Changelog
lintian (2.105.0) unstable; urgency=medium
* Summary of tag changes:
+ Added:
- backgrounded-test-command
- crossing-screens
- duplicate-p3dist-override
- elevated-privileges
- illegal-variable
- misplaced-systemd-tmpfiles
- missing-conffile
- no-versioned-debhelper-prerequisite
- nodejs-missing-version-override
- obsolete-vim-addon-manager
- pypi-homepage
- python-traceback-in-manpage
- ruby-interpreter-is-deprecated
- rubygem-homepage
- rules-require-build-prerequisite
- rust-boilerplate
- source-contains-editor-backup-file
- source-contains-patch-failure-file
- source-contains-quilt-control-dir
- superficial-tests
- systemd-service-in-odd-location
- systemd-tmpfile-in-var-run
- unexpected-conffile
- unknown-conffile-instruction
- unmerged-usr
- upstream-metadata-field-unknown
- wrong-team
+ Removed:
- ancient-standards-version
- conffile-is-not-in-package
- missing-build-dependency
- missing-python-build-dependency
- octal-permissions
- package-lacks-versioned-build-depends-on-debhelper
- package-needs-versioned-debhelper-build-depends
- setgid-binary
- setuid-binary
- setuid-gid-binary
- systemd-service-file-outside-lib
- systemd-tmpfiles.d-outside-usr-lib
[ Chris Lamb ]
* Check for Python tracebacks in manual pages, usually caused by failing
help2man calls (and cause reproducibility issues).
* Correct confusion between left and right parens that was leading to
output such as ")2 errors)".
* Bump Standards-Version to 4.6.0.1.
[ Felix Lechner ]
* Implement usr-merge; flag files shipped in /bin, /sbin or /lib.
* Flag systemd temporary files placed in /var/run. (Closes: #984678)
* Do not repeat tag name when annotating hints. (Closes: #969398)
* Refuse to read installable control data in national encodings.
* Stop shipping modules in system path. (Closes: #968011)
- Provide a dedicated, non-public executable to obtain the latest
policy version from Lintian data. (See: #978672)
* Flag the use of DEB_BUILD_MULTIARCH in some Debian files.
(Closes: #983219)
* For team-maintained packages, flag names in another team's name space.
* Provide a generalized method to grant exemptions to package families
(screens).
- Exempt ELPA packaging scripts for Emacs modules from
executable-in-usr-lib. (Closes: #974175)
- Exempt GNAT's read-only .ali files from non-standard-file-perm.
(Closes: #986400)
* Treat NMU edge cases for non-consecutive-debian-revision.
(Closes: #942013)
* Recommend the newer php-markdown over libmarkdown-php when embedded.
(Closes: #898867)
* Convert possible-gpl-code-linked-with-openssl to a classification tag.
(Closes: #972181)
* Turn maybe-not-arch-all-binnmuable into a classification tag.
* Combine, rename two confusing debhelper tags. (Closes: #977332)
* Warn when trying to issue duplicate hints; provide more context to
disambiguate similar hints.
* Add --output-width; wrap EWI tag descriptions to width of output
terminal otherwise.
* Assume that all interactive terminals are hyperlink-capable, but change
default to off.
* Send all debugging and status information to STDERR.
* Drop support for custom visibility levels in profiles.
* Prefer spaces over commas as field separators in profiles.
* Build test packages automatically when running tests.
(Closes: #927476, #935907)
* Use semantic versioning for the output of '--version'; omit Git hash
from Lintian version strings.
* Refer to new website in output.
* Update manual references for the first time in almost two years.
* Update the JSON data file for Debian policy releases; include all up
to 4.6.0.1.
* Drop UTF-8 PerlIO layers for STDOUT and STDERR from almost all
executables and the test suite. (Closes: #972876, #972878)
* Do not pretend to show hashbang in hint context for unusual
interpreters. (Closes: #982630)
* Treat Testsuite field as a comma-separated list for the teams pkg-perl
and pkg-js. (Closes: #9768010)
* Use current program names in help messages and version announcements.
