lintian: r815 - trunk/debian
Author: jaalto
Date: 2007-02-01 05:53:48 +0100 (Thu, 01 Feb 2007)
New Revision: 815
Modified:
trunk/debian/changelog
Log:
* debian/changelog:
+ [JA] Documented changes between r800:814
Modified: trunk/debian/changelog
===================================================================
--- trunk/debian/changelog 2007-01-30 15:00:17 UTC (rev 814)
+++ trunk/debian/changelog 2007-02-01 04:53:48 UTC (rev 815)
@@ -1,11 +1,53 @@
lintian (1.23.28) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
- * checks/scripts.desc:
+ * checks/copyright-file{.desc,}:
+ + [JA] Update usr-doc-* test to report user-share-doc-* instead.
+ New tests added: postinst-should-not-set-usr-doc-link,
+ doc-base-file-references-usr-doc.
+ Patch from Thijs Kinkhorst. (Closes: #406349).
+ * checks/common_data.pm:
+ + [JA] Perl syntax corrections.
+ + [JA] Support the Autobuild: and Vcs-* fields in .dsc files.
+ Applied patch to implement this by Ian Beckwith. (Closes: #403553).
+ * depcheck/deppages.pl:
+ + [JA] Perl syntax corrections.
+ * checks/menus:
+ + [JA] Perl syntax corrections. Removed extra empty newlines.
+ * checks/scripts{.desc,}:
+ + [JA] Added check for `openbsd-inetd | inet-superserver'
+ which compliments the older check `netbase | update-inetd'.
+ Reported by Tatsuya Kinoshita. (Closes: #402319).
+ [RA] Mention SUSv3 in the bashism and non-posix tag descriptions,
note that use of test -a/-o and local aren't bugs but may still be
worth avoiding, and mention short circuiting of && and ||. (Thanks
to Jari Aalto for the latter).
+ * doc/README:
+ + Document --no-colored-output option. Patch from Loïc Minier.
+
+ * depcheck/report2html.pl:
+ + [JA] perl syntax corrections. Patch from Loïc Minier.
+
+ * frontend/lintian:
+ + [JA] Removed trailing spaces and other perl syntax corrections.
+ + [JA] Add --no-colored-output option to disable ANSI color output, even
+ when STDOUT is a TTY. Patch from Loïc Minier.
+
+ * lib/Checker.pm
+ + [JA] Perl syntax corrections.
+ * lib/Lab.pm
+ + [JA] Perl syntax corrections.
+ * lib/Tags.pm
+ + [JA] Perl syntax corrections.
+ + [JA] Support for ANSI color output.
+ Patch from Loïc Minier. (Closes #399714).
+
+ * man/lintian.1:
+ + [JA] Document --no-colored-output. Patch from Loïc Minier.
+
+ * unpack/unpack-*pkg*
+ + [JA] Perl syntax corrections.
+
-- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2006 14:16:40 -0800
lintian (1.23.27) unstable; urgency=low
@@ -816,9 +858,9 @@
-- Jeroen van Wolffelaar <jeroen@wolffelaar.nl> Sun, 26 Mar 2006 15:38:37 +0200
lintian (1.23.15) unstable; urgency=low
-
+
* The "www.no-name-yet.eu" release
-
+
* debian/changelog:
+ [FL] Fix wrapping of last changelog entry (Closes: #344899)
@@ -867,18 +909,18 @@
-- Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jan 2006 15:13:02 +0100
lintian (1.23.14) unstable; urgency=low
-
+
* The "fix those frontend regressions" release
* frontend/lintian:
+ [FL] Fix exit status computing so that we exit with 1 again
if we found any error. (Closes: #329458)
+ [FL] Re-enable reporting unused overrides.
