixed (internal) bugs:
      - collect data for collection scripts too
      - don't collect init.d data every time again

  * Error handling code improved again :)

  * The lintian frontend script checks if it has root permissions and
    aborts if this is the case. (Running it as root is unnecessary and
    simply too dangerous.)

  * Added one override entry

 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>  Wed, 18 Feb 1998 21:50:16 +0100

lintian (0.2.2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fixed bug in lintian-setup: don't try to create $LAB if it already
    exists (fixes bug#18227, bug#18252)

  * Added "Depends: file" (oops!)

  * Rewrote package "Description:"

  * Added a lot more override entries (thanks to all that told me about
    overrides!)

 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>  Wed, 18 Feb 1998 12:55:58 +0100

lintian (0.2.1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fixed bug in ldconfig collection script: script aborted without
    error message if a shared library had errors (thanks to Kai!)

  * Fixed bug: `standards-version' check didn't collect necessary data
    (actually, this was a more general bug--thanks to Joey Hess!)

  * Fixed bug: init.d checker script didn't notice if several of the
    required options (start, stop, etc.) have been included on a single
    line (thanks to Joey Hess!)

  * Don't check duplicated packages more than once (thanks to Joey Hess!)

  * Error handling code improved once more

  * Added more overrides (Thanks to Joey Hess!)

  * Mentioned Lintian's home page in the README file

  * Set package priority to `optional' (requested by several developers)

 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>  Sun, 15 Feb 1998 11:44:32 +0100

lintian (0.2.0) unstable; urgency=low

  * First public release

  * Fixed bug in shlibs check: Sometimes, ldconfig doesn't install any
    symbolic links at all (e.g., for `acroread' package).

  * Changed lintian-setup: Don't remove the whole lab if it already
    exists--just remove the info/ directory.

  * Changed handling of critical Lintian errors (abort on error)

  * Built package using fakeroot (first time i tried fakeroot--it's great!!)

  * Checked package with latest Lintian :)

 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>  Sat, 14 Feb 1998 21:49:10 +0100

lintian (0.1.3) unstable; urgency=low

  * Next beta release (hopefully the last one :-)

  * The lintian-info script is available now! You can either pipe the output
    of lintian through it, or specify the `-i' option when calling lintian.

  * Lintian can check .changes files now! New tags:
      bad-distribution-in-changes-file
      file-size-mismatch-in-changes-file
      md5sum-mismatch-in-changes-file
      bad-section-in-changes-file

  * Lintian now detects if packages have been changed, even if they
    have the same version number as before.

  * Improved shlibs check (this fixes the "error: bad ldconfig-info file"
    bug). New tags:
      ldconfig-symlink-referencing-wrong-file
      ldconfig-symlink-is-not-a-symlink

  * Improved files check! New tags:
      package-installs-into-etc-rc.d
      non-standard-file-permissions-for-etc-init.d-script

  * New check for /etc/init.d scripts! Tags:
      duplicate-updaterc.d-calls-in-postinst
      output-of-updaterc.d-not-redirected-to-dev-null
      preinst-calls-updaterc.d
      duplicate-updaterc.d-calls-in-postrm
      prerm-calls-updaterc.d
      postrm-does-not-call-updaterc.d-for-init.d-script
      postrm-contains-additional-updaterc.d-calls
      file-in-etc-rc.d-marked-as-conffile
      init.d-script-not-marked-as-conffile
      init.d-script-does-not-implement-required-option
      init.d-script-not-included-in-package
      unregistered-script-in-etc-init.d

  * Fixed manpages check: Subdirectories of /usr/bin (e.g., /usr/bin/mh)
    have not been handled correctly.

  * Added new override entries

  * Cleaned up Lintian's source code

  * Updated documentation

  * Lots of small changes

 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>  Fri, 13 Feb 1998 23:24:51 +0100

lintian (0.1.2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Beta release
  * Two major bugs have been fixed
  * Debugging info increased

 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>  Fri, 13 Feb 1998 11:20:51 +0100

lintian (0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Beta release

 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>  Thu, 12 Feb 1998 23:45:51 +0100

lintian (0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low

  * First release

 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>  Wed, 11 Feb 1998 23:15:51 +0100

vim: et
