Hi all, As a member of the Debian derivatives front desk (CCed) and initiator of the derivatives census, which aims to make derivatives more visible to Debian, I figured I should update lintian folks on the state of lintian development and usage in Debian derivatives. http://wiki.debian.org/DerivativesFrontDesk http://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Census A while ago it was mentioned that Maemo had some customisations to make lintian more useful for derivatives. I just realised that the recent vendor stuff might obsolete that, but it might be useful to talk to the maemo/maemian folks to see if that is the case or what is the status of their projects and any interesting checks we could add. Maemo still exists, version 6 (also known as MeeGo 1.2 Harmattan) will be released on the Nokia N9 phone later this year and a beta has shipped on the Nokia N950 developer devices. http://lists.debian.org/debian-derivatives/2011/04/msg00024.html 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/ 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? -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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