While parsing the Debian changelog, a syntax error was found. If you
have old changelog entries that don't follow the current syntax but that
you want to keep as-is for the historical record, add the line:
Old Changelog:
with no leading whitespace before the legacy entries. This line and
everything after it will be ignored.
Refer to Debian Policy Manual section 4.4 (Debian changelog:
debian/changelog) for details.
Severity: warning
Check: debian/changelog
line 13 "could not parse date Web, 04 Feb 2026 03:55:40 +0100"
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hardening-no-bindnow
opt/trinity/lib/libkpilot.so.0.0.0
opt/trinity/lib/trinity/conduit_address.so
opt/trinity/lib/trinity/conduit_doc.so
opt/trinity/lib/trinity/conduit_knotes.so
opt/trinity/lib/trinity/conduit_memofile.so
opt/trinity/lib/trinity/conduit_notepad.so
opt/trinity/lib/trinity/conduit_popmail.so
opt/trinity/lib/trinity/conduit_sysinfo.so
opt/trinity/lib/trinity/conduit_time.so
opt/trinity/lib/trinity/conduit_todo.so
opt/trinity/lib/trinity/conduit_vcal.so
opt/trinity/lib/trinity/kcm_kpilot.so
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hardening-no-fortify-functions
opt/trinity/bin/kpalmdoc
opt/trinity/lib/libkpilot.so.0.0.0
opt/trinity/lib/trinity/conduit_doc.so
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spelling-error-in-copyright
Lintian found a spelling error in the copyright file. Lintian has a list
of common misspellings that it looks for. It does not have a dictionary
like a spelling checker does. If this is a spelling error in the
upstream license, in supporting email messages, or a case of Lintian
being confused by non-English text, add an override.
Severity: info
Check: debian/copyright
"GNU Lesser Public License" "GNU Lesser General Public License"
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copyright-refers-to-symlink-license
The copyright file refers to the versionless symlink in
/usr/share/common-licenses for the full text of the GPL, LGPL, or GFDL
license. This symlink is updated to point to the latest version of the
license when a new one is released. The package appears to allow
relicensing under later versions of its license, so this is legally
consistent, but it implies that Debian will relicense the package under
later versions of those licenses as they're released. It is normally
better to point to the version of the license the package references in
its license statement.
For example, if the package says something like "you may redistribute it
and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your
option) any later version", the debian/copyright file should refer to
/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2, not /GPL.
For packages released under the same terms as Perl, Perl references the
GPL version 1, so point to /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-1.
Severity: pedantic
Check: debian/copyright
The package activates the ldconfig trigger even though no shared
libraries are installed in a directory controlled by the dynamic library
loader.
Note this may be triggered by a bug in debhelper, that causes it to
auto-generate an ldconfig trigger for packages that do not need it.
Refer to Debian Policy Manual section 8.1.1 (ldconfig) and
https://bugs.debian.org/204975 for details.
Severity: warning
Check: shared-libs
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control-tarball-compression-format
This is the compressor format used for the control.tar tarball.
Severity: classification
Check: deb-format
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xz
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data-tarball-compression-format
This is the compressor format used for the data.tar tarball.
Severity: classification
Check: deb-format
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xz
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no-ctrl-scripts
The package does not rely on any maintainer scripts (or other executable
control files).
Severity: classification
Check: control-files
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package-is-maintained-by-individual
The package is maintained by an individual according to the
maintainer/uploaders fields in the debian/control file.
Severity: classification
Check: fields/vcs
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kpilot-trinity_14.2.0~pre58-0ubuntu20.04.0+7.dsc
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ancient-standards-version
The source package refers to a Standards-Version that has been obsolete
for more than two years. Please update your package to latest Policy and
set this control field appropriately.
If the package is already compliant with the current standards, you
don't have to re-upload the package just to adjust the Standards-Version
control field. However, please remember to update this field next time
you upload the package.
See /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.txt.gz in the
debian-policy package for a summary of changes in newer versions of
Policy.
Refer to
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.html for
details.
Severity: warning
Check: fields/standards-version
3.8.4 (released 2010-01-27) (current is 4.5.0)
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debian-source-options-has-custom-compression-settings
compression = "xz" (line 2)
compression-level = 9 (line 3)
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debian-watch-file-is-missing
This source package is not Debian-native but it does not have a
debian/watch file. This file is used for automatic detection of new
upstream versions by the Debian External Health Status project and other
project infrastructure. If this package is maintained upstream, please
consider adding a debian/watch file to detect new releases.
If the package is not maintained upstream or if upstream uses a
distribution mechanism that cannot be meaningfully monitored by uscan
and the Debian External Health Status project, please consider adding a
debian/watch file containing only comments documenting the situation.
Refer to Debian Policy Manual section 4.11 (Optional upstream source
location: debian/watch) and the uscan(1) manual page for details.
Severity: info
Check: debian/watch
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no-dh-sequencer
This package does not use the dh sequencer in debian/rules.
While maintainers may use a variety of build systems, this one is by far
the most popular.
Maintainers are strongly encouraged to use the dh sequencer in new
packages and convert existing ones when appropriate.
