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• 2026/04/14 [Git][lintian/lintian][master] bin-sbin-match: use better regex to avoid false positives with word boundary (Closes: #1017632) @pollo
• 2026/04/14 Processed: Bug#1017632 marked as pending in lintian Debian Bug Tracking System
• 2026/04/14 Bug#1017632: marked as pending in lintian Louis-Philippe Véronneau
• 2026/04/14 Bug#1010907: marked as done (lintian: bad-jar-name check doesn't handle suffixes) Debian Bug Tracking System
• 2026/04/13 Bug#1010907: lintian: bad-jar-name check doesn't handle suffixes Emmanuel Bourg
• 2026/04/13 Bug#1010907: lintian: bad-jar-name check doesn't handle suffixes Nilesh Patra
• 2026/04/13 Processed: Re: lintian: arch-dependent-file-not-in-arch-specific-directory shouldn't trigger for binaries in libexec/ Debian Bug Tracking System
• 2026/04/13 Bug#1077235: lintian: arch-dependent-file-not-in-arch-specific-directory shouldn't trigger for binaries in libexec/ Helmut Grohne
• 2026/04/13 Bug#1077235: lintian: arch-dependent-file-not-in-arch-specific-directory shouldn't trigger for binaries in libexec/ Nilesh Patra
• 2026/04/13 Processed: close bug Debian Bug Tracking System
• 2026/04/13 Processed: forcemerge Debian Bug Tracking System
• 2026/04/13 [Git][lintian/lintian][master] 2 commits: Ignore usr-merged location for bin-sbin-mismatch check (Closes: #1079020) @pollo
• 2026/04/13 Processed: Bug#1079020 marked as pending in lintian Debian Bug Tracking System
• 2026/04/13 Bug#1079020: marked as pending in lintian Louis-Philippe Véronneau
• 2026/04/13 Bug#1067653: marked as pending in lintian Louis-Philippe Véronneau
• 2026/04/13 Processed: Bug#1067653 marked as pending in lintian Debian Bug Tracking System
• 2026/04/12 [Git][lintian/lintian] Pushed new branch no-misc-debputy-14 Nilesh Patra (@nilesh)
• 2026/04/12 Bug#1067653: marked as pending in lintian Nilesh Patra
• 2026/04/12 Processed: Bug#1067653 marked as pending in lintian Debian Bug Tracking System
• 2026/04/12 Bug#1077936: marked as done (lintian: `Rules-Requires-Root` only applies to the default `Build-Driver`) Debian Bug Tracking System
• 2026/04/12 Bug#1077936: lintian: `Rules-Requires-Root` only applies to the default `Build-Driver` Niels Thykier
• 2026/04/12 Bug#1133303: lintian: please warn if Priority: is set in Source: stanza Nilesh Patra
• 2026/04/12 Bug#1077936: lintian: `Rules-Requires-Root` only applies to the default `Build-Driver` Nilesh Patra
• 2026/04/11 Bug#1133303: lintian: please warn if Priority: is set in Source: stanza Gioele Barabucci
• 2026/04/11 Bug#1072741: marked as pending in lintian Nilesh Patra
• 2026/04/11 Processed: Bug#1072741 marked as pending in lintian Debian Bug Tracking System
• 2026/04/11 Processed: wontfix Debian Bug Tracking System
• 2026/04/11 Bug#1067653: lintian: debhelper-but-no-misc-depends and other relationship substvar hints are no longer universally applicable Niels Thykier
• 2026/04/11 Bug#1067653: lintian: debhelper-but-no-misc-depends and other relationship substvar hints are no longer universally applicable Nilesh Patra
• 2026/04/11 Bug#1077938: marked as pending in lintian Louis-Philippe Véronneau
• 2026/04/11 Processed: Bug#1077938 marked as pending in lintian Debian Bug Tracking System
• 2026/04/11 Bug#1077938: lintian: Fails to emit `debian-build-system` for packages not using `debian/rules` Niels Thykier
• 2026/04/11 Bug#1077938: lintian: Fails to emit `debian-build-system` for packages not using `debian/rules` Nilesh Patra
