Debian Bug report logs - #712511
lintian: Should check for references to update-notifier in postinst

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Package: lintian; Maintainer for lintian is Debian Lintian Maintainers <[email protected]>; Source for lintian is src:lintian (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: Julian Gilbey <[email protected]>

Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2013 15:42:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: moreinfo

Found in versions lintian/2.5.13, lintian/2.5.19

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retitle 441807 lintian: Check dependencies on -data packages
retitle 542713 lintian: Warn about outdated watch file versions
retitle 554006 lintian: Warn if package ships files in /etc/cron.* without depending on cron
retitle 554688 lintian: Check for safe use of uscan in get-orig-source
retitle 602304 lintian: Please check debian/patches for DEP 3 syntax
retitle 631011 lintian: Add embedded-libcharls
retitle 643735 lintian: Add check for manpages to verify TH matches FILENAME
retitle 660165 lintian: Source package names for R libraries (and others)
retitle 702671 lintian: Please make missing-debian-source-format proper
retitle 709139 lintian: Add check for Debian copyright owners in debian/copyright
retitle 712511 lintian: Should check for references to update-notifier in postinst
retitle 717595 lintian: Please check for update-rc.d "start" and "stop" argument usage
retitle 722084 lintian: Please add Ruby pkg team checks
retitle 731340 lintian: Check if debian/upstream files are valid YAML
retitle 754730 lintian: Check that packages should not depend on apparmor
retitle 758015 lintian: Check for missing SOVERSION in packages name re. Policy 8.2
retitle 770376 lintian: Allow rpaths in /usr/lib/ghc/
retitle 778955 lintian: Check html <img> elements included in package
retitle 787009 lintian: Please add warnings to prepare removing bash as an essential package
retitle 795261 lintian: Add a warning for stripped python-*-dbg packages
retitle 879809 lintian: Warn about empty fields in binary package control files
retitle 886096 lintian: Emit warnings for Alioth URLs in packaging (migration to Salsa)
retitle 33486 lintian: Please check for unsafe mailcap entries
retitle 42936 lintian: Detect incorrect shebang paths in compressed files
retitle 53490 lintian: Alternatives pointing to nonexistent files
retitle 72846 lintian: Warn when HTML documentation is not provided
retitle 192008 dpkg-dev: dependencies from libtool and pkg-config files
retitle 243158 lintian: Warn if the target of a symlink in /usr/lib is not in subdir
retitle 253012 lintian: Check all /bin/sh scripts for bashisms
retitle 262783 lintian: Add an optional to check for a package dir before performing a build
retitle 348620 lintian: Warn about clean targets doing something before removing stamp files
retitle 348864 lintian: Check that manpages are in the right section
retitle 365454 lintian: Check for manpages referring to non-existent info documentation
retitle 372578 lintian: Check debian/rules for bashisms
retitle 376007 lintian: Check for maintainer scripts that rely on /usr/share/doc
retitle 376183 lintian: Detect maintainer scripts that exit 0 when sourcing fails
retitle 396454 lintian: Check for LSB logging usage in init scripts
retitle 397785 lintian: Warn if a postinst script doesn't understand reconfigure
retitle 398658 lintian: Detect unconditional use of non-essential packages during purge
retitle 406362 lintian: Check for ignoring errors from (invoke|update)-rc.d
retitle 421345 lintian: Warn about symlinks in /etc due to dpkg behavior
retitle 451559 lintian: Check for insecure LD_LIBRARY_PATH usage in wrapper scripts
retitle 455740 lintian: Please use desktop-file-validate
retitle 468876 lintian: Check for icons installed in the wrong directories
retitle 471537 lintian: Please check for repackaged .orig.tar.gz
