2007
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
2006
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
2005
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
2004
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
2003
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
2002
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
2001
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
2000
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
1999
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
1998
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