Bug#664794: lintian: should we compress some collections (file-info and index)?
Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> writes:
> True, but it kind of implies that they are aware of changes we make in
> the Lab. :)
True. Well, we could say something in debian-devel-announce.
> Though it leaves the question of how to migrate from uncompressed to
> compressed. If we do "compressed"-only we have to do a full run (or a
> find -name | xargs gzip). I guess that is reasonable to do, we just
> need to tell people maintaining lintian.$domain.$tld to do the same.
> Alternatively, we can bump the version of these collections and have
> Lintian slowly migrate as packages are (re-checked), but that means the
> (non-Lintian) access will be inconsistent until all packages have been
> re-checked.
Ah, yeah, the migration is an issue. My inclination would be to go with
the latter approach and let things be inconsistent for non-Lintian users
for a while, since inevitably we'll want to do a full archive run to pick
up some new set of tags and then it will all get fixed.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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