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Bug#693442: wrong lintian check 'maintainer-script-removes-device-files'
Package: lintian Version: 2.5.10.2 Severity: serious A sysvinit upload has been rejected by the archive because of the tag maintainer-script-removes-device-files (see below). This lintian check is in error; the maintainer script removes /dev/shm, ...
Message posted on the November 16th, 2012 - 10:40 AM ET
Bug#542866: lintian: Check for PS and PDF files in source package
Package: lintian Version: 2.2.14 Severity: wishlist Hi! Can we have a check on lintian (at informational level) that verifies if the source package has PS or PDF files, please? This check would be valid only if the package has its section as main ...
Message posted on the August 21st, 2009 - 06:00 pm ET
Lintian check for missing desktop files?
Hi, as I explained on Debian Med list[1] the existence of a desktop file is nearly as relevant as a manpage for a good user experience for users who are not that addicted to the command line as most of us are. I have not made any stats how many ...
Message posted on the March 03rd, 2011 - 03:30 am ET
Bug#540162: lintian: Check for trailing empty whitespace in debian/* files
Package: lintian Version: 2.2.13 Severity: wishlist Please add (pedantic?) check for trailing empty spaces or tabs in files under debian/* Also check for multiple trailing empty lines at the end of files. Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers ...
Message posted on the August 06th, 2009 - 05:30 am ET
Bug#540161: lintian: Check debian/compat for latest version
Package: lintian Version: 2.2.13 Severity: wishlist Please add (informational?) check for, not up to date with, latest version of debhelper. There are two places to check: debian/control::Build-depends debian/compat And example (should be 7, at ...
Message posted on the August 06th, 2009 - 05:20 am ET
Bug#687667: lintian: check dpkg version for "-Sextreme" option
Package: lintian Version: 2.5.10.1 Severity: normal Hi, As Bug#677003, package building (dh_builddeb) with "-Sextreme" option needs newer dpkg version than 1.16.2~ . see http://bugs.debian.org/677003 I hope lintian would warn this. ...
Message posted on the September 14th, 2012 - 05:30 pm ET
Bug#562776: emdebian-qa: lintian check broken with lintian 2.3.0
Package: emdebian-qa Version: 2.1.0 Severity: important Tags: sid Hi Neil, Lintian 2.3.0 includes some changes that breaks the emdebian check. To fix it all you need is to change the 'use Tags;' stanza to 'use Lintian::Tags qw(tag);' Moreover, ...
Message posted on the December 27th, 2009 - 03:50 pm ET
Bug#548819: lintian: Check duplicated entries in build-depends, depends, etc
Package: lintian Version: 2.2.17 Severity: wishlist Hi! Is it out of scope a check for duplicated entries in debian/control (for fields like Build-Depends, Depends, Recommends, Suggests, Conflicts, Provides, Replaces)? For example: ...
Message posted on the September 28th, 2009 - 07:10 pm ET
Bug#540164: lintian: Check 'No description' in debian/patches/*.dpatch
Package: lintian Version: 2.2.13 Severity: wishlist An example: #! /bin/sh /usr/share/dpatch/dpatch-run ## config-dir-change.patch.dpatch by Foo Bar <foo@example.com> ## ## All lines beginning with `## DP:' are a description of the patch. ...
Message posted on the August 06th, 2009 - 06:30 am ET
Bug#608810: lintian: check for compressed objects.inv file in sphinx-built documentation
This is a multi-part MIME message sent by reportbug. MIME-Version: 1.0 Package: lintian Version: 2.4.3 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Hash: SHA1 Building documentation for python packages is often done through sphinx which generates an ...
Message posted on the January 03rd, 2011 - 12:20 pm ET
Bug#583330: lintian: Check for extra VIM .swp files (like CVS/ .svn/)
Package: lintian Version: 2.4.1 Severity: wishlist Sometimes packages ship extra files like: .swp VIM backup DEADJOE Joe backup *~ *# Emacs backup, temporary Perhaps lintian could display some message about these files? The developers could ...
Message posted on the May 27th, 2010 - 02:30 am ET
Bug#669709: lintian: check deban/watch::version
Package: lintian Version: 2.5.6 Severity: wishlist Please add a a check to verify that debian/watch::version is latest, similarly to checking debian/controll::Standards-Version to warn about policy being not the latest. An idea: E: ...
Message posted on the April 21st, 2012 - 06:20 am ET
Bug#540294: lintian: Check if Vcs field and distribution in changelog match
Package: lintian Version: 2.2.13 Severity: wishlist Hi, From time to time I see a package that was uploaded to experimental but its Vcs- fields point to the unstable branch, or the other way round. I think it would be nice to try to catch ...
Message posted on the August 06th, 2009 - 06:50 pm ET
Bug#518966: lintian: check/scripts remove-of-unknown-diversion is bogus
Package: lintian Version: 2.2.7 Severity: normal Our preinst code contains dpkg-divert --add --package luatex --rename dpkg-divert --add --package luatex --rename /usr/share/man/man1/texdoc.1.gz and the postrm code dpkg-divert --remove ...
Message posted on the March 09th, 2009 - 12:00 pm ET