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Accepted lintian 2.5.56 (source all) into unstable



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Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2017 18:29:35 +0000
Source: lintian
Binary: lintian
Architecture: source all
Version: 2.5.56
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Lintian Maintainers <lintian-maint@debian.org>
Changed-By: Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>
Description:
 lintian    - Debian package checker
Closes: 744388 748405 781372 793554 851126 871711 873612 878446 878449 878457 878515 878517 878518 878521 878522 878798 878806 879152 879206 879661 879860 879861 879862 879935 879953
Changes:
 lintian (2.5.56) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Summary of tag changes:
     + Added:
       - appstream-metadata-invalid
       - debhelper-tools-from-autotools-dev-are-deprecated
       - debian-control-has-empty-field
       - debian-rules-sets-dpkg-architecture-variable
       - empty-section-field
       - file-contains-trailing-whitespace
       - init.d-script-contains-skeleton-template-content
       - latest-changelog-entry-without-new-date
 .
   * checks/appstream-metadata.{pm,desc}:
     + [CL] Don't error out when AppStream metadata is invalid and emit new
       appstream-metadata-invalid tag instead.  (Closes: #879661)
   * checks/binaries.desc:
     + [CL] Apply patch from Adrian Bunk to mention the lack of the "-g"
       flag as a common cause for the debug-file-with-no-debug-symbols tag.
       (Closes: #878806)
     + [CL] Apply patch from Guillem Jover to strongly discourage the use
       of the getconf(1) interface for LFS support.  (Closes: #879935)
   * checks/changes-file.desc:
     + [CL] Add a note to orig-tarball-missing-upstream-signature regarding
       support in pristine-tar and git-buildpackage.
   * checks/conffiles.pm, checks/{debconf,files,scripts}.desc:
     + [CL] Apply patch from Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta@iki.fi> to fix a
       number of spelling mistakes.  (Closes: #878446)
     + [CL] Apply patch from Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta@iki.fi> to update
       a number of manual references.  (Closes: #878517)
   * checks/control-file.{pm,desc}:
     + [CL] Warn about empty fields in debian/control.  (Closes: #744388)
   * checks/cruft.{pm,desc}:
     + [CL] Warn about certain files under debian/* that contain trailing
       whitespace characters.  (Closes: #748405)
   * checks/debconf.desc:
     + [CL] Apply patch from Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta@iki.fi> to update
       the debconf-spec refs.  (Closes: #878449)
   * checks/debhelper.{desc,pm}:
     + [NT] Add a check for packages using the debhelper tooling from the
       autotools-dev package.  These have been replaced by the changes
       inside debhelper itself.
     + [NT] Avoid useless-autoreconf-build-depends for autotools-dev when
       the autotools-dev tooling is used in debian/rules.
       (Closes: #871711)
   * checks/fields.pm:
     + [CL] Apply patch from Nicolas Boulenguez to accept and recommend the
       new vcs-mtn mtn:// uri format.  (Closes: #878798)
     + [CL] Emit new empty-section-field tag instead of uninitialized value
       warnings on an empty "Section:" field.  (Closes: #878515)
   * checks/files.pm:
     + [CL] Lower the severity of package-installs-java-bytecode from
       "error" to "warning".  (Closes: #879862)
     + [CL] Do not trigger package-installs-java-bytecode if the path
       contains "WEB-INF", "demo", "doc" etc.  (Closes: #879860)
     + [CL] Verify files triggering package-installs-java-bytecode files
       really are Java class files.  (Closes: #879861)
   * checks/init.d.pm:
     + [CL] Check for files that use content from the /etc/init.d/skeleton
       template. Thanks to Christoph Biedl for the idea.  (Closes: #879152)
   * checks/md5sums.pm:
     + [CL] Allow empty md5sums files.  (Closes: #781372)
   * checks/rules.{pm,desc}:
     + [CL] Warn on packages unnecessararily setting dpkg-architecture(1)
       variables.  (Closes: #793554)
   * checks/scripts.desc:
     + [CL] Check the "Recommends" field as well when testing scripts for
       script-needs-depends-on-sensible-utils.  (Closes: #879953)
   * checks/source-changelog.{desc.pm}:
     + [CL] Move latest-debian-changelog-entry-without-new-date tag into a
       new check of type "source".  (Closes: #873612)
   * checks/watch-file.pm:
     + [CL] Include the offending URI in debian-watch-uses-insecure-uri
       output, not the line number.
     + [CL] Ignore the magic http://sf.net/ redirector URI for the
       debian-watch-uses-insecure-uri tag.  (Closes: #879206)
 .
   * data/common/source-fields:
     + [NT] Add "Rules-Requires-Root".
   * data/fields/essential:
     + [CL] Apply patch from Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de> to treat
       e2fsprogs as non-essential.  (Closes: #878518)
   * data/fields/perl-provides:
     + [CL] Update for Perl 5.026001.
   * data/scripts/interpreters:
     + [CL] Add cwl-runner to the list of interpreters.  (Closes: #851126)
   * data/spelling/corrections:
     + [CL] Revert addition of "none were" -> "none was" multiword spelling
       correction as it is "acceptable beyond serious criticism".
       (Closes: #878457)
 .
   * debian/control:
     + [NT] Set R³ to "no".  Lintian builds fine without root and
       Build-Depends on fakeroot for the tests that still require
       fakeroot.
 .
   * doc/lintian.xml, checks/{fields,files,menu-format}.desc, etc.:
     + [CL] Apply patch from Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta@iki.fi> to update
       a large number of errors in links.  (Closes: #878521)
 .
   * private/refresh-manual-refs:
     + [CL] Apply patch from Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta@iki.fi> to update
       the Debconf reference mapping. Many thanks!  (Closes: #878449)
     + [CL] Apply a patch series from Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta@iki.fi>
       to a number of issues in the Menu, Perl, Python and Debian
       Policy parsing.
 .
   * t/scripts/pod-synopsis.t:
     + [CL] Apply patch from Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta@iki.fi> to skip all
       POD synopsis tests if Test::Pod is not available.  (Closes: #878522)
   * t/tests/debconf-config-*, t/tests/legacy-maintainer-scripts:
     + [CL] Split out checks for debconf-config-not-executable into a
       separate test protected by a Test-Requires now that dpkg >= 1.19.0
       will bail out on that condition.
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