-
+
* lib/Tags.pm:
+ [FL] Some fixes to the statistics code to make the fixes
in frontend/lintian possible
-
+
* checks/binaries{.desc,}:
+ [FL] support c2a suffix in soname check, too (Closes: #340856)
+ [FL] fix typo in description of package-name-doesnt-match-sonames
@@ -925,11 +967,11 @@
* The "doesn't contain all the fixes I would like but that's no
reason to let the others wait forever" release
-
+
* debian/control:
+ [FL] Fix typo in description. Noted by Bill Allombert
(Closes: #327859)
-
+
* checks/copyright-file:
+ [JvW] Demote FSF address check to warning
* checks/description:
@@ -972,14 +1014,14 @@
lintian (1.23.12) unstable; urgency=low
* The "bad, bad SONAME check" release
-
+
* all files:
+ [FL] Update FSF address
-
+
* debian/control:
+ [FL] Depend on dpkg-dev since we use dpkg-source. How old exactly is
this bug? (Closes: #324673)
-
+
* checks/binaries:
+ [FL] Only use sonames from files in common library directories for
the soname checks. This avoids many false positives. Patch by
@@ -1037,12 +1079,12 @@
* frontend/lintian:
+ [FL] Don't use dpkg --print-installation-architecture since
it is deprecated, use dpkg --print-architecture instead.
-
+
* debian/control:
+ [FL] Depend on libparse-debianchangelog-perl, require
>= 0.6 since prior versions have bugs regarding parse
error handling
-
+
* checks/binaries:
+ [FL] Check that the package name of a shared library matches
the SONAME as defined in the "Library Packaging guide"
@@ -1083,7 +1125,7 @@
+ [FL] Adjust check for positional arguments after ". file" to detect
more shell control and piping commands that are all allowed.
Noted by Thomas Hood. (Closes: #319212)
-
+
* reporting/html_reports:
+ [FL] Fix counting of binary package names
+ [FL] Generate mostly valid HTML (id and name attributes still
@@ -1113,7 +1155,7 @@
print out an info message for those. (Closes: #253405, #311471)
* checks/files:
- + [HE] Allow backupninja configuration files in /etc/backup.d/ to be
+ + [HE] Allow backupninja configuration files in /etc/backup.d/ to be
0600. (Closes: #307639)
* checks/scripts:
@@ -1140,7 +1182,7 @@
lintian (1.23.9) unstable; urgency=low
* The "Wow, so much time at hand" release
-
+
* [FL] Convert build process to debhelper
- debian/rules - adapted
- debian/compat - new
@@ -1152,7 +1194,7 @@
- debian/prerm - adapted
* debian/control:
+ [FL] Update Standards-Version to 3.6.2
-
+
* checks/conffiles:
+ [JvW] Warn on /var files being a conffile too (Closes: #293443)
* checks/debconf:
@@ -1171,7 +1213,7 @@
* collections/menu-files:
+ [FL] Also collect files from /usr/share/menu
-
+
-- Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org> Fri, 17 Jun 2005 02:17:52 +0200
lintian (1.23.8) unstable; urgency=low
@@ -1220,7 +1262,7 @@
failed in 1.23.6
+ In temporary lab mode, try to create the directory several
times before giving up
-
+
* testset/runtests: Extend the static lab test
-- Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org> Sat, 8 Jan 2005 21:41:21 +0100
@@ -1243,7 +1285,7 @@
* checks/files:
+ [HE] Check that .desktop files are placed in /usr/share/applications.
This seems to be the standard place for those files that are used
- to create menus. The check is called desktop-file-in-wrong-dir.
+ to create menus. The check is called desktop-file-in-wrong-dir.
(Closes: #200171)
* checks/manpages:
+ [HE] Don't compare the manpage filename extension and the content of
@@ -1253,8 +1295,8 @@
translated manpages for a binary. (Closes: #259227)
+ [HE] Skip all comment lines when checking for .so links in manpages.
Thanks for the report and fix suggestion to Steinar H. Gunderson
- <sgunderson@bigfoot.com>. (Closes: #284662)
- * checks/md5sums:
+ <sgunderson@bigfoot.com>. (Closes: #284662)
+ * checks/md5sums:
+ [HE] Strip off ./ at the beginning of the filenames in md5sums
files (this seems to happen on some systems, though we don't know
how). (Closes: #284728)
@@ -1263,7 +1305,7 @@
don't issue no-standards-version-field for them. (If they happen to
have a Standards-Version field anyway, we still check that it's
valid.)
