Not mandatory, but here are some Lintian nags currently reported in package at https://salsa.debian.org/penguin359/pwru/-/commits/debian/latest
W: pwru: no-manual-page [usr/bin/pwru] N: N: Each binary in /usr/bin, /usr/sbin, /bin, /sbin or /usr/games should have N: a manual page N: N: Note that though the man program has the capability to check for several N: program names in the NAMES section, each of these programs should have its N: own manual page (a symbolic link to the appropriate manual page is N: sufficient) because other manual page viewers such as xman or tkman don't N: support this. N: N: If the name of the manual page differs from the binary by case, man may be N: able to find it anyway; however, it is still best practice to match the N: exact capitalization of the executable in the manual page. N: N: If the manual pages are provided by another package on which this package N: depends, Lintian may not be able to determine that manual pages are N: available. In this case, after confirming that all binaries do have manual N: pages after this package and its dependencies are installed, please add a N: Lintian override. N: N: Please refer to Manual pages (Section 12.1) in the Debian Policy Manual N: for details. N: N: Visibility: warning N: Show-Always: no N: Check: documentation/manual N: Renamed from: binary-without-manpage N: N: I: pwru source: out-of-date-standards-version 4.6.2 (released 2022-12-17) (current is 4.7.0) N: N: The source package refers to a Standards-Version older than the one that N: was current at the time the package was created (according to the N: timestamp of the latest debian/changelog entry). Please consider updating N: the package to current Policy and setting this control field N: appropriately. N: N: If the package is already compliant with the current standards, you don't N: have to re-upload the package just to adjust the Standards-Version control N: field. However, please remember to update this field next time you upload N: the package. N: N: See /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.txt.gz in the N: debian-policy package for a summary of changes in newer versions of N: Policy. N: N: Please refer to N: https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.html for N: details. N: N: Visibility: info N: Show-Always: no N: Check: fields/standards-version N: N: I: pwru source: patch-not-forwarded-upstream [debian/patches/use-external-libpcap] N: N: According to the DEP-3 headers, this patch has not been forwarded N: upstream. N: N: Please forward the patch and try to have it included in upstream's version N: control system. If the patch is not suitable for that, please mention N: not-needed in the Forwarded field of the patch header. N: N: Please refer to social contract item 2, Coordination with upstream N: developers (Section 3.1.4) in the Debian Developer's Reference, Changes to N: the upstream sources (Section 4.3) in the Debian Policy Manual, and N: Bug#755153 for details. N: N: Visibility: info N: Show-Always: no N: Check: debian/patches/dep3 N: Renamed from: send-patch N: N: I: pwru: spelling-error-in-binary prefered preferred [usr/bin/pwru] N: N: Lintian found a spelling error in the given binary. Lintian has a list of N: common misspellings that it looks for. It does not have a dictionary like N: a spelling checker does. N: N: If the string containing the spelling error is translated with the help of N: gettext or a similar tool, please fix the error in the translations as N: well as the English text to avoid making the translations fuzzy. With N: gettext, for example, this means you should also fix the spelling mistake N: in the corresponding msgids in the *.po files. N: N: You can often find the word in the source code by running: N: N: grep -rw <word> <source-tree> N: N: This tag may produce false positives for words that contain non-ASCII N: characters due to limitations in strings. N: N: Visibility: info N: Show-Always: no N: Check: binaries/spelling N: N: P: pwru source: trailing-whitespace [debian/control:45] N: N: This file contains lines with trailing whitespace characters. N: N: Whilst often harmless and unsightly, such extra whitespaces can also cause N: tools to interpret the whitespace characters literally. The tool diff(1) N: does not like them, either. They are best avoided. N: N: Some of these problems can be hard to track down. N: N: Whitespace at the end of lines may be removed with the following: N: N: $ sed -i -e 's@[[:space:]]*$@@g' debian/control debian/changelog N: N: If you use Emacs, you can also use "M-x wh-cl" (whitespace-cleanup). N: N: However, if you wish to only remove trailing spaces and leave trailing N: tabs (eg. for Makefiles), you can use the following code snippet: N: N: $ sed -i -e 's@[ ]*$@@g' debian/rules N: N: To remove empty lines from the end of a file, you can use: N: N: $ sed -i -e :a -e '/^\n*$/{$d;N;};/\n$/ba' debian/rules N: N: Visibility: pedantic N: Show-Always: no N: Check: debian/trailing-whitespace N: Renamed from: file-contains-trailing-whitespace N:
