lintian 2.81.0 source package in Ubuntu

Changelog

lintian (2.81.0) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Felix Lechner ]
  * Remove command line option --fail-on from the settings in configuration
    files. (Closes: #962157)
  * Use UTF-8 codepoint for copyright sign in copyright files.
    (Closes: #961975)
  * Add tag for architecture-specific paths in debian/not-installed.
    (Closes: #961973)
  * Rename tag to recursive-privilege-change and explain usage of
    runuser(1). (Closes: #895597)
  * Do not enable Perl warnings globally to reduce output clutter from
    external modules.
  * In debian/control, add dh-r to Build-Depends. (See: #961709)
  * Add two test cases from Ansgar's 'colorful' test package.
    (See: #962277)
  * Drop Email::Valid as obsolete and use regex to check emails for fully
    qualified hosts. (See: #962277)
  * Flag the use of acute accents in manpages. (Closes: #554897)
  * Flag ANSI escape characters in all fields of primary packaging control
    files. (See: #962277)
  * In check menus, title-case the hash keys representing field labels to
    make the tag context more human-readable.
  * Rename tag for mailing list on Alioth and convert to classification
    tag. (Closes: #962448)
  * Add a classification tag for field contents in primary package control
    files.
  * Find the correct section when looking at combined manpages.
    (Closes: #962601)
  * Read manual references as UTF-8 to show "en" dash correctly.
    (Closes: #904885)
  * Issue 'required-field' and 'recommended-field' tagsper Debian Policy
    section 5 instead of field-specific tags.
  * Fix mail host validation in debian/changelog and rename tag for bogus
    hosts.
  * Do not allow unsafe symlinks in autopkgtests. (Closes: #954860)
  * Broaden tag descriptions for lower custom compression settings.
    (Closes: #909696)
  * Do not impose a umask when running tests as it partially obscured a bug
    in Dpkg. (See: #945869 & #796257)
  * Emit a classification tags with octal file permissions for all files
    sources and installables. (See: #945869, #796257)
  * Reset process umask before unpacking source tarballs. (Closes: #945869)
  * Use case-sensitive field names in control files, package relations,
    debconf templates and autopkgtest files.
  * Mark commas not followed by whitespace in package descriptions.
    (Closes: #591665)
  * Do not use the Bash shell when syntax checking maintainer scripts using
    /bin/sh. (Closes: #954459)
  * Point out variant spellings of field names in control files.
  * Use case-sensitive Deb822 parser for profiles, tags, checks, internal
    harness tests,private scripts, and in readelf data within
    Processable::Objdump.
  * Add new tag breakout-link for such links in /usr/lib. (Closes: #243158)
  * Stop exempting files in debian/missing-sources from source-is-missing.
    (See: #962583)
  * Provide test case with JS sources in subdir of d/missing-sources.
    (Closes: #962583)
  * Issue tag for repeated path segments in installed files.
    (Closes: #950052)
  * Restore case-invariant access to control fields, per Debian Policy
    section 5.1.
  * Add an internal harness test requiring a declared diagnostic value for
    tag-related test. (Closes: #962671)
  * Parse mail addresses in package control fields in one place and
    validate domains using Data::Validate::Domain.
  * Add new checks for maintainer-provided manpages and desktop entries.
    (Closes: #755161)
  * Restore program failure when error tags are found. (Closes: #962158)
  * Rename documentation/man to documentation/manual and debian/manpages to
    debian/manual-pages. Also rename tags that refer to a 'manpage' to
    'manual-page' or another name.
  * Combine various national encoding tags into one and issue all in one
    check.
  * Rename new item-looping entry points in checks as not all items are
    files.
  * Provide script diagnostics in the "control index".
  * Remove conflict between no-template-description and
    untranslatable-debconf-templates. (Closes: #914256)

  [ Chris Lamb ]
  * Update data/fields/perl-provides for Perl 5.030003.

  [ Paul Wise ]
  * spelling: Add several corrections and sort using the UTF-8 locale.

  [ Dylan Aïssi ]
  * Add the requires-r-api and ships-r-site-library tags for the R
    statistics language. (Closes: #961709)

  [ Mo Zhou ]
  * Add a new "linked-with-obsolete-library" tag; marks only libcblas from
    the Debian Science team for now.

  [ Rafael Laboissière ]
  * Fix false positives in the no-dh-sequencer tag when Makefile command
    prefixes (eg. "+") are used. (Closes: #963212)

 -- Chris Lamb <email address hidden>  Tue, 23 Jun 2020 09:47:18 +0100