lintian 2.105.0 released
Hi,
The Lintian maintainers are pleased to announce the release of Lintian
version 2.105.0.
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:
- backgrounded-test-command
- crossing-screens
- duplicate-p3dist-override
- elevated-privileges
- illegal-variable
- misplaced-systemd-tmpfiles
- missing-conffile
- no-versioned-debhelper-prerequisite
- nodejs-missing-version-override
- obsolete-vim-addon-manager
- pypi-homepage
- python-traceback-in-manpage
- ruby-interpreter-is-deprecated
- rubygem-homepage
- rules-require-build-prerequisite
- rust-boilerplate
- source-contains-editor-backup-file
- source-contains-patch-failure-file
- source-contains-quilt-control-dir
- superficial-tests
- systemd-service-in-odd-location
- systemd-tmpfile-in-var-run
- unexpected-conffile
- unknown-conffile-instruction
- unmerged-usr
- upstream-metadata-field-unknown
- wrong-team
+ Removed:
- ancient-standards-version
- conffile-is-not-in-package
- missing-build-dependency
- missing-python-build-dependency
- octal-permissions
- package-lacks-versioned-build-depends-on-debhelper
- package-needs-versioned-debhelper-build-depends
- setgid-binary
- setuid-binary
- setuid-gid-binary
- systemd-service-file-outside-lib
- systemd-tmpfiles.d-outside-usr-lib
[ Chris Lamb ]
* Check for Python tracebacks in manual pages, usually caused by failing
help2man calls (and cause reproducibility issues).
* Correct confusion between left and right parens that was leading to
output such as ")2 errors)".
* Bump Standards-Version to 4.6.0.1.
[ Felix Lechner ]
* Implement usr-merge; flag files shipped in /bin, /sbin or /lib.
* Flag systemd temporary files placed in /var/run. (Closes: #984678)
* Do not repeat tag name when annotating hints. (Closes: #969398)
* Refuse to read installable control data in national encodings.
* Stop shipping modules in system path. (Closes: #968011)
- Provide a dedicated, non-public executable to obtain the latest
policy version from Lintian data. (See: #978672)
* Flag the use of DEB_BUILD_MULTIARCH in some Debian files.
(Closes: #983219)
* For team-maintained packages, flag names in another team's name space.
* Provide a generalized method to grant exemptions to package families
(screens).
- Exempt ELPA packaging scripts for Emacs modules from
executable-in-usr-lib. (Closes: #974175)
- Exempt GNAT's read-only .ali files from non-standard-file-perm.
(Closes: #986400)
* Treat NMU edge cases for non-consecutive-debian-revision.
(Closes: #942013)
* Recommend the newer php-markdown over libmarkdown-php when embedded.
(Closes: #898867)
* Convert possible-gpl-code-linked-with-openssl to a classification tag.
(Closes: #972181)
* Turn maybe-not-arch-all-binnmuable into a classification tag.
* Combine, rename two confusing debhelper tags. (Closes: #977332)
* Warn when trying to issue duplicate hints; provide more context to
disambiguate similar hints.
* Add --output-width; wrap EWI tag descriptions to width of output
terminal otherwise.
* Assume that all interactive terminals are hyperlink-capable, but change
default to off.
* Send all debugging and status information to STDERR.
* Drop support for custom visibility levels in profiles.
* Prefer spaces over commas as field separators in profiles.
* Build test packages automatically when running tests.
(Closes: #927476, #935907)
* Use semantic versioning for the output of '--version'; omit Git hash
from Lintian version strings.
* Refer to new website in output.
* Update manual references for the first time in almost two years.
* Update the JSON data file for Debian policy releases; include all up
to 4.6.0.1.
* Drop UTF-8 PerlIO layers for STDOUT and STDERR from almost all
executables and the test suite. (Closes: #972876, #972878)
* Do not pretend to show hashbang in hint context for unusual
interpreters. (Closes: #982630)
* Treat Testsuite field as a comma-separated list for the teams pkg-perl
and pkg-js. (Closes: #9768010)
* Use current program names in help messages and version announcements.
