Bug#540294: lintian: Check if Vcs field and distribution in changelog match
Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@ubuntu.com> writes:
> No, I mean doing some checks to the field itself. E.g. pygtk from
> unstable has this:
>
> Vcs-Browser: http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/pkg-gnome/desktop/experimental/pygtk/
> Vcs-Svn: svn://svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-gnome/desktop/experimental/pygtk/
>
> However those don't even exist (the first one is 404). Since they
> contain "experimental" in the URI, and the package has unstable in the
> distribution, it could be guessed that it's an error.
Oh, I see. That Lintian can do, yes, and I suspect there probably
wouldn't be too much in the way of false positives. There might be some;
we could add it experimental at first and see how it goes.
> However your idea of looking on the remote tree sounds pretty good,
> except that it might be too heavy :-)
Yeah, I was concerned that you meant that, since Lintian doesn't require
that you run it from a system on the network. That would need a different
tool.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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