Re: [announce] Lintian 1.23.0 RC1

[Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>]

Here some comments to the d-d mail.

> - udeb support: .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.
> - manpages are better checked, for example, whether the section in the
>   manpage itself corresponds with the real section. Also proper use of
>   \- and - is checked.

Hmm, perhaps mention now, that they are only available with -I

> - 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 then

perhaps give some examples? However, the only good one I can think of
right now is the perl thing.

> - lintian has now better override support, overrides for tests in the
>   source package can now be overridden in
>   ./debian/source.lintian-overrides

I would put this more at the top of the list since this is a frontend
change and not just one in the checks.

Otherwise it looks good.

Gruesse,
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Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>
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