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Package: lintian
Version: 2.2.18
Severity: normal
I regularly get this warning on my packages during development because
the latest changelog entry has been created before some other bug-fix only
release of the former stable release that I merged into the current
development release.
Simple case with dpkg, we release 1.15.5, we open 1.15.6 in master, we
release a bugfix 1.15.5.1 on a sib branch, we merge that branch in master
and boom we have that annoying warning:
W: dpkg: latest-debian-changelog-entry-without-new-date
Thus I suggest to disable this warning when the distribution is currently
set to UNRELEASED because the timestamp of the changelog entry is reset
at release time anyway.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (150, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.20-4 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii diffstat 1.47-1 produces graph of changes introduc
ii dpkg-dev 1.15.5.4 Debian package development tools
ii file 5.03-4 Determines file type using "magic"
ii gettext 0.17-8 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.24 Perl interface to libapt-pkg
ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1 Perl module that automatically gen
ii libipc-run-perl 0.84-1 Perl module for running processes
ii libparse-debianchangel 1.1.1-2 parse Debian changelogs and output
ii libtimedate-perl 1.1900-1 Time and date functions for Perl
ii liburi-perl 1.50-1 module to manipulate and access UR
ii man-db 2.5.6-4 on-line manual pager
ii perl [libdigest-sha-pe 5.10.1-8 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
lintian recommends no packages.
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn binutils-multiarch <none> (no description available)
ii libtext-template-perl 1.45-1 Text::Template perl module
ii man-db 2.5.6-4 on-line manual pager
-- no debconf information
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Source: lintian
Source-Version: 2.3.0
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_2.3.0.dsc
to main/l/lintian/lintian_2.3.0.dsc
lintian_2.3.0.tar.gz
to main/l/lintian/lintian_2.3.0.tar.gz
lintian_2.3.0_all.deb
to main/l/lintian/lintian_2.3.0_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 560149@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
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@debian.org)
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Format: 1.8
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2009 18:38:10 -0800
Source: lintian
Binary: lintian
Architecture: source all
Version: 2.3.0
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: 528367 546174 548640 548819 548844 551793 552200 554025 554617 555667 556022 556456 557120 557353 557449 557511 557530 557717 557786 557883 557971 558214 558649 559625 560005 560053 560149 561720 562630
Changes:
lintian (2.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
.
The "welcome Raphael Geissert!" release.
.
* Summary of tag changes:
+ Added:
- capitalization-error-in-description
(split from spelling-error-in-description)
- debian-rules-automatically-updates-control
- duplicate-in-relation-field (pedantic)
- duplicated-compressed-file
- init.d-script-missing-dependency-on-local_fs (experimental)
- init.d-script-missing-dependency-on-remote_fs (experimental)
- obsolete-relation-form-in-source
- ocaml-dangling-cmi
- ocaml-dangling-cmx
- ocaml-dangling-cmxa
- ocaml-dangling-cmxs
- ocaml-dev-file-in-nondev-package (pedantic)
- ocaml-dev-file-not-in-usr-lib-ocaml (pedantic)
- ocaml-meta-without-suggesting-findlib (pedantic)
- ocaml-stray-cmo
- spelling-error-in-manpage
+ Removed:
- build-depends-without-arch-dep
.
* checks/*:
+ [RA] Use Lintian::Tags instead of Tags.
* checks/binaries{,.desc}:
+ [RA] Allow any RPATH containing $ORIGIN or ${ORIGIN}, not just the
literal value $ORIGIN. (Closes: #557511)
+ [ADB] Exempt all binary packages built from the zlib source from
the embedded-zlib test, not just those with binary package names
matching zlib.+. Thanks, Mark Brown.
+ [RA] Spelling errors are no longer normalized to lowercase.
* checks/changelog-file:
+ [RA] Suppress latest-debian-changelog-entry-without-new-date if the
distribution is UNRELEASED. Thanks, Raphaël Hertzog.
(Closes: #560149)
+ [RA] Also ignore too-long lines that consist of "See" followed by an
unbreakable word. Thanks, Jari Aalto. (Closes: #560005)
+ [RA] Downgrade spelling tags to severity: minor.
* checks/control-file{,.desc}:
+ [RA] Check for < and > version dependencies in debian/control since
dpkg-source helpfully rewrites and fixes them in binary packages.
Thanks, Jakub Wilk. (Closes: #557971)
+ [RA] Add a pedantic check for duplicates in relation fields in
debian/control prior to the fixes applied by dpkg-dev. Thanks,
Nelson A. de Oliveira. (Closes: #548819)
+ [RA] Fix a typo that skipped checks on the Build-Conflicts field.
+ [RA] Rework weak-library-dev-dependency to allow more approaches to
bounding the shared library version. Skip complex cases with or'd
dependencies and assume the maintainer knows what they're doing.
Add more explanation to the long tag description. Thanks, Reinhard
Tartler and Mike Hommey. (Closes: #557449)
* checks/copyright-file.desc:
+ [RA] Downgrade spelling-error-in-copyright to minor and mention
false positive possibilities and an override in the tag description.
