Lintian 2.2.7

This release had more annoying globalish changes than any release that I remember recently. There were lots of little changes across all files, lots of internal reorganization, and lots of tweaks and little changes to match behavior changes elsewhere in the infrastructure. It's all movement towards a more maintainable code base, but it's not as much fun as fixing lots of bugs.

This release should fix the occasional problems that people saw with checking source packages (sorry about that, my fault) and somewhat faster performance due to a bunch of work by Raphael Geissert. It also incorporates changes from debhelper 7.2.3, including removing the requirement that one call install-docs and update-menus in maintainer scripts. That work is now handled by triggers (except for menu-methods files).

This was supposed to be the Policy 3.8.1 release, but I ran out of time today. I'm still hoping to get to that very soon (before 2.2.7 propagates into testing), but there were enough important fixes in this that I didn't want to delay it further.

I'm running into a bit of a problem with Lintian at the moment. It's a lot of fun, and we're making a ton of progress, but it's taking me roughly a day a week to really keep up with the incoming bugs and patch submissions and do a proper job of merging them (which is more than just applying them). This really isn't sustainable. I have a bunch of other things that I want to do, both inside Debian and outside, and I'm going to have to reduce the amount of time that I'm spending on Lintian soon. I hate to do that, since it's great to stay this up-to-date and see this high pace of change, but things may start backing up a bit in the near future.

As usual, thank you very much to Adam D. Barratt and Raphael Geissert for all of their work, without which this release wouldn't have been possible.