Bug#673106: lintian: bogus missing-dependency-on-libc error for biarch packages

Package: lintian Version: 2.5.7 Severity: important Running lintian on ncurses displays the following errors which would lead to auto-rejection unless overridden: , | E: lib64ncurses5: missing-dependency-on-libc needed by lib64/libncurses.so.5.9 and 3 others | E: lib64tinfo5:

Bug#673109: lintian: complains about missing shlib-symlink although linker script is present

Package: lintian Version: 2.5.7 Severity: normal I had trouble figuring out what lintian was trying to tell me here: , | W: libncursesw5: dev-pkg-without-shlib-symlink lib/i386-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5.9 lib/i386-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so | W: lib64ncurses5: dev-pkg-without-shlib-symlink

Bug#673112: lintian: hardening-no-stackprotector check has many false positives

Package: lintian Version: 2.5.7 Severity: normal The new hardening warnings are certainly a useful reminder to use dpkg-buildflags, but especially hardening-no-stackprotector seems to have a high number of false positives. In ncurses-examples alone there are no less than 40

[SCM] Debian package checker branch, master, updated. 2.5.7-1-gc7f01b8

The following commit has been merged in the master branch: commit c7f01b8733c7e8e5889b9b8bc5346f84b2c0426e Author: Niels Thykier ni...@thykier.net Date: Wed May 16 14:04:55 2012 +0200 d/control: Add B-D on dpkg-dev (= 1.16.1~) - used by tests Signed-off-by: Niels Thykier

Bug#673198: lintian: The 2.5.7 source package is missing files (causing FTBFS)

Package: lintian Version: 2.5.7 Severity: serious Thanks to Luca Falavigna for spotting this. The issue is that at least 3 files are missing[1] from the Lintian source package, which cases a FTBFS (due to test failures). Most likely this is caused by dpkg-source's @tar_ignore_default_pattern