Hi, A little research showed that actually redo'ing subversion history after you've imported a CVS tree is very easy. So there is nothing stopping anybody from fixing any bugs in lintian. Let's squash some bugs then. I've added a little post-commit hook to the subversion server so that bugs that - with the usual changelog syntax in the svn log message - are marked closed (like Frank Lichtenheld already did) will automagically be tagged pending. The easiest bugs to solve are those that have already a patch with them. Please remember what Josip said: add tests when/if needed. For who missed it, in http://lists.debian.org/debian-lint-maint/2004/debian-lint-maint-200401/msg00014.html you can find details about getting a (temporary, will eventually be moved to alioth once that's easy enough to do) subversion account. Note that this will probably not become a NMU but a regular maintainer upload, as Josip can probably find the time to upload from subversion. If anyone wants to merely help by triaging bugs, that can also be a great deal of help (with 140 bugs currently...). For example, tag bugs 'confirmed' when they are quite valid, and indeed should be fixed, and a fix would be feasable. People wanting to hack on bugs can then easily find those bugs not having 'patch', without the need to search for doable bugs. Hope this helps dropping down the lintian bugnumber significantly, --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar Jeroen@wolffelaar.nl (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl
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