retitle 472219 lintian: Check upstream Makefiles for idiocy
retitle 485885 lintian: Check syntax of zsh scripts
retitle 495705 lintian: Please improve insecure /tmp checks
retitle 497344 lintian: Warn about ${shlibs:Depends} for Architecture: all packages
retitle 499074 lintian: Depend on $(QUILT_STAMPFN), not patch
retitle 512210 lintian: Check that every string has at least one translation
retitle 512265 lintian: Warn if a test suite exists but is not run
retitle 512901 lintian: Show override comments on lintian.d.o
retitle 513544 lintian: Suppress no-upstream-changelog if upstream changelog is empty
retitle 521999 lintian: Use .pc files to check for missing -dev dependencies
retitle 524357 lintian: Ensure that packages providing x-window-manager register the alternative
retitle 528001 lintian: Please syntax check debian/source/include-binaries
retitle 539066 lintian: symbols-file-contains-debian-revision false positives when upstream version contains dash
retitle 539326 lintian: Detect upstream examples not shipped by the package
retitle 542587 lintian: Warn about not closing WNPP bug when adopting
retitle 543260 lintian: Please revisit or temper patch-system-but-no-source-readme
retitle 545574 lintian: Check for discrepancies in LGPL licensing
retitle 546265 lintian: Check if get-orig-source is using maximum compression
retitle 546525 lintian: Check Maintainer field matches between .changes and debian/control
retitle 554152 lintian: Check README.Source refers to the patch system in use
retitle 554685 lintian: dh_testroot in targets not required to be run as root
retitle 554897 lintian: \' groff escape incorrectly used to denote apostrophe
retitle 560406 lintian: Warn against use of debconf TITLE command with fixed text
retitle 566948 lintian: Provide (dd-)list of packages affected by a specific tag
retitle 567510 lintian: Add SOVERSION checks (re. Policy 8.2)
retitle 567752 lintian: Improve check for conditional use of db_input
retitle 570998 lintian: Please check that commands in /{usr/,}sbin do not use section 1 manpages
retitle 575400 lintian: Unable to override .changes tags
retitle 575940 lintian: Warn about perl packages which do not follow the Perl naming policy
retitle 583125 lintian: Please add "manpage-without-binary"
retitle 588567 lintian: Check for "a" vs. "an" grammatical mistakes
retitle 591665 lintian: Check for "non-spaces" after commas
retitle 592379 lintian: Check for Python packages with “except” overwriting builtins
retitle 593457 lintian: Check for dpkg-vendor use in maintainer scripts
retitle 604809 lintian: Extend binary-from-other-architecture to include control.tar.gz
retitle 613259 lintian: Please check for packages depending on upstart or other init systems
retitle 615132 lintian: Warn about substvars in the source stanza of debian/control
retitle 628036 lintian: Please improve orig-source-not-included
retitle 628518 lintian: Please add support to scan build logs
retitle 628678 lintian: Please check that setup.py and debian/changelog have same version
retitle 629247 lintian: Please use a decent shell script parser
retitle 633057 lintian: Add a central place to list Python versions
retitle 635068 lintian: Validate .ttf/.otf font files to check for DRM bits (fsType != 0)
retitle 646192 lintian: Do not tag no-upstream-changelog if a NEWS file is present
retitle 650762 lintian: Please support an UNPACKDIR option
retitle 656882 lintian: Please warn about incorrect self relations (re. Policy 7.6.2)
retitle 658210 lintian: Check that update-alternatives --install/--remove are always used in pairs
retitle 658542 lintian: Does not report inconsistencies between "files" and "checksum" sections in changes file
retitle 658827 lintian: Compare package version with shlib/symbols version
retitle 658847 lintian: Please check for proper use of dpkg-maintscript-helper
retitle 660733 lintian.debian.org: Do a "one-time" runs of trial checks on lintian.d.o?
