[Bug 257643] [NEW] Please backport lintian 1.24.3 from Intrepid to Hardy

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Wed Aug 13 18:34:43 BST 2008


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Builds, installs, runs.  Ack from ubuntu-backporters.

 lintian  (1.24.3) unstable; urgency=low

   The "greetings from Argentina" release.
 
   * checks/binaries:
     + [ADB] Use Lintian::Collect throughout rather than reparsing file-info
       and objdump-info.
   * checks/changelog-file{,.desc}:
     + [ADB] Use Lintian::Collect instead of reading the fields/*, file-info
       and objdump-info files.
     + [ADB] Remove a misplaced word from the description of the tag
       "debian-changelog-file-contains-invalid-email-address".
   * checks/copyright-file{,.desc}:
     + [ADB] Drop the "copyright line too long" check.  Most of the issues
       it flags aren't easily fixable, particularly where the copyright file
       is (semi)automatically generated.  (Closes: #491302, #491365, #491685)
     + [ADB] Use Lintian::Collect for accessing control fields and reading the
       list of files in the package.
     + [ADB] Don't flag use of version 1 of the GPL, or licenses using phrases
       such as "compatible with the GPL" (for example, the W3C Software
       License) as missing a reference to common-licenses
     + [ADB] Replace references to the GPL in GFDL and LGPL related tags
       with the appropriate license.  Also remove a misplaced word.
   * checks/cruft:
     + [ADB] Use Lintian::Collect for accessing control fields
   * checks/debconf:
     + [ADB] Don't complain about unused debconf templates in udebs.
       (Closes: #491135)
     + [RA] Try to recognize at least some debconf template uses in Perl.
     + [ADB] Replace fields/* and scripts access with Lintian::Collect
     + [ADB] Don't flag the shared templates used for dictionaries-common
       co-ordination as unused.
     + [FL] Remove debconf-error-requires-versioned-depends since post-lenny
       a tag for the sake of sarge-backports clearly makes no sense anymore.
       (Closes: #493920)
   * checks/description:
     + [RA] Don't warn about a synopsis that ends in "etc."  Patch from
       Chris Lamb.  (Closes: #491252)
     + [ADB] Use Lintain::Collect to read the package's description.
   * checks/etcfiles:
     + [ADB] Walk Lintian::Collect->index instead of reading the "index" file.
   * checks/fields{,.desc}:
     + [RA] Warn about packages that depend exclusively on makedev.
       Thanks, Josh Triplett.  (Closes: #491625)
     + [ADB] Use Lintian::Collect::field() to determine the content of fields
       from control files rather than reading the fields/* files. This and
       similar changes to other scripts should improve performance as the
       Collect object caches the lookup result.
     + [ADB] Reformat a couple of tags' descriptions.
   * checks/files{,.desc}:
     + [ADB] Switch to using Lintian::Collect.
     + [ADB] Fix a couple of bugs in the parsing of the list of scripts
       contained within a package which led to scripts in /usr/share/doc
       being incorrectly tagged as executable-in-usr-share-doc.
     + [ADB] Update a couple of Policy references.  Thanks Jordà Polo.
     + [ADB] Warn when a package embeds a copy of the Universal Feed Parser.
       Patch from Chris Lamb.  (Closes: #493156)
     + [FL, ADB] Don't issue tag file-in-unusal-dir for files where we already
       issued one of the specific dir-or-file-in-* tags.  (Closes: #493921)
     + [ADB] Add a missing "have" to package-contains-ancient-file's
       description.
   * checks/huge-usr-share:
     + [ADB] Replace (the single) direct access to fields/* with ::field()
     + [ADB] Replace an outdated link to the Developer's Reference.
       Thanks Jordà Polo.
   * checks/infofiles{,.desc}:
     + [ADB] Use Lintian::Collect to retrieve information about the files
       being processed.
     + [ADB] Update the tag "install-info-not-called-with-quiet-option"'s
       Policy reference.  Thanks Jordà Polo.
   * checks/init.d.desc:
     + [ADB] Update a Policy reference.  Thanks Jordà Polo.
   * checks/lintian.desc:
     + [ADB] Add a Policy reference to bad-section-in-changes-file.  Thanks
       Jordà Polo.
   * checks/manpages{,.desc}:
     + [RA] Suppress warnings about inability to break a line that contains
       a URL.  URLs often can't be usefully broken.  Based on a patch by
       Damyan Ivanov.  (Closes: #491578)
     + [ADB] Update the Policy reference for manpage-has-wrong-extension.
     + [ADB] Use Lintian::Collect rather than parsing the "index" and
       "file-info" files.
     + [FL] In description for manpage-has-errors-from-man note how to
       reproduce this errors outside of lintian.  (Closes: #492930)
   * checks/menu-format{,.desc}:
     + [ADB] Use Lintian::Collect to parse the list of files in the package.
     + [ADB] Don't raise menu-command-not-in-package for 'sensible-browser'
       or 'sh'.  Thanks Raphael Geissert.
     + [RA] Warn about .kdelnk files and [KDE Desktop Entry] headings in
       desktop files.  Patch from Raphael Geissert.
   * checks/menus{,.desc}:
     + [ADB] Fix a typo; thanks Jordà Polo.
     + [ADB] Use the file list from Lintian::Collect.
   * checks/nmu{,.desc}:
     + [ADB] Use Lintian::Collect for maintainer / uploader information
     + [ADB] Add a DevRef reference to changelog-should-mention-nmu.  Thanks
       Jordà Polo.
   * checks/patch-systems:
     + [RA] Combine all patch-system-but-direct-changes-in-diff instances
       into a single message to reduce the noise from packages that rebuild
       all auto-generated files outside the patch system.  Thanks, Julien
       Cristau.  (Closes: #491296)
     + [ADB] Migrate fields/* reading to use ::Collect::field().
   * checks/po-debconf{,.desc}:
     + [ADB] Check that at least one complete translation exists.  Thanks Jordà
       Polo.
   * checks/rules:
     + [ADB] Use ::Collect for field access.
     + [FL] Do not complain about using dh in a unused binary-* target.
   * checks/scripts{,.desc}:
     + [RA] Warn about maintainer scripts that prepend a path to commands.
       Based on a patch by Raphael Geissert.  (Closes: #376184)
     + [ADB] Don't read fields/*, scripts, index or file-info directly as the
       contents have almost certainly been cached in Lintian::Collect already.
     + [ADB] Update a couple of Policy references.  Thanks Jordà Polo.
   * checks/shared-libs.{,desc}:
     + [ADB] Improve the description of no-symbols-control-file.
     + [ADB] Migrate to using ::Collect instead of parsing the index, file-info
       and objdump-info files directly.
     + [ADB] Disable ldconfig-symlink-before-shlib-in-deb as it can never be
       tested correctly using the information currently available to the
       scripts
   * checks/watch-file:
     + [FL] Do not issue debian-watch-file-should-mangle-version for
       empty watch files.
 
