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>Copyright © 1998 Christian Schwarz, Richard Braakman</P
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>Copyright © 2000 Sean 'Shaleh' Perry</P
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>Copyright © 2004, 2008 Frank Lichtenheld</P
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> This manual describes Lintian, the Debian package checker.
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>1. <A
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>1.1. <A
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>About Lintian</A
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>1.2. <A
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>The intention of Lintian</A
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>2.1. <A
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>Installing Lintian</A
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>Running lintian</A
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>2.4.1. <A
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>2.6.1. <A
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>3.1. <A
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>How Lintian works</A
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>The laboratory</A
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