• 2026/04/11 Bug#1077938: lintian: Fails to emit `debian-build-system` for packages not using `debian/rules` Nilesh Patra
• 2026/04/11 Bug#1133273: marked as pending in lintian Nilesh Patra
• 2026/04/11 Processed: Bug#1133273 marked as pending in lintian Debian Bug Tracking System
• 2026/04/11 Bug#1133273: lintian: please drop old Python2 *-on-python-sphinx-* tags Alexandre Detiste
• 2026/04/11 Bug#1077938: lintian: Fails to emit `debian-build-system` for packages not using `debian/rules` Niels Thykier
• 2026/04/11 Bug#1077938: lintian: Fails to emit `debian-build-system` for packages not using `debian/rules` Nilesh Patra
• 2026/04/11 Bug#1099787: marked as done (lintian: package-installs-apt-preferences should be Pedantic, not Error) Debian Bug Tracking System
• 2026/04/11 Bug#1109577: lintian: Please check for missing (Static-)Built-Using for rust-using packages Nilesh Patra
• 2026/04/09 [Git][lintian/lintian][master] Do not print line number for "spelling-error-in-binary" check Nilesh Patra (@nilesh)
• 2026/04/09 Bug#1128948: lintian: spelling-error-in-binary override ignored unless line number specified Nilesh Patra
• 2026/04/09 Bug#1128948: lintian: spelling-error-in-binary override ignored unless line number specified Jesse Rhodes
• 2026/04/08 [Git][lintian/lintian][master] Add test for "uses-deprecated-adttmp" check Nilesh Patra (@nilesh)
• 2026/04/08 Bug#1128948: lintian: spelling-error-in-binary override ignored unless line number specified Nilesh Patra
• 2026/04/08 Processed: Bug#1064637 marked as pending in lintian Debian Bug Tracking System
• 2026/04/08 Bug#1064637: marked as pending in lintian Nilesh Patra
• 2026/04/08 Bug#1014057: marked as done (lintian man page: bad default for --color) Debian Bug Tracking System
• 2026/04/08 Processed: drop patch pending Debian Bug Tracking System
• 2026/04/08 Processed: drop patch pending Debian Bug Tracking System
• 2026/04/08 Bug#1014421: marked as done (false \' alert in '\\') Debian Bug Tracking System
• 2026/04/08 Bug#966803: marked as done (acute-accent-in-manual-page: false positive '\\') Debian Bug Tracking System
• 2026/04/08 Bug#1002936: marked as done (lintian: False positive missing-pkg-php-tools-addon when using dh-sequence-phpcomposer) Debian Bug Tracking System
• 2026/04/08 Bug#1006348: marked as done (lintian: Tag improbable-bug-number-in-closes condition considers 7-digit bug numbers improbable) Debian Bug Tracking System
• 2026/04/08 Bug#1031378: marked as pending in lintian Nilesh Patra
• 2026/04/08 Processed: Bug#1031378 marked as pending in lintian Debian Bug Tracking System
• 2026/04/07 Processing of lintian_2.134.0_source.changes Debian FTP Masters
• 2026/04/07 [Git][lintian/lintian] Pushed new tag 2.134.0 Nilesh Patra (@nilesh)
• 2026/04/07 [Git][lintian/lintian][master] 3 commits: Bump Standards-Version to 4.7.4 (no changes needed) Nilesh Patra (@nilesh)
• 2026/04/07 Bug#1125330: marked as done (lintian: please drop debhelper-unused-cdbs tag) Debian Bug Tracking System
• 2026/04/07 Bug#1132620: marked as done (lintian: please drop the build-dependency on CDBS) Debian Bug Tracking System
• 2026/04/07 lintian_2.134.0_source.changes ACCEPTED into unstable Debian FTP Masters
• 2026/04/07 [Git][lintian/lintian][master] dbs was removed in 2013, drop old heuristic from Lintian Nilesh Patra (@nilesh)
• 2026/04/06 Processed: block 1132889 with 1055980 1132620 Debian Bug Tracking System
• 2026/04/06 [Git][lintian/lintian][master] 5 commits: Drop refs to unused /usr/share/R/debian/r-cran.mk (See #1115923) @pollo
