This is the Debian package of Lintian, the Debian package checker. The latest version of Lintian can always be found at: http://lintian.debian.org/ Lintian was designed and written by Christian Schwarz and Richard Braakman. The package was previously maintained by Darren Benham, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry and Josip Rodin. It is now maintained by a group of people, with changes noted by initials in the changelog. Key to frequent committers: JvW == Jeroen van Wolffelaar <jeroen@wolffelaar.nl> FL == Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org> HE == Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt <he@debian.org> CW == Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> RA == Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> TK == Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org> ADB == Adam D. Barratt <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk> JP == Jordà Polo <jorda@ettin.org> JA == Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net> RG == Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org> NT == Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> JW == Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org> Contact address is <lintian-maint@debian.org>. Lintian is maintained in git. The current development version may be checked out from: git://git.debian.org/git/lintian/lintian.git Copyright (C) 1998 Christian Schwarz and Richard Braakman Portions Copyright (C) 1998-1999 Joey Hess Portions Copyright (C) 1999 Darren Benham Portions Copyright (C) 2000 Sean 'Shaleh' Perry Portions Copyright (C) 2001-2008 Colin Watson Portions Copyright (C) 2001-2003 Josip Rodin Portions Copyright (C) 2002-2004 Denis Barbier Portions Copyright (C) 2004-2008 Marc Brockschmidt Portions Copyright (C) 2004-2008 Frank Lichtenheld Portions Copyright (C) 2004-2006 Jeroen van Wolffelaar Portions Copyright (C) 2005 René van Bevern Portions Copyright (C) 2006 Adeodato Simó Portions Copyright (C) 2007-2010 Russ Allbery Portions Copyright (C) 2008 Patrick Schoenfeld Portions Copyright (C) 2008 Niko Tyni Portions Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Raphael Geissert Portions Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Adam D. Barratt Portions Copyright (C) 2009 Stéphane Glondu Portions Copyright (C) 2010 Raphaël Hertzog Portions Copyright (C) 2010-2011 Niels Thykier Portions Copyright (C) 2011 Gerfried Fuchs Portions Copyright (C) 2011 Jakub Wilk This program is free software; 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. This is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but without any warranty; without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. See the GNU General Public License for more details. A copy of the GNU General Public License version 2 is available as /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2 in the Debian GNU/Linux distribution or at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html. You can also obtain it by writing to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.