   * data/doc-base/sections:
     + [ADB] Resynchronize with doc-base's section list (adding
       Programming/OCaml).  (Closes: #491440)
 
   * debian/postrm:
     + [FL] Do not try to remove /var/spool/lintian if it doesn't exist
       (dpkg might already removed it at this point).
 
   * doc/desc-files:
     + [ADB] Update the description of tags to include experimental and info
       tags.
   * doc/README:
     + [ADB] Add -E / --show-experimental, -T / --tags and --tags-from-file
       to the option list.
 
   * frontend/lintian:
     + [FL, ADB] Add new --tags/-T option to limit the amount of checks
       run not by check names but by names of tags you're interested
       in.  Requested by Joerg Jaspert for ftpmaster.  (Closes: #493903)
     + [FL] Add --tags-from-file option to make it easier to specify
       a long list of tags.
 
   * lib/Lintian/Collect/Binary.pm:
     + [ADB] When parsing objdump-info, indicate whether a shared object is
       an Ocaml executable.  Also add information on segments which various
       checks scripts use which hadn't made it here yet.
     + [ADB] Make index() return a hash rather than an array
     + [ADB] Add support for parsing the "scripts" index file
   * lib/Read_taginfo.pm:
     + [FL] Handle URLs in the Ref: field.
   * lib/Tags.pm:
     + [ADB] If --tags was used, don't issue tags that aren't in the provided
       list.
 
   * man/lintian.1
     + [ADB] Update the list of check scripts, removing the no longer present
       deb-format and perl and adding the nmu script.
     + [FL] Document the new --tags/-T option.
     + [FL] Document the new --tags-from-file option.
 
   * reporting/templates/index.tmpl:
     + [RA] Add a link to lintian.log.  Suggested by Stefano Zacchiroli.
 
   * t/:
     + [FL] Begin work on a new testsuite.
 
   * testset/fields:
     + [ADB] New testset from Tobias Quathamer (including some tags which
       previously weren't tested)
   * testset/tags.scripts{,.sed}:
     + [ADB] Munge .changes filenames so that the tests produce consistent
       output across architectures

 -- Frank Lichtenheld <djpig at debian.org>  Sat, 09 Aug 2008 00:35:13
-0300

** Affects: hardy-backports
     Importance: Wishlist
         Status: In Progress

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Please backport lintian 1.24.3 from Intrepid to Hardy
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