lintian (1.20.17) unstable; urgency=high
* Colin patches:
fixed typo in man page causing incorrect formatting, closes: #114118
duplicate relations check is a lot more intelligent, closes: #119048
* urgency set to high to reflect the fact that the relations check is
reporting many packages violating policy when in fact they are following
it correctly. This is especially true for the new python policy.
-- Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <shaleh@debian.org> Sun, 25 Nov 2001 18:15:04 -0800
lintian (1.20.16) unstable; urgency=low
* the "next day bug" release
* give an error if a package declares a relation on the same package twice,
i.e. Depends: libc6, libc6 (<< 2.0). Closes: #27442.
* objdump-info collection script now handles UPX binaries (closes: #113497)
-- Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <shaleh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Sep 2001 15:40:30 -0700
lintian (1.20.15) unstable; urgency=low
* the "collecting unemployment and have time to code" release
* no longer use syscall to exit from pipeline handler, now uses POSIX::_exit
Closes: #112205.
* Accept Joy's NMU patch (he applied it as 1.20.14.1).
Closes: #110991, #109244.
* Warn if the copyright file contains dh-perl-make boilerplate as suggested
by James Troup. In the process debmake-templates-in-copyright became
helper-templates-in-copyright. Closes: #110337.
* Oops, used the same argument name (-s) twice. Reverted back to -s meaning
"source". Updated manpage and source to reflect this. Closes: #109631.
* added a warning when hardlinks are used. Closes: #103893, #97518.
I am closing #97518 here as well which asked that I warn about hard links
that link to files in another directory. Since I warn about hardlinks
existing adding a separate check for where they link seems silly.
* applied Edward Betts patch to detect .cvsignore and CVS/. Closes: #74684.
* applied Daniel Schleper's patch for Build-Depends v. Build-Depends-Indep.
Closes: #92472.
* applied Edward Betts patch for detecting a misspelling in common-licenses.
* added 'debain' to list of spelling errors. Closes: #112083.
* applied Steve Kowalik's patch that adds out-of-date-standards-version.
This will be defined as the policy shipped with the last stable release.
Closes: #112043.
* Made doc-base-references-usr-doc inform which file is the culprit.
Closes: #111020.
* Applied Steve M. Robbins' patch for improved handling of ldconfig checks
in maintainer scripts. Closes: #110465, #113285.
* do not complain about static binaries if they are called "foo.static".
Closes: #98288.
* testset/runtests now calls dpkg-buildpackage with a '-d' so build-depends
are not checked.
* oops I left 'debian' in the spelling check list.
* backed out Gergely Nagy's suggestion for checking for 'Author(s)'. That
is just overly pedantic and lame. Reopens: #107815, tagged wontfix.
* checks/etcfiles now complains about ANY file found in /etc that is not a
conffile. The finer grain checks have been removed. Closes: #103940.
Added a new testset 'etcfiles' to go along with the test.
* debconf check now looks for the 'seen' flag and gives an error if the
package does not have a versioned dependency on debconf 0.5.00.
Closes: #113164.
-- Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <shaleh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Sep 2001 12:20:00 -0700
lintian (1.20.14.1) unstable; urgency=low
* Another non-maintainer upload blessed by the maintainer, to clean up
after the last such NMU. :)
* Fixed spurious postinst-has-useless-call-to-ldconfig warnings, patch
from Colin Watson, closes: #109721. Also fixed the silly error in
shared-libs which broke shlib-missing-in-control-file.
* Fixed checking for /var/lib/games, patch from Andrew Suffield, amended
by me not to warn for the files but just that dir, closes: #109970.
* Have debian-changelog-file-contains-user-emacs-settings checked only
at the start of the line (wonder if Emacs allows indentation in there?),
closes: #109971.
* Force LANG=C because of a bug in debiandoc-sgml, closes: #110891.
-- Josip Rodin <jrodin@jagor.srce.hr> Sat, 1 Sep 2001 21:01:30 +0200
lintian (1.20.14) unstable; urgency=low
* Non-maintainer upload blessed by the maintainer. Kudos to Colin Watson
and Steve Kowalik for helping in the preparation of this upload.
* Skip shared objects which aren't in %ldso_dir in some shlib checks,
as per changes in Policy 3.5.5, finally closes: #42399, #41613.
* Fixed Policy section in package-contains-upstream-install-documentation,
closes: #94267.
* Added Adrian Bunk's patch for pike/pike7 stuff, along with pike7 stuff
in checks/scripts.desc so it's consistent, closes: #94902.
* Added an error for leaving files generated by autoconf in the source
package, patch from Colin Watson, closes: #107679, #94316.
This pulled in renaming checks/debian-cruft* to cruft*, logically.
* Added checks/infofiles* for everything related to info files, moved
parts of checks/menus* in it and added compression related errors,
closes: #95785.
* Added Brendan O'Dea's patch for checking Perl module directories,
and for not checking the source for each matching file in a !$is_python
package, closes: #96350.
* Removed lc() from checks on whether a debconf field value is valid,
closes: #106324.
* Improved binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath description, closes: #94901.
* Fixed the references to /usr/doc in the manual page using the patch
from Stephen Stafford, closes: #103177.
* Added debconf's "config" among %maintainer_scripts in
checks/control-files, closes: #108123.
* Added "Debian/GNU Linux" among the corrections in checks/spelling,
closes: #35761. It required some other modifications but oh well.
* Added a new warning, doc-base-file-references-usr-doc, closes: #46582.
This required adding collection/doc-base-files* and using that in
checks/menus*.
* Added a new error, debian-changelog-file-contains-user-emacs-settings,
closes: #84750. This required using collection/changelog-file in
checks/changelog-file (doh! :).
* Complains on manual pages located in /usr/(share|X11R6)/man instead of
man* subdirs, closes: #93056.
* Added php4 as a valid interpreter, closes: #94534.
* Fixed a little bug in checks/spelling.desc, it lacked a comma in its
Needs-Info field.
* Added a warning when there's common-licenses and not
/usr/share/common-licenses/ in the copyright file, closes: #99886.
* Added a warning when there's "Upstream Author(s)" in the copyright file,
closes: #107815.
* Removed -v from command(1) invocation check, patch from Colin Watson,
closes: #96227.
* Mention the language in select-with-translated-default-field and
partially-translated-question, patch from Colin Watson, closes: #95795.
Also, fixed some thinkos in the code for the latter warning.
* No longer barfs on debhelper-generated safe ldconfig calls, patch from
Paul Martin, closes: #82479.
* Added the recent Policy versions up to 3.5.6 to standards-version,
and moved the threshold for ancient versions up to 3.2.0 because that
version was released a bit more than one year ago, closes: #104766.
* Added a new error, package-depends-on-an-x-font-package. The pattern
is ^xfont.*, that ought to work fine (xfntil2 et al will go undetected,
but that's obsolete).
* Colin tweaked lib/text_utils.pl to display indented and empty stuff in
Info: tags properly.
-- Josip Rodin <jrodin@jagor.srce.hr> Sat, 18 Aug 2001 18:46:34 +0200
lintian (1.20.13) unstable; urgency=low
* debhelper check for lacks #DEBHELPER# token now checks if -n was passed
to the dh_ script. Thanks Chip for pointing this out. (closes: #92624)
* list of debhelper programs that want to write to maintainer scripts updated
* now check for Build-Depends on essential or build-essential packages
(closes: #92372)
-- Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <shaleh@debian.org> Thu, 5 Apr 2001 16:00:10 -0700
lintian (1.20.12) unstable; urgency=low
* 'farewell to Fabrizio Polacco' release
* checks/debhelper's dh-make-template check did not include the $type in
its output.
* removed spurious debug message from zero-byte-file check in checks/files
* lintian no longer runs its regression test when it builds (closes: #92192)
* unpack-src-l2 now ensures that we have sufficient permissions to later
remove the package (closes: #92224)
* bashism check now looks for bash style arrays, thanks Torsten Landschoff.
also added to testset.
-- Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <shaleh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Apr 2001 12:30:20 -0700
lintian (1.20.11) unstable; urgency=low
* 'where is my mind release'
* added science to list of known sections, Closes: #91798
* cleanup override handling, was using chop instead of chomp
* checks/binaries checks a binary for profiling symbols now, Closes: #91837
* removed false report of prerm failing to remove a doc link when there is
no doc dir, just a symlink to another package.
-- Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <shaleh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Mar 2001 11:22:22 -0800
lintian (1.20.10) unstable; urgency=low
* 'I think I remember perl' release
* checks/menu-format would die if the last line of a menu had a line
continuation character. Seems the function was not getting called with
all 5 arguments.
* added a list of exempt paths for static binaries, currently only /boot
is listed.
-- Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <shaleh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Mar 2001 14:14:41 -0800
lintian (1.20.9) unstable; urgency=low
* 'rule monger' release
* checks/debhelper: make regex case insensitive, Closes: #89070
* checks/debhelper: modify search logic so it does not report false postives
when both Build-Depends and Build-Depends-Indep are defined, Closes: #89069
* Fix the decription for package-contains-upstream-install-documentation,
Closes: #89257
* dh_testversion is deprecated, patch applied. Closes: #89624
* lintian now detects that the deb/dsc/changes file it was told to parse is
zero bytes and skips it.
-- Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <shaleh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Mar 2001 14:16:24 -0800
lintian (1.20.8) unstable; urgency=low
* 'wearing my "fuck redhat" shirt and loving it' release
* checks/menus, the check for whether or not the doc symlink is removed
fails for people who do not use the -f option to rm (or any other options)
thanks Oliver Elphick, Closes: #88182
* checks/scripts handles 'wish' better (I hope), Closes: #88333
* checks/debconf, the registry check is ignore if the package being tested
is debconf itself. Closes: #88526
* frontend handles files that are referenced but do not exist better
* this is looking like one of the last releases for a while
-- Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <shaleh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Mar 2001 10:42:03 -0800
lintian (1.20.7) unstable; urgency=low
* 'test everything' release
* updated architecture list -- hppa, ia64, mips, mipsel, s390, sh added
* added 'Enhances' to list of known fields
* removed libwraster2 from list of obsolete packages, Closes: #85584
* Colin Watson's debconf checks added, still need a testset though,
Closes: #85876, #84759
* checks/menus now checks for proper use of install-info,
Closes: #25823, #30192
need a testset for this too
* checks/files.desc now points to the FHS in /usr/share/doc/debian-policy
* applied Joey Hess' app-defaults patch. This allows app-defaults to be
conffiles as well as adding a check for app-defaults in old dirs.
Closes: #86707, #76811
* lintian now knows more about 3.5.x's X policy in 12.8. Added check for
Xresources file but no conflicts on xbase (<< 3.3.2.3a-2). Closes: #63542
* applied Joey Hess's perl patch. Now know that pm's in /usr/share have
no need for the +x bit. Closes: #86709
* check for INSTALL in /usr/share/doc now knows about INSTALL\..+ (i.e.
INSTALL.gz)
* checks/standards-version has an error for packages which declare a source
relation (ie Build-Depends) but are not at least policy 3.1.x.
Closes: #86711
* checks/fields now checks that the arch definition in source relations
follows policy. Closes: #86710
* added wish8.3 to list of known interpreters in checks/scripts
* warning description cleanups, Closes: #87528
* added more bashism checks -- '|&', '$[foo]', '${parm:len[:offset]}',
'${parm/pat[/str]}', '${parm//pat[/str]}'
Closes: #32113 (the suiregister stuff happened a release or three ago)
you guessed it, need a testset
* bashism check now tells you what it thinks the bashism was.
