Re: lintian and Debian derivatives
Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> writes:
> In addition, there is one derivative that I know of that has current and
> public lintian web pages, but I guess that one is well known by lintian
> maintainers since I guess it is run by Russ. It is a shame that lintian
> pages aren't more widespread within our derivatives. I guess some use it
> on the packages during their build process but I wonder how we could
> encourage them to use it more, anyone have any thoughts?
> http://lintian.debathena.org/
Not run by me. :) I gave them some advice on how to get it set up, but
that was it.
> When Lars Wirzenius was an Ubuntu dev he also ran lintian against their
> archives but it seems that they discontinued that and if it is run, they
> only run it on dev machines. It might be interesting if automated runs
> of it were integrated into launchpad, do the lintian maintainers think
> it is flexible enough to make it easy for the launchpad devs to make
> that happen? Should we try to find the responsible folks and ask them to
> talk to the lintian maintainers about it?
Should be doable, although it's more awkward than it should be because
the web generation framework isn't really "productionalized" in terms of
being fully documented and installed on regular paths and so forth. I've
been wanting to do that for a long time, but my day job has been keeping
me insanely busy.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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