• 2026/04/06 Bug#1132620: marked as pending in lintian Louis-Philippe Véronneau
• 2026/04/06 Processed: Bug#1132620 marked as pending in lintian Debian Bug Tracking System
• 2026/04/04 Bug#1132620: lintian: please drop the build-dependency on CDBS Alexandre Detiste
• 2026/04/03 Bug#1132620: lintian: please drop the build-dependency on CDBS Nilesh Patra
• 2026/04/03 [Git][lintian/lintian] Deleted branch debian-policy_4.7.4.1 @pollo
• 2026/04/03 [Git][lintian/lintian] Deleted branch remove_experimental @pollo
• 2026/04/03 [Git][lintian/lintian][remove_experimental] 16 commits: tags/m: update missing-debian-watch-file-standard Explanation @pollo
• 2026/04/03 Bug#1131714: marked as done (lintian: please report the debian/pydist-overrides files for deletion) Debian Bug Tracking System
• 2026/04/03 Processed: Re: Bug#1131839: Provide newer lintian in backports? Debian Bug Tracking System
• 2026/04/03 Processing of lintian_2.133.0_source.changes Debian FTP Masters
• 2026/04/03 lintian_2.133.0_source.changes ACCEPTED into unstable Debian FTP Masters
• 2026/04/03 Bug#1132620: lintian: please drop the build-dependency on CDBS Alexandre Detiste
• 2026/04/03 [Git][lintian/lintian][master] 2 commits: releasing package lintian version 2.133.0 @pollo
• 2026/04/03 [Git][lintian/lintian][master] 12 commits: Remove Experimental tag maybe-not-arch-all-binnmuable @pollo
• 2026/04/03 [Git][lintian/lintian][remove_experimental] 5 commits: Remove Experimental tag large-file-support/binaries-missing-lfs @pollo
• 2026/04/03 [Git][lintian/lintian] Pushed new tag 2.133.0 @pollo
• 2026/04/03 Bug#1102136: lintian: Lintian emits ancient-libtool even when using dh_autoreconf Louis-Philippe Véronneau
• 2026/04/03 [Git][lintian/lintian] Pushed new branch remove_experimental @pollo
• 2026/04/03 [Git][lintian/lintian][master] tags/m: update missing-debian-watch-file-standard Explanation @pollo
• 2026/04/01 [Git][lintian/lintian] Pushed new branch debian-policy_4.7.4.1 @pollo
• 2026/03/29 Bug#1034588: lintian: provide a check for Build-Depends: python3-setuptools-scm for python packages using setuptools_scm Alexandre Detiste
• 2026/03/28 [Git][lintian/lintian] Deleted branch clean_experimental Nilesh Patra (@nilesh)
• 2026/03/28 [Git][lintian/lintian] Pushed new branch clean_experimental @pollo
• 2026/03/25 Bug#1131839: Provide newer lintian in backports? Nilesh Patra
• 2026/03/25 Bug#1131839: Provide newer lintian in backports? Simon Josefsson
• 2026/03/24 [Git][lintian/lintian][master] Add new tag useless-pydist-overrides-file to detect the usage of... Nilesh Patra (@nilesh)
• 2026/03/23 [Git][lintian/lintian][master] Add new tag "standards-version-inconsistent" Nilesh Patra (@nilesh)
• 2026/03/23 Bug#1131714: lintian: please report the debian/pydist-overrides files for deletion Alexandre Detiste
• 2026/03/23 Bug#1131714: lintian: please report the debian/pydist-overrides files for deletion Nilesh Patra
• 2026/03/23 Processed: closing 1131714 Debian Bug Tracking System
• 2026/03/23 Bug#1131714: Acknowledgement (lintian: please report the debian/pydist-overrides files for deletion) Alexandre Detiste
• 2026/03/23 Processed: tagging 1131714 Debian Bug Tracking System
• 2026/03/23 Bug#1131714: lintian: please report the debian/pydist-overrides files for deletion Alexandre Detiste
• 2026/03/21 Bug#1131430: marked as done (lintian: Non-updated tests block node-terser migration) Debian Bug Tracking System
• 2026/03/21 Bug#1129064: marked as done (missing-systemd-service-for-init.d-rcS-script: since systemd 260 SysV compatibility is gone) Debian Bug Tracking System