Closes: #81738
* bashism checks now ignore here documents, Closes: #87527
teset/maintainer-scripts now has a here document in a script and extended
bash triggers.
Also, various other bashism test cleanups and improvements.
* typo in scripts fixed, now I really do work on python2, thanks Jerome.
Closes: #87772
* hmm, versioned-provides message was often wrong, made it better and it
reports the perceived relation, i.e. foo (= 4).
* removed the -w and strict from reporting/ scripts
* update-menus checks enhanced with knowledge about wm-menu-config.
* added 'asmodule' to list of known menu tags
* depends-on-essential-package-without-using-version now is only reported
for actual depends or pre-depends.
* interpreter checking handles arbitrary whitespace now
* fixed scripts check for ocaml, now know about ocamlrun.
* unusual-interpreter messages were being caused by not prepending '.' to
the interpreter name when checking %executables in checks/scripts.
* still more fun with ++ )-: menus is now even more paranoid with
quotemeta().
* ensure $setuid, $setgid is set in checks/files, thanks to the luxman
package for triggering the perl oops.
* collections/scripts handles files that only contain '#!'.
-- Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <shaleh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Feb 2001 08:55:09 -0800
lintian (1.20.6) unstable; urgency=low
* 'people who depend on side effects should be flogged' release
* lintian had code which set a variable to undef, then used it. Without
-w and use strict, this silently became a zero, but now it causes errors.
So, since it obviously was meant to be zero, I set it to zero instead of
undef. Closes: #85326
Fun part was this only happened when run on more than one version of a
single package i.e. lintian foo_1.changes foo_2.changes.
* checks/scripts updated to deal with python2.x and there being two versions
of python. Closes: #85441
while doing this, collections/scripts was updated to support the use of
/usr/bin/env. I probably added bugs here )-:
added a scripts testset, very early still.
* my modification to checks/menus to support /usr/share/doc/package -> other
had a problem with special chars. Now calls quotemeta(). Annoying because
I have a ++ package name but it did not trigger this particular case.
So, I added a package to foo++ which links to foo++. Closes: #85530
* added a TODO to the private dir.
* left off a closes in the big perl closings 2 revisions ago, Closes: #80192
-- Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <shaleh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Feb 2001 14:28:19 -0800
lintian (1.20.5) unstable; urgency=low
* 'people who name a lib libfoo-X.X.so should be shot' release
* checks/shared-libs handles libraries of the form 'libfoo-X.X.so' now
* the virtual package check I added in the last release failed to check
the field it was testing, so errors were reported on fields other than
Depends. Ooops. The description also should have referred to packaging
not policy. Closes: #85225
-- Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <shaleh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Feb 2001 13:55:10 -0800
lintian (1.20.4) unstable; urgency=low
* 'why would you ever do THAT?' release
* lintian-info sets $ENV{'LINTIAN_ROOT'} if it is not set
* added a check to checks/files for packages which ship the upstream INSTALL
document. This is almost always useless for users of a package.
testset/binary now includes such a file
Closes: #81970
* checks/menus -- the walk over package contents now has logic to run file
tests on files, link tests on links, etc.
* checks/menus -- if there is a /usr/share/doc/$pkg symlink, assume it links
to a package it depends on and do not warn about setting the usr/doc
symlink. There is code in checks/copyright-file that makes sure policy is
followed with regards to what is actually linked against. Closes: #48048
* checks/fields is now less strict about Section: non-US handling
* added debconf files to list of known control files in checks/control-files
Closes: #46863
* perl mistakes are no longer checked for. Closes: #47076, #75889
* FHS 2.1 cleanups, Closes: #75878
* lintian will not complain if you symlink your doc directory to an essential
package and leave off the depends, because since it is essential you must
not depend on it. Closes: #48296
* lintian now gives and error when a package declares a depends on an
essential package without using a versioned depends. Closes: #33250
* extra-license-file is not given if the file is just a symlink.
Closes: #35224
* checks/fields: now complain if a package declares a depends on a virtual
package without first depending on a real packages as an alternative.
Required adding a known_virtual_packages list to checks/common_data.pl.
Also removed redundant info/registered-virtual-packages file.
Closes: #70673
* added a library (mostly empty right now) and non-us testset
* runtests now runs the tests in alphabetical order
* lintian's --version info is being updated automagically again
* moved some hashes around in checks/ to common_data.pl
* checks/changelog-file reorganized so it knows the size of the files. Now
it can check that the changelog is sufficiently large to require
compressing. Also modified the desc file to reflect this. Closes: #84400
* --info now outputs all info. Silly bug in how I used split and defined.
Closes: #82970
* added a testset/check_info.pl script. It verifies that every lintian
check referenced in a desc also has an info section. runtests now runs
this test as well.
* suidregister warning is now an error.
* checks/menus: fixed the if link case pattern match -- one more perl erro
down, 3 billion hidden ones to go.
* Following items thanks to Colin Watson
* updated checks/standards-version so it does not give perl errors when it
encounters a newer standards version than it knows about. Closes: #84083
* updated references to policy for policy 3.5.0. Closes: #84088, #83969
* Added a warning for packages containing a link to undocumented(7) as
suggested on debian-policy list. Also includes a testset (manpages)
addition.
Closes: #83188
* At the moment checks/copyright-file just tests for a slash in the link;
I've changed it here to test for an initial / or ../, and then after that
check it strips off everything from the first slash on, so that tests on
the package name work correctly when people link to subdirectories of
other /usr/share/doc directories. Closes: #84066
* It was unpacking to level 2 even though I had Unpack-Level: 1 and no
associated collection scripts. Of course, it wanted override files from
/usr/share/lintian/overrides/$pkg. Fair enough - except that if I said
--no-override it wanted the override file information anyway, and still
unpacked to level 2. No obeys non-overrides. Closes: #84722
-- Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <shaleh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 14:26:04 -0800
lintian (1.20.3) unstable; urgency=low
* 'Does the pain ever end?' release
* oops, lintian can not create a static lab due to an error check too
early in the code. While fixing this I also added a static lab check in
testset/runtests. Closes: #83411
-- Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <shaleh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 14:36:35 -0800
lintian (1.20.2) unstable; urgency=low
* 'Where or where did my changes go' release
* fixed --help option to not show escaped chars
* changed regression test to also do a run with --info on
* seems lintian always used the lintian-info script from the path, changed
to look in LINTIAN_ROOT if passed
* perl problems cleaned up, Closes: #82970
* removed randomization of output strings when refering to policy documents,
not only is this silly but it makes regression tests impossible
* moved manual_refs.pl list of policy manuals to an external file. This will
allow automated updating when releases occur. It also removes the perl
warnings (-:
-- Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <shaleh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Jan 2001 12:21:30 -0800
lintian (1.20.1) unstable; urgency=low
* the change hurts release
* every perl script now calls use strict and passes -w to perl
The long road of bug tracking because of this has begun. Thanks Joey H.
* testset/filenames now has a lengthy-symlink bug to show how that code works
* typo in checks/control-files in a bashism check, the correct POSIX call
is 'read foo' however the code was checking for the existance of whitespace
before the call, not the existance of the variable to read into due to a
mixed up regex. Thanks Adam Heath for pointing this out. Closes: #81453
* checks/control-files, the check for whether '.' takes more than one
argument did not take into account things like 'and'. It does now.
Closes: #81737
* fixed interpreter check code to hand a space between the #! and the
interpreter (really), also allows bash,ksh,ash as valid sh shells. Also
knows to look for an ELF header and stop parsing the script. Thanks
Colin Watson. Closes: #80348, #82541
* testet/binary-1 added. This is a small C program to test lintian's
handling of binary files. See the changelog in this directory for info
* fixed message for 'manpage-has-wrong-extension', Closes: #82452
* 'N: Unknown interpreter' message now only printed once per script,
Closes: #81644
* added equivalent file-directly-in-usr-share-doc messages (et al.),
Closes: #82654
* added new message: suidregister-used-in-maintainer-script. this replaces
the old messages suidregister-used-in-maintainer-script-other-than-postinst
and suidunregister-not-called-in-postrm due to suidregister being phased
out of Debian. Closes: #81868
* binary-has-unneeded-section upgradeed from info to warning
-- Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <shaleh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 13:04:20 -0800
lintian (1.11.15) unstable; urgency=low
* Hack Hack
* checks/perl disabled until it can be improved
* fixed typo in checks/description: s/%type/$type/
* fixed mental typo in checks/*: $foo == 'string' is not the same as
$foo eq 'string', Closes: #80813
* Added Colin Watson's patches, Closes: #80373, #80376, #80377
-- Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <shaleh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Dec 2000 16:02:58 -0800
lintian (1.11.14) unstable; urgency=low
* more fun with interpreter checking, seems a space is allowed between bang
and the interp path. So, fixed the regex (again). Also store the name
of the interpreter in $interp and use that rather than $is_sh, this will
allow for other interpreter checks later. Closes: #80348
-- Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <shaleh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Dec 2000 15:51:10 -0800
lintian (1.11.13) unstable; urgency=low
* (Joy) fixed a typo in binaries.desc
* (Joy) checks/debhelper now passes $type with the lintian message
* (Joy) libs/text_utils.pl, reporting/html_reports fix maintainer name
* checks/control-files now checks if the postrm calls update-alternatives
with the --remove option, this is considered harmful, Closes: #80255
checks/control-files.desc explains the problem in detail
* fixed checks/menus setting of is_sh, $foo = split() sets foo to the number
of items, not the first item -- duh (-: How did this make it thru testing?
added a maintainer-scripts testset to help catch this in the future
-- Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <shaleh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 10:34:43 -0800
lintian (1.11.12) unstable; urgency=low
* new command line option: --show-overrides, displays tags even if
they have been overriden, marked 'O: .....'
* shared-libs.desc text changed to give more info when a shared library is
present, but the SONAME is not set or set improperly, Closes: #78277
* removed references to libtool-workarounds.txt (it never died ....),
Closes: #78420
* my reformat of the code in checks/menu-format changed the regex from
m/^#/ to m/^#/, I changed it back (kind of). The test is now
m/^\s*\#/ just in case a space snuck in. Also modified the code so it
does a if (m//) { next;} rather than if (! m//) { ........ }.
Closes: #78532
* checks/menus now checks which interpreter the maint script uses and varies
its checks accordingly -- works for sh and perl currently, Closes: #78880
Updated menus.desc while I was at it.
* fixed typo in scripts.desc, pike error message should have referred to pike
not to make, Closes: #79744
* killed use of \b in bashism checks, now uses (^|\s+), Closes: #80122
-- Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <shaleh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 10:20:30 -0800
lintian (1.11.11) unstable; urgency=low
* Finally, lintian's version number is automagically set
* lintian.sgml updated to document per package overrides info.
* the /usr/share/lintian/overrides/<package> actually works now (-:
-- Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <shaleh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Nov 2000 14:19:22 -0800
lintian (1.11.10) unstable; urgency=low
* Dammit, + sign in package name problems again
added a regression test for a foo++ package. Closes: #77216
* removed the libtool text in the rpath message, libtool no longer sets rpath
the upstream finally saw the light.
-- Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <shaleh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Nov 2000 09:02:50 -0800
lintian (1.11.9) unstable; urgency=low
* Moved the override files from /usr/share/doc/<package> to
/usr/share/lintian/overrides/<package>
also added a check to catch override files in the old directory
* Removed calls to defined in checks/perl, Closes: #76339
* copyright-file-is-gpl renamed to copyright-file-contains-full-gpl-license
* magicfilter should be in /usr/sbin, not /usr/bin, Closes: #76686
* modified testset/empty. dpkg-genchanges now requires a Maintainer
field.
-- Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <shaleh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Nov 2000 12:23:43 -0800
lintian (1.11.8) unstable; urgency=low
* Fixed Description too long message, Closes: #75570
* removed description-may-be-too-long
* Fixed description of package-uses-debhelper-but-lacks-build-depends,
I left the 's' off of lacks
* zero-byte-file-in-usr-doc changed to zero-byte-file-in-doc-directory
* added documentation for zero-byte-file-in-doc-directory, Closes: #75744
* renamed package-source-contains-debian/files to
debian-files-list-in-source, Closes: #75746
-- Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <shaleh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 16:09:09 -0700
lintian (1.11.7) unstable; urgency=low
* Fixed lintian's handling of autouse, Closes: #75115
Thanks Stefan Hornburg for helping me with this
* Fixed silly manpage filename parsing bug, Closes: #75246
* Removed now out of date libtool-workarounds.txt, Closes: #75324
* unpack-srcpkg-l2 used a silly regex to parse dpkg-source output, this
has been fixed to simply read some string of non-whitespace, Closes: #58943
* checks/spelling should now work with high ascii chars, Closes: #70974
* added debiandoc-sgml Build-Depends-Indep, Closes: #74751
* added checks/debian-cruft. Checks for the debian/files file, Closes: #38710
* fixed checks/debhelper -- it actually works now.
* added tixwish to list of known interpreters, Closes: #47775
-- Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <shaleh@debian.org> Tue, 24 Oct 2000 15:29:14 -0700
lintian (1.11.6) unstable; urgency=low
* Fixed manpages check to handle oddly named files, now uses
File::Basename
* fixed debhelper check so it will detect a need for Build-Depends even if
a script which needs to modify maintainer scripts is not used.
* lintian-info now outputs info for source messages too, Closes: #51811
* used a different syntax in checks/perl rather than set $2, Closes: #54710
* if dh_testversion is called by a package, ensure that the package uses a
versioned Build-Depends
* Maintainer Upload (with Darren's blessing)
-- Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <shaleh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Oct 2000 13:23:51 -0700
lintian (1.11.5) unstable; urgency=low
* /etc/pam.d are now checked to ensure they are conffiles, Closes: #50293
* fixed the typo in checks/copyright-file, Closes: #53626
* fixed description, lintian is at policy 3.2.0.0, Closes: #55083
* fixed checks/standards-version, knows about policy version 3.2.0,
Closes: #68655
* check for zero byte length files in /usr/share/doc/<package>,
Closes: #59508
* added a fail function to frontends/lintian, Closes: #69259
* checks/files.desc now refers to FHS 2.1, Closes: #69422
* ran ispell on checks/*.desc files, Closes: #69423
* added checks for suidregister and suidunregister, Closes: #29444
* lintian now checks the length of the short description, Closes: #33411
* lintian now verifies that /etc/cron.{d,daily,monthly,weekly} files are
marked as conffiles, Closes: #46332
* Description: is checked to make sure it is not a dh_make template,
Closes: #59141
* fixed URL in README, Closes: #59733
* added magicfilter to list of interpreters, Closes: #60361
* added check if debhelper is used by a package, it is included in
Build-Depends, Closes: #70438
* for menu files, if the menu needs=foo and foo is the package name, assume
this is ok. Also, sections that match the package name are also assumed
to be ok. This affects mostly window managers. Closes: #64674
* Checks whether the icon used in a menu file is in xpm format.
* added {g,k,p,y}forth as valid interpreters, Closes: #51778
* More checks/ dir cleanups
-- Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <shaleh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 15:31:38 -0700
lintian (1.11.4) unstable; urgency=low
* Brought lintian.sgml up to date
* cleaned up the layout of frontend/lintian
* Dep::implies did not parse Depend: foo | bar | baz correctly, this is why
things like wmakerconf gave bogus errors. This is duct taped, real fix
some day.
* Closes: #43706
-- Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <shaleh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Sep 2000 19:13:20 -0700
lintian (1.11.3) unstable; urgency=low
* Added 'Format' field to dsc file checks
New dpkg versions seem to write a Format version to dsc files, lintian
flagged them as an unknown field.
* lintian failed lintian (-:
changed copyright to point at /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL
-- Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <shaleh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Sep 2000 15:35:03 -0700
lintian (1.11.2) unstable; urgency=low
* Official maintainer change
* Package specified overrides
* Fixed perl dep check bug
* Added perl modules: (#46118) (#51457) (thanks ardo)
* Added interpreter ocaml (#50933)
* Cleaned up some overrides -hopefully not yours (#48703, #48769)
* SUID allowed for packages named *-suid
* Applied Frank Belew's patches (#39832 #48794)
* Added checks for /usr/[share/]doc/copyrights references in copyright
file
* Added change in directory checks based on changes by the Great X
Reorganization
* Added check for text version of changelog no matter what
* Added check for /var/lib/games
* Added checks for Build-* source-depends fields
* Updated standards-version to accept 3.1.0 and made anything 2.x ancient
-- Darren Benham <gecko@debian.org> Fri, 24 Sep 1999 09:59:35 -0700
lintian (1.10) unstable; urgency=low
* Richard's changes:
* Darren's changes:
+ changed rm of /usr/doc link to look for rm and rm -f (closes: #46740)
+ changed numerous overrides to account for tar (closes: #46903)
+ added doc-base override (closes: #45999)
+ changed of URI:: functions liburi-perl (closes: #45770)
+ added recognition of HTML::SimpleParse (closes: #45081)
+ added "hints" to the known menu tags (closes: #47248)
+ changed example checks to include ./ (closes: #44897)
+ moved data/dumper to perl|perl5 (closes: #42036)
+ changed perl|perl5 check to allow perl5|perl (ver) (closes: #44425)
+ caused lintian to skip many file related checks for the files in
directories /hurd and /server (closes: #36680)
-- Darren Benham <gecko@debian.org> Fri, 24 Sep 1999 09:59:35 -0700
lintian (1.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
* Richard's changes:
* Darren's changes:
+ Added a check for /etc/pam.conf. Precursor for reserved
/etc/* files
+ Added a check of postinst and prerm for /usr/doc symlink manipulation
+ Added the /usr/doc symlink to lintians scripts
-- Darren Benham <gecko@debian.org> Mon, 13 Sep 1999 22:06:07 -0700
lintian (1.8.2) unstable; urgency=low
* Richard's changes:
* Darren's changes:
+ Added /var/lib to the FHS check
+ Fix for the new tar
+ Make libraster2, not libraster1 obsolete
-- Darren Benham <gecko@debian.org> Thu, 5 Aug 1999 00:13:28 -0700
lintian (1.7) unstable; urgency=low
* Richard's changes:
* Darren's changes:
+ This time.. added Help as a valid root level menu option
+ Changed FSSTND directory Infos to Josip's suggested wording.
+ Removed /var/lib from the FSSTND check
+ Fixed non-US/section check
+ Added text about bashism checks perfromed to N: tag
+ Fixed bad-link-to-undocumented.man.page N: tag
-- Darren Benham <gecko@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 15:54:37 -0700
lintian (1.6) unstable; urgency=low
* Richard's changes:
* Darren's changes:
+ Added some bashism checks from Shalah
+ Added /usr/share/doc as valid directory
+ Added /usr/share/man as valid directory
+ Set warning for FSSTND directories
+ Added Help and App/Databases to valid menu entries
+ Added patch from Steve Haslam to recognise /etc/menu-methods and
check for update-menus calls
+ Added overrieds for dh_make requested by C. Small
+ Added patch from Roderick Schertler to skip comments/blank lines at
top of menu files.
+ Changed the relative shared-library check to look for either
rela.text or rel.text, not just rel.text. This is needed for PowerPC
and other non-i386 architectures.
+ Added ruby as a valid interpreter
+ Added notice when unrecogized file format is found that it might be
due to a missing package: binutils-multiarch
-- Darren Benham <gecko@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jul 1999 17:15:40 -0700
lintian (1.5) unstable; urgency=low
* Richard's changes:
* Darren's changes:
+ Changed file error message to indicate it's file's
fault(closes: #37259)
+ Changed perl depends to perl | perl5 to cover both
Also added perl-5.004 and perl-5.005 since they are valid perls
(closes: #41041, closes: #39835)
+ Remove a undefine causing spurious unknown-tag error (close: #40699)
+ Ancient-ized standards-version 2.4.0 and 2.4.1
+ Added policy 2.5.1 to the accepted number for standards-version
+ Check for use of /etc/nntpserver. Only major change in policy v2.5.1
+ Added perl-5.005 and perl-5.004 as valid interpreters (close: #39834)
-- Darren Benham <gecko@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jul 1999 11:46:53 -0700
lintian (1.4-1) unstable; urgency=low
* Richard's changes:
+ When reporting errors in .changes files, report filenames the way
they were listed, rather than as absolute pathnames.
+ Don't exit with code 1 for errors that were overridden.
This fixes bug#37353, reported by Wichert Akkerman.
+ Correctly handle escaped characters in menu items (bug pointed
out by Raphael Herzog).
+ bltwish scripts should now depend on blt, not blt8.0.
This fixes bug#38092, reported by Gordon Russell.
* Darren's changes:
+ override requested by christian kurz for ppp. Several of the
files/dirs have non-standard permissions.
+ override requested by adam kleine for gtk-engines-gtkstep. Contains
libraries not meant to be linked.
+ override requested by Manoj Srivastava for latex2html. Fixes
bug#38098.
+ hugs added to the list of interpreters. Fixes bug#37668 reported by
Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho.
-- Darren Benham <gecko@debian.org> Tue, 11 May 1999 13:24:27 -0700
lintian (1.3-1) unstable; urgency=low
* Richard's changes:
+ For install-docs, accept --remove as well as -r. Fixes bug#35664,
reported by James Van Zandt.
+ In explanatory text for prerm-does-not-call-installdocs, give a
correct example for the prerm (not the postinst). Fixes bug#35665,
reported by James Van Zandt.
+ List gmp2 as obsolete package (replaced by libgmp2).
+ Don't generate depends-on-obsolete-package for -dev and -dbg packages
that depend on their library.
* Darren's changes:
+ override requested by julian gilbey for menu. Menu can't call
update-menus in postrm since it won't exist then.
+ added requested override for vtwm update menus. Fixes bug#36457
reported by Branden Robinson
+ override requested by Oliver Elphick for postgresql-pl. Has shared
libraries not loaded by ld.so
-- Darren Benham <gecko@debian.org> Mon, 05 Apr 1999 16:00:05 -0800
lintian (1.2-1) unstable; urgency=low
* Darren's changes:
+ added the -1 to denote purely packaging changes
+ added fvwmother to menu needs= check (fixes bug#35057)
* Richard's changes:
+ Added new tag package-installs-packlist.
