Package: lintian (2.5.30+deb8u4)

[ Source: lintian  ]

Debian package checker

Lintian dissects Debian packages and reports bugs and policy violations. It contains automated checks for many aspects of Debian policy as well as some checks for common errors.

It uses an archive directory, called laboratory, in which it stores information about the packages it examines. It can keep this information between multiple invocations in order to avoid repeating expensive data-collection operations. This makes it possible to check the complete Debian archive for bugs, in a reasonable time.

This package is useful for all people who want to check Debian packages for compliance with Debian policy. Every Debian maintainer should check packages with this tool before uploading them to the archive.

This version of Lintian is calibrated for policy version 3.9.6.

Tags: Software Development: Debian, Packaging, devel::testing-qa, implemented-in::perl, User Interface: Command Line, Role: role::program, scope::utility, Application Suite: Debian, Purpose: use::checking, works-with::software:package

Other Packages Related to lintian

• dep: binutils

  GNU assembler, linker and binary utilities

• dep: bzip2

  high-quality block-sorting file compressor - utilities

• dep: diffstat

  produces graph of changes introduced by a diff file

• dep: file

  Determines file type using "magic" numbers

• dep: gettext

  GNU Internationalization utilities

• dep: hardening-includes

  Makefile for enabling compiler flags for security hardening

• dep: intltool-debian

  Help i18n of RFC822 compliant config files

• dep: libapt-pkg-perl

  Perl interface to libapt-pkg

• dep: libarchive-zip-perl

  Perl module for manipulation of ZIP archives

• dep: libclass-accessor-perl

  Perl module that automatically generates accessors

• dep: libclone-perl

  module for recursively copying Perl datatypes

• dep: libdigest-sha-perl

  Perl extension for SHA-1/224/256/384/512, SHA-512/224 and SHA-512/256
  also a virtual package provided by perl

• dep: libdpkg-perl

  Dpkg perl modules

• dep: libemail-valid-perl

  Perl module for checking the validity of Internet email addresses

• dep: libfile-basedir-perl

  Perl module to use the freedesktop basedir specification

• dep: libipc-run-perl

  Perl module for running processes

• dep: liblist-moreutils-perl

  Perl module with additional list functions not found in List::Util

• dep: libparse-debianchangelog-perl

  parse Debian changelogs and output them in other formats

• dep: libtext-levenshtein-perl

  implementation of the Levenshtein edit distance

• dep: libtimedate-perl

  collection of modules to manipulate date/time information

• dep: liburi-perl

  module to manipulate and access URI strings

• dep: man-db

  on-line manual pager

• dep: patchutils

  Utilities to work with patches

• dep: perl

  Larry Wall's Practical Extraction and Report Language

• dep: t1utils

  Collection of simple Type 1 font manipulation programs

• rec: libperlio-gzip-perl

  module providing a PerlIO layer to gzip/gunzip

• rec: perl (>= 5.20)

  Larry Wall's Practical Extraction and Report Language

  or libautodie-perl (>= 2.18)

  Perl pragma to make certain failures fatal
  also a virtual package provided by perl-modules

• sug: binutils-multiarch

  Binary utilities that support multi-arch targets

• sug: dpkg-dev

  Debian package development tools

• sug: libhtml-parser-perl

  collection of modules that parse HTML text documents

• sug: libtext-template-perl

  perl module to process text templates

• sug: libyaml-perl

  YAML Ain't Markup Language

• sug: xz-utils

  XZ-format compression utilities

Download lintian

Download for all available architectures

Architecture	Package Size	Installed Size	Files
all	774.2 kB	3,101.0 kB	[list of files]