Re: lintian -- detecting hundrets of bugs within seconds...
Hi Manoj,
Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@datasync.com> writes:
> Hi,
> >>"Jens" == Jens Ritter <jens@unsolved.weh.rwth-aachen.de> writes:
>
> Jens> I think John´s right here. Because there`re a lot of maintainers
> Jens> who do not have a permanent connection to the net (and
> Jens> especially in Germany it is very expensive to connect via the
> Jens> phone). The upload should be as short as possible.
>
> Huh? Who is talking about longer uploads? The idea is that the
> maintainer runs lintian locally, to detect any policy bugs, and
> *fixes* them before uploading.
>
> This shall result in less time on the phone, since uploading
> bug-ridden pathces shall cause bugs to be reported, causing
> the bug system to send you mail ($$$$), causing you to fix them, and
> reupload ($$$$$$$$) and then send mail to close the bug ($$$).
>
> See? we are trying to save you money.
Yes, I see.
As I recall there were 3 options: 1) Run lintian on
master, 2) run it at home 3) on upload (on master --- Seems i did get
this wrong).
> This is quite confused. When lintian is run by dinstall, and
> it fails, dinstall shall presumably move the package into REJECT/ and
> send you mail ($$$). It shall, then, disappear from /Incoming, and
> not be installed. and you shall have to reupload ($$$$$).
Yes, but the $$$ is your problem then, isn´t it?
You could have run lintian at home.
>
> This is better than giving the genral public packages we know
> have bugs. The solution: run lintian yourselves before uploading the
> package.
>
> You do test your package before uploading them, don't you?
I will test them, yes. I´m still a wannabe maintainer.
I think that Quality assurance is essential for the Debian Project and
this should be so clear to everyone, you don´t have to mention this.
Happy Linuxing,
Jens
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