[Bug 1092892] [NEW] Please sync lintian 2.5.11 from Debian experimental (main)

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lintian (2.5.11) experimental; urgency=low

  * Summary of tag changes:
    + Added:
      - conffile-has-bad-file-type
      - debug-package-for-multi-arch-same-pkg-not-coinstallable
      - dm-upload-allowed-is-obsolete
      - field-name-typo-in-dep5-copyright
      - font-adobe-copyrighted-fragment
      - license-problem-json-evil
      - maintainer-script-has-unexpanded-debhelper-token
      - shlibs-uses-obsolete-relation
      - untranslatable-debconf-templates
    + Removed:
      - apparently-truncated-elf-binary
      - data.tar.xz-member-without-dpkg-pre-depends
      - debhelper-overrides-need-versioned-build-depends
      - no-source-field
      - preinst-uses-dpkg-maintscript-helper-without-predepends

  * checks/*:
    + [NT] Remove assumption that lintian will chdir into the
      the lab before calling the check.
    + [NT] Be better at avoiding false-positive spelling errors
      for references to packages that also happen to be common
      spelling mistake.  Thanks to Paul Tagliamonte for the
      report.  (Closes: #687464)
  * checks/binaries{,.desc}:
    + [NT] Merge apparently-truncated-elf-binary into
      apparently-corrupted-elf-binary.
    + [NT] Remove some references to objdump in tag descriptions
      as Lintian uses readelf.
    + [JW,NT] Update the "extract SONAME" shell snippet to properly
      handle SONAMEs with uppercase letters.
    + [JW] Recognise any path with matching the GNU multi-arch
      triplet as a "Multi-arch: same"-safe directory.  Thanks to
      Matthias Klose for the report.  (Closes: #681410)
  * checks/changelog-file:
    + [NT] Emit "missing changelog" for packages that are missing
      their usr/share/doc/<pkg>/ dir and do not have a doc symlink.
      Thanks to Faheem Mitha for the report.  (Closes: #683224)
  * checks/conffiles{,.desc}:
    + [NT] Remove leading slash on the filename when emitting
      file-in-etc-rc.d-marked-as-conffile.
    + [NT] Add check for "non-file" conffiles.  Thanks to Guillem
      Jover for the report.  (Closes: #690910)
  * checks/control-file.desc:
    + [NT] Bump obsolete-relation-form-in-source to serious as these
      forms are now "must not" instead of "should not".
  * checks/copyright.desc:
    + [NT] Bump debian-copyright-file-uses-obsolete-national-encoding
      to serious as copyright files must now be UTF-8 encoded.
  * checks/cruft{,.desc}:
    + [NT] Detect MS-DOS executables as windows binaries.
    + [NT] Bump the version of config.{guess,sub} needed for
      triggering the "outdated-autotools-helper-file" tag for arm64
      support.  Thanks to Paul Wise for the report and the
      investigative work.  (Closes: #690014)
    + [RA,NT] Extend the description of the tags {outdated,ancient}-
      autotools-helper-file to mention that dh-autoreconf might be
      helpful tool.
    + [NT] Apply patch from Bastien Roucariès to detect file licensed
      under the "Good, not Evil"-JSON license.  (Closes: #692616)
  * checks/deb-format{,.desc}:
    + [NT] Retire data.tar.xz tag.  (Closes: #680391)
  * checks/debhelper{,.desc}:
    + [JW,NT] Consider missing versioned build-depends on
      debhelper for compat 8 (or less) a pedantic issue.
      (Closes: #681894)
    + [NT] Retire debhelper-overrides-need-versioned-build-depends.
  * checks/fields{,.desc}:
    + [NT] Retire no-source-field since Lintian cannot emit it any
      more due to dpkg-source refusing to extract such source
      packages.
    + [NT] Add tag for using the obsolete DMUA field.  Thanks to
      Ansgar Burchardt for the report.  (Closes: #688494)
    + [NT] Apply patches from Bernhard R. Link to check for
      unintentional whitespace and use of non-cannical URIs in
      Vcs-* fields.  (Closes: #681769)
    + [NT] Fix false-positive caused by insignificant whitespace.
      Thanks to Dima Kogan for the report.  (Closes: #693589)
  * checks/files:
    + [RG] Recognise smarty3 as smarty itself.
    + [NT] Consider "tasksel tasks" as a meta package.
      (Closes: #691489)
    + [NT] Add patch from Bastien Roucariès to check for adobe font