-
+
* lib/Lab.pm, frontend/lintian:
SECURITY (CAN-2004-1000):
+ [FL] Overhaul lab directory handling. This also fixes the issue
@@ -1274,7 +1316,7 @@
lintian (1.23.5) unstable; urgency=low
The "learn how to use intltool-debian correctly the hard way" release
-
+
* checks/po-debconf: Set INTLTOOL_EXTRACT to fix invocation
of intltool-update (Closes: #285419, #285471)
@@ -1283,7 +1325,7 @@
lintian (1.23.4) unstable; urgency=low
The "A little pause from the sarge release work" release.
-
+
* checks/changelog-file:
+ [FL] file has apparently changed its output format for
symlinks sometime in the past. This broke symlink detection.
@@ -1316,22 +1358,22 @@
+ [FL] Issue wrong-path-for-{ruby,python} even if the path contained
a version number. Change the description of the tag to reflect that.
(Closes: #257904)
-
+
* frontend/lintian-info:
+ [FL] Overrides start with O:, not with 0:, d'oh!
(Closes: #258815)
-
+
* lib/Tags.pm:
+ [FL] Add missing "use Util;", noted by Robert Luberda
(Closes: #278513)
-
+
* testset/debconf/*,testset/tags.debconf:
+ [FL] New test package for debconf and udeb tests
* testset/diffs:
+ [JvW] Remove the shipped ELF binary, can be compiled at test-time
* testset/runtests:
+ [FL] Make checks of udeb packages possible
-
+
-- Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 2004 01:41:21 +0100
lintian (1.23.3) unstable; urgency=low
@@ -1447,7 +1489,7 @@
* checks/cruft{,.desc}:
+ [JvW] cvsignore-file-in-source is now info, because it happens so often
by upstream, and is only very minor in size
- + [HE] New check: source-contains-cvs-conflict-copy, triggered by
+ + [HE] New check: source-contains-cvs-conflict-copy, triggered by
.#file.version files. They are created by cvs when it tries to merge
local changes and an update from the repo. (Closes: #246060)
+ [JvW] Also check for source-contains-svn-conflict-copy (for .r123 and
@@ -1462,10 +1504,10 @@
+ [JvW] For build-depends-without-arch-dep, fix detection of debhelper
usage in clean when used by means of CDBS (combined with above change,
now fully closes: #247171)
- + [HE] Check Build-Depends(-Indep) for virtual packages without a
+ + [HE] Check Build-Depends(-Indep) for virtual packages without a
real dependency. Fix based on patch by Steinar H. Gunderson
<sgunderson@bigfoot.com>. (Closes: #255593)
- + [HE] Don't issue virtual-package-depends-without-real-package-depends
+ + [HE] Don't issue virtual-package-depends-without-real-package-depends
if this happens in Suggests. (Closes: #254367)
+ [FL] Allow whitespace in relations after the version number
* checks/huge-usr-share:
@@ -1526,16 +1568,16 @@
rather than executed as separate executables. Makes it easy to make
common functions available, tags are done centrally, etc etc. Should
also save quite a number of forks, thus more speedier.
-
+
* lib/Util.pm:
+ [FL] dpkg supports comments in control files now, handle them
correctly
+ [FL] a space after the colon is not mandatory in dpkg control
files
-
+
* man/lintian.1:
+ [FL] Document new control-file check script
-
+
* reporting/harness:
+ [FL] Correctly support udeb packages
* reporting/html_reports:
@@ -1543,11 +1585,11 @@
+ [FL] Remove some unused code for bug references
* reporting/bug.status:
+ [FL] Remove
-
+
* testset/filenames:
+ [JvW] Fix two lintian warnings in lintian itself by touching files only
on clean target, and not distributing them in the source
-
+
* unpack/list-srcpkg:
+ [FL] Some packages don't specifiy a standards-version, e.g. d-i ones.
Prevent Perl warnings.
@@ -1735,7 +1777,7 @@
whitespace which do *not* separate to blocks. (Closes: #242479)
* testset/runtests:
- + [JvW] Rewrote so that it is actually useful:
+ + [JvW] Rewrote so that it is actually useful:
- sort output to nullify filesystem directory ordering differences
- run lintian just once
- check that all tests that are triggered have a description, if verbose
@@ -2307,7 +2349,7 @@
* Added a doc-base file and run install-docs, closes: #129509.
* Removed spurious no-manpage exception for binaries that end in
numbers, closes: #118479.
- * Fixed lintian-info's broken $ENV{LINTIAN_ROOT} use.
+ * Fixed lintian-info's broken $ENV{LINTIAN_ROOT} use.
* Fixed --setup-lab to ignore already-existing packages, thanks to
Chris Tillman, closes #83593. Let's hope it all works out :o)
* Updated the list of allowed distributions, closes: #150466.
@@ -2374,7 +2416,7 @@
* removed global override file, it was getting ancient
* converted all uses of 'require' to use statements
* more use strict cleanups
-
+
-- Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <shaleh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Sep 2002 09:49:24 -0700
lintian (1.20.17) unstable; urgency=high
@@ -2736,7 +2778,7 @@
encounters a newer standards version than it knows about. Closes: #84083
* updated references to policy for policy 3.5.0. Closes: #84088, #83969
* Added a warning for packages containing a link to undocumented(7) as
- suggested on debian-policy list. Also includes a testset (manpages)
+ suggested on debian-policy list. Also includes a testset (manpages)
addition.
Closes: #83188
* At the moment checks/copyright-file just tests for a slash in the link;
@@ -2746,7 +2788,7 @@
other /usr/share/doc directories. Closes: #84066
* It was unpacking to level 2 even though I had Unpack-Level: 1 and no
associated collection scripts. Of course, it wanted override files from
- /usr/share/lintian/overrides/$pkg. Fair enough - except that if I said
+ /usr/share/lintian/overrides/$pkg. Fair enough - except that if I said
--no-override it wanted the override file information anyway, and still
unpacked to level 2. No obeys non-overrides. Closes: #84722
@@ -2794,7 +2836,7 @@
interpreter (really), also allows bash,ksh,ash as valid sh shells. Also
knows to look for an ELF header and stop parsing the script. Thanks
Colin Watson. Closes: #80348, #82541
- * testet/binary-1 added. This is a small C program to test lintian's
+ * testet/binary-1 added. This is a small C program to test lintian's
handling of binary files. See the changelog in this directory for info
* fixed message for 'manpage-has-wrong-extension', Closes: #82452
* 'N: Unknown interpreter' message now only printed once per script,
@@ -2905,7 +2947,7 @@
* added documentation for zero-byte-file-in-doc-directory, Closes: #75744
* renamed package-source-contains-debian/files to
debian-files-list-in-source, Closes: #75746
-
+
-- Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <shaleh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 16:09:09 -0700
lintian (1.11.7) unstable; urgency=low
@@ -3033,7 +3075,7 @@
* Richard's changes:
* Darren's changes:
- + Added a check for /etc/pam.conf. Precursor for reserved
+ + Added a check for /etc/pam.conf. Precursor for reserved
/etc/* files
+ Added a check of postinst and prerm for /usr/doc symlink manipulation
+ Added the /usr/doc symlink to lintians scripts
@@ -3096,7 +3138,7 @@
Also added perl-5.004 and perl-5.005 since they are valid perls
(closes: #41041, closes: #39835)
+ Remove a undefine causing spurious unknown-tag error (close: #40699)
- + Ancient-ized standards-version 2.4.0 and 2.4.1
+ + Ancient-ized standards-version 2.4.0 and 2.4.1
+ Added policy 2.5.1 to the accepted number for standards-version
+ Check for use of /etc/nntpserver. Only major change in policy v2.5.1
+ Added perl-5.005 and perl-5.004 as valid interpreters (close: #39834)
@@ -3142,7 +3184,7 @@
update-menus in postrm since it won't exist then.
+ added requested override for vtwm update menus. Fixes bug#36457
reported by Branden Robinson
- + override requested by Oliver Elphick for postgresql-pl. Has shared
+ + override requested by Oliver Elphick for postgresql-pl. Has shared
libraries not loaded by ld.so
-- Darren Benham <gecko@debian.org> Mon, 05 Apr 1999 16:00:05 -0800
@@ -3164,7 +3206,7 @@
-- Darren Benham <gecko@debian.org> Mon, 29 Mar 1999 16:31:05 -0800
lintian (1.1) unstable; urgency=low
-
+
* Zapped compiled-with-bad-libc check.
