Re: testing "testing" (was: Implementing "testing")
Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> writes:
MZ> On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 06:11:21PM -0500, David Z Maze wrote:
DZM> A marginally better approach would probably be what wound up
DZM> happening with lintian. Note that we do have a package to check
DZM> for common errors in packages, but there's no automated process
DZM> that files bugs based on its results. Instead, developers are
DZM> encouraged to run lintian before uploading their packages;
DZM> support is in debhelper to do this, and dh_make causes it to be
DZM> done by default. Lintian-clean is good, but not required and
DZM> not automagically checked for.
MZ>
MZ> Where does debhelper or dh_make call lintian? I can't find any
MZ> reference to lintian in either of them.
Aha! I'm on crack. I knew it had to be one of those two because when
I tossed together a package using those two tools, lintian got run
every time. But in fact it's debuild(1) (from the devscripts package)
that's calling lintian. And since that's what I happen to use to
actually fire off a build, I get a lintian check every time. Right.
--
David Maze dmaze@mit.edu http://www.mit.edu/~dmaze/
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