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Description
Lintian dissects Debian packages and reports bugs and policy violations. It contains automated checks for many aspects of Debian policy as well as some checks for common errors.

It uses an archive directory, called laboratory, in which it stores information about the packages it examines. It can keep this information between multiple invocations in order to avoid repeating expensive data-collection operations. This makes it possible to check the complete Debian archive for bugs, in a reasonable time.

This package is useful for all people who want to check Debian packages for compliance with Debian policy. Every Debian maintainer should check packages with this tool before uploading them to the archive.

This version of Lintian is calibrated for policy version 3.9.1.
Interface: Command Line
Associated Programs
binutils-multiarch Binary utilities that support multi-arch targets
File Determines file type using magic numbers
gettext GNU Internationalization utilities
libtext-template-perl Text::Template perl module
man-db on-line manual pager
Perl Larry Wall's Practical Extraction and Report Language
Available deb Repositories (how-to add a respository)
Debian 32-bit 64-bit
stable 2.4.3+squeeze1 2.4.3+squeeze1
testing 2.5.10.4 2.5.10.4
sid 2.5.10.5 2.5.10.5
experimental 2.5.12 2.5.12

Ubuntu 32-bit 64-bit
hardy 1.23.46 1.23.46
hardy-backports 2.1.2ubuntu1~hardy1
lucid 2.3.4ubuntu2 2.3.4ubuntu2
lucid-backports 2.4.3ubuntu1~lucid1 2.4.3ubuntu1~lucid1
oneiric 2.5.3ubuntu2 2.5.3ubuntu2
precise 2.5.6 2.5.6
quantal 2.5.10.2ubuntu2 2.5.10.2ubuntu2

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