lintian is a tool for linting Debian packages to ensure they comply with Debian's standards. Now that we're releasing .deb packages for docsim we might as well do it correctly!
don't start package description with an article
don't include the full text of the GPL3 (link to it instead)
override prohibition on static linking (Go statically links binaries and lintian's detection system doesn't seem to make an exception, so we have to override that)
gzip the manpage
include an extended package description
For future reference, to build the package locally and ensure it complies:
lintianis a tool for linting Debian packages to ensure they comply with Debian's standards. Now that we're releasing .deb packages for docsim we might as well do it correctly!For future reference, to build the package locally and ensure it complies: