This bug was fixed in the package lintian - 2.5.11ubuntu1
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lintian (2.5.11ubuntu1) raring; urgency=low
* Dropped all previous Ubuntu changes, applied upstream.
* Cherry-picked from upstream (thanks to Niels Thykier) (LP: #1092892):
- t/tests/shared-libs-symbols-file: Install symbols file with 0644
(umask unpack issue). Fixes failing tests.
- t/scripts/profiles-coverage.t: Fix parsing of fields.
- lib/Lintian/Collect/Binary.pm: Re-instate the "TEXTREL" marker.
Fixes a regression where shared-libs compiled without pic was not
reported.
lintian (2.5.11) experimental; urgency=low
* Summary of tag changes:
+ Added:
- conffile-has-bad-file-type
- debug-package-for-multi-arch-same-pkg-not-coinstallable
- dm-upload-allowed-is-obsolete
- field-name-typo-in-dep5-copyright
- font-adobe-copyrighted-fragment
- license-problem-json-evil
- maintainer-script-has-unexpanded-debhelper-token
- shlibs-uses-obsolete-relation
- untranslatable-debconf-templates
+ Removed:
- apparently-truncated-elf-binary
- data.tar.xz-member-without-dpkg-pre-depends
- debhelper-overrides-need-versioned-build-depends
- no-source-field
- preinst-uses-dpkg-maintscript-helper-without-predepends
* checks/*:
+ [NT] Remove assumption that lintian will chdir into the
the lab before calling the check.
+ [NT] Be better at avoiding false-positive spelling errors
for references to packages that also happen to be common
spelling mistake. Thanks to Paul Tagliamonte for the
report. (Closes: #687464)
* checks/binaries{,.desc}:
+ [NT] Merge apparently-truncated-elf-binary into
apparently-corrupted-elf-binary.
+ [NT] Remove some references to objdump in tag descriptions
as Lintian uses readelf.
+ [JW,NT] Update the "extract SONAME" shell snippet to properly
handle SONAMEs with uppercase letters.
+ [JW] Recognise any path with matching the GNU multi-arch
triplet as a "Multi-arch: same"-safe directory. Thanks to
Matthias Klose for the report. (Closes: #681410)
* checks/changelog-file:
+ [NT] Emit "missing changelog" for packages that are missing
their usr/share/doc/<pkg>/ dir and do not have a doc symlink.
Thanks to Faheem Mitha for the report. (Closes: #683224)
* checks/conffiles{,.desc}:
+ [NT] Remove leading slash on the filename when emitting
file-in-etc-rc.d-marked-as-conffile.
+ [NT] Add check for "non-file" conffiles. Thanks to Guillem
Jover for the report. (Closes: #690910)
* checks/control-file.desc:
+ [NT] Bump obsolete-relation-form-in-source to serious as these
forms are now "must not" instead of "should not".
* checks/copyright.desc:
+ [NT] Bump debian-copyright-file-uses-obsolete-national-encoding
to serious as copyright files must now be UTF-8 encoded.
* checks/cruft{,.desc}:
+ [NT] Detect MS-DOS executables as windows binaries.
+ [NT] Bump the version of config.{guess,sub} needed for
triggering the "outdated-autotools-helper-file" tag for arm64
support. Thanks to Paul Wise for the report and the
investigative work. (Closes: #690014)
+ [RA,NT] Extend the description of the tags {outdated,ancient}-
autotools-helper-file to mention that dh-autoreconf might be
helpful tool.
+ [NT] Apply patch from Bastien Roucariès to detect file licensed
under the "Good, not Evil"-JSON license. (Closes: #692616)
* checks/deb-format{,.desc}:
+ [NT] Retire data.tar.xz tag. (Closes: #680391)
* checks/debhelper{,.desc}:
+ [JW,NT] Consider missing versioned build-depends on
debhelper for compat 8 (or less) a pedantic issue.
(Closes: #681894)
+ [NT] Retire debhelper-overrides-need-versioned-build-depends.
* checks/fields{,.desc}:
+ [NT] Retire no-source-field since Lintian cannot emit it any
more due to dpkg-source refusing to extract such source
packages.
