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Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 17:32:09 +0200
Source: lintian
Binary: lintian
Architecture: source all
Version: 2.5.12
Distribution: experimental
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Lintian Maintainers <lintian-maint@debian.org>
Changed-By: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
Description: 
 lintian    - Debian package checker
Closes: 359059 591812 615516 652380 652595 659335 668437 670963 678857 681061 683737 685299 692548 693918 695839 695866 695967 696230 696960 697534 697693 697916 698234 698602 698610 698704 698720 699452 699628 699670 700110 700543 700882 701061 703490 703978 703985 703989 704446 705175
Changes: 
 lintian (2.5.12) experimental; urgency=medium
 .
   * Summary of tag changes:
     + Added:
       - ambiguous-paragraph-in-dep5-copyright
       - binary-file-built-without-LFS-support
       - debian-tests-control-is-not-a-regular-file
       - debian-tests-control-uses-national-encoding
       - debug-file-with-no-debug-symbols
       - desktop-entry-lacks-keywords-entry
       - dir-or-file-in-build-tree
       - dir-or-file-in-etc-opt
       - dir-or-file-in-home
       - file-name-is-not-valid-UTF-8
       - font-adobe-copyrighted-fragment-no-credit
       - font-package-not-multi-arch-foreign
       - illegal-runtime-test-name
       - inconsistent-testsuite-field
       - license-problem-gfdl-invariants
       - license-problem-gfdl-invariants-empty
       - menu-icon-uses-relative-path
       - missing-runtime-test-file
       - missing-runtime-tests-field
       - package-contains-broken-symlink-wildcard
       - package-contains-unsafe-symlink
       - runtime-test-file-is-not-a-regular-file
       - source-contains-unsafe-symlink
       - unknown-runtime-tests-feature
       - unknown-runtime-tests-field
       - unknown-runtime-tests-restriction
       - unknown-testsuite
       - vcs-field-bitrotted
       - vcs-git-uses-invalid-user-uri
       - zip-parse-error
     + Removed:
       - unneeded-build-dep-on-quilt
 .
   * checks/*:
     + [NT] Avoid following unsafe symlinks.  (CVE-2013-1429)
   * checks/binaries{,.desc}:
     + [NT] Accept libx32 as a bi-arch directory.
     + [NT] Correct reference policy reference.  Thanks to
       Samuel Bronson for the correction.  (Closes: #698234)
     + [NT] Detect debug ELF binaries with no debug symbols.
       Thanks to Nelson A. de Oliveira for the report.
       (Closes: #668437)
     + [NT] Check for binaries built without LFS.  This can
       only be checked for 32bit binaries as 64bit binaries
       have LFS by definition.  Thanks to Guillem Jover for
       the report and patches.  (Closes: #670963)
     + [NT] Apply patch from Samuel Bronson to bump severity
       (but decrease certainty) of the "not linked against
       libc" tags.  (Closes: #698720)
   * checks/copyright:
     + [NT] Apply patch from Evgeni Golov to avoid false
       positive tag when the MPL-2.0 license appears in the
       copyright file.  (See #626454)
   * checks/cruft{,.desc}:
     + [NT] Do not emit the license-problem-json-evil tag for
       non-free packages.
     + [NT] Apply patch from Bastien Roucariès to catch GFDL
       licenses with invariants (etc.).  (Closes: #695967)
     + [NT] Correct description of an autotools tag.  Thanks
       to Alberto Garcia and Timo Juhani Lindfors for the
       report and patch.  (Closes: #703490)
     + [NT] Check for unsafe symlinks (outside common testsuite
       paths).
   * checks/debconf:
     + [NT] Fix several path traversal issues that could leak
       information about the host system.  (CVE-2013-1429)
   * checks/debhelper{,.desc}:
     + [JW] Assume the proper python helpers are called if a
       (Makefile) variable is used.  (Closes: #659335)
     + [JW] Promote python-depends-but-no-python-helper and
       python3-depends-but-no-python3-helper to non-experimental.
   * checks/description:
     + [NT] Ignore "extended-description-is-probably-too-short"
       for metapackages.  Thanks to Axel Beckert for the
       report.
   * checks/duplicate-files.desc:
     + [NT] Demote severity of "duplicate-files" tag to pedantic.
   * checks/fields{,.desc}:
     + [NT] Apply patch from Samuel Bronson to detect some
       broken or poor Vcs URLs.  Also thanks to James McCoy for
       his report.  (Closes: #652595)
     + [JW] Reduce severity of b-d-on-python-dev-with-no-arch-any
       to minor.
     + [NT] Skip "depends-on-packaging-dev" for metapackages.
