Re: Bug#1007002: Lintian breaks existing lintian-overrides due to added []

[Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>]

Hi again,

Axel Beckert wrote:
> Andreas Tille wrote:
> > I'll start editing lintian-overrides then.
> 
> Maybe wait a bit with that. Given Lucas' comment, I feel a bit more
> urged to provide such a migration script.
> 
> I will look into this for the next upload. No promises as of now,
> though.

A first prototype is now available in git in the branch
"migrate-overrides":

https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/blob/migrate-overrides/bin/lintian-migrate-overrides-to-pointed-hints

So far the script only knows about the tags spelling-error-in-binary
and package-contains-documentation-outside-usr-share-doc, but it is
explicitly written to be expandable. Of course it will also get
support for more tags in the (near) future.

Additionally it currently only prints the transformed result to
STDOUT. The plan is to also support inline editing, either with an -i
option or maybe even by default if it detects that the package is
maintained in git.

Please give me feedback if this approach (especially after inline
editing is supported) is feasible — preferably from those who are
annoyed. :-)

It's not yet in the master branch as neither Perl::Critic nor myself
are happy about the usage of (the expression form of) "eval" in there.
(Maybe one of the other JAPH has an idea on this. :-)

Patches and other improvements suggestions as well as pattern sets for
further tags are of course welcome as well.

(Note: I will probably force-push that feature branch over and over
again until I'm satisfied. If someone else wants to work on the same
branch, too, we can also work without forced pushes and squash-merge
the result at the end. Please contact me, if you're interested.)

		Regards, Axel
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