Bug#701477: lintian: Should it support XDG?

Package: lintian Version: 2.5.11 Severity: wishlist There was a suggestion in #d-mentors about Lintian supporting the XDG specification for data files and config files[1]. The main argument was (AFAICT) to avoid cluttering $HOME with dot files. ...

Message posted on the February 23rd, 2013 - 11:20 AM ET

Bug#706308: lintian: possible false positive statically-linked-binary

Package: lintian Version: 2.5.10.5 Severity: normal Lintian reports statically-linked-binary on i386 but I'm not sure why. Could this be a false positive? The sources for testing are available at: git clone ...

Message posted on the April 28th, 2013 - 3:40 AM ET

Bug#697565: lintian: dsc field original-maintainer is unknown to lintian

This is a multi-part MIME message sent by reportbug. MIME-Version: 1.0 Package: lintian Version: 2.5.10.3 Severity: normal Tags: patch Dear Maintainer, The lintian tool doesn't appear to be aware of XSBC-Original-Maintainer, the source field ...

Message posted on the January 6th, 2013 - 7:50 PM ET

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#686813: unblock: lintian/2.5.10.2 (pre-approval)

This is a multi-part MIME message sent by reportbug. MIME-Version: 1.0 Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org Usertags: unblock Hi, I am considering to upload another minor release of Lintian ...

Message posted on the September 6th, 2012 - 4:50 AM ET

Bug#682976: unblock: lintian/2.5.10.1

This is a multi-part MIME message sent by reportbug. MIME-Version: 1.0 Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org Usertags: unblock Hi, I would like to upload a minor bug fix version of Lintian to ...

Message posted on the July 27th, 2012 - 11:30 AM ET

Bug#706051: lintian allowing VCS boilerplate

Package: lintian Version: 2.5.10.5 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, lintian doesn't warn about default VCS lines in debian/control: #Vcs-Git: git://git.debian.org/collab-maint/xyz.git #Vcs-Browser: ...

Message posted on the April 23rd, 2013 - 8:10 PM ET

Bug#701660: lintian: Possible wrong syntax-error-in-dep5-copyright test in Lintian (Duplicate field copyright)

Package: lintian Version: 2.5.11 Severity: minor Correct me if I am wrong or if I lack some coffee, please, but with this copyright file: =Format: http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/ Upstream-Name: name ...

Message posted on the February 25th, 2013 - 3:40 PM ET

lintian warning hardening-no-fortify-functions in dualword project...

Hi All, I'm trying to fix lintian warning: hardening-no-fortify-functions in http://mentors.debian.net/package/dualword. It was caused by calls to Festival functions, for example: void festival_tidy_up(); with export DEB_BUILD_MAINT_OPTIONS = ...

Message posted on the December 24th, 2012 - 2:00 PM ET

Bug#697395: lintian: False positive: preinst-uses-dpkg-maintscript-helper-without-predepends

Package: lintian Version: 2.5.10.3 Severity: normal Hello, I have found an false positive about preinst-uses-dpkg-maintscript-helper-without-predepends. For example fglrx-driver: lintian complains about: ...

Message posted on the January 4th, 2013 - 3:10 PM ET

Bug#708755: lintian: "use of uninitialized value" warnings on lintian.d.o/wmaker

Package: lintian Version: 2.5.12 Severity: important Found this little gem on lintian.d.o: """ N: - N: Processing binary package wmaker (version 0.95.3-2, arch i386) ... [...] O: wmaker binary (0.95.3-2) [i386]: ...

Message posted on the May 18th, 2013 - 7:40 AM ET

Bug#701702: lintian: warn if debian/shlibs.local references foreign packages

Package: lintian Version: 2.5.10.4 Severity: wishlist There are ~70 source packages in unstable/main which contain debian/shlibs.local. It seems that most of them are library packages where this file contains information about packages actually ...

Message posted on the February 26th, 2013 - 8:00 AM ET

Bug#705835: lintian: Definition of canonical URI

Package: lintian Version: 2.5.12 Severity: minor The extended info about the tag vcs-field-not-canonical does not define or link to a definition of "canonical Debian URI". It would be useful if the extended info contained a link to some ...

Message posted on the April 20th, 2013 - 3:10 PM ET

Bug#696639: libtext-levenshtein-perl: Patch to fix lintian warnings

This is a multi-part MIME message sent by reportbug. MIME-Version: 1.0 Source: libtext-levenshtein-perl Version: 0.06~01-1 Severity: normal Tags: patch Dear maintainer, Lintian now depends on libtext-levenshtein-perl [1], so we are going to ...

Message posted on the December 24th, 2012 - 12:40 PM ET