Category Archives: Lintian

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 →