(Closes: #977261)
* Allow tilde in names of installed JAR archives. (Closes: #976681)
* Flag source packages that declare only tests with the 'superficial'
restriction. (Closes: #932870)
* Ignore SIGWINCH in the test suite. (Closes: #974575)
* For manual pages, extract section information correctly from .TH
header. (Closes: #962601)
* Recognize Architecture and Classes as valid fields in d/tests/control.
(Closes: #977976)
* Restructure tags for file permissions; combine tags for setuid/setgid
executables.
* Detect Rust boilerplate in package descriptions. (See: !344)
* Do not fail on dangling symlinks when looking for obsolete, missing or
invalid content. (Closes: #978534)
* Always print full path to patch files. (Closes: #980247)
* Tolerate manual pages for subcommands when main command is documented.
(Closes: #947258)
* Tighten regex for no-op-testsuite to stop false positives.
(Closes: #980824)
* Allow environment prefix when recognizing 'dh' sequencer.
(Closes: #981712)
* Ignore build profiles when requiring dh helper for Python
prerequisites. (Closes: #991242)
* Ignore build profiles when flagging use of py3versions in d/rules.
(Closes: #978144)
* Do not flag Python3 entry point definitions as out-of-place
documentation. (Closes: #981268)
* Flag duplicates in d/py3dist-overrides. (Closes: #980987)
* Flag PyPI homepages in source control files. (Closes: #981932)
* Flag Rubygem homepages in source control files. (Closes: #981935)
* Accept the virtual package dh-sequence-dkms as B-D for 'dh
--with-dkms'. (Closes: #982834)
* Drop reference to archive keyring from package-installs-apt-sources.
(Closes: #983598)
* Read error message from Config::Tiny via the advertised mechanism.
(Closes: #985064)
* Add 'utils.h' to the list of overly generic headers. (Closes: #982322)
* Drop package file names from tag context for unknown-field.
(Closes: #980560)
* Flag backgrounded Test-Commands in autopkgtest declarations.
(Closes: #988591)
* For multi-component sources, always drop common prefixes for
sub-components. (Closes: #976643)
* Accept more than two components in architecture wildcards for package
relationships. (Closes: #981163)
* Add Breaks: lintian-brush (<< 0.88) to debian/control due to failing
autopkgtests.
* Implement two perltidy policies.
* Implement 87 perlcritic policies; disregard four others.
* Ignore special attributes like 'remove-on-upgrade' in DEBIAN/conffiles.
(Closes: #993531, #993711)
* Read checks separately from ./lib and ./checks; forego symbolic link.
(Closes: #993651)
[ Simon McVittie ]
* Update lists of registered build-profile names
[ Paul Wise ]
* spelling: Add several corrections
* Upgrade superficial-tests tag to warning
[ Xavier Guimard ]
* Verify that nodejs module does not use semantic-release
* Fix and simplify search when parsing pkg-js-autopkgtest files.
(Closes: #981279)
[ Emmanuel Bourg ]
* Detect obsolete Servlet API 3.1. (See: !348)
[ Alexandre Rossi ]
* Recognize empty and very small files as architecture-independent.
[ Jelmer Vernooij ]
* Fix typo: valgring => valgrind.
* Fix archive section mapping for rust development packages.
* Check upstream field names in upstream metadata. (Closes: #969762)
[ gregor herrmann ]
* Add another spelling correction.
[ Victor Westerhuis ]
* Add --no-rename as a recognized option for dpkg-divert.
[ Brian Murray ]
* Recognize Ubuntu's next release, named 'impish', among the known-dists.
[ Louis-Philippe Véronneau ]
* Add check for obsolete installation prerequisite vim-addon-manager.
[ Fatih Altun ]
* Add profile for Pardus Linux
[ Antonio Terceiro ]
* Stop suggesting ruby-interpreter as a prerequisite. (See: !365)
* Warn about the outdated prerequisite ruby-interpreter. (See: !365)
[ Peter Pentchev ]
* Adjust to debhelper's new install location for systemd service files.
(Closes: #992465)
-- Chris Lamb <email address hidden> Tue, 07 Sep 2021 09:43:56 +0000