(Closes: #977261)
* Allow tilde in names of installed JAR archives. (Closes: #976681)
* Flag source packages that declare only tests with the 'superficial'
restriction. (Closes: #932870)
* Ignore SIGWINCH in the test suite. (Closes: #974575)
* For manual pages, extract section information correctly from .TH
header. (Closes: #962601)
* Recognize Architecture and Classes as valid fields in d/tests/control.
(Closes: #977976)
* Restructure tags for file permissions; combine tags for setuid/setgid
executables.
* Detect Rust boilerplate in package descriptions. (See: !344)
* Do not fail on dangling symlinks when looking for obsolete, missing or
invalid content. (Closes: #978534)
* Always print full path to patch files. (Closes: #980247)
* Tolerate manual pages for subcommands when main command is documented.
(Closes: #947258)
* Tighten regex for no-op-testsuite to stop false positives.
(Closes: #980824)
* Allow environment prefix when recognizing 'dh' sequencer.
(Closes: #981712)
* Ignore build profiles when requiring dh helper for Python
prerequisites. (Closes: #991242)
* Ignore build profiles when flagging use of py3versions in d/rules.
(Closes: #978144)
* Do not flag Python3 entry point definitions as out-of-place
documentation. (Closes: #981268)
* Flag duplicates in d/py3dist-overrides. (Closes: #980987)
* Flag PyPI homepages in source control files. (Closes: #981932)
* Flag Rubygem homepages in source control files. (Closes: #981935)
* Accept the virtual package dh-sequence-dkms as B-D for 'dh
--with-dkms'. (Closes: #982834)
* Drop reference to archive keyring from package-installs-apt-sources.
(Closes: #983598)
* Read error message from Config::Tiny via the advertised mechanism.
(Closes: #985064)
* Add 'utils.h' to the list of overly generic headers. (Closes: #982322)
* Drop package file names from tag context for unknown-field.
(Closes: #980560)
* Flag backgrounded Test-Commands in autopkgtest declarations.
(Closes: #988591)
* For multi-component sources, always drop common prefixes for
sub-components. (Closes: #976643)
* Accept more than two components in architecture wildcards for package
relationships. (Closes: #981163)
* Add Breaks: lintian-brush (<< 0.88) to debian/control due to failing
autopkgtests.
* Implement two perltidy policies.
* Implement 87 perlcritic policies; disregard four others.
* Ignore special attributes like 'remove-on-upgrade' in DEBIAN/conffiles.
(Closes: #993531, #993711)
* Read checks separately from ./lib and ./checks; forego symbolic link.
(Closes: #993651)
[ Simon McVittie ]
* Update lists of registered build-profile names
[ Paul Wise ]
* spelling: Add several corrections
* Upgrade superficial-tests tag to warning
[ Xavier Guimard ]
* Verify that nodejs module does not use semantic-release
* Fix and simplify search when parsing pkg-js-autopkgtest files.
(Closes: #981279)
[ Emmanuel Bourg ]
* Detect obsolete Servlet API 3.1. (See: !348)
[ Alexandre Rossi ]
* Recognize empty and very small files as architecture-independent.
[ Jelmer Vernooij ]
* Fix typo: valgring => valgrind.
* Fix archive section mapping for rust development packages.
* Check upstream field names in upstream metadata. (Closes: #969762)
[ gregor herrmann ]
* Add another spelling correction.
[ Victor Westerhuis ]
* Add --no-rename as a recognized option for dpkg-divert.
[ Brian Murray ]
* Recognize Ubuntu's next release, named 'impish', among the known-dists.
[ Louis-Philippe Véronneau ]
* Add check for obsolete installation prerequisite vim-addon-manager.
[ Fatih Altun ]
* Add profile for Pardus Linux
[ Antonio Terceiro ]
* Stop suggesting ruby-interpreter as a prerequisite. (See: !365)
* Warn about the outdated prerequisite ruby-interpreter. (See: !365)
[ Peter Pentchev ]
* Adjust to debhelper's new install location for systemd service files.
(Closes: #992465)
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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