     + [NT] Apply patch from Gregor Herrmann to catch metacpan
       homepage links with versions.  (Closes: #700110)
     + [NT] Apply patch from Vasudev Kamath to detect fonts
       packages without a Multi-Arch foreign (or allowed) field.
       (Closes: #701061)
   * checks/files{,.desc}:
     + [NT] Apply patch from Bastien Roucariès to catch paths
       in (common) build dirs.  (Closes: #678857)
     + [NT] Do not suggest the use of "virtual package" as a way
       to suppress empty-binary-package.  Lintian will still
       accept it the phrase for now.
     + [NT] Accept libx32 as an bi-arch directory.
     + [NT] Ignore gzipped lintian overrides when checking whether
       a package is empty.
     + [NT] Fix typo of Pre-Depends, thanks to Raúl Benencia for
       spotting it.  (Closes: #699452)
     + [NT] Add patch from Bastien Roucariès to check for another
       adobe font license issues.  (Closes: #705175)
     + [NT] Test for use of file names that are contain invalid
       UTF-8 byte sequences.  Thanks to Helmut Grohne for the
       suggestion.  (Closes: #704446)
   * checks/init.d:
     + [NT] Fix regression where Lintian would not properly match
       init.d passed to update-rc.d.  Thanks to Michael Meskes for
       reporting.  (Closes: #698602)
     + [NT] Fix possible symlink traversal that could leak
       information about the host system.  (CVE-2013-1429)
   * checks/java{,.desc}:
     + [NT] Report possibly broken jar files.
   * checks/md5sums:
     + [NT] Fix path traversal issue that could leak information
       about the host system.
   * checks/menu-format{,.desc}:
     + [NT] Apply patch from Bastien Roucariès to detect missing
       "Keywords" in desktop files.  Thanks to Jeremy Bicha for
       the report.  (Closes: #693918)
     + [NT] Apply patch from Matthias Klumpp to add missing
       "Science" category.  (Closes: #697693)
     + [NT] Apply patch from Thomas Preud'homme to detect uses of
       relative icons in menu files.  (Closes: #697916)
     + [NT] Document why only XPM are allowed in the tag description
       of menu-icon-not-in-xpm-format.  (Closes: 591812)
   * checks/menus:
     + [NT] Fix path traversal issue that could leak information
       about the host system.  (CVE-2013-1429)
   * checks/patch-systems{,.desc}:
     + [NT] Retire unneeded-build-dep-on-quilt, it is only a pedantic
       tag and apparently not too accurate.  Thanks to Charles Plessy
       and Frank Kuester for the reports.  (Closes: #615516, #681061)
   * checks/po-debconf:
     + [NT] Unconditionally set INTLTOOL_EXTRACT.
   * checks/rules:
     + [NT] Remove ant1.7 as alternative to ant as ant1.7 has been
       removed from Wheezy.
   * checks/scripts:
     + [NT] Treat scripts in /usr/src/ like they were documentation.
   * checks/shared-libs:
     + [NT] Special case gcc packages when looking for dev symlinks.
       gcc stores its dev symlinks in some special directories.
     + [NT] Fix path traversal issue that could leak information
       about the host system.  (CVE-2013-1429)
   * checks/source-copyright{,.desc}:
     + [JW,NT] Add a separate tag for ambiguous DEP-5 paragraphs,
       where Lintian cannot reliably figure out what is intended.
       Thanks to Julian Taylor for the report.  (Closes: #652380)
     + [NT] Add paragraph line number to the "field typo" tag.
   * checks/symlinks{,.desc}:
     + [NT] Warn about broken symlinks that contains a literal "*"
       in their target.  This is usually a sign that a wildcard did
       not properly expand.  Thanks to Bernd Zeimetz for the report.
       (Closes: #683737)
     + [NT] Demote certainty of package-contains-broken-symlink to
       wild-guess.
     + [NT] Check for unsafe symlinks in binary packages.
   * checks/testsuite{,.desc}:
     + [NT] New check written by Nicolas Boulenguez to catch some
       mistakes with the new autopkgtest tests.
 .
   * collection/*:
     + [NT] Avoid reading files outside the package root.
       (CVE-2013-1429)
   * collection/{changelog-file,debian-readme}:
     + [NT] Ignore files in usr/doc/<pkg>.
     + [NT] Skip collection if usr/share/doc/<pkg> is not contained
       within the package root.  (CVE-2013-1429)
   * collection/hardening-info{,-helper,.desc}:
     + [NT] Whitelist "memset" and "memmove" as "always safe"
       functions.  Thanks to Sebastian Ramacher for the suggestion
       and Roland Stigge for the report.  (Closes: #685299)
     + [NT] Remove work around for #677530
   * collection/index{,.desc}:
     + [NT] Fix missing trailing slash on dirnames and bump index
       version accordingly.  Thanks to Nicolas Boulenguez for
       noticing.
