Hi all, Since yesterday, a Lintian 1.23.0 is available[1] from sid. This new version features a lot of new tests for all kinds of things that could go wrong with packaging. It was the result of more than a month worth of coding by the Lintian maintainers, and finalizing for release. Compared to three months ago, Lintian has had major improvements, and I'd like to hilight some of them here. For the full changes, read the changelog[2]. - With the most recent three uploads, a large amount of false positives are now fixed. There might still be false positives: some tests are based on heuristics and thus can fail. Please file bugreports if you think a test is triggered too easily, we will try to fix things promptly, because lintian will only remain useful if it doesn't give false positives too easily. - lintian has now better override support, overrides for tests in the source package can now be overridden in ./debian/source.lintian-overrides - udeb support: to help the debian-boot team, .udeb packages are now also checked for common mistakes - There are checks for doing NMU's and QA uploads properly. For example, you will be warned if you're going to do an upload that katie will think is a NMU, but you didn't provide a NMU version number or noted that you are NMU'ing in the changelog. Also accidental native packaging is detected. - (fixed in 1.22.11 or 1.22.12) + Debconf is now checked for correct po-debconf usage + The menu files checks are much stricter now We hope lintian will continue to be a useful package-checker providing an easy way to check for common mistakes and oversights. If you have any idea of something that could be checked automatically, a common mistake you notice in packages, feel free to file a wishlist bug. Note: http://lintian.debian.org is still running an old lintian version, there is work going on to fix that, but please be patient. Regards, Frank Lichtenheld Marc Brockschmidt Jeroen van Wolffelaar [1] http://packages.debian.org/unstable/devel/lintian [2] http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/l/lintian/lintian_1.23.0/changelog -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar Jeroen@wolffelaar.nl (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl
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