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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 | Description record for collection scripts:
Collector-Script: <file name of collector script>
Info: <description of what this script does>
Type: comma-separated list of <binary | changes | source | udeb>
Version: <integer to be bumped when a change that requires script to be re-run is made>
Order: <order--necessary if this script needs info from other scripts, see Needs-Info>
Needs-Info: <info this scripts needs from other collector scripts>
[ Auto-Remove <yes> ]
Description record for checks scripts:
Check-Script: <file name of checker script>
Abbrev: <abbrev>
Info: <description of what this check does>
Type: comma-separated list of <binary | changes | source | udeb>
Standards-Version: <standards-version for which this check has been designed>
Needs-Info: <info this script needs>
Description record of a Lintian tag:
Tag: <tag>
Severity: <serious | important | normal | minor | wishlist | pedantic>
Certainty: <certain | possible | wild-guess>
Info: <description of this tag>
Ref: <reference>
[ Status: <untested> ]
[ Experimental: <yes> ]
Description record of a test case:
Testname: <directory name of test>
Sequence: <sequence number for test>
Version: <package version>
Description: <description of test case>
[ Type: <native | non-native> ]
[ Test-For: <whitespace-separated list of tags> ]
[ Test-Against: <whitespace-separated list of tags> ]
[ References: <Debian Bug#nnnn | <msg-id>>[, ... ] ]
[ Date: <date for changelog entry> ]
[ Author: <maintainer for control and changelog> ]
[ Architecture: <architecture for control> ]
[ Section: <section for package> ]
[ Standards-Version: <standard version for control> ]
[ Options: <options to pass to lintian> ]
[ Output-Format: <EWI | ...> ]
[ Skeleton: <skeleton to base the package on> ]
[ Sort: <yes | no> ]
[ Todo: <yes | no> ]
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