* checks/cruft:
+ [RA] Allow an automake or libtool dependency in Build-Depends-Indep
to also satisfy the check for outdated helper files. Thanks,
Guillaume Delacour. (Closes: #557530)
+ [RA] Ignore files in .pc, created by unpacking 3.0 (quilt) packages.
Thanks, Ahmed El-Mahmoudy. (Closes: #556022)
* checks/debian-readme.desc:
+ [RA] Downgrade spelling tag to severity: minor.
* checks/description{,.desc}:
+ [RA] Downgrade spelling tag to severity: minor.
+ [RA] Split capitalization-error-in-description to a separate tag and
downgrade its certainty to wild-guess.
* checks/fields{,.desc}:
+ [ADB] Re-order the fields of build-depends-on-build-essential so that
all of the descriptive text is included. Thanks, Jonathan Wiltshire.
(Closes: #557786)
+ [RA] For lib-recommends-documentation, exclude packages ending in
-tools or -bin. Thanks, Jay Berkenbilt. (Closes: #557883)
+ [RA] Warn of build dependencies on python*-dev if no architecture-
dependent packages are being built. Patch from Luca Falavigna.
(Closes: #551793)
+ [RA] Add emacs22 to obsolete emacs versions. Thanks, Sven Joachim.
(Closes: #560053)
* checks/files{,.desc}:
+ [RA] New check for files present in both compressed and uncompressed
form. Patch from Raphael Geissert. (Closes: #546174)
+ [RA] Allow /etc/sudoers.d files to be mode 0440 as recommended by
sudo. Thanks, Thijs Kinkhorst. (Closes: #557353)
* checks/huge-usr-share{,.desc}:
+ [RA] Increase the thresholds to 2MB (over 50%) and 4MB (any
percentage), and mention the thresholds in the tag description.
Thanks, Christoph Egger. (Closes: #561720)
* checks/init.d{,.desc}:
+ [RA] Add checks for missing dependencies on $local_fs or $remote_fs
based on what files appear to be used in the init scripts. Patch
from Raphael Geissert. (Partly addresses #405454)
* checks/manpages{,.desc}:
+ [RG] Check for spelling errors in English manpages.
* checks/manpages.desc:
+ [RA] Clarify the long description of hyphen-used-as-minus-sign.
Note that Debian groff is currently patched to avoid this problem,
but hopefully that divergence can be removed. Reference
groff-base's README.Debian for more information. (Closes: #548844)
* checks/menus.desc:
+ [RA] Change spelling tags to severity: minor and certainty: certain
since there are few false positives but minor is the correct
severity.
* checks/ocaml{,.desc}:
+ [RA] New checks for OCaml packaging. Contributed by Stéphane
Glondu. (Closes: #528367)
* checks/patch-systems{,.desc}:
+ [RA] Recommend DEP-3 in {dpatch,quilt}-patch-missing-description and
reference the document. Thanks, Raphaël Hertzog. (Closes: #554025)
+ [RA] Allow DEP-3 headers in dpatch patches to satisfy the
description requirement. Thanks, Paul Gevers. (Closes: #548640)
* checks/rules{,.desc}:
+ [RA] Remove build-depends-without-arch-dep. If the package only
builds architecture-independent packages, the distinction between
Build-Depends and Build-Depends-Indep is meaningless and there's no
reason, even pedantically, to worry about the separation. Thanks,
Charles Plessy. (Closes: #552200, #555667)
+ [RA] Add a new check for DEB_AUTO_UPDATE_DEBIAN_CONTROL = yes.
Thanks, Nelson A. de Oliveira. (Closes: #557120)
.
* collection/ar-info{,.desc}:
+ [RA] Collects the results of ar t on all *.a files, used by the new
OCaml checks. Contributed by Stéphane Glondu.
* collection/override-file:
+ [RA] Check debian/source/lintian-overrides before
debian/source.lintian-overrides for source package overrides.
Thanks, martin f krafft. (Closes: #554617)
.
* data/debhelper/*:
+ [ADB] Refresh against unstable.
* data/fields/{perl-provides,virtual-packages}:
+ [ADB] Refresh against unstable.
* data/files/fonts:
+ [ADB] Refresh against unstable.
* data/output/ftp-master-{non,}fatal:
+ [RA] New data files listing tags that may result in an automated
upload reject.
.
* doc/lintian.sgml:
+ [RA] Document debian/source/lintian-overrides as the new preferred
location for source overrides.
.
* debian/control:
+ [RG] Add Raphael Geissert to Uploaders.
+ [RA] Add ${misc:Depends} to dependencies.
* debian/copyright:
+ [RG] Add Raphael Geissert to maintainers.
.
* frontend/lintian:
+ [RA] Add options --suppress-tags and --suppress-tags-from-file to
completely suppress the given tags.
+ [RA] Support comments and blank lines in --tags-from-file files.
+ [RA] Run the check modules in sorted order.
+ [RA] Create a global Lintian::Tags object and use it instead of
setting variables in the Tags namespace. Move display level code
from here to Lintian::Tags. Adjust calls for the new Lintian::Tags
module.
