Autoreject Tags

The FTP Masters run Lintian on all incoming uploads for the archive. The archive software uses the tags listed in this file to make preliminary decisions.

Those 72 tags are never permitted when uploading:

E bad-package-name
E bad-relation
E bad-version-number
E binary-in-etc
E build-info-in-binary-control-file-section ➔ renamed to build-prerequisite-in-installable-section
W changelog-distribution-does-not-match-changes-file
E conflicting-negation-in-source-relation
E control-file-has-bad-owner
E control-file-has-bad-permissions
E control-file-is-not-a-file
E control-interpreter-in-usr-local
E copyright-file-compressed
E copyright-file-is-symlink
E copyright-refers-to-incorrect-directory
E copyright-refers-to-old-directory
W debian-changelog-file-uses-obsolete-national-encoding ➔ renamed to national-encoding
W debian-control-file-uses-obsolete-national-encoding ➔ renamed to national-encoding
W debian-copyright-file-uses-obsolete-national-encoding ➔ renamed to national-encoding
E debian-rules-missing-required-target
E debian-rules-not-a-makefile
E description-is-dh_make-template
E description-synopsis-is-empty
E dir-or-file-in-build-tree
E dir-or-file-in-home
E dir-or-file-in-mnt
E dir-or-file-in-opt
E dir-or-file-in-run
E dir-or-file-in-srv
E dir-or-file-in-tmp
E dir-or-file-in-var-lock
E dir-or-file-in-var-run
E extended-description-is-empty
E file-in-etc-not-marked-as-conffile
E file-in-usr-marked-as-conffile
E forbidden-postrm-interpreter
E FSSTND-dir-in-usr
E FSSTND-dir-in-var
E invalid-versioned-provides
E latest-debian-changelog-entry-without-new-date
E library-in-debug-or-profile-should-not-be-stripped ➔ renamed to stripped-library
E license-problem-md5sum-non-distributable-file
E license-problem-md5sum-non-free-file
E magic-arch-in-arch-list
E maintainer-address-causes-mail-loops-or-bounces ➔ renamed to mail-address-loops-or-bounces
E maintainer-address-is-on-localhost ➔ renamed to bogus-mail-host
E maintainer-address-malformed ➔ renamed to malformed-contact
E maintainer-address-missing ➔ renamed to malformed-contact
E maintainer-name-missing ➔ renamed to no-phrase
E maintainer-script-removes-device-files
E malformed-deb-archive
E missing-dependency-on-perlapi
E no-architecture-field ➔ renamed to required-field
E no-copyright-file
E no-maintainer-field ➔ renamed to required-field
E no-package-name ➔ renamed to required-field
E not-allowed-control-file
E no-version-field ➔ renamed to required-field
E package-contains-ancient-file
E package-has-no-description ➔ renamed to required-field
E package-installs-apt-keyring
E package-installs-apt-preferences
E package-installs-apt-sources
E package-installs-python-bytecode
E package-not-lowercase
E package-uses-local-diversion
E section-is-dh_make-template
E symlink-has-too-many-up-segments
E too-many-architectures
E uploader-address-is-on-localhost ➔ renamed to bogus-mail-host
E uploader-address-malformed ➔ renamed to malformed-contact
E uploader-name-missing
E usr-share-doc-symlink-to-foreign-package

Those 48 tags can be overridden by maintainers but will otherwise lead to rejection:

E arch-dependent-file-in-usr-share
E arch-independent-package-contains-binary-or-object
E bad-perm-for-file-in-etc-sudoers.d
E binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath ➔ renamed to custom-library-search-path
E binary-with-bad-dynamic-table
E control-interpreter-without-depends
E copyright-contains-dh_make-todo-boilerplate
E debhelper-compat-file-contains-multiple-levels
E dir-or-file-in-etc-opt
E dir-or-file-in-var-www
W distribution-and-changes-mismatch
E distribution-and-experimental-mismatch
E embedded-library
W empty-binary-package
E file-name-is-not-valid-UTF-8 ➔ renamed to shipped-file-without-utf8-name
E gzip-file-is-not-multi-arch-same-safe
E header-has-overly-generic-name
E install-info-used-in-maintainer-script
E invalid-date-in-debian-changelog
W latest-debian-changelog-entry-reuses-existing-version
E license-problem-json-evil
E license-problem-non-free-RFC
E license-problem-nvidia-intellectual
E manpage-has-overly-generic-name ➔ renamed to manual-page-with-generic-name
E md5sum-mismatch
E missing-build-dependency ➔ renamed to rules-require-build-prerequisite
E missing-dependency-on-libc
E mknod-in-maintainer-script
E non-etc-file-marked-as-conffile
E non-standard-toplevel-dir
E no-shlibs-control-file ➔ renamed to no-shlibs
E not-binnmuable-all-depends-any
E not-binnmuable-any-depends-all
E not-binnmuable-any-depends-any
E package-contains-info-dir-file
E pkg-config-bad-directive
E pkg-config-multi-arch-wrong-dir
E preinst-interpreter-without-predepends ➔ renamed to control-interpreter-without-predepends
E python-module-has-overly-generic-name
E quilt-series-without-trailing-newline
E shipped-file-without-utf8-name
E source-contains-prebuilt-ms-help-file
E source-contains-prebuilt-silverlight-object
E source-contains-waf-binary
E source-only-upload-to-non-free-without-autobuild
E statically-linked-binary
E usr-share-doc-symlink-without-dependency
E wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid