lintian 2.83.0 released
Hi,
The Lintian maintainers are pleased to announce the release of Lintian
version 2.83.0.
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 ]
* Add a new standalone HTML output mode.
* Warn about embedded javascript files provided by sphinx.
(Closes: #964013)
* Exempt links that stay inside /usr/lib from breakout-link.
(Closes: #964073)
* Rename second mention of tag manpage-in-wrong-directory.
(Closes: #964282)
* Extend spell check to all parts of debhelper rule targets.
(Closes: #963765)
* Only check the DEP-3 header for legacy encodings in debian/patches.
(Closes: #964281)
* Restrict top folder for breakout-link to architecture in /usr/lib and
permit links freely within. (Closes: #964073)
* Use the new path to test recipes in autopkgtest. (Closes: #964405)
* Drop a test no longer building due to new restraints on version
strings. (See: #953554)
* Exempt Lintian's own test suite from scans in source files and remove
programmatic conditionals in checks.
* Replace references to 'manpages' with 'manual pages' in tag
descriptions.
.
[ Chris Lamb ]
* Correct a reference to "override_dh_" in the long description of the
excessive-debhelper-overrides tag.
.
[ Lev Lamberov ]
* Update Debian Emacsen team wiki page link.
.
[ 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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