retitle 664139 lintian: Please warn about mis-named file in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/
retitle 664520 lintian: Unusual documentation package name, foo-docs
retitle 668153 lintian: Add a warning to not depend on specific web PHP SAPI
retitle 668258 lintian: Warn when php5enmod/php5dismod is not being used
retitle 675163 lintian: Please provide an APT hook to run lintian on package install
retitle 675459 lintian: Please add a general framework for detecting missing source files
retitle 677078 lintian: Check for Architecture: all in Perl, Python, Ruby etc. packages
retitle 678962 lintian: [new-check] installs-initramfs-but-does-not-call-update
retitle 683940 lintian.debian.org: Please add an index of autoreject tags
retitle 684286 lintian: Please add check for MA:foreign package with files in /usr/lib/$triplet
retitle 685583 lintian: Check for gsettings schemas with incorrect paths
retitle 687230 lintian: Check for duplicated translation data in binary packages
retitle 690665 lintian: Ignore licenses that are not used
retitle 693903 lintian: Emit error on package with different SOVERSIONs in libraries
retitle 693911 lintian: Add check for library debug packages w/o SOVERSION in name
retitle 696422 lintian: Please add warnings for missing Built-Using
retitle 697161 lintian: Check for patches that apply changes twice
retitle 698398 lintian: Please error on static libraries named libfoo_s.a
retitle 698801 lintian: Check if "Multi-Arch: same" header is missing
retitle 698944 lintian: Add check for i18n/l10n package names
retitle 700953 lintian: Warn about binary packages depending on debhelper, cdbs etc.
retitle 700970 lintian: check for incorrectly formatted lists in DEP-5 copyright files
retitle 702545 lintian: Add check for broken gzip compressed files
retitle 704136 lintian: Treat git-dch --snapshot packages like "local" packages to avoid NMU warnings
retitle 706576 lintian: Warn aboutgit binary diffs in quilt patches
retitle 707180 lintian: Please include the reverse of python-depends-but-no-python-helper
retitle 707220 lintian: Please add new tag for obsolete install-info partial upgrade depends
retitle 712394 lintian: Warn if override_dh_auto_test target doesn't check for DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck
retitle 714706 lintian: Check for LANG=C
retitle 717132 lintian: Apache checks should not warn when the maintainer script is used
retitle 717818 lintian: Detect PNG files not named something.png
retitle 720370 lintian: Check for missing desktop files for games
retitle 724507 lintian: Check for ucf/ucfr operating on shipped files
retitle 724988 lintian: Check if a shared library is not multi-arch
retitle 732682 lintian: Warn explicitly about relative rpaths
retitle 733598 lintian: Warn about packages shipping config.h in /usr/include/foo
retitle 733704 lintian: Check for unnecessary automake dependency
retitle 735518 lintian: Check for overrides that are missing an explanation
retitle 738348 lintian: Please provide sorting by number of tags or overrides
retitle 738442 lintian: Possibility to provide stats on .deb member compressors
retitle 742787 lintian: Check for missing Disclaimer field in debian/copyright (for contrib/non-free packages)
retitle 748182 lintian: Please detect minified CSS
retitle 748376 lintian: please emit warning if dh_installdocs --link-doc is used for a combination of Arch: all and Arch: any packages
retitle 748599 lintian: Packages must not depend on libavcodec-extra-NN
retitle 748845 lintian: Please add a check for packages that ship a .service file but are not calling init-system-helpers
retitle 755153 lintian: Add tag encouraging patches to be forwarded upstream
retitle 755161 lintian: Add tags encouraging desktop files and manpages to be forwarded upstream
retitle 755355 lintian: Check for use of pyqtconfig
retitle 755780 lintian: Warn about embedded data copies
retitle 756130 lintian: Please spell check patch headers
retitle 757671 lintian: Check whether known licenses in DEP-5 debian/copyright are word-by-word the same
retitle 758030 lintian: Check for non-free Creative Commons files
retitle 758425 lintian: Add a check for outdated version constraints
retitle 759403 lintian: Please publish machine-readable report for all packages