* Corrected spelling error in spelling check (it flagged "interchangeable"
as a bad word; this should have been "interchangable"). This fixes
@@ -3176,9 +3218,9 @@
by James Troup
* Silenced non-standard-dir-in-var check about /var/www/, since it's
Debian policy to use it.
-
+
-- Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 14:43:27 +0100
-
+
lintian (1.0) unstable; urgency=low
* New tags:
@@ -3208,7 +3250,7 @@
clear that they are errors in Lintian's execution, not in the package
being checked. This closes bug#31013, submitted by James Troup.
- * (frontend/lintian) Select STDOUT again after closing OUTPUT_PIPE.
+ * (frontend/lintian) Select STDOUT again after closing OUTPUT_PIPE.
This fixes bug#31574, reported by Julian Gilbey. Thanks for the patch!
* (checks/copyright-file) Lintian was confused by "libident(=0.22-1)",
@@ -3320,7 +3362,7 @@
(Suggestion by Stephane Bortzmeyer)
* (checks/fields, checks/fields.desc)
- New tag: depends-on-obsolete-package, to flag dependencies on
+ New tag: depends-on-obsolete-package, to flag dependencies on
old libraries.
-- Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 12:59:43 +0100
@@ -3432,7 +3474,7 @@
* Renamed tag use-of-killall-in-maintainer-script to killall-is-dangerous.
* More overrides.
-
+
-- Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 18:56:03 +0200
lintian (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
@@ -3587,7 +3629,7 @@
* (frontend/lintian)
Saner interrupt handling. Lintian now dies immediately if ^C is hit,
and does remove the temporary lab (if any). This is mostly a side
- effect of avoiding system() (in favour of the new functions in
+ effect of avoiding system() (in favour of the new functions in
lib/pipeline.pl), but did involve some tinkering about with perl's
signal handling. Thanks to Ruud de Rooij and Graydon Hoare for
their help. This closes bug#24975, reported by Yann Dirson.
@@ -3764,7 +3806,7 @@
* (doc/TODO)
Updated and restructured version of what used to be in private/TODO,
- various bugreports and mailed suggestions. This will become the
+ various bugreports and mailed suggestions. This will become the
central place for potential improvements to lintian. I hope that
having it in /usr/doc/lintian will inspire some people to help.
@@ -3831,10 +3873,10 @@
This really fixes bug#23683, reported by Joey Hess.
* (checks/files)
- New warning: package-installs-perllocal-pod, inspired by
+ New warning: package-installs-perllocal-pod, inspired by
Manoj Srivasta's recent bugreports about such files.
- * (checks/fields.desc)
+ * (checks/fields.desc)
No longer experimental:
E: alternates-not-allowed
E: versioned-provides
@@ -3945,7 +3987,7 @@
* Removed Christian's name wherever it appeared as a contact address.
- * (depcheck/buglist) Entered newly reported bug numbers for dependency
+ * (depcheck/buglist) Entered newly reported bug numbers for dependency
problems.
* (checks/menus) Distinguish between install-docs and install-docs -r.
@@ -4020,7 +4062,7 @@
to Richard Braakman, and changed mail address to lintian-maint@debian.org.
* (checks/standards-version) If checking a package with a Standards-Version
- that is newer than the one lintian is written for, warn that lintian
+ that is newer than the one lintian is written for, warn that lintian
should be upgraded. (closes: #22919).
* (checks/standards-version.dsc)
New tag: newer-standards-version
@@ -4116,14 +4158,14 @@
* Fixed `changelog' check:
- don't report not-max-compression tag if changelog file is a symbolic
link (thanks to Santiago for noticing that! fixes:bug#20842)
-
+
* Improved `description' check:
- recognize if extended description is `Missing'
(fixes:bug#21091)
* Changed `files' check:
- symbolic links within /etc and /var have to be relative!