      license issues.  (Closes: #694328)
  * checks/group-checks{,.desc}:
    + [NT] Detect debug packages not co-installable with itself,
      when it provides debug symbols for a Multi-Arch: same package.
      Thanks to Carsten Hey for the report.  (Closes: #678896)
  * checks/infofiles:
    + [NT] Use L::Util's gzip decompressor rather than zcat.
  * checks/init.d{,.desc}:
    + [NT] Move file-in-etc-rc.d-marked-as-conffile to conffiles
      check.
    + [NT] Use L::Collect's conffile API instead of accessing the
      "conffiles" control file directly.
  * checks/java.desc:
    + [NT] Remove the "experimental" marker of the Java byte-code
      check.
  * checks/manpages{,.desc}:
    + [CW,NT] Manually do redirects and chdir rather than
      invoking a shell when calling man and lexgrog.
    + [CW,NT] Be stricter with missing roff preprocessors by
      setting MANROFFSEQ to the empty string when calling man.
    + [CW,NT] Pass -Tutf8 -Z to man to skip an unused part of
      the groff pipeline.  (Closes: #677874)
    + [CW,NT] Use the L::Util gzip decompressor to open gzipped
      manpages.
  * checks/menu-format{,.desc}:
    + [NT] Move a table of categories to a data file.
    + [NT] Update description of menu-icon-missing.  Lintian is now
      sometimes able to find the icon in dependencies (if they are
      built from the same source).  Thanks to Ryan Kavanagh for the
      report and the suggested patch.  (Closes: #683516)
  * checks/md5sums:
    + [NT] Use L::Collect's conffile API instead of accessing the
      "conffiles" control file directly.
  * checks/po-debconf{,.desc}:
    + [NT] Check for untranslatable templates that should be
      translatable.  Thanks to David Prévot for the report and the
      patch.  (Closes: #686179)
  * checks/scripts{,.desc}:
    + [NT] Retire check for dpkg-maintscript-helper in preinst.
      (Closes: #685497)
    + [NT] Fix false positive "executable-not-elf-or-script" when
      the file is an executable hardlink to a script.
    + [NT] Check maintainer scripts for unexpanded #DEBHELPER# tokens.
      Thanks to Cyril "KiBi" Brulebois for the suggestion.
    + [NT] Fix false-positive for removal of device files as /dev/shm
      is not a device.  Thanks to Steve Langasek for the report and
      Roger Leigh for the extra info.  (Closes: #693442)
  * checks/shared-libs{,.desc}:
    + [NT] Clearify the description of dev-pkg-without-shlib-symlink
      to mention that the dev symlink is always expected in /usr.
    + [NT] Add missing "+" in libtool regex.  Thanks to Leo 'costela'
      Antunes for the report.
    + [RA,NT] Check for use of obsolete "<" and ">" in shlibs control
      files.  (Closes: #660655)
  * checks/source-copyright{,.desc}:
    + [NT] Check for possible misspellings of known field
      names.  (Closes: #678639)
    + [NT] Fix typo of paragraph.  Thanks to Logan Rosen for spotting
      it.  (Closes: #693013)
  * checks/version-substvars{,.desc}:
    + [JW,NT] Extend version-substvar-for-external-package to
      all relations.  Previously it was only triggered for
      strong dependnecy relations.  (Closes: #658474)

  * collection/deb-format.desc:
    + [NT] Remove unneeded changelog-file from "Needs-Info".
  * collection/objdump-info{,-helper,.desc}:
    + [NT] Change the output format for the collection and
      bump the version of the collection accordingly.
    + [NT] Apply patch from Peter Pentchev to ensure set{u,g}id
      ELF binaries are properly processed, even when Lintian is
      run as root.  (Closes: #686352)

  * data/binaries/embedded-libs:
    + [RG] Check for embedded copies of jsoncpp.
  * data/fields/archive-sections:
    + [NT] Add new "tasks" section.
  * data/menu-format/add-categories:
    + [NT] New file.
  * data/output/ftp-master-{,non}fatal:
    + [NT] Removed, not used at run time.
  * data/scripts/interpreters:
    + [NT] Add nodejs and Rscript as a known interpreter.
      Thanks to Marcelo Jorge Vieira and Sébastien Boisvert
      for the report.  (Closes: #623265, #692232)
  * data/spelling/corrections:
    + [NT,RG] Add more corrections.
    + [RG] Re-sort the corrections.