retitle 760021 lintian: Check for files that are not wrap-and-sort formatted 
retitle 761504 lintian: Please extract license metadata from file
retitle 762113 lintian: Report when .jar files contain the Java source
retitle 763638 lintian: OpenCL ICD Loader used to built official Debian packages should be the free one
retitle 764067 lintian: Prevent misuse of overrides by allowing maintainer comments
retitle 769066 lintian: Consider processing files in disk order
retitle 770021 lintian: Check for FIXME
retitle 771750 lintian: Rename dep5-copyright tags to copyright-1.0
retitle 773562 lintian: Detect non-free and contrib packages without a Disclaimer in debian/copyright
retitle 774488 lintian: Please implement Vcswatch-like feature
retitle 776068 lintian: Please add more checks for missing dependencies
retitle 778427 lintian: Possible improvement to description-synopsis-might-not-be-phrased-properly
retitle 782717 lintian: rc-version-greater-than-expected-version should check previous changelog entry's version number
retitle 782990 lintian: Check for planned features in package descriptions
retitle 787469 lintian: Please report warning for debian/<pkg>.lintian-overrides.<arch> if pkg is M-A: same
retitle 788667 lintian: Suggest adding DEP-8 tests when an automake installcheck-local target is detected
retitle 791552 lintian: Verify that .jar filename complies with Debian Java Policy
retitle 797163 lintian: Please warn if Arch:all package is not Multi-Arch: foreign
retitle 815234 lintian: Detect Rdata files with embedded code
retitle 820523 lintian: NMU check should match on email and warn if name does not match
retitle 823190 lintian: Please error out on orig tarball sigs for source 1.0
retitle 824552 lintian: Issues missing-python-build-dependency despite Build-Depends: python:native
retitle 827051 lintian: Check if dep5 license texts are GFDL or GFDL-NIV
retitle 828723 lintian: Please warn on deprecated usages of LD_LIBRARY_PATH for dpkg-shlibdeps
retitle 830065 lintian: Check that init.d scripts do not alias reload to restart
retitle 835517 lintian: Please detect javascript files (not symlinks) shipped in /vendor/ dir
retitle 837544 lintian: Check if arch-independent packages really need "compilation"
retitle 839124 lintian: Please add some helpful advice how to fix tags/dbus-policy-at-console
retitle 846880 lintian: Warn if B-D-A or B-D-I is used in sources without Arch:any or Arch:all packages, respectively
retitle 850168 lintian: Check whether manpages have an EXAMPLES section
retitle 853274 lintian: Please recurse into .buildinfo to find .debs
retitle 854134 lintian: Please add check for non .png icons used in .desktop files
retitle 855033 lintian: Report .desktop files using DBusActivatable=true without making it work
retitle 858039 lintian: Graph (SVG) files on https://lintian.debian.org/ lack tag name
retitle 858588 lintian: Classification tag for missing systemd units
retitle 861897 lintian: Check if the pathname part of dpkg-maint-helper script is owned by the package
retitle 863068 lintian: Merge pages from same contributor (but different email) into one page
retitle 864212 lintian: Please make output deterministic/reproducible
retitle 864997 lintian: Please add copyright_check.py at the very least as a contrib
retitle 866728 lintian: Please spell check for scripts or alternatively POT files?
retitle 872611 lintian: Please warn for package using sensible-utils w/o relationship
retitle 872665 lintian: Tag metadata tracking releases of Debian Policy
retitle 874800 lintian: Check for broken / external links in Javadoc
retitle 877802 lintian: Please include file name and line number in output
retitle 879935 lintian: Please warn for packages using getconf(1) to get PATH, _NPROCESSORS_{CONF,ONLN} etc.
retitle 880922 lintian: Check for -dev -> runtime library package dependencies
retitle 884499 lintian: Pedantic check for packages not using debhelper or CDBS
retitle 884567 lintian: Report about mismatches between the Build-IDs field and the content of /usr/lib/debug/
retitle 888001 lintian: Split unused-file-paragraph-in-dep5-copyright into new non-existent-file-in-dep5-copyright
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