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- To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
- Subject: lintian: Check for ancient-standards-version based on age of next version
- From: Scott Kitterman <scott@kitterman.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:46:14 -0400
- Message-id: <20080624024614.8410.96003.reportbug@scott-laptop>
Package: lintian
Version: 1.24.1
Severity: wishlist
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The ancient-standards-version check would be more useful if it checked against the
age of the next version. A trivial example is that if debian-policy went two years
without an update, then the current standards version would be 'ancient'. The
relevant time for aging should be the amount of time since it was obsolete, not
since it was published.
- -- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers hardy-updates
APT policy: (500, 'hardy-updates'), (500, 'hardy-security'), (500, 'hardy')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.18.1~cvs20080103-0ubuntu1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii diffstat 1.45-2 produces graph of changes introduc
ii dpkg-dev 1.14.16.6ubuntu4 package building tools for Debian
ii file 4.21-3ubuntu1 Determines file type using "magic"
ii gettext 0.17-2ubuntu1 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii intltool-deb 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii libdigest-sh 5.45-1 Perl extension for SHA-1/224/256/3
ii libparse-deb 1.1.1-2 parse Debian changelogs and output
ii libtimedate- 1.1600-9 Time and date functions for Perl
ii liburi-perl 1.35.dfsg.1-1 Manipulates and accesses URI strin
ii man-db 2.5.1-3 on-line manual pager
ii perl [libdig 5.8.8-12 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
lintian recommends no packages.
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Source: lintian
Source-Version: 1.24.2
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
lintian, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
lintian_1.24.2.dsc
to pool/main/l/lintian/lintian_1.24.2.dsc
lintian_1.24.2.tar.gz
to pool/main/l/lintian/lintian_1.24.2.tar.gz
lintian_1.24.2_all.deb
to pool/main/l/lintian/lintian_1.24.2_all.deb
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to 487780@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (supplier of updated lintian package)
(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
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administrators by mailing ftpmaster@debian.org)
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Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 17:28:08 -0700
Source: lintian
Binary: lintian
Architecture: source all
Version: 1.24.2
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian Lintian Maintainers <lintian-maint@debian.org>
Changed-By: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Description:
lintian - Debian package checker
Closes: 182512 184104 424746 452216 461575 479651 481152 481787 482040 484549 485879 486145 486795 487746 487780 488114 488397 489191 489222 489860 490227 490264 490374
Changes:
lintian (1.24.2) unstable; urgency=low
.
The "welcome Adam D. Barratt!" release.
.
* checks/binaries.desc:
+ [ADB] Add some FHS references. Thanks Jordà Polo.
* checks/changelog-file{,.desc}:
+ [ADB] Add missing "use Dep". Thanks gregor herrmann (Closes: #488397)
+ [RA] Ignore "CNRI OPEN SOURCE GPL-COMPATIBLE LICENSE AGREEMENT" when
looking for missing GPL references. Thanks, Scott Kitterman.
(Closes: #490264)
+ [ADB] Fix a typo in the description of syntax-error-in-debian-changelog.
Thanks Jordà Polo.
* checks/copyright-file{,.desc}:
+ [ADB] Check for over-long lines in copyright files. (Closes: #479651)
* checks/cruft{,.desc}:
+ [ADB] Check for BTS control directories in source packages and diffs
in addition to the existing binary package checks. (Closes: #481787)
* checks/debconf{,.desc}:
+ [ADB] Warn about the use of "_Choices" in templates file and suggest
using "__Choices" instead (Closes: #481152)
+ [ADB] Check all maintainer scripts for issues, rather than just config
and postinst.
+ [ADB] Detect debconf templates which appear to be unused.
+ [ADB] Replace the {config,postinst}-loads-obsolete-confmodule tags
with a new loads-obsolete-confmodule test which is used for all
maintainer scripts and outputs the script name as part of its extra data.
* checks/description{,.desc}:
+ [RA] Warn about duplicated words in the description. Patch from
Raphael Geissert. (Closes: #424746)
* checks/fields{,.desc}:
+ [FL] Do not complain about obsolete packages if there are
non-obsolete alternatives specified and if the obsolete
package is not listed first. Issue an info tag for them
though. Patch by Adam D. Barratt. (Closes: #486145)
+ [ADB] Update and add some Policy and DevRef references and fix some
typoes. Thanks Jordà Polo.
+ [RA] Recognize and do not warn about Ubuntu security update version
numbers for multiple releases. (Closes: #489222)
* checks/files{,.desc}:
+ [ADB] Warn if the package contains embedded copies of separately
packaged Javascript libraries. Patch by Chris Lamb. (Closes: #489191)
+ [ADB] Fix a typo in the description of executable-is-not-world-readable
* checks/infofiles{,.desc}:
+ [ADB] Warn if the package's postinst installs info directory entries
but the prerm doesn't remove them. (Closes: #182512)
+ [ADB] Treat --remove-exactly as indicating removal of an info directory
entry as well as --remove.
* checks/menus{,.desc}:
+ [ADB] Check that menu-method files include menu.h (Closes: #184104)
* checks/nmu:
+ [RA] When comparing maintainers, treat the right-hand side of the
e-mail address as case-insensitive. (Closes: #486795)
* checks/patch-systems{,.desc}:
+ [RA] Check quilt patches as well as dpatch patches, and also check
quilt patches when using the 3.0 (quilt) package format. Fix build
dependency checking and check all dpatch files. Patch from Raphaël
Hertzog. (Closes: #484549)
+ [ADB] Treat 00list* as dpatch series files rather than just 00list.
