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Accepted lintian 2.5.40 (source) into unstable



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Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2015 09:43:24 +0000
Source: lintian
Binary: lintian
Architecture: source
Version: 2.5.40
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Lintian Maintainers <lintian-maint@debian.org>
Changed-By: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
Description:
 lintian    - Debian package checker
Closes: 415558 759363 767754 775667 793149 797178 803106 804147 809248 809262 810028 810378 810649 811175 811309
Changes:
 lintian (2.5.40) unstable; urgency=medium
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   * Summary of tag changes:
     + Added:
       - debian-watch-file-uses-deprecated-githubredir
       - file-in-root-and-usr
       - hardening-no-bindnow
       - hardening-no-pie
       - library-in-root-and-usr
       - old-style-config-script
       - old-style-config-script-multiarch-path
       - old-style-config-script-multiarch-path-arch-all
       - vcs-field-uses-insecure-uri
     + Removed:
       - debian-watch-file-accesses-pypi-over-http
       - debian-watch-file-unsupported-pypi-url
 .
   * checks/binaries.{desc,pm}:
     + [JW] Exclude /usr/lib/debug/.build-id/ from foreign-architecture
       checks.  Thanks to Aurelien Jarno for the bug report.  (Closes:
       #809262)
     + [BR] Detect old style config script and detect Mutli-arch error.
     + [NT] Add experimental tag for missing "bindnow" and "pie"
       hardening.  Thanks to intrigeri for the suggestion.
       (Closes: #759363)
   * checks/changes-file.pm:
     + [JW] Use "~bpo7+N" as the suffix for wheezy-backports-sloppy
       uploads.  Thanks to Vincent Bernat for the bug report.  (Closes:
       #810028).
     + [JW] Use "~bpo8+N" as the suffix for jessie backports.
   * checks/changes-file.desc:
     + [JW] Fix typo.
   * checks/cruft.pm:
     + [BR] Pass information about minified javascript down to tag.
       (Closes:  #804147).
   * checks/fields.{desc,pm}:
     + [NT] Apply patch from Dr. Tobias Quathamer <toddy@debian.org> to
       check for some insecure protocols in Vcs-* fields.
       (Closes: #810378)
   * checks/files.pm:
     + [NT] Fix off-by-one in an "mtime" comparison, which could give
       false-positive package-contains-timestamped-gzip warnings.
     + [NT] Downgrade image-file-in-usr-lib to pedantic given the
       policy has relaxed on this point.  (Closes: #415558)
   * checks/files.desc:
     + [JW] Fix typo.
   * checks/source-copyright.{desc,pm}:
     + [JW] Apply patch from Mattia Rizzolo to update the machine-readable
       copyright format specification URL.  (Closes: #809248)
     + [BR] Improve description text of tag
       dep5-copyright-license-name-not-unique.
   * checks/usrmerge.{desc,pm}:
     + [BR] Add usrmerge test from Marco d'Itri.  (Closes: #767754).
   * checks/watch-file.{desc,pm}:
     + [BR] Apply patch from Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>,
       warn if debian/watch uses deprecated
       githubredir.debian.net scraper (Closes: #803106).
     + [NT] Apply patch from Dmitry Shachnev <mitya57@debian.org> to
       remove obsolete check.  (Closes: #793149)
     + [NT] Apply patch from Sylvestre Ledru <sylvestre@debian.org> to
       support version 4 of the debian/watch.  (Closes: #811175)
 .
   * data/spelling/corrections*:
     + [JW] Add more corrections.
       Thanks to Paul Wise for patch for one of them.
 .
   * debian/control:
     + [NT] Add ${perl:Depends} to Depends.
     + [NT] Use https://anonscm.debian.org/git/lintian/lintian.git in the
       Vcs-* fields.
   * debian/rules:
     + [NT] Convert to dh7 style build.
 .
   * frontend/lintian:
     + [NT] Limit the number of instances of the same tag when output is a
       TTY.  Add --no-tag-display-limit to disable this feature.  Thanks
       to Thijs Kinkhorst for the report.  (Closes: #775667)
 .
   * lib/Lintian/Check.pm:
     + [JW] Remove work-around for Email::Valid bug (#663663), which is now
       fixed even in oldstable.
     + [JW] Apply patch from Justin B Rye to fix an uninitialized value
       warning.  (Closes: #810649)
 .
   * reporting/html_reports:
     + [JW] Add missing "map_maintainer" call, which made the reporting
       script omit packages on maintainer's pages.  Thanks to Charles
       Plessy for the report and to Dr. Tobias Quathamer for finding
       the condition for triggering the bug.  (Closes: #797178)
     + [NT] Share more data for a ~15% memory reduction on an old
       dataset.
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   * t:
     + [NT] Fix test case relying on removed debhelper compat level.
       (Closes: #811309)
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