lintian 2.85.0 released
Hi,
The Lintian maintainers are pleased to announce the release of Lintian
version 2.85.0.
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 ]
* Fix wildcard-matches-nothing-in-dep5-copyright. (Closes: #888001)
* Don't emit send-patch when Applied-Upstream is set. (Closes: #965119)
* Disregard watch files containing only comments. (Closes: #965385)
* Account properly for license identifiers in debian/copyright and split
wildcard matching from license parsing. (Closes: #779676)
* Expect only {S,B,C} to be capitalised when following a leading X in
field names. (Closes: #965966)
* Add test case demonstrating false-positive for
dep5-copyright-license-name-not-unique is fixed. (Closes: #801182)
* Parse lists of distributions in changes files.
* Add a test case for email address with missing closing bracket.
(Re: #965335)
* Move Salsa CI specification to debian/salsa-ci.yml.
.
[ gregor herrmann ]
* Add another debian/copyright template.
.
[ Axel Beckert ]
* Replace debhelper level 12 with 13 in tag descriptions examples.
* Add correction for a "debhelper" misspelling and correct in some
previous changelog entries.
.
[ Chris Lamb ]
* Drop reminders from 26 tags that false-positives should be reported to
Lintian as this is implicit in all ~1,500 tags.
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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