Re: lintian -- detecting hundrets of bugs within seconds...
Hi,
>>"John" == John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> writes:
John> 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.
John> Sounds good.
Not to me. We have a single point of delay here, or else we
have the possibility of this person being totally committed (but real
world time constraints interfere). There probably shold be a person,
but this shan't be our main line of qa.
>> 2) each maintainer runs lintian over his/her packages before
>> uploading them
John> One more thing to do, I don't like that :-)
Huh? we are a;ready supposed to extensively test packages
before releasing them to the wide world (is this not mentioned
anywhere in policy too?) Requiring one extra run of lintian is a good
idea. I in fact vite we build this into things like dupload for those
of us for whom even this is a burden
Oh, ;-)
>> 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)
John> Bad. Adds even more delay into the package upload procedure. I
John> vote for #1.
I am disturbed by this remark.
And I say we should require this ``delay'' rather than pushing
broken packages to the world. Doing the wrong thing really fast does
not generally get one anywhere good.
I think that all three should be implemented; it is about time
we got back on track to the goal of providing an *excellent*
distribution, rather than a distribution of many packages of
questionable quality.
manoj
who often thinks of the good old days now
--
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Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> <http://www.datasync.com/%7Esrivasta/>
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