-
+
* Fixed `scripts' check:
- package name is "blt4.2", not "btl4.2" :)
@@ -4131,21 +4173,21 @@
- check if postinst calls ldconfig if shared libraries are installed
in a directory controlled by ld.so
(fixes:bug#20414)
- [2 new tags]
+ [2 new tags]
* Changed `standards-version' check:
- added Standards-Version 2.4.1
- only check first there digits of Standards-Version field
-
+
* Changes to the `lintian' frontend:
- unused overrides are displayed per package
- display `Processing changes file...'
- use $TMPDIR environment variable for creation of the temporary lab
(fixes:bug#21092)
- clean up lab if C-C is pressed
-
+
* Added more overrides
-
+
-- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 15 Apr 1998 19:57:09 +0200
lintian (0.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
@@ -4173,26 +4215,26 @@
- changed meaning of command line option `-U': specifies info to
collect _in addition to_ the usual info (necessary to extract
the changelog files on master--see below)
-
+
* Improved `binaries' check:
- objects and binaries in a *-dbg package may be unstripped
- libraries in lib/profile or lib/debug may not be stripped
(suggested by Fabrizio)
[1 new tag]
-
+
* Added new `changelog' check
(thanks to Juan Cespedes for the idea! fixes:bug#19695)
* Improved `control-files' check:
- improved RE that searches maintainer scripts for /tmp security bugs
-
+
* Improved `description' check:
- fixed RE to check for description-starts-with-package-name
(thanks to Roderick Schertler)
-
+
* Fixed `fields' check:
- internal: check for source pkg using "-l dsc" instead of "-e dsc"
-
+
* Fixed `files' check:
- disabled possible-name-space-pollution tag since policy is not
defined yet
@@ -4202,7 +4244,7 @@
(thanks to Robert Edmonds for noticing that!)
- disabled tag binary-without-manpage for `versioned binaries'
(thanks to Dirk for the suggestion! fixes:bug#20186)
-
+
* Fixed `menu' check:
- report maintainer-script-does-not-check... tag only once per package
and maintainer script
@@ -4214,33 +4256,33 @@
(thanks to Adam P. Harris for pointing this out! fixes:bug#20759)
- fixed tag infos
(thanks to Adam P. Harris for the input! fixes:bug#19810)
-
+
* Improved `scripts' check:
- - added new interpreters:
+ - added new interpreters:
nawk, pike, rexx, regina, burlap, wish8.0, bltwish
(fixes:bug#20223)
-
+
* Improved `shared-libs' check:
- added check if shared libraries contain non-pic code
(thanks to Gregory S. Stark for the idea and the patch!
fixes:bug#19249)
[1 new tag]
-
+
* Added `changelog' collector script
This makes it possible for Lintian to extract all changelog files
on master for use by Apt (fixes:bug#20546)
* Incremented LAB_FORMAT version to 3 because of
incompatible changes in the objdump-info collector script
-
+
* Internal: fixed bug in read_dpkg_control() utility function: empty
tags have not been handled correctly
-
- * Internal: html-reporting tool: don't chop of text after hash (#)
+ * Internal: html-reporting tool: don't chop of text after hash (#)
+
* Added a lot new overrides and removed unused overrides
(fixes:bug#20017,bug#20082,bug#19562)
-
+
-- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 6 Apr 1998 21:58:42 +0200
lintian (0.3.4) unstable; urgency=low
@@ -4283,7 +4325,7 @@
* Fixed `shared-libs' check:
- removed `shared-library-uses-its-soname' check since this produced
way too many false alarms (thanks to David Engel for the input!)
-
+
* Fixed `binaries' check:
- skip `unstripped-binary-or-object' check for kernel modules
(thanks to Michael Meskes for noticing that!)
@@ -4307,22 +4349,22 @@
- no files may be installed into /tmp and /var/tmp
- renamed file-directly-in-usr-share to
file-directly-in-usr-share-not-in-a-sub-directory
- (thanks to Santiago)
+ (thanks to Santiago)
- fix tag info for "symlink-should-be-absolute"
[3 new tags]
* Improved `description' check:
- lists (starting with a dash or asterisk) have to be indented
(thanks to cpb4@ukc.ac.uk for the idea and the patch!
