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Re: lintian & linda (was: Automatic testing of Debian packages)



* [ 11-04-05 - 22:03 ] Nico Golde <nico@ngolde.de> wrote: 
>  * Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org> [2005-04-11 22:00]:
>  > Why are there Vi and Emacs?
>  > Why are there Perl and Python?
>  [...] 
>  But thats not my problem. The programs etc. you showed are very
>  different in using, look etc.
>  What I dont know is what is the difference except the programming
>  language in the case of lintian and linda.
>  Nobody told me yet.

Well some differences came out:

- linda has proper l10n strings for most errors (in German)
- different output formats
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/04/msg00484.html

- different test sets
- linda is faster
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/04/msg00489.html

ciao,	
	ema



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