Changelog
lintian (2.5.44) unstable; urgency=medium
* Summary of tag changes:
+ Added:
- build-depends-arch-without-arch-dependant-binary
- changelog-references-temp-security-identifier
- ctrl-script
- debian-build-system
- debian-changelog-has-wrong-day-of-week
- extra-whitespace-around-name-in-changelog-trailer
- invalid-versioned-provides
- maintscript-calls-ldconfig
- no-ctrl-scripts
- package-has-unnecessary-activation-of-ldconfig-trigger
- package-must-activate-ldconfig-trigger
- source-format
+ Removed:
- debian-changelog-has-wrong-weekday
- description-contains-duplicated-word
- dh_pysupport-is-obsolete
- missing-dependency-on-python-support
- postinst-has-useless-call-to-ldconfig
- postinst-must-call-ldconfig
- postrm-has-useless-call-to-ldconfig
- postrm-should-call-ldconfig
- postrm-unsafe-ldconfig
- preinst-calls-ldconfig
- prerm-calls-ldconfig
- versioned-provides
* checks/changelog-file.{desc,pm}:
+ [JW,NT] Use "day of week" rather than "weekday".
(Closes: #796093)
+ [JW,NT] Flag references to "TEMP" security identifiers.
Thanks to Paul Wise for assisting with the regex.
(Closes: #807892)
* checks/control-files.{desc,pm}:
+ [NT] Add classification tags for (absence of) maintscripts.
* checks/debhelper.{desc,pm}:
+ [NT] Add tag for classifying the build system.
+ [NT] Remove test for dh_pysupport usage.
+ [NT] Avoid advertising python-support as possible solution for
python-depends-but-no-python-helper. Thanks to Gunnar Wolf for
the bug report. (Closes: #754315)
+ [NT] Apply patch from Gergely Nagy to only emit the
dh-exec-useless-usage check for install and manpages files.
Thanks to Rafael Laboissière for the report.
(Closes: #816341)
* checks/debian-source-dir.{desc,pm}:
+ [NT] Add tag for classifying the source format.
(Closes: #612610)
* checks/description.{desc,pm}:
+ [NT] Drop duplicate word tag, which is now covered by the
spelling error check.
* checks/fields.{desc,pm}:
+ [NT] Add default-jdk-headless and openjdk-X-jdk-headless
to the set of known java providers.
+ [JW] Relax build profile dependency checks to allow versions with
trailing tilde. (Closes: #819509) Thanks to Felix Geyer for the bug
report.
+ [NT] Expand the vcs-field-uses-insecure-uri check to check other
known insecure protocols (e.g. svn and pserver). Thanks to Paul
"(UTF-8) Snowman" Tagliamonte for the report. (Closes: #812962)
+ [NT] Use https URL in the correction for canonical VCS URLs.
(Closes: #813587)
+ [NT] Bump known python 3 version to include 3.4 and 3.5.
+ [AB] package-relation-with-perl-modules: Remove "experimental" flag.
Asked for by Dominic Hargreaves.
+ [NT] Apply patch from Mattia Rizzolo to make lintian know and check
the Build-Depends-Arch field. (Closes: #822281)
+ [NT] Stop emitting tags for (valid) versioned provides. Thanks to
Thorsten Glaser for the bug report. (Closes: #800438)
* checks/files.pm:
+ [JW] Apply patch from Mathieu Parent to fix directories for PHP INI
files.
+ [NT] Remove code related to python-support.
* checks/nmu.{desc,pm}:
+ [NT] Create a separate tag for extra whitespace around uploader name
in the changelog. Thanks to Ben Wiederhake for the suggestion.
(Closes: #801647)
* checks/phppear.{desc,pm}:
+ [JW] Apply patch from Mathieu Parent to make dh-php* and php*-dev
package names unversioned.
* checks/rules.pm:
+ [NT] Add ":any" to all python dependencies. Thanks to Barry Warsaw
for reporting the bug.
+ [NT] Bump known python 3 version to include 3.4 and 3.5.
+ [NT] Remove check for python-support and python-central.
* checks/scripts.desc:
+ [NT] Suggest dh_python2 / dh_python3 instead of dh_pysupport and
dh_pycentral. Thanks to Neil Williams for the report.
(Closes: #818607)
* checks/shared-libs.{desc,pm}:
+ [NT] Rename and clarify some ldconfig related tags to better reflect
the use of the ldconfig trigger. Thanks to Rafael Laboissière for
reporting this. (Closes: #809577)
+ [NT] Merge and remove some ldconfig related tags. Notably
unconditionally flag all uses of ldconfig in maintainer scripts
(outside glibc) as these should be replaced by a trigger.
* checks/version-substvars.pm:
+ [NT] Apply patch from Javier Serrano Polo that makes the check
ignore all multi-arch quantifiers (when determining if the
dependency is for an external package). (Closes: #822269)
* commands/info.pm:
+ [NT] Accept "--tag" as an alias of "--tags". Thanks to Robert
Luberda for the suggestion. (Closes: #816454)
* commands/lintian:
+ [NT] Also check DEBRELEASE_DEBS_DIR for .changes files when no
packages are given on the command line. Thanks to Sean Whitton for
the suggestion. (Closes: #812568)
+ [NT] Clean up entries in temporarily labs fully once they have been
processed. This avoids accumulating files on the disk for archive-
wide runs done in temporary labs. This mitigates some of the
excessive disk usage for archive-wide runs (See #779228).
* commands/reporting-lintian-harness.pm:
+ [NT] Add support for classification tags.
* data/debhelper/*:
+ [JW] Refresh against unstable. Thanks to Mathieu Parent for the bug
report.
* data/debhelper/dh_addons-manual:
+ [NT] Add ":any" to the dependencies for the python add-ons. Thanks
to Barry Warsaw for reporting the bug. (Closes: #803164)
+ [NT] Remove entry for pysupport.
* data/fields/virtual-packages:
+ [NT] Refresh against unstable main (amd64).
* data/files/fonts:
+ [NT] Refresh against unstable main (amd64).
* data/menu-format/known-desktop-keys:
+ [NT] Accept "DesktopNames" as a known key in desktop files. Thanks
to Yves-Alexis Perez for the suggestion. (Closes: #766099)
* data/spelling/corrections:
+ [JW] Add more corrections.
* data/standards-version/release-dates:
+ [AB] Add 3.9.8.
* debian/control:
+ [AB] Declare compliance with Debian Policy 3.9.8. (No other changes
required.)
* debian/lintian.install:
+ [NT] Install Test::Lintian modules in Perl5 module path and remove
the Lintian::Tutorial files (as they are just POD files).
* debian/{manpages,rules}:
+ [JW,NT] Generate and install manpages of Lintian's perl modules.
(Closes: #816862)
* doc/lintian.xml:
+ [NT] Document the new classification tags.
* lib/Lintian/*{,/*}.pm:
+ [NT] Add support for classification tags.
* lib/Lintian/Check.pm:
+ [JW,NT] Flag a duplicate word as a spelling error. This affects
several tags plus spellintian. (Closes: #800476)
* lib/Lintian/Collect/Binary.pm:
+ [JW] Apply patch from Ben Hutchings to consider source versions when
testing nativeness of binary packages. (Closes: #821902)
* lib/Lintian/Relation.pm:
+ [JW,NT] Fix broken implication with "P (<< V)" relations.
(Closes: #819560)
* lib/Lintian/Tag/Info.pm:
+ [JW] Use HTTPS for manpages.debian.org URLs.
* lib/Lintian/Unpacker.pm:
+ [NT] Name the subprocess after what is processing.
* private/refresh-debhelper-data:
+ [JW] Apply patch from Mathieu Parent to fix path to Contents files.
* reporting/*:
+ [NT] Add support for classification tags.
* vendors/ubuntu/main/data/changes-file/known-dists:
+ [NT] Apply patch from Mattia Rizzolo to add yakkety.
-- Niels Thykier <email address hidden> Sun, 24 Apr 2016 06:25:53 +0000