   * collection/java-info:
     + [NT] Gracefully handle broken Jar files.  Thanks to Paul
       Tagliamonte for the report.  (Closes: #700543)
   * collection/strings:
     + [NT] Fix a regression in filtering out "debug" ELF binaries.
 .
   * data/binaries/arch-regex:
     + [NT] Recognise x32 as an ELF32 binary.
   * data/fields/obsolete-packages:
     + [NT] Apply patch from Guillem Jover to add fuse-utils as an
       obsolete package.  (Closes: #697534)
   * data/files/locale-codes:
     + [NT] Refresh against sid data files.
   * data/menu-format/add-categories:
     + [NT] Apply patch from Matthias Klumpp to add missing
       subcategories.
   * data/output/manual-references:
     + [NT] Refresh with Policy 3.9.4.
   * data/scripts/interpreter:
     + [NT] Add cfagent as a known interpreter.  Thanks to Andreas
       Mundt for the suggestion.  (Closes: #699670)
   * data/scripts/versioned-interpreters:
     + [NT] Apply patch from Thijs Kinkhorst to add lua5.2 as a
       versioned alternative to lua.  (Closes: #698704)
   * data/shared-libs/ldconfig-dirs:
     + [NT] Add libx32 and usr/libx32 used by some gcc x32 bi-arch
       packages.
   * data/spelling/corrections{,-case}:
     + [JW] Add correction for "privileges".  (Closes: #700882)
     + [NT] Warn about incorrect case of "OpenStreetMap".  Thanks
       to Paul Wise for the patch.
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   * debian/control:
     + [NT] Bump dependency on hardening-includes to avoid having
       to work around #677530.
     + [NT] Add XS-Testsuite for autopkgtest tests.
     + [NT] Add Build-Depends on libtest-perl-critic-perl.
     + [NT] Add (Build-)Depends on liblist-moreutils-perl and
       libfile-basedir-perl.
     + [NT] Add versioned (Build)-Depends on perl | libautodie-perl.
   * debian/lintian.install:
     + [NT] Install Test::Lintian in /usr/share/lintian/lib.
   * debian/rules:
     + [NT] Include the new Tutorial pods in the "api-doc" target.
   * debian/tests/{control,testsuite,testsuite-legacy}:
     + [NT] New file.
 .
   * doc/tutorial/Lintian/Tutorial{/WritingChecks}.pod:
     + [NT] Add POD tutorial on writing checks.
 .
   * frontend/lintian{,-info}:
     + [NT] Add --include-dir command line option.  This can be used
       to load additional Lintian checks, profiles, libraries or data.
       (Closes: #359059)
   * frontend/lintian:
     + [NT] Remove "make-shift" lab-query support now that
       Lintian::Lab supports it.
     + [NT] Add new command line option "--[no-]user-dirs" to disable
       loading from $HOME/.lintian{rc,/} and /etc/lintian{rc,/}.
     + [NT] Error out early if a check cannot be loaded.
     + [NT] Make --suppress-tags{,--from-file} do something when used
       with --check-part and document that --tags causes the option
       to be ignored.
     + [NT] Accept the magic token "{VENDOR}" as a part of the value
       to --profile.
     + [NT] Add new command line option "--ignore-lintian-env" to make
       lintian ignore all environment variables starting with LINTIAN_.
     + [NT] Add a new command line option --no-display-experimental
       and --default-display-level.  These options can be used to
       override some display options from the config file.
       (Closes: #703985)
     + [NT] Also search for the lintianrc file in XDG_CONFIG_{HOME,DIRS}.
       The default paths are now ~/.config/lintian/lintianrc and
       /etc/xdg/lintian/lintianrc.  The previous lintianrc paths are
       still accepted.
     + [NT] Stop looking for lintianrc files in the LINTIAN_ROOT.
     + [NT] Stop exporting LINTIAN_LAB to processes run by lintian.
     + [NT] Use of --root (or setting LINTIAN_ROOT) will now imply
       the option --no-user-dirs by default.
 .
   * lib/*:
     + [NT] Use "parent" instead of the "base" pragma.
   * lib/Lintian/Collect.pm:
     + [NT] Add "is_non_free" method to easily check of a given
       package appears to be non-free.
   * lib/Lintian/Collect/Binary.pm:
     + [NT] Re-instate the "TEXTREL" marker.  This fixes a regression
       where shared-libs compiled without pic was not reported.
       Thanks to Dmitry Shachnev for the assistance in debugging this.
     + [NT] Recognise packages in section "metapackages" as a
       metapackage.  Thanks to Axel Beckert for the report.
