lintian 2.84.0 released

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

Hi,

The Lintian maintainers are pleased to announce the release of Lintian
version 2.84.0.

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:

  * Summary of tag changes:
    + Added:
      - arch-any-package-needs-newer-cdbs
      - autopkgtest-needs-use-name
      - include
      - legacy-vendorarch-directory
      - missing-tests-control
      - module-build-tiny-needs-newer-cdbs
      - module-build-tiny-needs-newer-debhelper
      - no-git
      - no-team-tests
      - no-team-url
      - no-tests
      - no-testsuite-header
      - nodejs-bad-buffer-usage
      - send-patch
      - specification
    + Removed:
      - inconsistent-testsuite-field
      - testsuite-autopkgtest-missing
.
  [ Felix Lechner ]
  * Strip architecture fron two filenames in tests, and ignore tags seen
    only on some architectures as it causes autopkgtest regressions on
    arm64.
  * Unconditionally allow /dev/null as a symlink target in source packages.
    (Re: #964111)
  * Fix national-encoding for DEP-3 patches without quilt notice.
    (Closes: #964281)
  * Add a reminder to send forwardable DEP-3 patches upstream.
    (Closes: #755153)
  * Add two classification tags for Salsa CI detection.
  * For testsuites, parse debian/control instead of .dsc and drop the
    inconsistent-testsuite-field tag.
  * Convert program error for missing test fields to a tag and reinstate
    old tag under new name.
  * Removed debhelper compat 5 and 6 from tests.
  * Allow optional, private namespaces for tags. (Re: #943525)
  * Merge all checks and tags from pkg-perl and pkg-js.
  * For R API version parsing, allow any character that is legal in package
    names. (Re: #961709)
.
  [ Trek ]
  * Exclude some more templated (ie. "@") systemd .service files.

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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