This closes wishlist bug#33827, reported by Joey Hess.
+ Mark all versions of libgtk1.1 as obsolete for
depends-on-obsolete-package tag.
+ For tag arch-indep-package-contains-binary-or-object,
tighten up regexp that detects "ELF". This fixes bug#35237,
reported by Mark Brown.
-- Darren Benham <gecko@debian.org> Mon, 29 Mar 1999 16:31:05 -0800
lintian (1.1) unstable; urgency=low
* Zapped compiled-with-bad-libc check.
* Corrected spelling error in spelling check (it flagged "interchangeable"
as a bad word; this should have been "interchangable"). This fixes
bug#33252, reported by Santiago Vila.
* Silenced non-standard-dir-in-usr check about /usr/$arch-linuxlibc1/,
which will go away at some point and is not worth moving now.
I'll file a policy proposal for it at some point. This fixes
bug#33114, reported by Marcus Brinkmann, and bug#33374, reported
by James Troup
* Silenced non-standard-dir-in-var check about /var/www/, since it's
Debian policy to use it.
-- Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 14:43:27 +0100
lintian (1.0) unstable; urgency=low
* New tags:
E: non-standard-toplevel-dir
W: non-standard-dir-in-usr
W: non-standard-dir-in-var
W: file-in-unusual-dir
E: dir-or-file-in-mnt
E: binary-in-etc
E: use-of-compat-symlink
E: subdir-in-bin
These cover much of the FSSTND and FHS.
* No longer emit executable-in-usr-doc for scripts. It's just too
controversial. I've added an info-level tag script-in-usr-doc
for people who are interested. This closes bug#28560, by
Stephane Bortzmeyer.
* Only emit compiled-with-bad-libc if the register_frame symbols
are UNdefined. This closes bug#31867, submitted by Michael Meskes.
* Don't emit compiled-with-bad-libc for binaries linked to
libgnustep_base.so.0, which also defines __register_frame_info.
This closes bug#31004, submitted by Matthias Klose.
* Changed a lot of "error:" messages to "internal error:", to make
clear that they are errors in Lintian's execution, not in the package
being checked. This closes bug#31013, submitted by James Troup.
* (frontend/lintian) Select STDOUT again after closing OUTPUT_PIPE.
This fixes bug#31574, reported by Julian Gilbey. Thanks for the patch!
* (checks/copyright-file) Lintian was confused by "libident(=0.22-1)",
i.e. without separating whitespace. Fixed. This closes bug#31821,
reported by Paul Slootman.
* Man page fix: mention that lintian can be run on .changes files.
* Depcheck pages: fixed version comparison bug.
-- Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl> Wed, 27 Jan 1999 14:43:15 +0100
lintian (0.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
* Do not abort when run as root; print a warning instead.
--allow-root still overrides the warning.
* Only generate non-standard-file-permissions-for-etc-init.d-script
tag for regular files. Reported by Martin Schulze.
* Corrected libtool-workaround sample configure.in snippet:
Look for *-*-linux-gnu, not *-pc-linux-gnu.
Fixes bug#30756, reported by James Troup.
* Made lintian abort with an error message when objdump can't handle
a binary's file format. Also made lintian Suggest binutils-multiarch.
* New error tag: arch-dependent-file-in-usr-share
This closes bug#30742, reported by Matthias Klose.
* Added gnuplot as a known interpreter. Suggestion by Rafael Laboissiere.
-- Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl> Sun, 20 Dec 1998 18:05:46 +0100
lintian (0.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
* New features (summary):
- 112 new spelling corrections.
- Minor efficiency improvements.
- Checks __register_frame_info problems.
- Updated to policy 2.5.0
* (lib/util.pl) Exit with code 2 when failing, like the manpage says.
* (checks/files) Print octal permissions in
bad-permissions-for-etc-cron.d-script, not decimal.
* (checks/files)
Ignore .xpm extensions too when hunting for extra license files.
* (checks/conffiles, checks/conffiles.desc)
Renamed -may-not-be- tags to -must-not-be-, for clarity.
* Replaced most bash scripts with perl scripts, for faster startup times
and fewer subprocesses. This speeds up lintian by some 30% on my machine.
* (collection/objdump-info)
Add -T flag, to collect dynamic symbols table too.
* (checks/binaries)
Look for __register_frame_info and __unregister_frame_info.
New tag: compiled-with-bad-libc
* (checks/*.desc) Use new (2.5.0) section numbering for policy references.
* (checks/changelog-file) Accept changelog.html.gz files.
* (checks/standards-version) newer-standards-version is warning, not error.
This fixes bug#29366, reported by Julian Gilbey <jdg@maths.qmw.ac.uk>.
* (checks/standards-version) Updated to standards-version 2.5.0.
* (info/overrides) New overrides.
Fixes bug#29449 reported by Marcus Brinkmann (libc5 overrides)
* (checks/standards-version.desc) Remove the link to the upgrading-checklist,
which I can no longer find and which is probably not maintained anymore.
* (checks/control-files) Fix check for mknod-in-maintainer script:
pipes are made with p, not -p.
* (debian/control) In the package description, mention which policy
version Lintian checks.
-- Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl> Mon, 23 Nov 1998 14:46:32 +0100
lintian (0.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
* (checks/binaries) Warn if a package with ELF binaries does not have
a Depends line. New tag: missing-depends-line.
(Suggested by Charles Briscoe-Smith)
* (checks/menus) Don't warn about /usr/lib/menu/README.
(Noted by joost witteveen)
* (checks/binaries.desc, checks/binaries, checks/shared-libs.desc)
Renamed "shlib-without-dependency-information" to
"shared-lib-without-dependency-information", to avoid confusion with
the shlibs control file. (Suggested by Branden Robinson)
Also moved the tag info from shared-libs.desc to binaries.desc, where
it belongs.
* (checks/shared-libs)
Suppress "shlib-with-executable-bit" error if a library has an
INTERP header. This catches the libraries (such as libc or libm)
that print a little banner when executed.
* (checks/fields)
Report maintainer addresses that have no dots in the domain part.
(Suggestion by James Troup)
* Teach fields check about non-us.
* (info/perl-modules) Updated modules info.
* (lib/deplib.pl) Fixed handling of versioned dependencies.
* (checks/files.desc) In executable-in-usr-doc tag, suggest examples
directory as a place for executables.
(Suggestion by Stephane Bortzmeyer)
* (checks/fields, checks/fields.desc)
New tag: depends-on-obsolete-package, to flag dependencies on
old libraries.
-- Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 12:59:43 +0100
lintian (0.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
* Look for more misspellings:
dependant -> dependent, dependancy -> dependency,
definate -> definite, definately -> definitely.
* (checks/scripts) Correctly deal with the terminating newline when
parsing dependency lines. Fixed bug#27694, reported by Rob Tillotson.
* (checks/menu-format) Added Apps/Technical and Apps/Hamradio as sections.
* (checks/copyright-file)
Don't report copyright-file-is-gpl unless it is GPL version 2.
This fixes bug#27793, reported by Milan Zamazal.
* (checks/menus) Add newline after bad-menu-file-name tag!
* (lib/manual_refs.pl) Update urls to manual sections, so that
they refer to www.debian.org. Regenerate index of devref sections.
-- Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl> Thu, 15 Oct 1998 14:06:26 +0200
lintian (0.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
* Added overrides for imap daemons being sgid mail.
* Updated info/perl-modules from new Contents file.
* (lib/read_pkglist.pl) Don't fail on 0-size package lists.
This fixes bug#27121, reported by Adam P. Harris.
-- Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl> Wed, 30 Sep 1998 18:16:14 +0200
lintian (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
* (frontend/lintian, reporting/html_reports, checks/*, collection/*)
Make rigorous distinction between source and binary packages.
Pass "source" or "binary" as second argument to check scripts.
Report source package tags with "pkg source:" instead of just "pkg:".
Binary package tags stay the same.
(The check scripts always report "pkg type:", and the frontend strips
the type again if it's "binary").
This involves several changes in the web-report scripts as well.
* Add command-line options for the things that could only be set via
environment variables or the configuration file. (--cfg, --root,
--lab, --dist, --arch).
* Really rename obsolete-ldconfig-call-in-postinst to
postinst-has-useless-call-to-ldconfig.
* Really rename changelog-file-missing-in-native-debian-package to
changelog-file-missing-in-native-package
* (checks/scripts) bltwish now lives in blt8.0, not blt4.2.
-- Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl> Sun, 20 Sep 1998 16:34:38 +0200
lintian (0.8.3) unstable; urgency=low
* (checks/menu-format) Added "sort" as a known tag; it's documented in
the menu package. This fixes bug#26373, reported by Marcelo E. Magallon.
* (checks/scripts, checks/scripts.desc) Added /usr/bin/js as a known
interpreter (in ngs-js), as suggested by Brian Bassett.
* (checks/shared-libs) Brian Bassett reported inaccuracies in detection
of "ldconfig" calls in maintainer scripts. Fixed.
* (checks/menu-format) Skip checks on "section" if the "needs" tag had an
unknown value. This deals with bug#26375, reported by Marcelo E. Magallon.
* (checks/manpages) Fixed: check for links to "undocumented" manpage
should not react to link destinations like "ilu-undocumented".
* changelog-file-missing-in-native-debian-package shortened to
changelog-file-missing-in-native-package
* wrong-name-for-changelog-file-of-native-debian-package shortened to
wrong-name-for-changelog-of-native-package.
-- Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 12:55:45 +0200
lintian (0.8.2) unstable; urgency=low
* Ignore common programming-language extensions when looking for
extra-license-files. (Fixes bug#26252, reported by Manoj Srivastava,
who had a file vm-license.el).
* Use -z flag for tar, rather than piping through gzip -dc explicitly.
This allows tar to detect and pass on errors reported by gzip.
-- Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl> Tue, 1 Sep 1998 11:57:53 +0200
lintian (0.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
* Added /usr/bin/guile and /usr/bin/scsh as known interpreters.
(This fixes bug#26093, reported by Karl M. Hegbloom <karlheg@debian.org>)
* Renamed tags:
postinst-contains-obsolete-call-to-updatemenus
to postinst-has-useless-call-to-update-menus
postrm-contains-obsolete-call-to-updatemenus
to postrm-has-useless-call-to-update-menus
postinst-contains-obsolete-call-to-installdocs
to postinst-has-useless-call-to-install-docs
postrm-contains-obsolete-call-to-installdocs
to postrm-has-useless-call-to-install-docs
obsolete-ldconfig-call-in-postinst
to postinst-has-useless-call-to-ldconfig
The first two are also downgraded from error to warning.
(This fixes bug#26118, reported by Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>)
* Renamed tag use-of-killall-in-maintainer-script to killall-is-dangerous.
* More overrides.
-- Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 18:56:03 +0200
lintian (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
* (checks/perl) Don't emit warnings for perl scripts in /usr/doc.
This closed bug#25728, reported by Manoj Srivastava.
* (info/overrides) Change the non-standard-*-perm overrides to match
the new format of those tags. (was changed in 0.7.5)
* (checks/control-files)
"possibly-insecure-handling-of-tmp-files-in-maintainer-script" now knows
about mkdir.
New tag: W: possible-bashism-in-maintainer-script (Suggestion by Joey Hess)
* (testset/filenames-2) Don't rely on installer's umask for testset.