+ [NT] Add tag for using the obsolete DMUA field. Thanks to
Ansgar Burchardt for the report. (Closes: #688494)
+ [NT] Apply patches from Bernhard R. Link to check for
unintentional whitespace and use of non-cannical URIs in
Vcs-* fields. (Closes: #681769)
+ [NT] Fix false-positive caused by insignificant whitespace.
Thanks to Dima Kogan for the report. (Closes: #693589)
* checks/files:
+ [RG] Recognise smarty3 as smarty itself.
+ [NT] Consider "tasksel tasks" as a meta package.
(Closes: #691489)
+ [NT] Add patch from Bastien Roucariès to check for adobe font
license issues. (Closes: #694328)
* checks/group-checks{,.desc}:
+ [NT] Detect debug packages not co-installable with itself,
when it provides debug symbols for a Multi-Arch: same package.
Thanks to Carsten Hey for the report. (Closes: #678896)
* checks/infofiles:
+ [NT] Use L::Util's gzip decompressor rather than zcat.
* checks/init.d{,.desc}:
+ [NT] Move file-in-etc-rc.d-marked-as-conffile to conffiles
check.
+ [NT] Use L::Collect's conffile API instead of accessing the
"conffiles" control file directly.
* checks/java.desc:
+ [NT] Remove the "experimental" marker of the Java byte-code
check.
* checks/manpages{,.desc}:
+ [CW,NT] Manually do redirects and chdir rather than
invoking a shell when calling man and lexgrog.
+ [CW,NT] Be stricter with missing roff preprocessors by
setting MANROFFSEQ to the empty string when calling man.
+ [CW,NT] Pass -Tutf8 -Z to man to skip an unused part of
the groff pipeline. (Closes: #677874)
+ [CW,NT] Use the L::Util gzip decompressor to open gzipped
manpages.
* checks/menu-format{,.desc}:
+ [NT] Move a table of categories to a data file.
+ [NT] Update description of menu-icon-missing. Lintian is now
sometimes able to find the icon in dependencies (if they are
built from the same source). Thanks to Ryan Kavanagh for the
report and the suggested patch. (Closes: #683516)
* checks/md5sums:
+ [NT] Use L::Collect's conffile API instead of accessing the
"conffiles" control file directly.
* checks/po-debconf{,.desc}:
+ [NT] Check for untranslatable templates that should be
translatable. Thanks to David Prévot for the report and the
patch. (Closes: #686179)
* checks/scripts{,.desc}:
+ [NT] Retire check for dpkg-maintscript-helper in preinst.
(Closes: #685497)
+ [NT] Fix false positive "executable-not-elf-or-script" when
the file is an executable hardlink to a script.
+ [NT] Check maintainer scripts for unexpanded #DEBHELPER# tokens.
Thanks to Cyril "KiBi" Brulebois for the suggestion.
+ [NT] Fix false-positive for removal of device files as /dev/shm
is not a device. Thanks to Steve Langasek for the report and
Roger Leigh for the extra info. (Closes: #693442)
* checks/shared-libs{,.desc}:
+ [NT] Clearify the description of dev-pkg-without-shlib-symlink
to mention that the dev symlink is always expected in /usr.
+ [NT] Add missing "+" in libtool regex. Thanks to Leo 'costela'
Antunes for the report.
+ [RA,NT] Check for use of obsolete "<" and ">" in shlibs control
files. (Closes: #660655)
* checks/source-copyright{,.desc}:
+ [NT] Check for possible misspellings of known field
names. (Closes: #678639)
+ [NT] Fix typo of paragraph. Thanks to Logan Rosen for spotting
it. (Closes: #693013)
* checks/version-substvars{,.desc}:
+ [JW,NT] Extend version-substvar-for-external-package to
all relations. Previously it was only triggered for
strong dependnecy relations. (Closes: #658474)
* collection/deb-format.desc:
+ [NT] Remove unneeded changelog-file from "Needs-Info".