• 2026/03/21 Processing of lintian_2.132.1_source.changes Debian FTP Masters
• 2026/03/21 [Git][lintian/lintian] Pushed new tag 2.132.1 @pollo
• 2026/03/21 [Git][lintian/lintian][master] 2 commits: releasing package lintian version 2.132.1 @pollo
• 2026/03/21 Bug#1030991: marked as done (lintian: checking intel-mkl takes 18 hours) Debian Bug Tracking System
• 2026/03/21 Bug#1126458: marked as done (lintian: continuous-integration/salsa fails on cmor_3.13.2-2.dsc: YAML::XS::Load Error: The problem: did not find expected <document start>) Debian Bug Tracking System
• 2026/03/21 Bug#1031171: marked as done (Check/ContinuousIntegration/Salsa.pm crashes on invalid yaml) Debian Bug Tracking System
• 2026/03/21 lintian_2.132.1_source.changes ACCEPTED into unstable Debian FTP Masters
• 2026/03/21 Processed: affects 1131430 Debian Bug Tracking System
• 2026/03/21 Processing of lintian_2.132.0_source.changes Debian FTP Masters
• 2026/03/21 Bug#1124803: marked as done (lintian: all remaining support for dpatch should by now be removed) Debian Bug Tracking System
• 2026/03/21 lintian_2.132.0_source.changes ACCEPTED into unstable Debian FTP Masters
• 2026/03/21 [Git][lintian/lintian][master] 2 commits: releasing package lintian version 2.132.0 @pollo
• 2026/03/21 [Git][lintian/lintian] Pushed new tag 2.132.0 @pollo
• 2026/03/21 [Git][lintian/lintian] Deleted branch bts_1124803 @pollo
• 2026/03/21 [Git][lintian/lintian][bts_1124803] Refine quilt-patch-uses-dpatch-extension and... @pollo
• 2026/03/21 Bug#1124803: marked as pending in lintian Louis-Philippe Véronneau
• 2026/03/21 Processed: Bug#1124803 marked as pending in lintian Debian Bug Tracking System
• 2026/03/21 [Git][lintian/lintian] Deleted branch terser-update Nilesh Patra (@nilesh)
• 2026/03/21 Bug#1131430: lintian: Non-updated tests block node-terser migration Nilesh Patra
• 2026/03/21 [Git][lintian/lintian] Pushed new branch terser-update Yadd (@yadd)
• 2026/03/21 Processed: Bug#1131430 marked as pending in lintian Debian Bug Tracking System
• 2026/03/21 Processed: bug 1131430 is forwarded to https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/merge_requests/682 Debian Bug Tracking System
• 2026/03/21 Bug#1131430: marked as pending in lintian Yadd
• 2026/03/21 Bug#1131430: lintian: Non-updated tests block node-terser migration Xavier Guimard
• 2026/03/20 Bug#1014256: marked as done (lintian: very-long-line-length-in-source-file should ignore lines starting with INSERT or SELECT (i.e. commonly long SQL statements)) Debian Bug Tracking System
• 2026/03/20 Bug#1074135: marked as done (lintian: error due to login no longer being Essential:yes) Debian Bug Tracking System
• 2026/03/20 Bug#1053795: marked as done (lintian: Should warn if CDBS is used) Debian Bug Tracking System
• 2026/03/19 [Git][lintian/lintian][master] Fixup tests with terser 5.46.1-1 Nilesh Patra (@nilesh)
• 2026/03/19 Bug#1124803: marked as pending in lintian Nilesh Patra
• 2026/03/19 Processed: Bug#1124803 marked as pending in lintian Debian Bug Tracking System
• 2026/03/19 Processed: Bug#1124803 marked as pending in lintian Debian Bug Tracking System
• 2026/03/19 Bug#1124803: marked as pending in lintian Nilesh Patra
• 2026/03/19 Processed: Bug#1124803 marked as pending in lintian Debian Bug Tracking System
• 2026/03/19 Bug#1124803: marked as pending in lintian Nilesh Patra
• 2026/03/19 [Git][lintian/lintian][bts_1124803] 2 commits: Drop remaining references for dpatch from lintian test-suite and tags Nilesh Patra (@nilesh)
