new-essential-package

This package has the Essential flag set. New Essential packages are sufficiently rare that it seems worth warning about. They should be discussed on debian-devel first.

For more information please consult:

Essential packages (Section 3.8) in the Debian Policy Manual

The tag is present in Lintian version 2.114.163. That is the most recent version we know about.

We use semantic versions. The patch number is a commit step indicator relative to the 2.114.0 release tag in our Git repository.

You can find the detection logic for this version at commit fd97859. For merge requests, please use the latest version in the Lintian check fields/essential.

Visibility: error

Found no packages in the archive that triggered the tag.