Bug#535566: lintian: check for shipping of /usr/share/info/dir(.gz)?

Package: lintian Version: 2.2.12 Severity: wishlist Please add a test for lintian to check for the existence of /usr/share/info/dir(.gz)? in debs. Upstream build systems usually install these files when they install info pages using install-info, but in Debian, the dir file is generated in an

Bug#379749: trailing spaces not handled correctly in doc-base checks

Package: lintian Version: 1.23.22 Severity: normal Tailing spaces in doc-base files are not matches correctly in /usr/share/lintian/checks/menus I noticed this, because freesci-doc started failing lintian checks with this warning: W: freesci-doc: doc-base-file-unknown-format freesci-doc:15 text

Bug#372578: also check debian/rules for bashisms

Package: lintian Version: 1.23.19 Severity: wishlist I just got a FTBFS report for one or my packages, which uses brace expansion in debian/rules: install -m0644 exscalibar-1.0.4/src/{geddei,qtextra,remote/rgeddei}/*.a \ /build/buildd/exscalibar-1.0.4/debian/tmp/usr/lib install: