lintian 2.79.0 released

["Chris Lamb" <lamby@debian.org>]

Hi,

The Lintian maintainers are pleased to announce the release of Lintian
version 2.79.0.

Lintian dissects Debian packages and reports bugs and policy
violations. It contains automated checks for many aspects of Debian
policy as well as some checks for common errors.

This version includes the following changes:

  [ Felix Lechner ]
  * Perform a mass-rename of tags for consistency according to the RFC.
    (Closes: #922544)
  * Use Email::Address::XS to parse all address components.
    (Closes: #961924)
  * Replace configuration option LINTIAN_PROFILE with 'profile'.
    (Closes: #961855)
  * Combine tags for missing native and non-native changelogs in
    installation packages. (Closes: #935072)
  * Clarify tag names related to shlibs control and shared libraries.
    (Closes: #534938)

  [ Paul Wise ]
  * Add several spelling corrections.

This version available now in Debian unstable and will be backported
to buster-backports once it has migrated to bullseye.

  - Issues and feature requests
    https://bugs.debian.org/src:lintian
    https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting

  - Git repository
    https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian

  - Contribution instructions
    https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md


Regards,

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