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Review: sphinx-linklint 2.0.1-1

Package Information

Descriptionchecker for excessive references in Sphinx documents

The ‘sphinx_linklint’ extension for Sphinx finds excessive references in Sphinx documentation, and can optionally remove the hyperlink from each.

Examples of excessive references found by this extension: * A reference to the same section that contains the reference. * Identical references in the same paragraph.

MaintainerBen Finney <bignose@debian.org>
Changed ByBen Finney <bignose@debian.org>
Distributionunstable
Architectureall
VCSgit: https://salsa.debian.org/bignose/pkg-sphinx-linklint.git (browse)
Closes#1143214
Trackerhttps://tracker.debian.org/pkg/sphinx-linklint
Uploaded1 day ago

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.changes
Changed-ByBen Finney
Architecturesource all
Distributionunstable
DateMon, 14 Sep 2026 15:09:54 +1000
Sourcesphinx-linklint
Version2.0.1-1
Changelog
sphinx-linklint (2.0.1-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Initial Debian release.
     (Closes: bug#1143214)
.dsc
Package-Listpython3-sphinxcontrib-linklint deb python optional arch=all
sphinx-linklint deb text optional arch=all
Sectionpython
Priorityoptional
Componentmain
debian/copyright
Format: https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/
Upstream-Name: sphinx-linklint
Upstream-Contact: Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com>
Source: https://pypi.org/project/sphinx-linklint/

Files: *
Copyright:
    © 2026 Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com>
License: Apache-2.0
License-Grant:
    license = "Apache-2.0"

Files: debian/*
Copyright:
    © 2010–2026 Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org>
License: GPL-3+
License-Grant:
    This is free software: you may copy, modify, and/or distribute this work
    under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
    Free Software Foundation; version 3 of that license or any later version.
    No warranty expressed or implied.


License: Apache-2.0
    On Debian systems, the complete text of version 2.0 of the Apache License
    can be found in ‘/usr/share/common-licenses/Apache-2.0’.

License: GPL-3+
    On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License
    version 3 can be found in the file ‘/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3’.


# Local variables:
# coding: utf-8
# mode: debian-copyright
# fill-column: 78
# End:
# vim: fileencoding=utf-8 textwidth=78 :

Review Information

accepted — allocated to awm 21 hours ago, started 21 hours ago, completed 21 hours ago.

Final Comment

Hi,

The format of the debian/copyright file does not allow for '# ...' style comments - they should be identified as 'Comment: ...' instead. In this case you should just delete them - they seem to have been auto-added by a text-editor.

Thanks!

Public Notes

21 hours ago ● public

CME fix

Command: cme fix --verbose dpkg
Exit code: 25

cme: running fix on dpkg configuration...
Connecting to api.ftp-master.debian.org to check 4 package versions. Please wait...
Got info from api.ftp-master.debian.org for 4 packages.
File debian/copyright line 33 has a syntax error:
	Comments are not allowed. (use -force option to drop comments)

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