On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 03:27:53PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> It would be nice if lintian.d.o could provide, for each tag-specific page
> (e.g. http://lintian.debian.org/tags/description-contains-homepage.html), a
> plain text list of all packages affected by the tag. An extra bonus would be
> providing both a plain text list and an associated dd-list.
>
> The intended use cases are ease other automatic processing of the information
> provided by lintian, such as input for bapase, and MBF.
I've briefly discussed on IRC this issue with Raphael Geissert. He is
not particularly keen of adding new functionalities to lintian.d.o web
interface, on the very reasonable basis that most of it can be provided
by some CGIs that query UDD (or some replica of it).
I don't care much where the report come from, as long as the feature
request of "parsing-friendly per-tag information" can be implemented.
The idea of simplifying lintian.d.o reporting is appealing, although
there might be performance concerns in switching from static HTML
reports to dynamic ones.
Cheers.
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