- fixes:bug#19481)
+ fixes:bug#19481)
[1 new tag]
-
+
* Fixed `scripts' check:
- packages with python scripts might depend on python or python-base
(thanks to Gregor Hoffleit for pointing this out and to Richard for
the patch! fixes:bug#19162)
- remove wrong policy quotation for `script-not-executable' tag
-
+
* Fixed `init.d' check:
- ignore update-rc.d calls in preinst and postinst scripts, if
"remove" option is specified (thanks to Roman Hodek and Herbert Xu
@@ -4343,28 +4385,28 @@
- added architecture `arm' (thanks to Roman Hodek)
* Fixed `lintian' frontend:
- - run lintian scripts with LC_ALL=C
+ - run lintian scripts with LC_ALL=C
(thanks to Yann for pointing this out! fixes:bug#19166)
- changed handling of `#' comments: for comments in the overrides
file, the hash (#) has to be in the first column
- changed all tags which used `#' for comments
-
+
* Fixed `lintian-info':
- multiple HTML tags haven't been converted into text format in all
- cases
+ cases
- preformatted text is now handled correctly
- merged with code that produced the HTML reports
- code much cleaner now
-
+
* Improved Lintian's documentation:
- fixed libtool/rpath workaround file: don't wrap long line
(Thanks to Yann for pointing this out!)
- stress in docs that the "lintian-maint@debian.org" address should
be used to contact the lintian authors (thanks to Adrian Bridgett
for pointing this out!)
-
- * Added more overrides (fixes:bug#19163)
+ * Added more overrides (fixes:bug#19163)
+
-- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 1998 23:00:31 +0100
lintian (0.3.1) unstable; urgency=low
@@ -4372,26 +4414,26 @@
* Added `scripts' checks and collector, written by Richard. This check
checks the #! lines of scripts in a package.
[40 new tags]
-
+
* Added `spelling' checks, written by Richard. This check searches
the "Description:" field and the "copyright" file for common spelling
errors (typos).
[2 new tags]
* Improved `files' check: No package should install files directly into
- /usr/share.
+ /usr/share.
New tag:
- file-directly-in-usr-share
-
+ file-directly-in-usr-share
+
* Fixed `files' check WRT files in /usr/lib/sgml and
- /etc/emacs/site-start.d:
+ /etc/emacs/site-start.d:
- ignore directories and symbolic links when checking for correct
file permissions
- display permissions in octal format
(fixes:bug#18866,#19026)
-
+
* Fixed `control-files' check: really ignore `control' control file
-
+
* Improved `lintian' frontend:
- parse command line parameters before reading the configuration
file. With that, `lintian -h' even works if the cfg file has
@@ -4403,14 +4445,14 @@
(fixes:bug#18851)
* Fixed `md5sums' check to handle file names with spaces correctly
-
+
* Put conffile /etc/lintianrc back in (fixes:bug#19031)
-
+
* Include information about libtool/rpath workaround by Yann Dirson
(Thanks Yann!)
-
+
* Added more overrides
-
+
* Internal changes:
- Each error tag has a (bug) `Severity' field now which can be used
to file bug reports with the correct severity
@@ -4697,7 +4739,7 @@
* Fixed bug in shlibs check: Sometimes, ldconfig doesn't install any
symbolic links at all (e.g., for `acroread' package).
- * Changed lintian-setup: Don't remove the whole lab if it already
+ * Changed lintian-setup: Don't remove the whole lab if it already
exists--just remove the info/ directory.
* Changed handling of critical Lintian errors (abort on error)
@@ -4705,7 +4747,7 @@
* Built package using fakeroot (first time i tried fakeroot--it's great!!)
* Checked package with latest Lintian :)
-
+
-- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 14 Feb 1998 21:49:10 +0100
lintian (0.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
@@ -4757,7 +4799,7 @@
* Updated documentation
* Lots of small changes
-
+
-- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 13 Feb 1998 23:24:51 +0100
lintian (0.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
@@ -4765,19 +4807,19 @@
* Beta release
* Two major bugs have been fixed
* Debugging info increased
-
+
-- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 13 Feb 1998 11:20:51 +0100
lintian (0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
* Beta release
-
+
-- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 23:45:51 +0100
lintian (0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
* First release
-
+
-- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 23:15:51 +0100
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