Builds without problems in a lucid pbuilder and after some quick tests I
can't find any problems with the backported lintian version.
** Summary changed:
- Please backport lintian
+ Please backport lintian 2.4.3ubuntu1 from maverick to lucid
** Changed in: lucid-backports
Status: New => Confirmed
** Description changed:
2.4.3ubuntu1 is in Maverick. This adds support for DPM 3.9.0 and 3.9.1.
+
+
+ lintian (2.4.3ubuntu1) maverick; urgency=low
+
+ * Merge from Debian unstable. Remaining changes:
+ - Don't warn about a symlinked changelog file in Ubuntu due to CDBS.
+
+ -- Benjamin Drung Mon, 26 Jul 2010 10:26:45 +0200
+
+ lintian (2.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ The "Policy 3.9.1" release.
+
+ * Summary of tag changes:
+ + Added:
+ - embedded-library
+ + Removed:
+ - debian-news-entry-without-blank-line
+ - dh_testversion-is-deprecated
+
+ * checks/binaries{,.desc}:
+ + [RG] Detect embedded copies of expat, libbz2, libmagic, libxml2,
+ pcre3, and tiff.
+ + [RG] Recognise powerpcspe and sh4 ELF objects.
+ + [RA] Warn that spelling-error-in-binary may produce false positives
+ for words containing non-ASCII characters. (See #588661)
+ * checks/changelog-file{,.desc}:
+ + [RA] apt-listchanges has been fixed, so drop the check for NEWS
+ files ending in a trailing blank line. (Closes: #586816)
+ * checks/control-files.desc:
+ + [RA] Add references to Policy requirements added in 3.9.1.
+ * checks/copyright-file{,.desc}:
+ + [RA] Add examples for copyright-without-copyright-notice. Based on
+ a patch by Jari Aalto. (Closes: #580767)
+ + [RA] Remove exceptions for GPL v1, which is now in common-licenses
+ and mentioned in Policy 3.9.1.
+ * checks/cruft.desc:
+ + [RA] Add some hints to the ancient-libtool long description on how
+ to update the libtool files oneself. (Closes: #580767)
+ * checks/debhelper{,.desc}:
+ + [RA] package-lacks-versioned-build-depends-on-debhelper can also
+ trigger if the dependency is present but not tight enough. Thanks,
+ gregor herrmann. (Closes: #588156)
+ + [RA] Allow a tilde after the compatibility level in the debhelper
+ dependency. Thanks, Axel Beckert. (Closes: #583777)
+ + [RA] Remove dh_testversion-is-deprecated. The command is no longer
+ part of debhelper, so using it now just results in a build failure,
+ and there are no instances in the archive.
+ * checks/description.desc:
+ + [RA] Downgrade description-too-long to minor severity to match bug
+ reporting standards for formatting bugs. (Closes: #587837)
+ * checks/files{,.desc}:
+ + [RG] Detect embedded copies of HTMLPurifier.
+ + [RG] Detect embedded copies of the Strophe javascript library.
+ + [RA] Add references to Policy requirements added in 3.9.1.
+ * checks/patch-systems.desc:
+ + [RA] Improve the more-than-one-patch-system long description to
+ explicitly mention the case of packages that depend on dpatch but
+ are in 3.0 (quilt) format and to provide more rationale for the
+ tag. Thanks, Robert Luberda. (Closes: #585657)
+ * checks/po-debconf:
+ + [RA] Ignore comments in po/POTFILES.in. (Closes: #586036)
+ * checks/rules.desc:
+ + [RA] Rephrase the debian-rules-calls-debhelper-in-odd-order long
+ description to try to be clearer about the ordering requirements.
+ (Closes: #579964)
+ * checks/scripts{,.desc}:
+ + [RA] Improve python-script-but-no-python-dep tag description to be
+ clearer about the requirement for a versioned dependency for
+ versioned scripts and to mention ${python:Depends}, created by the
+ various Python debhelper scripts. (Closes: #575590, #582763)
+ + [RA] Add runhaskell and runghc. (Closes: #589266)
+ + [RA] Add references to Policy requirements added in 3.9.1.
+ + [RA] Allow kill - and kill and trap with signal numbers in
+ /bin/sh scrips, now allowed by Policy 3.9.1.
+
+ * debian/changelog:
+ + [RA] Fix Policy 3.9.0 reference in 2.4.2. (Closes: #587549)
+ * debian/control:
+ + [RA] Update standards version to 3.9.1.
+
+ * data/output/manual-references:
+ + [RA] Update for Policy 3.9.1.
+ * data/standards-version/release-dates:
+ + [RA] Add release date for Policy 3.9.1.
+
+ * lib/Lintian/Check.pm:
+ + [RA] More correctly handle hyphenated words to avoid triggering
+ spelling error false positives. (Closes: #588896)
+ * lib/Lintian/Relation.pm:
+ + [RA] Don't require a package name component after a substvar to
+ follow the rules of the beginning of a package name. Fixes
+ stronger-dependency-implies-weaker false positives containing
+ substvars. (Closes: #580494)
+ * lib/Lintian/Schedule.pm:
+ + [ADB] Import "warning" from Lintian::Output, really fixing the
+ error caused by a non-existent file refer
