Package: lintian Version: 2.5.30+deb8u4 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer,
The general fact is mentioned in the GNU Coding Standard. An appropriate word is (in)valid. Examples from "/usr/share/lintian/": checks/files.desc:Tag: run-parts-cron-filename-contains-illegal-chars checks/fields.desc:Tag: illegal-multi-arch-value checks/fields.pm: tag 'illegal-multi-arch-value', $arch, $march if ($arch eq 'all'); checks/files.pm: tag 'run-parts-cron-filename-contains-illegal-chars', $file; checks/source-copyright.pm: # only attempt to evaluate globbing if commas could be legal checks/testsuite.desc:Tag: illegal-runtime-test-name checks/testsuite.pm: tag 'illegal-runtime-test-name', $name, -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.2 APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.16.7-ckt11-u5 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=is_IS.iso88591, LC_CTYPE=is_IS.iso88591 (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.25-5 ii bzip2 1.0.6-7+b3 ii diffstat 1.58-1 ii file 1:5.22+15-2 ii gettext 0.19.3-2 ii hardening-includes 2.6 ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.29+b2 ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.39-1 ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1 ii libclone-perl 0.37-1+b1 ii libdpkg-perl 1.17.25 ii libemail-valid-perl 1.195-1 ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.03-1 ii libipc-run-perl 0.92-1 ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.33-2+b1 ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-1.1 ii libtext-levenshtein-perl 0.11-1 ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-2 ii liburi-perl 1.64-1 ii man-db 2.7.0.2-5 ii patchutils 0.3.3-1 ii perl [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.20.2-3+deb8u1 ii t1utils 1.38-4 Versions of packages lintian recommends: pn libperlio-gzip-perl <none> ii perl 5.20.2-3+deb8u1 ii perl-modules [libautodie-perl] 5.20.2-3+deb8u1 Versions of packages lintian suggests: pn binutils-multiarch <none> ii dpkg-dev 1.17.25 ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.71-1+b3 ii libtext-template-perl 1.46-1 pn libyaml-perl <none> ii xz-utils 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2+b3 -- Configuration Files: /etc/lintianrc changed [not included] -- no debconf information -- Bjarni I. Gislason
