Monthly Archives: April 2011

While we are waiting for Lintian 2.5.0~rc3, here is a little update on what you can look forward to. About a week ago I had the pleasure of merging my branch into the Lintian master branch. While the IRC bot … Continue reading →

This is old actually old news, but I suspect some people have forgotten or maybe do not understand to what extend. We decided to break overrides in 2.5.0~rc1[1], as explained in Raphael’s email to d-d-a@l.d.o. As the email mentions there … Continue reading →

About a week ago, I wrote about doing cross package checks in Lintian.  At that time I had only played with looking up manpages in direct dependencies, which I hope will greatly improve the current binary-without-manpage stats (around 677 packages … Continue reading →

If you have been using Lintian you may also know that it has some limitations.  One of these are that Lintian always checks every package isolated from each other unlike other tools like piuparts.  It has its advantages (such as … Continue reading →