* (collection/menu-files, collection/menu-files.desc,
checks/menu-format, checks/menu-format.desc)
New check for correct syntax in "menu" files, written by Joey Hess.
New tags:
E: old-format-menu-file
E: whitespace-after-continuation-character
E: bad-test-in-menu-item
E: unparsable-menu-item
W: incorrect-package-test
W: duplicated-tag-in-menu-item
W: menu-item-missing-important-tag
W: menu-item-contains-unknown-tag
W: menu-item-uses-icon-none
W: menu-item-needs-tag-has-unknown-value
E: menu-item-adds-to-root-menu
W: menu-item-uses-apps-games-section
W: menu-item-creates-new-section
E: menu-item-creates-new-root-section
The check follows current practice on two sections:
Window-managers -> WindowManagers
Screen/Screen-saver -> Screen/Save
The menu docs will be updated to match.
* (lib/pipeline.pl) Bugfix: Use syscall SYS_exit when exiting from
children that failed to exec, because the perl function exit() would
run END blocks and such.
* (checks/standards-version) By now, 2.2.0.0 is more than one year old;
mark it as 'ancient'.
* (reporting/html_reports) Bugfix: Apply quotehtml() to the tag text
*before* adding links to bug pages.
* Many small adjustments to checks:
* (checks/scripts) Be less picky about package names when checking
dependencies. (The check was confused by the package blt4.2)
* (checks/description) Ignore case when looking for synopsis lines
that start with the package name.
* (checks/files) Don't give executable-in-usr-doc error for executables
in /usr/doc/examples/, since that directory does contain examples, and
it's already flagged by old-style-example-dir.
* (checks/control-files) Don't warn about references to "/tmp" unless the
full filename is "/tmp" or "/var/tmp".
* (checks/binaries) Split tag "binary-not-linked-against-libc" into
"program" and "library" tags.
* (checks/files, checks/scripts) New tag "executable-manpage", which
replaces "executable-not-elf-or-script" for manpages.
* (checks/files) Shortened file-directly-in-usr-share-not-in-a-sub-directory
and file-directly-in-usr-doc-not-in-a-sub-directory to just
file-directly-in-usr-share and file-directly-in-usr-doc.
* (checks/md5sums) Added md5sums-control-file-is-empty tag, to avoid
spewing many file-missing-in-md5sums errors in that case.
* (checks/scripts) Suppress interpreter-not-absolute tag if the
filename ends in .in and the interpreter looks like #!@PERL@
* (checks/control-files) Suppress mknod-in-maintainer-script tag if
mknod was called with -p.
* (checks/shared-libs) Emit no-shlibs-control-file tag for each shared lib
found, rather than just once.
* (checks/files) Emit old-style-example-dir only for directories, not for
every file.
* (checks/perl) perl-script-needs-dependency
Bugfix: realize that a package does not need to depend on itself.
* (checks/description) possible-unindented-list-in-extended-description:
Only emit this tag if there are at least two things that look like
list items.
* (checks/scripts) List /usr/bin/env as a known interpreter.
* (checks/binaries) unstripped-binary-or-object:
Instead of an exception for /lib/modules specifically, suppress this
tag for all .o files.
* (checks/control-files) Bugfix: check for == bashism works now.
* (checks/files) Introduced new tag lengthy-symlink, which supersedes
and corrects the relative-symlink-enters-same-toplevel-directory tag.
* (man/lintian.1) Document the check and collection scripts added to
lintian in the last few months. (oops)
* (collection/perlmods, checks/perl)
Refined scanner so that fewer spurious perl-script-uses-unknown-module
tags are emitted.
Perl tags are no longer 'Experimental'.
-- Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl> Mon, 24 Aug 1998 18:01:40 +0200
lintian (0.7.5) unstable; urgency=low
* (checks/perl) Exchanged order of arguments in
perl-script-needs-dependency tag, for clarity.
* (info/perl-modules) Added some module dependencies.
* (info/overrides) More overrides.
* (checks/shared-libs, checks/shared-libs.desc)
Fixed: erroneous shlib-missing-in-control-file if a shared library
had more than one symlink to it.
* Renamed obsolete-shlib-entry-in-control-file to
unused-shlib-entry-in-control-file.
* (checks/copyright-file) Changed size-requirement for copyright-file-is-gpl
tag from 17000 to 12000 bytes, because some packages (casio) extracted
only the "TERMS AND CONDITIONS" part, which is shorter.
* (reporting/html_reports) Count packages as well as tags, in tag index.
* (checks/control-files, checks/control-files.desc)
New tag: W: mknod-in-maintainer-script
* (checks/files, checks/files.desc)
New tags:
W: package-installs-into-etc-rc.boot (rc.boot is obsolete)
W: extra-license-file (for COPYING files, etc)
* (checks/shared-libs, frontend/lintian)
Get rid of dependency on File::Basename; use a simple regexp instead.
-- Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 17:33:37 +0200
lintian (0.7.4) unstable; urgency=low
* (collection/perlmods)
Fixed: perl script scanner is now POD-aware.
This should cut down on the number of spurious warnings.
* (doc/CREDITS)
Install credits file. My apologies if I have forgotten anyone.
There were far more people than I would have guessed -- Thanks to all! :-)
* (checks/perl)
Skip 'autouse' keyword when parsing use and require directives.
* (frontend/lintian)
When processing a .changes file, turn md5sum checks OFF by default.
A new -m flag is provided to turn them back on.
The .dsc file is still always checked.
* (frontend/lintian)
Saner interrupt handling. Lintian now dies immediately if ^C is hit,
and does remove the temporary lab (if any). This is mostly a side
effect of avoiding system() (in favour of the new functions in
lib/pipeline.pl), but did involve some tinkering about with perl's
signal handling. Thanks to Ruud de Rooij and Graydon Hoare for
their help. This closes bug#24975, reported by Yann Dirson.
* (checks/copyright)
Fixed copyright-is-gpl tag so that it actually works.
* (lib/dep.pl, checks/perl, checks/perl.desc, info/perl-modules)
Much smarter perl module analysis. Lintian now has a list of
perl modules and the packages that provide them (in info/perl-modules),
and a dependency processor (in lib/dep.pl), and uses these to
check "use" and "require" lines in perl scripts.
New tags:
W: perl-script-needs-dependency (Experimental)
W: perl-script-uses-unknown-module (Experimental)
Tag "script-needs-full-perl" has been dropped.
-- Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 19:02:53 +0200
lintian (0.7.3) unstable; urgency=low
* (frontend/lintian)
Fixed: --display-infotags option wasn't working.
* (reporting/harness, reporting/html_reports)
Have the archive check generate infotags but not display them on the
web pages. This way they are still available in the log file.
* (checks/fields, checks/fields.desc)
New tag: W: doc-package-depends-on-main-package
* (checks/menus, checks/menus.desc)
New tag: E: bad-menu-file-name
This is emitted for packages that install "/usr/lib/menu/menu", which
overlaps with the menu package. (I've seen it happen a couple of times).
* (checks/binaries, checks/binaries.desc)
Allow unstripped-binary-or-object for any package with "debug" in its
name. (This is in addition to the exeption already made for "-dbg").
Allow binary-not-linked-against-libc for libc itself :-)
* (lib/pipeline.pl)
New helper functions for starting pipelines from perl scripts, without
involving the shell. This makes it easier to pass filenames literally,
and often saves a shell invocation.
* (collection/diffstat, frontend/lintian, unpack/*)
Use the new pipeline functions.
* (checks/description, checks/description.desc)
New tag:
E: description-is-debmake-template
* (reporting/html_reports)
Quote < and > in displayed tags (such as occurs in email addresses).
This fixes the maintainer-name-missing tag output.
* (checks/copyright-file, checks/copyright-file.desc)
New tag:
E: copyright-file-is-gpl
Generated for copyright files that contain the complete GPL text.
-- Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl> Thu, 6 Aug 1998 23:39:18 +0200
lintian (0.7.2) unstable; urgency=low
* (unpack/unpack-srcpkg-l1, unpack/unpack-binpkg-l1, unpack/unpack-binpkg-l2)
Speedup: replaced system("mkdir ...") with mkdir() calls.
* (unpack/unpack-binpkg-l1)
Speedup: avoid extracting control info twice.
More speedups are possible here.
* (unpack/unpack-binpkg-l1, unpack/unpack-binpkg-l2)
Speedup: avoid using dpkg-deb to unpack debs; construct a pipeline
with ar, gzip, and tar instead. It turns out to be far faster.
* Together, these changes made for a speed increase of some 30%
when checking packages that have to be unpacked.
-- Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl> Wed, 5 Aug 1998 19:18:44 +0200
lintian (0.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
* (reporting/html_reports)
Fixed: Print bug number with tags that were reported as bugs.
* (checks/scripts, checks/scripts.desc)
Added /usr/bin/expect (provided by expect) as known interpreter.
* (unpack/unpack-srcpkg-l2)
Fixed: chmod -R the right directory when unpacking a source package.
* (collection/diffstat, collection/diffstat.desc)
New collection script that runs diffstat on the Debian diff.
* (debian/control)
Depend on diffstat, version >= 1.27-1 so that it can parse Debian diffs.
* (checks/debdiff, checks/debdiff.desc)
New check that look at the filenames included in the Debian diff.
New tag:
W: patch-failure-file-in-diff foo.rej
* (checks/control-files, checks/control-files.desc)
New tag:
W: dpkg-print-architecture-in-maintainer-script
(dpkg --print-installation-architecture should be used there)
-- Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl> Wed, 5 Aug 1998 14:58:02 +0200
lintian (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
* (reporting/html_reports)
- Rewritten (more modular).
- Create a page for each different tag, which gives the lintian-info
for that tag and then lists all occurrences of that tag, with each
tag line also being a link back to the page for the package in
which it occurs.
This closes bug#21390, reported by Gregory S. Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>.
- Instead of listing the lintian-info text with every different tag
in every package, make every tag a link to the page for that tag
(which will have the lintian-info for it at the top).
This should make the reports a lot smaller, and also more readable.
- Make a "Sorted by tag types" page and link to it from the index page.
* (doc/TODO) Entries [L3] and [L4] now complete.
* (checks/spelling, checks/spelling.desc)
Check README.Debian file as well, since we now collect it anyway
for the readme-debian-is-debmake-template tag.
New tag:
E: spelling-error-in-readme-debian
* (checks/fields) Added hurd-i386 to the list of known architectures, at
the request of Marcus Brinkmann <brinkmds@rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>.
* (checks/scripts, checks/scripts.desc)
Added trs to the list of known interpreters, as /usr/bin/trs provided
by konwert. Suggestion by Yann Dirson <dirson@debian.org>. This
closed bug#24998.
* (checks/files)
- Fixed: tags dir-in-user-local and file-in-usr-local did not print
the filename involved.
- Fixed: some tags were erroneously output as "setuid-gid-binary"
even though only one of suid or sgid was set.
* (checks/fields)
- Fixed: change a few cases of "maintainer-address-malformed"
to "maintainer-name-missing".
-- Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl> Tue, 4 Aug 1998 19:45:47 +0200
lintian (0.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
* Inserted GPL boilerplate text in every file whose format allowed comments.
* (doc/lintian.sgml) Use new <url> tag.
* (info/overrides) New override for the file in kbd-data with the strange
name. Having lintian handle that file correctly would be too expensive.
