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Package: lintian
Severity: minor
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
Control: block 1072698 by -1
Hi,
Both `debhelper` (in compat 14) and `debputy` (in some integration
modes) will emit a `Commands` field to any package with an executable in
`/usr/bin`.
The field was introduced to solve #638517.
Best regards,
Niels
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Source: lintian
Source-Version: 2.136.0
Done: Nilesh Patra <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
lintian, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
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Nilesh Patra <[email protected]> (supplier of updated lintian package)
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Date: Sun, 24 May 2026 16:05:58 +0530
Source: lintian
Architecture: source
Version: 2.136.0
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Lintian Maintainers <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Nilesh Patra <[email protected]>
Closes: 854209 1068304 1112495 1121735 1128948 1135283 1135883 1135884 1136812
1137245 1137359
Changes:
lintian (2.136.0) unstable; urgency=medium
.
[ Nilesh Patra ]
* Summary of tag changes:
+ Added:
- license-problem-old-unicode
- package-installs-legacy-python-egg-info
- package-uses-old-python-depends-substvar
+ Removed:
- depends-on-python2-and-python3
- license-problem-bad-php-license
- license-problem-convert-utf-code
- license-problem-php-license
- mismatched-python-substvar
- python-depends-but-no-python-helper
- python-foo-but-no-python3-foo
- python-package-depends-on-package-from-other-python-variant
- python2-script-but-no-python2-dep
* Avoid checking for "pie executable" for detecting shared objects
(Closes: #1068304)
+ Add a test to detect static-pie also as a static executable to
test against #1068304
* Update cute-field check to flag differently for "X-DH-Compat"
(Closes: #1135283)
+ Add test to flag correct "X-DH-Compat" style (See: #1072741)
* Avoid "debian-watch-not-mangling-version" for CRAN or Bioconductor
templates (Closes: #1135884)
* Add test to check CRAN templates do not get flagged for not
mangling version
* Update regex to match the correct policy version in d/ch when 4 version
component is used (Closes: #1135883)
+ Add test to ensure we detect four component standards version
correctly
* Recognize "Commands" as a valid field in binary control
(Closes: #1112495)
* bad-intended-distribution: Also change `$uploaded` to `unstable`
when set to `sid`
* New tag: package-installs-legacy-egg-info to flag packages using
deprecated setup.py (Closes: #1121735)
+ Add test for tag "package-installs-legacy-egg-info"
* Drop the following tags which are no longer applicable after python2
removal:
- python-depends-but-no-python-helper
- python-mismatched-python-substvar
- python-depends-python2-and-python3
- python-foo-but-no-python3-foo
- python-package-depends-on-package-from-other-python-variant
- python2-script-but-no-python2-dep
* Drop more instances of un-needed python2 checks
* No longer classify python2 as interpreter for checks
* New tag: package-uses-old-python-depends-substvar to flag old
`${python:Depends}` substvar
* Avoid `chdir` in add_elf to avoid destruction errors when OOM
happens (See: #1136356)
* Avoid crash when d/rules is absent with `Build-Driver` not equal
to `debian-rules` (Closes: #1137245)
* Add test to run lintian on package with debputy in full integration
mode (without d/rules)
+ Adjust existing test hints for debputy
+ Merge debputy build-driver tests
* Update "package-does-not-use-debhelper" to use pointed hint to the
line of `Build-Driver` in d/control for cases where `Build-Driver`
is not `debian-rules`
* Drop tags: license-problem-bad-php-license and
license-problem-php-license (Closes: #1136812)
* Rules.pm: Drop python2 related code
* BogusPrerequisites.pm: drop python-is-python2 and
python-dev-is-python2-dev as these packages have been dropped
* Skip Dependency check for `python3:Depends` and `sphinxdoc:Depends`
when debputy sequencers are used or compat >= 14 (See: #1067653)
* not-an-ar-archive test: Update test to instead install a `.a` file
which is not an archive (Closes: #1137359)
* Remove test deb-format-wrong-order as it can no longer work with newer
dpkg and add a working check for malformed-deb-archive
+ Add ncompress to Build and test depends
* Drop mingw packages and bash from Build and test depends
.
[ Jesse Rhodes ]
* Rewrite manual section 2.4.1 for clarity. (Closes: #1128948)
.
[ Soren Stoutner ]
* Refactor license-problem-convert-utf-code to
license-problem-old-unicode (closes: #854209)
.
[ Oliver Reiche ]
* Add 'Stonking Stingray' to the list of known Ubuntu series
.
[ Simon McVittie ]
* tests: Check Lintian and dpkg agree on multiarch dependency
implications
+ Test Lintian::Relation->satisfies by looping over an array
+ Sort array of test-cases
+ Add missing multiarch Lintian::Relation->satisfies tests
.
[ Benjamin Drung ]
* Build numpy test with -fPIC
* README: add missing dashes to test run command and examples
for calling private/runtests
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