Bug#872665: lintian: tag metadata tracking releases of Debian Policy

Package: lintian Version: 2.5.52 Severity: wishlist Dear maintainers, At the Debian Policy BoF at DebConf17, it was suggested that Lintian start tracking metadata that connects up Lintian tags and releases of Debian Policy. Looking at my notes from the BoF, there are two types of metadata that

Re: Upstream Tarball Signature Files

Hi, On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 12:02:27PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: .. > Adding support for more signature formats or filename variations is > not hard, but it increases the amount of those extensions and perhaps > the additional sanity checks we have to support and perform on them on > multiple

[lintian] 01/01: Add 4.0.1 as a known standards version.

This is an automated email from the git hooks/post-receive script. lamby pushed a commit to branch master in repository lintian. commit dca8c9995885c4feb71be686f4eaa40f748d7160 Author: Chris Lamb Date: Sat Aug 19 08:19:18 2017 -0700 Add 4.0.1 as a known standards

[lintian] branch master updated (e1bb087 -> dca8c99)

This is an automated email from the git hooks/post-receive script. lamby pushed a change to branch master in repository lintian. from e1bb087 Apply patch from Alex Muntada (alexm) to use "substr" instead of "substring" in mentions-deprecated-usr-lib-perl5-directory's description.

Bug#872009: lintian: suggest using dh_missing --fail-missing

Hi Christian, > With the introduction of dh_missing with debhelper 10, I'd like > lintian to suggest, e.g. via a pedantic warning, to use the fail Great suggestion. However, whilst I absolutely love the idea of packages using dh_missing, I'm loathed to add a warning that essential recommends

How to handle upstream tarbell signature

Hi, I was trying to update uscan and realized few problems which are not addressed by the discussion here. There are many things to consider. On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 02:43:58PM +0200, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 07:48:24AM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > > I confess

Bug#872611: lintian: Please warn on package using sensible-utils w/o relationship

Package: lintian Version: 2.5.52 Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: Clint Adams Hi! As part of the long transition to split sensible-utils out from debianutils, the remaining Depends from debianutils was removed recently in version 4.8.2. I asked Clint whether he could send a