This "closes" bug#25107.
* (checks/control-files, checks/control-files.desc)
New tag: use-of-killall-in-maintainer-script (experimental)
Added at the recommendation of Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>.
This closes bug#22206.
* (depcheck/deppages.pl, reporting/html_reports)
Added arm and hurd-i386 to the list of architectures to check.
* (doc/libtool-rpath-workaround.txt, checks/binaries.desc)
Revamped doc file at Rob Browning's suggestion, and renamed it to
doc/libtool-workarounds.txt because it describes both -rpath and -lc
workarounds. Updated the info for the tags binary-not-linked-against-libc
and binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath to refer to the new file.
* (doc/desc-files) Moved from private/DESC.
Briefly describes the meanings of the fields used in lintian's .desc files.
* (doc/TODO)
Updated and restructured version of what used to be in private/TODO,
various bugreports and mailed suggestions. This will become the
central place for potential improvements to lintian. I hope that
having it in /usr/doc/lintian will inspire some people to help.
-- Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 16:07:54 +0200
lintian (0.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
* (checks/shared-libs)
Corrected bug that made lintian complain about shared modules without
version info (thus ending in ".so") with a "non-dev-pkg-with-shlib-symlink"
warning.
* (info/overrides) Added overrides:
libtricks is like fakeroot; nothing is compiled with it.
libtricks: no-shlibs-control-file
slrnpull has been split off from slrn, and shares some of its overrides.
slrnpull: non-standard-dir-perm var/spool/slrnpull/ 2755
This fixes bug#24668, reported by Joey Hess.
* (collection/perlmods)
Collector script that greps perl scripts for use and require directives.
* (checks/perl, checks/perl.desc)
New check script that checks perl "use" and "require" directives.
New tags:
E: script-needs-perl-version (Experimental)
W: script-needs-full-perl (Experimental)
I: cannot-parse-perl-directive
* (frontend/lintian)
New flag --print-version that prints the unadorned version number.
* (reporting/config, reporting/html_reports)
Instead of requiring $LINTIAN_VERSION in the config file, query the
lintian frontend for the version number.
-- Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl> Sun, 19 Jul 1998 16:41:39 +0200
lintian (0.5.2) unstable; urgency=low
* (reporting/html_reports)
Lintian web pages now use dists/unstable/main in the path for
"Getting Lintian", rather than hamm/hamm, where it doesn't exist anymore.
(Pointed out by Ruud de Rooij)
* (checks/scripts)
Add /usr/sbin/install-fvwmgenmenu as a known interpreter.
This fixes bug#23783, reported by Joost Kooij.
* (checks/binaries, checks/changelog-file, checks/manpages)
[speedup] Don't skip blank lines in file-info file, since there
shouldn't be any.
* (checks/manpages.desc)
- Added note to manpage-in-wrong-directory info that only
sections 1 through 9 should be used. Refer to policy 5.1.
I had a rewrite of the manpages check in the works, but I deferred
it to a later lintian version.
* (info/overrides)
New override from Joel Klecker: binutils: no-shlibs-control-file.
Added overrides supplied by Joey Hess, in bugreport #24425.
* (checks/changelog-file)
Corrected regexp used for changelog-file-not-compressed;
This really fixes bug#23683, reported by Joey Hess.
* (checks/files)
New warning: package-installs-perllocal-pod, inspired by
Manoj Srivasta's recent bugreports about such files.
* (checks/fields.desc)
No longer experimental:
E: alternates-not-allowed
E: versioned-provides
E: bad-version-in-relation
-- Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl> Sun, 12 Jul 1998 22:04:04 +0200
lintian (0.5.1) unstable; urgency=low
* Added overrides supplied by Ray Dassen.
* (frontend/lintian-info)
Made lintian-info aware of X (experimental) tags. (oops)
* (lib/read_taginfo.pl)
Add a paragraph to the info output for experimental tags that explains
what experimental status means.
* Added test package "relationships" to test weird dependency lines.
* (frontend/lintian)
Instead of specifying /usr/bin/lintian-info, use just lintian-info
and let the path search find the script.
-- Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl> Tue, 7 Jul 1998 16:27:56 +0200
lintian (0.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
* (checks/menus) The menu package doesn't need to check for the
existence of update-menus :-)
* (testset/runtests) A harness for running regression tests on Lintian.
* (testset/*) A collection of broken packages on which to test Lintian.
Currently, only an empty package is provided for testing.
* (debian/rules) Run the tests in the build target.
* (checks/*.desc) Added "Tested: empty" to tags that are tested for
with the "empty" testpackage.
* (collection/file-info) Use a better parser for the index file, so
that weird filenames are handled correctly. This fixes bug#24079.
* (collection/md5sums) Adapt index-file parser from file-info collector,
this saves a "find" operation on the unpacked tree.
* New test package filenames-1, which contains various evil filenames.
* (checks/shared-libs, checks/menus, checks/manpages, checks/files,
checks/control-files)
Handle filenames that contain spaces correctly.
* (frontend/lintian, reporting/config)
Update version number. This fixes bug #23555, reported by Yann Dirson.
These will have to be kept in sync manually, because the lintian
source package has to be directly usable by the lintian web page
generator.
* (checks/changelog-file)
Allow the upstream changelog to be a symbolic link.
As a side-effect, allow it for the Debian changelog too.
This handles bug#23300, reported by Manoj Srivastava.
* (checks/changelog-file, checks/changelog-file.desc)
The wrong-name tags are now warnings, not errors, because the
relevant section of policy uses "should usually".
This fixes bug#23757, reported by Gregory S. Stark.
* (checks/changelog-file)
Limited the changelog-file-not-compressed tag to only complain
about changelog and changelog.Debian, because policy 5.8 does not
mention other changelogs. (These would fall under section 5.3, I guess.)
This fixes bug#23683, reported by Joey Hess.
-- Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl> Sat, 4 Jul 1998 15:33:31 +0200
lintian (0.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
* (checks/fields)
New error tag: "multiline-field" flags control fields that span multiple
lines when they shouldn't. (According to the Packaging manual,
"Except where otherwise stated only a single line of data is allowed").
* (checks/fields)
Check dependency relationship fields as well.
New tags:
E: alternates-not-allowed
(generated for use of | in Provides, Conflicts, and Replaces fields)
E: versioned-provides
(generated for Provides fields that use a versioned package name)
W: obsolete-relation-form
(generated for use of < and > in versioned relationships)
W: bad-version-in-relation
(generated if the version number in a versioned relation
is not syntactically correct)
E: bad-relation
(generated if lintian cannot parse an element of a dependency line)
W: package-relation-with-self
* (checks/fields)
Bugfix to maintainer-not-full-name tag, it works now.
Added maintainer-address-looks-weird warning for obscure cases.
I doubt anyone will ever see it.
* (checks/fields)
Added new-essential-package warning, to highlight such packages.
* (checks/fields.desc) Descriptions of new tags.
-- Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl> Sun, 7 Jun 1998 17:58:19 +0200
lintian (0.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
* Removed Christian's name wherever it appeared as a contact address.
* (depcheck/buglist) Entered newly reported bug numbers for dependency
problems.
* (checks/menus) Distinguish between install-docs and install-docs -r.
(closes #23049).
* (checks/files) Added new tag backup-file-in-package. This warns
about emacs-style backup files that got installed in a package.
* (frontend/lintian) Allow I: tags to be overridden just like any other.
* (frontend/lintian) Add support for "Experimental" tags. These are
handled like other tags, but an "Experimental: yes" flag in the tag
description tells lintian to output them with "X:" rather than "E:"
or "W:" or "I:". This is used for new tags that might still misbehave.
* (doc/lintian.sgml) Add a paragraph to explain the new tag type.
"The displayed message is one of types listed above, but has been
flagged as `experimental' by the Lintian maintainers. This means
that the code that generates this message is not as well tested as
the rest of Lintian, and might still give surprising results. Feel
free to ignore Experimental messages that do not seem to make sense,
though of course bug reports are always welcomed."
-- Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl> Sat, 6 Jun 1998 20:30:36 +0200
lintian (0.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
* (debian/control)
Lintian now depends on perl, since perl-base is not enough. It already
uses Text::Wrap, which is only in perl, and soon it will also use
Getopt::Long.
* (reporting/html_reports)
Report all dates in GMT, in rfc822 format.
* (debian/rules)
In clean target, delete byte-compiled python files (*.pyc) as well.
* (depcheck/dependencies.py)
Check "Cannot satisfy without packages in base" before checking
"Cannot satisfy with required packages", because a dependency will
be listed in only one category, and the former is more important
to flag.
* (frontent/lintian)
Rewrote option handling to use Getopt::Long, thus allowing nifty
features like bundling of single-character options. Closes wishlist
bug#22566.
-- Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl> Fri, 29 May 1998 11:25:31 +0200
lintian (0.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
* (depcheck/) New directory, containing scripts for generating reports
about broken dependency relationships in the main distribution.
These are not installed by the lintian deb, they are intended for
use by the lintian web pages, which use the source package directly.
* (reports/harness) Added hooks to call the depcheck scripts to generate
the depcheck page.
* (reports/html_reports) Add links from the lintian root page to the
depcheck page.
* (checks/menus) A tag was still generating "existance" while its
description had been corrected to "existence"; the html report
generator complained about that. Fixed.
* (unpack/list-binpkg) Bugfix in lintian --setup-lab. Instead of
looking for files in binary-$arch and binary-all, look only in
binary-$arch and follow the symlinks.
* (lib/text_utils.pl) Changed "&maint;" name from Christian Schwarz
to Richard Braakman, and changed mail address to lintian-maint@debian.org.
* (checks/standards-version) If checking a package with a Standards-Version
that is newer than the one lintian is written for, warn that lintian
should be upgraded. (closes: #22919).
* (checks/standards-version.dsc)
New tag: newer-standards-version
* (checks/debian-readme) New check: at James Troup's suggestion,
scan for unmodified deb-make templates in README.Debian files.
New tags:
readme-debian-is-debmake-template
readme-debian-contains-debmake-template
* (checks/debian-readme.desc) Describe new tags.
* (collection/debian-readme) New collection script for README.Debian file.
* (man/lintian.1) Describe new check and collection script.
* (doc/libtool-rpath-workaround.txt) Explain how to achieve the same
result without touching configure.in and rerunning autoconf, provided
certain conditions hold.
* (lib/text_utils.pl, frontend/lintian-info, reporting/html_reports)
Do not split words that are longer than a line. This fixes the
"Poli cy" bug in the lintian HTML reports.
* (checks/standards-version.desc) Corrected the URL to Christian's
policy upgrading checklist, which seems to have changed from
"upgrading.html" to "upgrading-checklist.html".
* (info/override) Removed another *.pm warning, I missed it the last time.
-- Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl> Thu, 28 May 1998 15:51:37 +0200
lintian (0.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
* (checks/scripts) Suppress script-not-executable warnings for files
in /usr/lib that match *.pm. These are perl modules, which often
have a #!/usr/bin/perl line at the top but are not intended to be
executed directly.
* (info/override) Removed now-suppressed warnings from the overrides file.
* (info/override) Added more overrides. (closes #21028).
* (checks/scripts) At Oliver Elphick's suggestion, do not emit
*-script-but-no-*-dep tags or csh-considered-harmful tags for
scripts that are not executable. (These already produce a
script-not-executable warning).
