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:
- bad-package-name
- bad-relation
- bad-version-number
- binary-in-etc
- build-info-in-binary-control-file-section ➔ build-prerequisite-in-installable-section
- changelog-distribution-does-not-match-changes-file
- conflicting-negation-in-source-relation
- control-file-has-bad-owner
- control-file-has-bad-permissions
- control-file-is-not-a-file
- control-interpreter-in-usr-local
- copyright-file-compressed
- copyright-file-is-symlink
- copyright-refers-to-incorrect-directory
- copyright-refers-to-old-directory
- debian-changelog-file-uses-obsolete-national-encoding ➔ national-encoding
- debian-control-file-uses-obsolete-national-encoding ➔ national-encoding
- debian-copyright-file-uses-obsolete-national-encoding ➔ national-encoding
- debian-rules-missing-required-target
- debian-rules-not-a-makefile
- description-is-dh_make-template
- description-synopsis-is-empty
- dir-or-file-in-build-tree
- dir-or-file-in-home
- dir-or-file-in-mnt
- dir-or-file-in-opt
- dir-or-file-in-run
- dir-or-file-in-srv
- dir-or-file-in-tmp
- dir-or-file-in-var-lock
- dir-or-file-in-var-run
- extended-description-is-empty
- file-in-etc-not-marked-as-conffile
- file-in-usr-marked-as-conffile
- forbidden-postrm-interpreter
- FSSTND-dir-in-usr
- FSSTND-dir-in-var
- invalid-versioned-provides
- latest-debian-changelog-entry-without-new-date
- library-in-debug-or-profile-should-not-be-stripped ➔ stripped-library
- license-problem-md5sum-non-distributable-file
- license-problem-md5sum-non-free-file
- magic-arch-in-arch-list
- maintainer-address-causes-mail-loops-or-bounces ➔ mail-address-loops-or-bounces
- maintainer-address-is-on-localhost ➔ bogus-mail-host
- maintainer-address-malformed ➔ malformed-contact
- maintainer-address-missing ➔ malformed-contact
- maintainer-name-missing ➔ no-phrase
- maintainer-script-removes-device-files
- malformed-deb-archive
- missing-dependency-on-perlapi
- no-architecture-field ➔ required-field
- no-copyright-file
- no-maintainer-field ➔ required-field
- no-package-name ➔ required-field
- not-allowed-control-file
- no-version-field ➔ required-field
- package-contains-ancient-file
- package-has-no-description ➔ required-field
- package-installs-apt-keyring
- package-installs-apt-preferences
- package-installs-apt-sources
- package-installs-python-bytecode
- package-not-lowercase
- package-uses-local-diversion
- section-is-dh_make-template
- symlink-has-too-many-up-segments
- too-many-architectures
- uploader-address-is-on-localhost ➔ bogus-mail-host
- uploader-address-malformed ➔ malformed-contact
- uploader-name-missing
- usr-share-doc-symlink-to-foreign-package
Those 48 tags can be overridden by maintainers but will otherwise lead to rejection:
- arch-dependent-file-in-usr-share
- arch-independent-package-contains-binary-or-object
- bad-perm-for-file-in-etc-sudoers.d
- binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath ➔ custom-library-search-path
- binary-with-bad-dynamic-table
- control-interpreter-without-depends
- copyright-contains-dh_make-todo-boilerplate
- debhelper-compat-file-contains-multiple-levels
- dir-or-file-in-etc-opt
- dir-or-file-in-var-www
- distribution-and-changes-mismatch
- distribution-and-experimental-mismatch
- embedded-library
- empty-binary-package
- file-name-is-not-valid-UTF-8 ➔ shipped-file-without-utf8-name
- gzip-file-is-not-multi-arch-same-safe
- header-has-overly-generic-name
- install-info-used-in-maintainer-script
- invalid-date-in-debian-changelog
- latest-debian-changelog-entry-reuses-existing-version
- license-problem-json-evil
- license-problem-non-free-RFC
- license-problem-nvidia-intellectual
- manpage-has-overly-generic-name ➔ manual-page-with-generic-name
- md5sum-mismatch
- missing-build-dependency ➔ rules-require-build-prerequisite
- missing-dependency-on-libc
- mknod-in-maintainer-script
- non-etc-file-marked-as-conffile
- non-standard-toplevel-dir
- no-shlibs-control-file ➔ no-shlibs
- not-binnmuable-all-depends-any
- not-binnmuable-any-depends-all
- not-binnmuable-any-depends-any
- package-contains-info-dir-file
- pkg-config-bad-directive
- pkg-config-multi-arch-wrong-dir
- preinst-interpreter-without-predepends ➔ control-interpreter-without-predepends
- python-module-has-overly-generic-name
- quilt-series-without-trailing-newline
- shipped-file-without-utf8-name
- source-contains-prebuilt-ms-help-file
- source-contains-prebuilt-silverlight-object
- source-contains-waf-binary
- source-only-upload-to-non-free-without-autobuild
- statically-linked-binary
- usr-share-doc-symlink-without-dependency
- wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid