4 Maintainer: Debian Lintian Maintainers <lintian-maint@debian.org>
5 Uploaders: Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org>,
6 Jeroen van Wolffelaar <jeroen@wolffelaar.nl>,
7 Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>,
8 Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt <he@debian.org>,
9 Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>, Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
10 Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 5)
11 Build-Depends-Indep: debiandoc-sgml, sed (>= 4.1-4), dpatch
12 Standards-Version: 3.8.0
13 Vcs-Git: git://git.debian.org/git/lintian/lintian.git
14 Vcs-Browser: http://git.debian.org/?p=lintian/lintian.git
18 Depends: perl, libdigest-md5-perl | perl (>> 5.8), dpkg-dev (>= 1.13.17),
19 file, binutils, diffstat (>= 1.27-1), man-db (>= 2.3.20-1), gettext (>= 0.16),
20 intltool-debian, libdigest-sha-perl, libparse-debianchangelog-perl (>= 0.6),
21 libtimedate-perl, liburi-perl
22 Suggests: binutils-multiarch, libtext-template-perl, man-db (>= 2.5.1-1)
23 Description: Debian package checker
24 Lintian dissects Debian packages and reports bugs and policy
25 violations. It contains automated checks for many aspects of Debian
26 policy as well as some checks for common errors.
28 It uses an archive directory, called laboratory, in which it stores
29 information about the packages it examines. It can keep this
30 information between multiple invocations in order to avoid repeating
31 expensive data-collection operations. This makes it possible to check the
32 complete Debian archive for bugs, in a reasonable time.
34 This package is useful for all people who want to check Debian
35 packages for compliance with Debian policy. Every Debian maintainer
36 should check packages with this tool before uploading them to the
39 This version of Lintian is calibrated for policy version 3.8.0.