* (checks/binaries) At Yann Dirson's suggestion, added a tag for
stripped binaries that still have the .comment and .note sections.
This tag is info-level, thus not normally displayed.
dh_strip and install -s have been patched to strip these sections,
but most of the distribution has not been recompiled with the patched
versions.
* (checks/binaries.desc) Described the new tag.
(closes #22495).
* (man/lintian.1) Documented the options that were added in lintian 0.4.3.
* (checks/fields) Produce informational tags no-section-field and
no-priority-field. These were removed in a previous version, because
nearly all packages do not pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol when building
packages, but the new handling of info-level tags makes them useful again.
-- Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl> Sat, 16 May 1998 14:10:30 +0200
lintian (0.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
* Christian added more overrides.
* debian/control: New maintainer.
* debian/copyright: Mention that lintian has no separate upstream source.
* debian/rules: Got rid of 'dirs' file.
* Moved manpages from doc/ to man/ in source package.
* debian/rules: Restyled :-)
* New overrides, read all about them in /usr/share/lintian/info/overrides.
(closes #22001)
* Corrected typo in frontend, added --allow-root option at Johnie Ingram's
suggestion to override lintian's refusal to run as root. (closes #22162).
* Ran ispell over .desc files, fixing lots of typos, including the
word "existance" which occurs in several tags.
* checks/files: At the advice of the python maintainer, added a warning
against files installed in /usr/lib/python1.5 that are not in the
site-packages subdirectory. (closes #22236)
* checks/fields: Reduced unknown-field-in-dsc and unknown-field-in-control
tags from "warning" to "info", because such fields can only be
introduced deliberately anyway. ("info" tags are not normally reported,
but can be queried when someone is interested.) (closes #20521)
* Made the above comment about info tags true, by adding a --display-info
option.
-- Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl> Mon, 4 May 1998 17:31:34 +0200
lintian (0.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
* This release contains updates for Policy 2.4.1
* Fixed `changelog' check:
- don't report not-max-compression tag if changelog file is a symbolic
link (thanks to Santiago for noticing that! fixes:bug#20842)
* Improved `description' check:
- recognize if extended description is `Missing'
(fixes:bug#21091)
* Changed `files' check:
- symbolic links within /etc and /var have to be relative!
* Fixed `scripts' check:
- package name is "blt4.2", not "btl4.2" :)
* Updated `shared-libraries' check:
- check if postinst calls ldconfig if shared libraries are installed
in a directory controlled by ld.so
(fixes:bug#20414)
[2 new tags]
* Changed `standards-version' check:
- added Standards-Version 2.4.1
- only check first there digits of Standards-Version field
* Changes to the `lintian' frontend:
- unused overrides are displayed per package
- display `Processing changes file...'
- use $TMPDIR environment variable for creation of the temporary lab
(fixes:bug#21092)
- clean up lab if C-C is pressed
* Added more overrides
-- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 15 Apr 1998 19:57:09 +0200
lintian (0.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
* Fixed `changelog-file' check:
- don't treat "NEWS" files as changelog files
(thanks to Manoj for pointing this out! fixes:bug#20787)
* internal: small changes to the reporting harness
-- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 7 Apr 1998 21:42:51 +0200
lintian (0.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
* Changes which make it possible to check the whole archive with Lintian
each day without having to check all packages all the time:
- Reworked creation and handling of info/{binary,source}-packages files:
- the list files contain a version number now, which allows checking
for old file formats
- each entry has a timestamp now
- don't remove $LAB/info/ directory on --setup-lab
- just process changed packages when doing --setup-lab
- added command line option: `-p X' makes lintian only process all
packages which are listed in file X
- changed meaning of command line option `-U': specifies info to
collect _in addition to_ the usual info (necessary to extract
the changelog files on master--see below)
* Improved `binaries' check:
- objects and binaries in a *-dbg package may be unstripped
- libraries in lib/profile or lib/debug may not be stripped
(suggested by Fabrizio)
[1 new tag]
* Added new `changelog' check
(thanks to Juan Cespedes for the idea! fixes:bug#19695)
* Improved `control-files' check:
- improved RE that searches maintainer scripts for /tmp security bugs
* Improved `description' check:
- fixed RE to check for description-starts-with-package-name
(thanks to Roderick Schertler)
* Fixed `fields' check:
- internal: check for source pkg using "-l dsc" instead of "-e dsc"
* Fixed `files' check:
- disabled possible-name-space-pollution tag since policy is not
defined yet
* Improved `manpages' check:
- fixed silly typo in binary-without-manpage tag info
(thanks to Robert Edmonds for noticing that!)
- disabled tag binary-without-manpage for `versioned binaries'
(thanks to Dirk for the suggestion! fixes:bug#20186)
* Fixed `menu' check:
- report maintainer-script-does-not-check... tag only once per package
and maintainer script
- recognize `$(which update-menus)' as valid check for the existance
of update-menus; same for install-docs
(thanks to Fabrizio for pointing this out!)
- recognize `command -v update-menus' as valid check for the existance
of update-menus; same for install-docs
(thanks to Adam P. Harris for pointing this out! fixes:bug#20759)
- fixed tag infos
(thanks to Adam P. Harris for the input! fixes:bug#19810)
* Improved `scripts' check:
- added new interpreters:
nawk, pike, rexx, regina, burlap, wish8.0, bltwish
(fixes:bug#20223)
* Improved `shared-libs' check:
- added check if shared libraries contain non-pic code
(thanks to Gregory S. Stark for the idea and the patch!
fixes:bug#19249)
[1 new tag]
* Added `changelog' collector script
This makes it possible for Lintian to extract all changelog files
on master for use by Apt (fixes:bug#20546)
* Incremented LAB_FORMAT version to 3 because of
incompatible changes in the objdump-info collector script
* Internal: fixed bug in read_dpkg_control() utility function: empty
tags have not been handled correctly
* Internal: html-reporting tool: don't chop of text after hash (#)
* Added a lot new overrides and removed unused overrides
(fixes:bug#20017,bug#20082,bug#19562)
-- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 6 Apr 1998 21:58:42 +0200
lintian (0.3.4) unstable; urgency=low
* Bug fix release:
- check if lab in /tmp already exists (fixes security bug#19799)
Thanks to James Troup for noticing this and thanks to Joey Hess
for providing a patch!
* Added one override entry
-- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 23:28:38 +0100
lintian (0.3.3) unstable; urgency=low
* Bug fix release:
- `unknown-control-file du' message disappeared
- fixed `executable-in-usr-doc' to not display files in
/usr/doc/<pkg>/example
- fixed tag parameters for
bad-owner-for-doc-file
dir-or-file-in-opt
* Added overrides
-- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 16 Mar 1998 08:44:34 +0100
lintian (0.3.2) unstable; urgency=low
* This is (intentionally) an `unstable' upload--we've decided to not
include the lintian package in `frozen' since it doesn't make sense to
maintain a `stable' and `unstable' version of a package in such an
early state. The maintainers should get Lintian from the `unstable'
distribution to check `frozen' uploads though.
* Added `menus' check. This check checks for common mistakes WRT
/usr/lib/menu and /usr/share/doc-base files.
[16 new tags]
* Fixed `shared-libs' check:
- removed `shared-library-uses-its-soname' check since this produced
way too many false alarms (thanks to David Engel for the input!)
* Fixed `binaries' check:
- skip `unstripped-binary-or-object' check for kernel modules
(thanks to Michael Meskes for noticing that!)
- fixed pattern which parses the `file' command's output to be able
to handle files without info text correctly
(thanks to James R. Van Zandt for pointing this out!)
- mention in tag info that shared libs should be stripped with
`--strip-unneeded' options (thanks to Brian for pointing this out!)
* Improved `manpages' check:
- check if manual pages are compressed with gzip -9
(thanks to Holger Rusch for the idea!)
[2 new tags]
* Improved `files' check:
- for files in /usr/doc:
- executables may only be in /usr/doc/<something>/examples
- files should be owned by root.root (thanks to Joey)
- files should not be directly placed into /usr/doc/
(fixes:bug#19485)
- no files may be installed into /tmp and /var/tmp
- renamed file-directly-in-usr-share to
file-directly-in-usr-share-not-in-a-sub-directory
(thanks to Santiago)
- fix tag info for "symlink-should-be-absolute"
[3 new tags]
* Improved `description' check:
- lists (starting with a dash or asterisk) have to be indented
(thanks to cpb4@ukc.ac.uk for the idea and the patch!
fixes:bug#19481)
[1 new tag]
* Fixed `scripts' check:
- packages with python scripts might depend on python or python-base
(thanks to Gregor Hoffleit for pointing this out and to Richard for
the patch! fixes:bug#19162)
- remove wrong policy quotation for `script-not-executable' tag
* Fixed `init.d' check:
- ignore update-rc.d calls in preinst and postinst scripts, if
"remove" option is specified (thanks to Roman Hodek and Herbert Xu
for pointing this out--this change also removes a lot of other false
alarms WRT update-rc.d calls)
* Improved `control-files' check:
- scan maintainer scripts for references to /tmp or TMPFILE since this
might be insecure (thanks to Topi Miettinen for the help!)
[1 new tag]
* Improved `copyright-file' to issue a special error message if a
symbolic link /usr/doc/foo refers to a directory outside of /usr/doc
(thanks to Darren for pointing this out!)
[1 new tag]
* Fixed `fields' check:
- added architecture `arm' (thanks to Roman Hodek)
* Fixed `lintian' frontend:
- run lintian scripts with LC_ALL=C
(thanks to Yann for pointing this out! fixes:bug#19166)
- changed handling of `#' comments: for comments in the overrides
file, the hash (#) has to be in the first column
- changed all tags which used `#' for comments
* Fixed `lintian-info':
- multiple HTML tags haven't been converted into text format in all
cases
- preformatted text is now handled correctly
- merged with code that produced the HTML reports
- code much cleaner now
* Improved Lintian's documentation:
- fixed libtool/rpath workaround file: don't wrap long line
(Thanks to Yann for pointing this out!)
- stress in docs that the "lintian-maint@debian.org" address should
be used to contact the lintian authors (thanks to Adrian Bridgett
for pointing this out!)
* Added more overrides (fixes:bug#19163)
-- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 1998 23:00:31 +0100
lintian (0.3.1) unstable; urgency=low
* Added `scripts' checks and collector, written by Richard. This check
checks the #! lines of scripts in a package.
[40 new tags]
* Added `spelling' checks, written by Richard. This check searches
the "Description:" field and the "copyright" file for common spelling
errors (typos).
[2 new tags]
* Improved `files' check: No package should install files directly into
/usr/share.
New tag:
file-directly-in-usr-share
* Fixed `files' check WRT files in /usr/lib/sgml and
/etc/emacs/site-start.d:
-ignore directories and symbolic links when checking for correct
file permissions
- display permissions in octal format
(fixes:bug#18866,#19026)
* Fixed `control-files' check: really ignore `control' control file
* Improved `lintian' frontend:
- parse command line parameters before reading the configuration
file. With that, `lintian -h' even works if the cfg file has
errors. (fixes:bug#19031)
- issue a warning and ignore `-all' option if packages are specified
at the same time (in older versions, this make lintian abort with
an error message)
- really check all packages listed in a .changes file
(fixes:bug#18851)
* Fixed `md5sums' check to handle file names with spaces correctly
* Put conffile /etc/lintianrc back in (fixes:bug#19031)
* Include information about libtool/rpath workaround by Yann Dirson
(Thanks Yann!)
* Added more overrides
* Internal changes:
- Each error tag has a (bug) `Severity' field now which can be used
to file bug reports with the correct severity
- Each helper script has an `Author' field now
- Fixed `unused overrides' report
-- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 7 Mar 1998 18:46:31 +0100
lintian (0.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
* Lintian now also works without a configuration file and without
a static laboratory! (Since Lintian is so easy to use now, there
are no excuses for not using it! ;-)
* Changed handling of lab:
- if no lab is specified, it is created dynamically by the
`lintian' command (the average use does not have to worry
about the lab anymore)
- since the dynamically created lab is placed in /tmp, several
users can run lintian at the same time without having to know
of each other
- the commands `lintian-setup' and `lintian-remove' have been
removed (fixes: bug#18707).
- a `static' laboratory can be created/updated or removed by
specifying the `--setup-lab' or `--remove-lab' options for the
`lintian' command
- added a lot of sanity checks to make removal of lab less risky :)
* Changed handling of configuration file:
- configuration file is not necessary anymore
- changed search path for the configuration file to:
$LINTIAN_CFG/lintianrc
$LINTIAN_ROOT/lintianrc
$HOME/.lintianrc
/etc/lintianrc
- all configuration variables have reasonable defaults and can
be overwritten by environment variables of the same name
- removed configuration file /etc/lintianrc--the file is now
installed as /usr/doc/lintian/lintianrc.example
- renamed all configuration variables to LINTIAN_xxxx
- relaxed syntax of configuration file. It's now also possible
to use `~' and `$HOME' in the configuration file (fixes:
bug#18559)
- added LINTIAN_ARCH configuration variable so that Lintian
handles distribution directories correctly if these contain
several architectures
* Changed parsing of command line arguments:
- if a package name is specified (instead of a file), look for
this package in the distribution directory and in the lab (in
earlier version, only the distribution directory was searched
for packages)
- added `--all' option to check the whole distribution
(in earlier version, this was the default operation)
- removed buggy `-n' command line option (this option wasn't
really useful anyways)
- the `-h' option displays a short description of all available
options now
- debug option `-d' can be specified several times to increase
the verbosity level
- recognize `--' as the end of options on the command line
* Improved overrides handling:
- the override files does not include the leading `[EW]:'
anymore
- the parameters of an error tag may be omitted to disable
a certain tag for a whole package
- when checking the full distribution, unused overrides are
displayed
- cleaned up overrides file and added/removed a few overrides
* Improved documentation:
- there is now a `Lintian User's Manual' which explains how to
setup and use Lintian to check ones packages, and which gives
insight on the design issues behind Lintian
- added a manual page for lintian-info (has been split off
from lintian(1))
- updated the documentation files and the example lintianrc file
- merged QUICKSTART file into the README
* Improved `binaries' check: check if a binary or shared library
defines RPATH
(Thanks to Ray Dassen for the suggestion! fixes: bug#18519)
New tag:
binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath
* Improved `files' check:
WRT symbolic links:
- issue errors instead of warnings
- links between different top-level directories should always be
absolute
- check for relative links which contain to many `../' segments
- check for symbolic links which contain segments like `foo/../bar'
(Thanks to Manoj for the patch and the ideas!)
general:
- some additional checks for wrong file permissions
New tags:
symlink-has-too-many-up-segments
relative-symlink-enters-same-toplevel-directory
symlink-contains-up-and-down-segments
bad-permissions-for-etc-cron.d-script (renamed)
bad-permissions-for-etc-emacs-script
executable-in-usr-lib-sgml
* Fixed `control-files' check: check file permissions correctly;
also check file owners of control files
New tag:
control-file-has-bad-owner
* Fixed `copyright' check: check for package dependencies correctly
(fixes: bug#18611)
* Improved `conffiles' check: files in /var/lib/games should not be
tagged as conffile, in general.
New tag:
score-file-may-not-be-conffile
* Improved `manpages' check: files in /usr/X11R6/man/man6 usually
indicate X11 games in the wrong directory.
New tag:
x11-games-should-be-in-usr-games
* Fixed `init.d' check: skip comments in init.d file
(Thanks to Joey for pointing this out!)
- don't collect info for unselected collector scripts (internal bug)
* Internal changes:
- don't refer to package `ftp.debian.org' for bugs in the
$LINTIAN_DIST directory--refer to package `general' instead
- made list-binpkg and list-srcpkg more verbose
- made lintian-info less verbose (don't give detailed info more
than once)
- create control-index file which lists all files in control.tar.gz
- fix permissions in the lab after a package has been unpacked
- chdir to lab dir before running the checker and collection
scripts (this makes it easier to write checks in awk or even sh)
- pass vars to helpers via environment
- don't link static info/* files into lab
- implemented dpkg_read_control to parse all controls
- don't use dpkg-deb to get control information about a .deb
- collection and checking scripts `registry' is now done dynamically
- move tag descriptions from collector and checker scripts into
separate `.desc' files
- each base directory in the lab has a .lintian-status file now, which
can be used to detect incompatible lab changes, for example
- moved unused files and internal documents into a private/ directory
of the source package
- cleaned up code
-- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 1 Mar 1998 23:16:15 +0100
lintian (0.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
* Added `fields' check for control fields. (That's the first check
written by Richard--and it's all Perl!!! ;-)
[32 new tags]
* Added `binaries' check.
[6 new tags]
* Improved `shared-libraries' check:
- use objdump instead of ldd and ldconfig
- this should fix all problems where Lintian couldn't check
python/perl dynamic objects, etc.
- allow cross-checking of packages, e.g., to check non-i386 .debs
on a i386 system (note, that this requires a multi-arch objdump)
- recognize if the shared library uses its SONAME
New tag:
shared-library-uses-its-soname
* Improved `control-files' check:
- Don't check the `control' control file for correct
permissions, because dpkg doesn't care and this file isn't
installed on the systems anyways
* Improved `files' check:
- Games are allowed to be setgid games
- svgalib programs are allowed to be setuid root
- usually, files in /usr/doc/foo should not be executable
New tag:
executable-in-usr-doc
* Fix bug in `manpages' check: symlinks in /usr/bin, etc. also need
a manual page! (Thanks to Joey Hess for pointing this out!)
* Use `.' instead of `source' in lintian-{remove,setup} /bin/sh scripts
(fixes bug#18421)
* Define default values for configuration variables in
lintian-{remove,setup} scripts (fixes bug#18354)
* Fix bug in `copyright-file' check: Don't report
usr-doc-symlink-to-foreign-package if we don't know whether the
referenced package comes from the same source or not.
(Thanks to James A. Treacy for pointing this out!)
* Internal change:
- process source packages before binary packages so that a binary
package check can use info from the source packages (if these
are unpacked, too)
* Added more override entries--and removed a few obsolete entries
(the checks are smarter now! :)
* Added "Depends: binutils" for `objdump'
* Changed maintainer email address to lintian-maint@debian.org
-- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 21 Feb 1998 22:39:46 +0100
lintian (0.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
* Fixed manual-pages check: Check for the `undocumented' symbolic
link failed on X11 manual pages (fixes #18343).
* Improved files check. New tag:
etc-cron.d-script-tagged-executable
* Improved control-files check:
- the `du' control file is not allowed anymore
- check file permissions of control files
New tags:
control-file-has-bad-permissions
* Fixed bug: ldd-info collection script stopped when ldd failed
* Fixed (internal) bugs:
- collect data for collection scripts too
- don't collect init.d data every time again
* Error handling code improved again :)
* The lintian frontend script checks if it has root permissions and
aborts if this is the case. (Running it as root is unnecessary and
simply too dangerous.)
* Added one override entry
-- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 1998 21:50:16 +0100
lintian (0.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
* Fixed bug in lintian-setup: don't try to create $LAB if it already
exists (fixes bug#18227, bug#18252)
* Added "Depends: file" (oops!)
* Rewrote package "Description:"
* Added a lot more override entries (thanks to all that told me about
overrides!)
-- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 1998 12:55:58 +0100
lintian (0.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
* Fixed bug in ldconfig collection script: script aborted without
error message if a shared library had errors (thanks to Kai!)
* Fixed bug: `standards-version' check didn't collect necessary data
(actually, this was a more general bug--thanks to Joey Hess!)
* Fixed bug: init.d checker script didn't notice if several of the
required options (start, stop, etc.) have been included on a single
line (thanks to Joey Hess!)
* Don't check duplicated packages more than once (thanks to Joey Hess!)
* Error handling code improved once more
* Added more overrides (Thanks to Joey Hess!)
* Mentioned Lintian's home page in the README file
* Set package priority to `optional' (requested by several developers)
-- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 15 Feb 1998 11:44:32 +0100
lintian (0.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
* First public release
* Fixed bug in shlibs check: Sometimes, ldconfig doesn't install any
symbolic links at all (e.g., for `acroread' package).
* Changed lintian-setup: Don't remove the whole lab if it already
exists--just remove the info/ directory.
* Changed handling of critical Lintian errors (abort on error)
* Built package using fakeroot (first time i tried fakeroot--it's great!!)
* Checked package with latest Lintian :)
-- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 14 Feb 1998 21:49:10 +0100
lintian (0.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
* Next beta release (hopefully the last one :-)
* The lintian-info script is available now! You can either pipe the output
of lintian through it, or specify the `-i' option when calling lintian.
* Lintian can check .changes files now! New tags:
bad-distribution-in-changes-file
file-size-mismatch-in-changes-file
md5sum-mismatch-in-changes-file
bad-section-in-changes-file
* Lintian now detects if packages have been changed, even if they
have the same version number as before.
* Improved shlibs check (this fixes the "error: bad ldconfig-info file"
bug). New tags:
ldconfig-symlink-referencing-wrong-file
ldconfig-symlink-is-not-a-symlink
* Improved files check! New tags:
package-installs-into-etc-rc.d
non-standard-file-permissions-for-etc-init.d-script
* New check for /etc/init.d scripts! Tags:
duplicate-updaterc.d-calls-in-postinst
output-of-updaterc.d-not-redirected-to-dev-null
preinst-calls-updaterc.d
duplicate-updaterc.d-calls-in-postrm
prerm-calls-updaterc.d
postrm-does-not-call-updaterc.d-for-init.d-script
postrm-contains-additional-updaterc.d-calls
file-in-etc-rc.d-marked-as-conffile
init.d-script-not-marked-as-conffile
init.d-script-does-not-implement-required-option
init.d-script-not-included-in-package
unregistered-script-in-etc-init.d
* Fixed manpages check: Subdirectories of /usr/bin (e.g., /usr/bin/mh)
have not been handled correctly.
* Added new override entries
* Cleaned up Lintian's source code
* Updated documentation
* Lots of small changes
-- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 13 Feb 1998 23:24:51 +0100
lintian (0.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
* Beta release
* Two major bugs have been fixed
* Debugging info increased
-- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 13 Feb 1998 11:20:51 +0100
lintian (0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
* Beta release
-- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 23:45:51 +0100
lintian (0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
* First release
-- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 23:15:51 +0100