* collection/objdump-info{,-helper,.desc}:
+ [NT] Change the output format for the collection and
bump the version of the collection accordingly.
+ [NT] Apply patch from Peter Pentchev to ensure set{u,g}id
ELF binaries are properly processed, even when Lintian is
run as root. (Closes: #686352)
* data/binaries/embedded-libs:
+ [RG] Check for embedded copies of jsoncpp.
* data/fields/archive-sections:
+ [NT] Add new "tasks" section.
* data/menu-format/add-categories:
+ [NT] New file.
* data/output/ftp-master-{,non}fatal:
+ [NT] Removed, not used at run time.
* data/scripts/interpreters:
+ [NT] Add nodejs and Rscript as a known interpreter.
Thanks to Marcelo Jorge Vieira and Sébastien Boisvert
for the report. (Closes: #623265, #692232)
* data/spelling/corrections:
+ [NT,RG] Add more corrections.
+ [RG] Re-sort the corrections.
* debian/control:
+ [NT] Add (Build-)Depends on libtext-levenshtein-perl.
+ [NT] Use anonscm.d.o in the Vcs-* fields instead of
git.d.o.
* debian/lintian.install:
+ [NT] Install Lintian perl modules in /usr/share/perl5.
* debian/rules:
+ [NT] Add target to generate HTML API doc. Currently
this is only run manually.
* frontend/lintian:
+ [NT] Remove chdir calls for checks.
+ [NT] Retire depreciated command line and config options.
+ [NT] Refactor unpackaging into Lintian::Unpacker.
+ [NT] Make parameter for --jobs optional. In its absence
Lintian will not limit the number of parallel jobs.
+ [JW,NT] During the unpack phase, emit the name of the
group currently being unpacked when --verbose is given.
(Closes: #677890)
+ [JW] Fix typo of Parallelization.
+ [NT] Fix regression where --suppress-tags{,-from-file}
was ignored if -C or -X was passed. Thanks to Thorsten
Glaser for reporting it. (Closes: #688320)
* lib/Lintian/Collect{,/Source}.pm:
+ [NT] Add optional parameter to field (and X_field)
methods that denotes the default value if a field is
missing. This avoid some boiler plate for callers
of the methods.
* lib/Lintian/Collect/Binary.pm:
+ [NT] Bump API for objdump method.
+ [NT] Add API for checking if a file is considered a
conffile.
* lib/Lintian/Collect/Package.pm:
+ [NT] Strip leading slash off files extracted from tar.
* lib/Lintian/Command.pm:
+ [NT] Work around a leak in IPC::Run (see #301774).
* lib/Lintian/Internal/FrontendUtil.pm:
+ [NT] Always use Dpkg::Vendor to determine the default
vendor. Previously dpkg-vendor would be preferred if
available.
* lib/Lintian/Lab/Entry.pm:
+ [NT] Use the L::Collect during creation instead of
manually reading the dsc for source packages.
* lib/Lintian/Profile.pm:
+ [NT] Add support for the new optional "Load-Checks"
field in profiles.
+ [NT] Ensure that the "lintian" check is always loaded
as these tags are not emitted by check modules. Also
enable the tags from the check by default.
* lib/Lintian/Tags.pm:
+ [NT] Be explicit about the reason when rejecting an
override. Thanks to Yves-Alexis Perez for the report.
(Closes: #673073)
* lib/Lintian/Unpacker.pm:
+ [NT] New file.
* man/lintian.pod.in:
+ [NT] Remove documentation about removed options.
* reporting/graphs/{statistics,tags}.gpi:
+ [JP] New file.
* reporting/html_reports:
+ [JP,NT] Generate graphs of the collected history data.
(Closes: #672273)
+ [NT] Make the mirror name configurable.
* vendors/ubuntu/main/data/changes-file/known-dists:
+ [NT] Add "raring" as known Ubuntu distribution. Thanks to
Dmitry Shachnev. (LP: #1068208)
-- Dmitry Shachnev <mity...@ubuntu.com> Sun, 23 Dec 2012 16:16:28 +0100
** Changed in: lintian (Ubuntu)
Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released
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