Re: load custom checks from ~/.lintian/checks?
Jeroen van Wolffelaar <jeroen@wolffelaar.nl> writes:
> Well, I agree such request are best filed as bugs immediately, for the
> same reasons you (Russ) cite, but I can already say that personally, I'm
> not really terribly fond of this idea. Lintian should IMHO really be a
> tool that has a reliable output, and that can be used as a base for
> structural QA work etc. An important requisite for this is that lintian
> output should be constant regardless of your environment.
> There is --root for development on lintian, testing out/using locally
> certain patches (including simply added checks). ~/.lintian/checks might
> be neat, but only addresses a small subset, because it can only add
> checks, and then only checks that don't need any sort of collector
> changes. --root actually allows any kind of adoption, and is very easy
> too (just a cp -a or even cp -sa and adding/modifying whatever pleases
> you).
Hm, yes, those are both really good points.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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