Hallo Emanuele, * Emanuele Rocca <ema@debian.org> [2005-04-10 19:21]: > * [ 08-04-05 - 15:38 ] Nico Golde <nico@ngolde.de> wrote: > > There is another thing that I don't understand often. Why > > are there linda and lintian? > > In my opinion this makes things difficulter. Both have to > > coordinate themselves and keep their policy rules up to > > date. > [...] > > The only difference I can see is that they are programmed in > > different programming languages and minor things. > > Yep, it seems that the main difference is the programming language [0]. > > Peter Makholm asked [1] to add a note in Linda's description that points > out the difference between the two checkers, but the only reference to > Lintian seems to be 'much like lintian'. :) > > The main reason for the existence of Linda seems to be that at the time > the author wrote it, Lintian was unmanintained. [2] Ok thats a reason. But why not merge these projects now? I really recommend this because in my opinion this are two projects which do the same job twice which is in my eyes contraproductive. Same thing for dput and dupload. > > In my opinion it is not productive to have two tools for > > internal debian use which provides pretty much the same > > things. > > I agree. > Otherwise, if the two tools have got different features, these should be > noted in the respective descriptions. But why have they? I mean they are both tools for internal debian use. Regards Nico -- Nico Golde - 310777820@ICQ | GPG: 1024D/73647CFF http://www.ngolde.de | http://www.muttng.org | http://grml.org VIM has two modes - the one in which it beeps and the one in which it doesn't -- encrypted mail preferred
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