Re: lintian -- detecting hundrets of bugs within seconds...
Christian Schwarz <schwarz@monet.m.isar.de> writes:
> 1) one person could use lintian to check the whole Debian archive and
> reports bugs, keeps track of these bug reports, etc.
Sounds good.
> 2) each maintainer runs lintian over his/her packages before uploading
> them
One more thing to do, I don't like that :-)
> 3) dinstall on master runs lintian over all newly uploaded packages and
> rejects packages with severe errors (there will be an override mechanism
> to bypass certain lintian scripts)
Bad. Adds even more delay into the package upload procedure. I vote
for #1.
John
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