• 2026/03/19 [Git][lintian/lintian][bts_1124803] 3 commits: Drop installing gccbug.dpatch in legacy tests and also drop the files Nilesh Patra (@nilesh)
• 2026/03/19 Bug#1031171: marked as pending in lintian Nilesh Patra
• 2026/03/19 Bug#1124803: marked as pending in lintian Nilesh Patra
• 2026/03/19 Bug#1129064: marked as pending in lintian Nilesh Patra
• 2026/03/19 Processed: Bug#1030991 marked as pending in lintian Debian Bug Tracking System
• 2026/03/19 Bug#1030991: marked as pending in lintian Nilesh Patra
• 2026/03/19 Processed: Bug#1129064 marked as pending in lintian Debian Bug Tracking System
• 2026/03/19 Processed: Bug#1031171 marked as pending in lintian Debian Bug Tracking System
• 2026/03/19 Processed: Bug#1124803 marked as pending in lintian Debian Bug Tracking System
• 2026/03/18 Bug#1102136: lintian: Lintian emits ancient-libtool even when using dh_autoreconf Nilesh Patra
• 2026/03/18 Bug#1102136: lintian: Lintian emits ancient-libtool even when using dh_autoreconf Nilesh Patra
• 2026/03/17 [Git][lintian/lintian][master] Mark 2.131.1 as UNRELEASED Nilesh Patra (@nilesh)
• 2026/03/16 [Git][lintian/lintian][master] Re-word description in missing-systemd-service-for-init.d-rcS-script to... Nilesh Patra (@nilesh)
• 2026/03/16 Processed: Bug#1129064 marked as pending in lintian Debian Bug Tracking System
• 2026/03/16 Bug#1129064: marked as pending in lintian Nilesh Patra
• 2026/03/16 Bug#965335: marked as done (Does not complain about missing trailing ">" in Maintainer address) Debian Bug Tracking System
• 2026/03/16 Processed: Bug#1031171 marked as pending in lintian Debian Bug Tracking System
• 2026/03/16 Bug#1031171: marked as pending in lintian Nilesh Patra
• 2026/03/16 Processed: Re: lintian: continuous-integration/salsa fails on cmor_3.13.2-2.dsc: YAML::XS::Load Error: The problem: did not find expected <document start> Debian Bug Tracking System
• 2026/03/16 Processed: Re: lintian: continuous-integration/salsa fails on cmor_3.13.2-2.dsc: YAML::XS::Load Error: The problem: did not find expected <document start> Debian Bug Tracking System
• 2026/03/16 Bug#1126458: lintian: continuous-integration/salsa fails on cmor_3.13.2-2.dsc: YAML::XS::Load Error: The problem: did not find expected <document start> Nilesh Patra
• 2026/03/16 Bug#1014083: Leaves many mldbm files in /tmp without cleanup Nilesh Patra
• 2026/03/16 Processed: unarchive Debian Bug Tracking System
• 2026/03/16 Bug#1030991: marked as pending in lintian Louis-Philippe Véronneau
• 2026/03/16 Processed: Bug#1030991 marked as pending in lintian Debian Bug Tracking System
• 2026/03/15 Bug#1130755: marked as done (lintian: unknown-java-class-version incorrectly fires for recent versions) Debian Bug Tracking System
• 2026/03/14 Bug#1130755: lintian: unknown-java-class-version incorrectly fires for recent versions Olly Betts
• 2026/03/09 [Git][lintian/lintian][master] Java 25 is default since java-common (0.77). @pollo
• 2026/03/07 Bug#1114615: lintian: suggest 'Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-go' for any 'Section: golang' or golang-* package Nilesh Patra
• 2026/03/07 Processing of lintian_2.131.0_source.changes Debian FTP Masters
• 2026/03/07 [Git][lintian/lintian] Pushed new tag 2.131.0 Nilesh Patra (@nilesh)
• 2026/03/07 [Git][lintian/lintian][master] 2 commits: Upload to unstable Nilesh Patra (@nilesh)
• 2026/03/07 Bug#1129794: marked as done (lintian: FTBFS: dpkg-buildpackage: error: cannot parse maintainer email address "" from changelog entry) Debian Bug Tracking System
