Re: lintian and Debian derivatives
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On Jul 7, 2011, at 00:25, Paul Wise wrote:
> Hi all,
Hi Paul,
> 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.
Thanks for your work on this front.
> 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.
"Maemian" was a project I started. It was designed to incorporate internal Nokia changes to Lintian into what are now vendor checks (I believe.) While work has stopped, largely due to the internal changes at Nokia; their move to MeeGo, lack of contact with Nokia lintian maintainers, I would like to pick it up again. I had promised Niels T. that I would test his vendor profiles (haven't done it yet) and incorporating the relevant Nokia changes seems like a very good idea as you suggest Paul.
I will take up contact with those folks who I still know inside Nokia and see if I can't find out more information. If that doesn't work, I think I have some Nokia code, patches to Lintian, that I may be able to incorporate as a vendor check.
Regards,
Jeremiah
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