Severity: info
Check: debian/rules/dh-sequencer
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testsuite-autopkgtest-missing
This package does not declare a test suite.
Having a test suite aids with automated quality assurance of the archive
outside of your package. For example, if your package has a test suite
it is possible to re-run that test suite when any of your package's
dependencies have a new version and check whether that update causes
problems for your package.
In addition, since May 2018 these tests now influence migration from
unstable to testing:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2018/05/msg00001.html
Please add a debian/tests/control file to your package to declare a
testsuite, but please make sure to only add autopkgtests if they provide
meaningful coverage of your package.
Refer to https://ci.debian.net/doc/ for details.
Severity: info
Check: testsuite
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no-dep5-copyright
This package does not use a machine-readable debian/copyright file.
This format makes it easier to review licenses and can be easily parsed
by Lintian.
Refer to
https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/ for
details.
Severity: pedantic
Check: debian/copyright
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no-homepage-field
This non-native package lacks a Homepage field. If the package has an
upstream home page that contains useful information or resources for the
end user, consider adding a Homepage control field to debian/control.
Refer to Debian Policy Manual section 5.6.23 (Homepage) for details.
Severity: pedantic
Check: fields/homepage
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package-uses-deprecated-source-override-location
This Debian package ships Lintian source-level overrides in the
debian/source.lintian-overrides file.
Please use debian/source/lintian-overrides instead; the debian/source
directory is preferred to hold "source"-specific files.
Refer to Lintian User's Manual section 2.4 (Overrides) for details.
Severity: pedantic
Check: cruft
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package-uses-old-debhelper-compat-version
The debhelper compatibility version used by this package is marked as
not recommended by the debhelper developer. You may consider using a
recommended compatibility version.
The compatibility version can be set by specifying debhelper-compat (=
12) in your package's Build-Depends, by the legacy debian/compat file or
even by setting and exporting DH_COMPAT in debian/rules. If it is not
set in either place, debhelper defaults to the deprecated compatibility
version 1.
Refer to the debhelper(7) manual page for details.
Severity: pedantic
Check: debhelper
10
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rules-requires-root-missing
The debian/control file is missing an explicit Rules-Requires-Root
field.
Traditionally, Debian packages have required root privileges for some
debian/rules target requiring a split between build and binary targets.
This makes the builds slower due to the increased amount of invocations
as well as the overhead of fakeroot itself.
Please specify (eg.) Rules-Requires-Root: no in the debian/control
source stanza, but packagers should verify using diffoscope(1) that the
binaries built with this field present are identical.
Refer to /usr/share/doc/dpkg-dev/rootless-builds.txt.gz, Debian Policy
Manual section 4.9.2 (debian/rules and Rules-Requires-Root), and Debian
Policy Manual section 5.6.31 (Rules-Requires-Root) for details.
Severity: pedantic
Check: debian/control
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upstream-metadata-file-is-missing
This source package is not Debian-native but it does not have a
debian/upstream/metadata file.
The Upstream MEtadata GAthered with YAml (UMEGAYA) project is an effort
to collect meta-information about upstream projects from any source
package. This file is in YAML format and it is used in to feed the data
in the UltimateDebianDatabase. For example, it can contains the way the
authors want their software be cited in publications and some
bibliographic references about the software.
Please add a debian/upstream/metadata file.
Refer to https://dep-team.pages.debian.net/deps/dep12/ and
https://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamMetadata for details.
Severity: pedantic
Check: debian/upstream/metadata
This tag is experimental. Please file a bug report if the tag seems
wrong.
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overridden
binary-nmu-debian-revision-in-source
The version number of your source package ends in +b and a number or has
a Debian revision containing three parts. These version numbers are used
by binary NMUs and should not be used as the source version. (The +b
form is the current standard; the three-part version number now
obsolete.)
Refer to Debian Developer's Reference section 5.10.2.1 (Recompilation or
binary-only NMU) for details.
Severity: warning
Check: fields/version
Actually, trigger is not unnecessary because of dynamic modules like tdepart.
4:14.2.0~pre58-0ubuntu20.04.0+7
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debhelper-compat-level
This is the debhelper compat level used specified by this package.
Severity: classification
Check: debhelper
This tag is a classification. There is no issue in your package.
10
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debian-build-system
This is the build system that Lintian believes the package is using.
Severity: classification
Check: debhelper
This tag is a classification. There is no issue in your package.
cdbs-with-debhelper.mk
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package-is-maintained-by-individual
The package is maintained by an individual according to the
maintainer/uploaders fields in the debian/control file.
Severity: classification
Check: fields/vcs
This tag is a classification. There is no issue in your package.
Lintian did not output a note for this tag
C
patch-system
This package uses the specified patch system (eg. "quilt" or "dpatch").
Severity: classification
Check: patch-systems
This tag is a classification. There is no issue in your package.
quilt
C
source-format
This is the source format declared in the package.
Severity: classification
Check: debian/source-dir
This tag is a classification. There is no issue in your package.
3.0 (quilt)
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standards-version
The standards version of the package according to Standards-Version
field in the debian/control file.
Severity: classification
Check: fields/standards-version
This tag is a classification. There is no issue in your package.