  * debian/control:
    + [NT] Add (Build-)Depends on libtext-levenshtein-perl.
    + [NT] Use anonscm.d.o in the Vcs-* fields instead of
      git.d.o.
  * debian/lintian.install:
    + [NT] Install Lintian perl modules in /usr/share/perl5.
  * debian/rules:
    + [NT] Add target to generate HTML API doc.  Currently
      this is only run manually.

  * frontend/lintian:
    + [NT] Remove chdir calls for checks.
    + [NT] Retire depreciated command line and config options.
    + [NT] Refactor unpackaging into Lintian::Unpacker.
    + [NT] Make parameter for --jobs optional.  In its absence
      Lintian will not limit the number of parallel jobs.
    + [JW,NT] During the unpack phase, emit the name of the
      group currently being unpacked when --verbose is given.
      (Closes: #677890)
    + [JW] Fix typo of Parallelization.
    + [NT] Fix regression where --suppress-tags{,-from-file}
      was ignored if -C or -X was passed.  Thanks to Thorsten
      Glaser for reporting it.  (Closes: #688320)

  * lib/Lintian/Collect{,/Source}.pm:
    + [NT] Add optional parameter to field (and X_field)
      methods that denotes the default value if a field is
      missing.  This avoid some boiler plate for callers
      of the methods.
  * lib/Lintian/Collect/Binary.pm:
    + [NT] Bump API for objdump method.
    + [NT] Add API for checking if a file is considered a
      conffile.
  * lib/Lintian/Collect/Package.pm:
    + [NT] Strip leading slash off files extracted from tar.
  * lib/Lintian/Command.pm:
    + [NT] Work around a leak in IPC::Run (see #301774).
  * lib/Lintian/Internal/FrontendUtil.pm:
    + [NT] Always use Dpkg::Vendor to determine the default
      vendor.  Previously dpkg-vendor would be preferred if
      available.
  * lib/Lintian/Lab/Entry.pm:
    + [NT] Use the L::Collect during creation instead of
      manually reading the dsc for source packages.
  * lib/Lintian/Profile.pm:
    + [NT] Add support for the new optional "Load-Checks"
      field in profiles.
    + [NT] Ensure that the "lintian" check is always loaded
      as these tags are not emitted by check modules.  Also
      enable the tags from the check by default.
  * lib/Lintian/Tags.pm:
    + [NT] Be explicit about the reason when rejecting an
      override.  Thanks to Yves-Alexis Perez for the report.
      (Closes: #673073)
  * lib/Lintian/Unpacker.pm:
    + [NT] New file.

  * man/lintian.pod.in:
    + [NT] Remove documentation about removed options.

  * reporting/graphs/{statistics,tags}.gpi:
    + [JP] New file.
  * reporting/html_reports:
    + [JP,NT] Generate graphs of the collected history data.
      (Closes: #672273)
    + [NT] Make the mirror name configurable.

  * vendors/ubuntu/main/data/changes-file/known-dists:
    + [NT] Add "raring" as known Ubuntu distribution.  Thanks to
      Dmitry Shachnev.  (LP: #1068208)

 -- Niels Thykier <niels at thykier.net>  Tue, 11 Dec 2012 22:12:06 +0100

Description of Ubuntu delta and why it can be dropped:

Change in 2.5.10.2ubuntu1 ("Don't mark the incompatible-java-bytecode-format check as experimental. OpenJDK-7 is the default in quantal."), change in 2.5.10.2ubuntu2 ("t/tests/java-class-format/tags: Fix the order and type of the expected output."):
 - applied upstream at http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=lintian/lintian.git;a=commit;h=8b88520dff.

Change in 2.5.10.2ubuntu3 ("Add raring to vendors/ubuntu/main/data/changes-file/known-dists"):
 - applied upstream at http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=lintian/lintian.git;a=commit;h=9c52310faf.

** Affects: lintian (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Wishlist
         Status: Triaged


** Tags: mitya57-sync-request raring
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Please sync lintian 2.5.11 from Debian experimental (main)
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