+ [RA] Add option -F or --ftp-master-rejects which only checks tags
that could result in an automatic upload reject.
* frontend/lintian-info:
+ [RA] Add -h/--help option. Patch from gregor herrmann.
(Closes: #558214)
.
* lib/Lintian/Check.pm:
+ [RA] Use Lintian::Tags instead of Tags.
* lib/Lintian/Output.pm:
+ [RA] print_tag() now takes an additional argument containing
override data and expects a Lintian::Tag::Info object as the tag
info instead of a hash.
+ [RA] Adjust for the renaming of pkg in the file information hash.
* lib/Lintian/Output/*.pm:
+ [RA] Adjust for print_tag() and file information hash changes.
* lib/Lintian/Output/XML.pm:
+ [RA] Rewrite to be more readable and fix the tags attribute for
overridden experimental tags.
* lib/Lintian/Relation.pm:
+ [RA] Fix bugs in unparse() and duplicates() that caused duplicates()
to crash when processing duplicates between an alternative and a
regular package. Thanks, Jonathan Yu. (Closes: #559625)
* lib/Lintian/Tag/Info.pm:
+ [RA] Add a code method that returns the tag code corresponding to
the severity and certainty for a tag, based on get_tag_code from
Tags.pm.
+ [RA] Add certainty, severity, and tag accessor methods.
+ [RA] Add a method saying whether a tag is experimental.
+ [RA] Record the check script corresponding to each tag and add an
accessor method for it.
+ [RA] Add a sources method returning a list of sources referenced by
a tag, based on the get_tag_source method from Tags.pm.
* lib/Lintian/Tags.pm:
+ [RA] New module in a proper namespace replacing Tags.pm. A global
Lintian::Tags object replaces the static variables in the Tags
namespace, with new accessor functions, except for the tag metadata
functions (which have moved to Lintian::Tag::Info). All handling of
display levels is now here instead of in frontend/lintian.
+ [RA] Support suppressing a list of tags.
+ [RA] Suppress calling Lintian::Output::print_end_pkg for changes
files, where we don't call print_start_pkg. This fixes an unmatched
closing tag in the experimental XML output.
* lib/Spelling.pm:
+ [RA] Use Lintian::Tags instead of Tags.
+ [RA] Ignore all-caps words of five characters or less for spelling
corrections, since they are probably acronyms. Thanks, Michal
Čihař. (Closes: #556456)
+ [RA] Report the original word in spelling errors rather than the
normalized form.
+ [RG] Detect some multi-word spelling errors.
+ [RA] Remove the als to also correction. This is a word in several
European languages, and the many hits on the archive are nearly all
false positives.
* lib/Tags.pm:
+ [RA] Removed in favor of Lintian::Tags.
* lib/Util.pm:
+ [RA] Consume all output from extracting the control file of a binary
package before closing the pipe.
.
* man/lintian.1:
+ [RA] Document --suppress-tags and --suppress-tags-from-file.
+ [RA] Document format of --tags-from-file.
+ [RA] Document -F (--ftp-master-rejects).
+ [RA] Add ocaml checker script.
+ [RA] Add ar-info collection script.
+ [RA] Document the override locations in the FILES section. Thanks,
Jakub Wilk. (Closes: #558649)
+ [RA] Remove obsolete spelling checker script.
+ [RA] Mention /usr/share/lintian/data under FILES.
+ [RA] Clarify that errors are not necessarily policy violations.
+ [RA] Remove bug that Lintian doesn't handle packages with different
binary and source versions correctly. I don't believe this is still
an issue.
* man/lintian-info.1:
+ [RA] Add -h (--help).
+ [RA] lintian -i no longer pipes output through lintian-info. Adjust
the man page accordingly.
.
* private/refresh-ftp-master-tags:
+ [RA] Script to refresh data about automatic package rejects.
.
* reporting/html_reports:
+ [RA] Never use O as the code for the tag on the per-tag page even if
all instances in the archive are overridden. (Closes: #562630)
.
* t/runtests:
+ [RA] Unwrap the Options field so that it can be continued.
+ [RA] Replace TESTSET in Options with the root of the test suite so
that lintian options referring to files can be tested with files in
the test suite directory.
+ [RA] Support a new Sort: no field in package test metadata to
suppress sorting of lintian output, for testing output formatting.
+ [RA] Use Lintian::Command::spawn to run Lintian for package tests so
that the lintian options may contain shell metacharacters.
+ [RA] Put all error output from lintian unsorted before the regular
output, making it easier to diagnose errors.
+ [RA] Suppress checking the syntax of the lintian output if neither
Test-For nor Test-Against are set and Sort: no is set.
.
* unpack/list-{bin,src,udeb}pkg:
+ [RA] Support multiple versions of a package in the archive and
include only the latest version in the Lintian package list.
* unpack/unpack-binpkg-l2:
+ [RA] Report errors from dpkg-deb or tar on stderr if either exit
with non-zero status.
* unpack/unpack-srcpkg-l2:
+ [RA] Report errors from dpkg-source -x on stderr if it exits with
non-zero status. (Closes: #557717)
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