(Closes: #482040). Also rename dpatch-index-references-non-existant-patch
to dpatch-index-references-non-existent-patch.
* checks/rules{,.desc}:
+ [RA] Warn about use of DEB_BUILD_OPTS. Patch from Raphael Geissert.
* checks/scripts:
+ [FL] Apply File::Spec->canonpath() to rpaths to improve
matching with directories.
+ [FL] Do not check zsh scripts, since zsh -n gives false
positives. Downgrades #485885 to wishlist. Also see
#175467. Patch by Raphael Geissert.
+ [FL] Remove "quoted quotes". They're likely to be inside
another pair of quotes; we're not interested in
them for their own sake and removing them makes finding
the limits of the outer pair far easier. Patch by
Adam D. Barratt.
+ [FL] Improve heredoc detection. Patch by Adam D. Barratt.
+ [FL] Improve script_is_evil_and_wrong() to catch more scripts.
Patch by Adam D. Barratt.
+ [ADB] Update bashism regexes to add new checks, improve performance
and reduce false positives. (Closes: #490227)
* checks/shared-libs{,.desc}:
+ [ADB] Implement syntax and sanity checking for symbols files
(Closes: #452216)
+ [ADB] Check symbols files for dependencies that are not satisfied by
the package itself (Closes: #461575)
* checks/standards-version{.desc,}:
+ [RA] Only issue out-of-date-standards-version once. Noticed by
Raphael Geissert.
+ [RA] Base the two-year clock for ancient-standards-version on when
the Policy version was superseded, not when it was issued. Thanks,
Scott Kitterman. (Closes: #487780)
+ [RA] Warn for packages declaring a standards version released after
the date of the most recent changelog entry. Based on a patch by
Raphael Geissert.
* checks/watch-file{,.desc}:
+ [FL] Check for more Debian specific strings in version
number. Issue an info tag if the watch file uses
uversionsmangle to add the Debian specific string. Patch
by Raphael Geissert. (Closes: #485879)
+ [RA] Warn about watch files in native packages and check those watch
files for other problems anyway. Allow whitespace around the
version declaration. More correctly handle continuation lines.
Patch from Raphael Geissert.
+ [RA] Check for using the Sourceforge QA redirector with deprecated
arguments. Patch from Raphael Geissert.
+ [RA] Be more explicit when warning about missing watch files that
Lintian recommends adding a watch file containing only comments for
any non-native package where it's not possible to write a meaningful
watch file, not only for packages unmaintained upstream.
.
* collection/objdump-info:
+ [ADB] If objdump from binutils 2.17 fails to parse a file then
attempt to gather the required information using readelf instead.
This allows us to process 64-bit packages on etch/i386 again
(i.e. on lintian.d.o) (Closes: #487746)
.
* data/fields/obsolete-packages:
+ [RA] mailx is not obsolete. It's a virtual package. Thanks, martin
f krafft. (Closes: #488114)
+ [RA] Add the cupsys packages, all of which have been renamed to cups.
Patch from Raphael Geissert.
.
* debian/control:
+ [FL] Adapt VCS-* headers for move from SVN to git.
* debian/copyright:
+ [FL] Add Patrick Schoenfeld (for checks/watch-file).
+ [ADB] Update repository information and GPL2 URL.
+ [RA] Add Adam D. Barratt to the maintainer list so that readers can
expand initials in the changelog.
* debian/{prerm,postrm}:
+ [RA] Move prerm to postrm and remove the default /var/spool/lintian
lab using shell instead of lintian. We only want to remove the lab
on purge, and purge is only passed to postrm, not prerm, by which
point the lintian frontend is gone. (Closes: #489860)
.
* doc/CREDITS:
+ [FL] Add Raphael Geissert and Adam D. Barratt.
* doc/lintian.sgml:
+ [ADB] Add reference to new option to display experimental tags.
.
* frontend/lintian:
+ [ADB] Add a new --show-experimental / -E option which indicates
that experimental tags should be displayed.
+ [RA] Exit with the correct exit status if no packages were found
because non-existent packages were specified on the command line.
.
* lib/Lintian/Collect/Binary.pm:
+ [FL] Add support for file-info file.
+ [FL] Add support for objdump-info file.
* lib/Spelling.pm:
+ [RA] Add a couple more spelling corrections and capitalization
checks for LaTeX and TeX. Thanks, Raphael Geissert.
* lib/Tags.pm:
+ [ADB] (Re-)Add support for experimental tags.
.
* man/lintian.1:
+ [FL] Document watch-file check.
+ [ADB] Document new option to display experimental tags.
+ [RA] Refer to lintian-info(1) for printing tag descriptions. Patch
from Chris Lamb. (Closes: #490374)
.
* reporting/harness:
+ [ADB] Process packages using -E so that experimental tags are included.
* reporting/html_reports:
+ [FL] Mark the tag pages with the correct code.
* reporting/lintian.css:
+ [RA] New style for marking packages that override a tag on the tag
summary page. Patch from Jordà Polo.
* reporting/templates/clean.tmpl:
+ [ADB] Note that the full report includes experimental tags.
* reporting/templates/tag.tmpl:
+ [FL] Mark overridden tags.
+ [RA] Mark packages that override all instances of a given tag.
Patch from Jordà Polo.
* reporting/templates/maintainer.tmpl:
+ [FL] Add useful links for each source package.
With layout help by Jordà Polo.
+ [FL] Include Co-maintained packages in the summary
at the top of the page. Also sort the list. Patch
by Jordà Polo.
+ [ADB] Note that the full report includes experimental tags.
.
* testset/runtests:
+ [ADB] Support experimental tags
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