       (Closes: #698610)
   * lib/Lintian/Collect/Package.pm:
     + [NT] Ensure the "root" entry of indices do not contain itself.
       (Closes: #695866)
     + [NT] Add warning to unpacked and debfiles when they are given a
       path with leading slash or dot-slash.
     + [NT] When a check requests access to a raw file (or dir) in the
       package, ensure that the resulting path does not "escape" the
       top level directory.  This should preemptively guard against some
       (but not all) traversal attempts.
   * lib/Lintian/Path.pm:
     + [NT] Document that link_resolved is not sufficient to test the
       "safeness" of a symlink.
   * lib/Lintian/Command/Simple.pm:
     + [NT] Use constant time lookup access instead of linear scan with
       "hashref" wait.
   * lib/Lintian/Lab.pm:
     + [NT] Add lab_query method to handle lab-queries directly.
     + [NT] Fix bitrot of repair_lab and rename it to repair for
       consistency.
   * lib/Lintian/Lab{,/Manifest}.pm:
     + [NT] Add support for grouping of manifests.
   * lib/Lintian/Lab/Manifest.pm:
     + [NT] Fix an error in visit_all when sufficient keys for an
       exact look up was given.
   * lib/Lintian/Processable.pm:
     + [NT] Fix issue where packages loaded from the lab indices would
       sometimes get a wrong source-version.
   * lib/Lintian/Relation/Version.pm:
     + [NT] Add and export "versions_comparator" that can be used for
       sorting purposes.
   * lib/Lintian/Tag/Info.pm:
     + [NT] Use "&amp;" in the manpage ref URLs to generate proper HTML.
       Thanks to Vasudev Kamath for reporting the issue.
     + [NT] Produce a more helpful error message when a tag has an
       invalid severity or certainty.  (Closes: #703978)
   * lib/Lintian/Tags.pm:
     + [NT] Deal with parsing an ambiguous override a bit better.  This
       solves false-positive malformed-override, where Lintian misparsed
       the tag name as a package name.  (Closes: #699628)
   * lib/Lintian/Util.pm:
     + [NT] Reject partially signed Deb822 files.  Most Deb822 files
       are not signed at all; but those that are should be completely
       covered by a signature.  (Closes: #696230)
     + [ADB] Fix a typo in the matching of expected delimiters for some
       signed messages; thanks Samuel Bronson.
     + [NT] Add sub to check if a path is contained within a given dir.
     + [NT] Fix bug in resolve_pkg_path that made it resolve some links
       incorrectly.
     + [NT] Document that resolve_pkg_path is not sufficient to test the
       "safeness" of a symlink.
 .
   * man/lintian.pod.in:
     + [NT] Document that --pedantic is the same as "-L +=pedantic".
       (Closes: #703989)
     + [NT] Fix typo of the "override" variable in the config example.
 .
   * private/refresh-locale-codes:
     + [JW,NT] Ignore the "zxx" locale code, which means "No
       linguistic content".  (Closes: #692548)
 .
   * reporting/config:
     + [JP] Remove unused $GRAPH_DIR configuration option.
   * reporting/graphs/{statistics,tags}.gpi:
     + [JP] Tweak graph size to allow longer labels, and force font
       family.
   * reporting/harness:
     + [NT] Add --to-stdout option to emit log information to
       stdout as well as the log files.
     + [NT] Always schedule packages in groups.  Otherwise, binNMU'ed
       binaries would not be tested together with their source
       package (and architecture independent packages).
     + [NT] Schedule groups in chunks (default 512 per chunk).
       This makes the Lintian processes shorter and makes memory
       reclaimable sooner.  (Closes: #695839)
     + [NT] Remove "make-shift" lab-query support now that
       Lintian::Lab supports it.
   * reporting/html_reports:
     + [NT] Update xrefs to include source version.
     + [NT] Generate a text file suitable for Apache's RewriteMap to
       map source packages to the full report for that source.
       Thanks to Joerg "Gannef" Jasper for the suggestion to use
       RewriteMap.  (Closes: #696960)
     + [JP] Fix version labels glitches.
     + [JP] Use global $GRAPHS_RANGE_DAYS.
     + [JP] Pass graph variables to index and tag templates.
   * reporting/lintian.css:
     + [JP] Tweak graph alignment.
   * reporting/templates/{packages,maintainer,tag}.tmpl:
     + [NT] Properly handle multiple versions of the same source and
       add versioned anchors to them.
   * reporting/templates/{index,tag}.tmpl:
     + [JP] Include history graphs in HTML templates.
   * reporting/templates/tag.tmpl:
     + [NT] Fix "empty <ul>" tag when tag has no "extra" information.
       Thanks to Vasudev Kamath for reporting the issue.
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