Lintian dissects Debian packages and tries to find bugs and policy violations. It contains automated checks for many aspects of Debian policy as well as some checks for common errors.
For more information, see the User Manual.
Auto-generated documentation of the Lintian Perl Library API can be found here.
Lintian is available in the Debian lintian package.
Archives
The following archives are processed by Lintian:
| Archive name | Attribute | Attribute value |
|---|---|---|
| debian | Architectures | i386 amd64 |
| Distributions/Suites | unstable experimental | |
| Components | main contrib non-free | |
| Mirror timestamp | Fri, 12 Jan 2018 02:42:59 +0000 | |
| debian-debug | Architectures | i386 amd64 |
| Distributions/Suites | unstable-debug experimental-debug | |
| Components | main contrib non-free | |
| Mirror timestamp | Fri, 12 Jan 2018 02:42:59 +0000 |
Statistics
| Last updated: | Fri, 12 Jan 2018 03:57:27 +0000 |
| Maintainers: | 2400 (-1) |
| Package groups: | 28657 (-21) |
| Rescheduled groups: | 27499 (+27486) |
| Source packages: | 28017 (+2) |
| Binary packages: | 75232 (-37) |
| μdeb packages: | 944 (+0) |
| E Errors: | 27394 (-24) |
| W Warnings: | 192786 (-411) |
| I Info tags: | 614779 (-591) |
| P Pedantic tags: | 212119 (-362) |
| O Overridden tags: | 191320 (-3341) |
| X Experimental tags: | 62437 (-26) |
| Lintian version: | 2.5.68 |
(The numbers in parentheses describe the changes since the last Lintian report, published on Thu, 11 Jan 2018 00:50:23 +0000.)
Evolution of Lintian tags over the past 366 days:
