Bug#925551: lintian: desktop-command-not-in-package - plugin where host command is executed

Package: lintian Version: 2.5.81ubuntu1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Hexter is a package I am working on that runs as a plugin, and the desktop file executes the host (dssi-host-jack) with hexter as an a further option in the command (Exec=jack-dssi-host hexter.so). https://salsa.debian.org

Bug#923725: lintian: Spelling - false positive for "itialize"

Package: lintian Version: 2.5.81ubuntu1 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, Whilst working on the Carla package, I got false positives for the word "itialize". The actual string is in all cases "initialize" which is the very string that lintian suggests as a replacement. carla$ grep "itialize" -riH

Bug#898077: lintian: False positive in missing-build-dependency-for-dh-addon, python package

Package: lintian Version: 2.5.55 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, When building laditools, the missing-build-dependency-for-dh-addon lintian warning is received because scour is not a build dependency when the scour dh addon is used in debian/rules. However, python-scour is a build dependency a

Bug#865570: lintian: autopkgtest no longer requires an entry in debian/control

Package: lintian Version: 2.5.51 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I was updating one of my packages today and received the testsuite-autopkgtest- missing information warning from lintian. This appears to have been added due to https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=859467. This is ve

Bug#815994: Another example of a false positive

Hi, I have another example of a false positive: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-javascript/node-convert-source-map.git/tree/test/comment-regex.js It is clearly the real source, which is a unit test where a few lines are over 256 characters. Some of them are URLs with a long hash, and some are

Bug#761122: False positives for a Team Upload

Package: lintian Version 2.5.26 Dear Maintainer, When doing a Team Upload, the name in the debian/changelog entry does not necessarily match a name listed in the Uploaders or Maintainer field of debian/control. Unfortunately, both the "changelog-should-mention-nmu", and the source-"nmu-has-incor

Bug#735040: lintian: confusing tag name: debian-watch-may-check-gpg-signature

Hi, I have a naming suggestion taken from the first part of the extended description. "This watch file does not include a means to verify the upstream tarball using cryptographic signature." Perhaps: debian-watch-does-not-check-for-gpg-signature By the way, the link to uscan on the lintian webs