• 2026/03/07 Bug#1129982: marked as done (orig-tarball-missing-upstream-signature shouldn't be a warning when Pgpmode:gittag is used) Debian Bug Tracking System
• 2026/03/07 lintian_2.131.0_source.changes ACCEPTED into unstable Debian FTP Masters
• 2026/03/07 Processed: Bug#1129982 marked as pending in lintian Debian Bug Tracking System
• 2026/03/07 Bug#1129982: marked as pending in lintian Nilesh Patra
• 2026/03/07 Bug#1129982: orig-tarball-missing-upstream-signature shouldn't be a warning when Pgpmode:gittag is used Simon Josefsson
• 2026/03/07 [Git][lintian/lintian][master] Add check for too-many-contacts Nilesh Patra (@nilesh)
• 2026/03/07 Bug#1129982: orig-tarball-missing-upstream-signature shouldn't be a warning when Pgpmode:gittag is used Nilesh Patra
• 2026/03/07 Bug#1129982: orig-tarball-missing-upstream-signature shouldn't be a warning when Pgpmode:gittag is used Simon Josefsson
• 2026/03/07 Bug#1129982: orig-tarball-missing-upstream-signature shouldn't be a warning when Pgpmode:gittag is used Nilesh Patra
• 2026/03/07 Bug#1129982: orig-tarball-missing-upstream-signature shouldn't be a warning when Pgpmode:gittag is used Simon Josefsson
• 2026/03/07 Bug#1129982: orig-tarball-missing-upstream-signature shouldn't be a warning when Pgpmode:gittag is used Simon Josefsson
• 2026/03/07 Bug#1129982: orig-tarball-missing-upstream-signature shouldn't be a warning when Pgpmode:gittag is used Nilesh Patra
• 2026/03/07 Bug#1129982: orig-tarball-missing-upstream-signature shouldn't be a warning when Pgpmode:gittag is used Simon Josefsson
• 2026/03/06 Bug#1129982: orig-tarball-missing-upstream-signature shouldn't be a warning when Pgpmode:gittag is used Nilesh Patra
• 2026/03/06 Bug#1129982: orig-tarball-missing-upstream-signature shouldn't be a warning when Pgpmode:gittag is used Simon Josefsson
• 2026/03/06 Bug#1102281: Lintian::Deb822.3: Some remarks and a patch with editorial changes for this man page Bjarni Ingi Gislason
• 2026/03/05 Bug#1129794: lintian: FTBFS: dpkg-buildpackage: error: cannot parse maintainer email address "" from changelog entry Santiago Vila
• 2026/03/02 Bug#1129045: marked as done (lintian: Does not find _arm64.changes) Debian Bug Tracking System
• 2026/02/27 Bug#1129045: lintian: Does not find _arm64.changes Andrew McMillan
• 2026/02/27 Bug#1129045: lintian: Does not find _arm64.changes Nilesh Patra
• 2026/02/27 Bug#1129045: lintian: Does not find _arm64.changes Adam D. Barratt
• 2026/02/26 Bug#1129045: lintian: Does not find _arm64.changes Andrew McMillan
• 2026/02/26 lintian_2.130.1_source.changes ACCEPTED into unstable Debian FTP Masters
• 2026/02/26 Processing of lintian_2.130.1_source.changes Debian FTP Masters
• 2026/02/26 [Git][lintian/lintian] Pushed new tag 2.130.1 Nilesh Patra (@nilesh)
• 2026/02/26 [Git][lintian/lintian][master] 2 commits: Upload to unstable Nilesh Patra (@nilesh)
• 2026/02/26 [Git][lintian/lintian][master] stop testing for deprecated /usr/share/cdbs/1/class/hlibrary.mk Nilesh Patra (@nilesh)
• 2026/02/26 [Git][lintian/lintian][master] changelog-file-news-general: Use newer date in NEWS file to fix tests with debhelper 13.31 Nilesh Patra (@nilesh)
• 2026/02/26 Bug#1129045: lintian: Does not find _arm64.changes Nilesh Patra
• 2026/02/26 Bug#1129064: missing-systemd-service-for-init.d-rcS-script: since systemd 260 SysV compatibility is gone Adam D. Barratt
• 2026/02/26 Bug#1129064: missing-systemd-service-for-init.d-rcS-script: since systemd 260 SysV compatibility is gone Martin-Éric Racine

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