Re: lintian.debian.org
On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 11:52:44PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 11:42:55PM +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:
> > How does lintian.debian.org work? Who maintains it (this list according
> > to the contact info)? Who updates the system?
>
> I do.
Cool, already expected that.
>
> > And, why are non-free and contrib not checked?
>
> No particular reason.
Since most policy (and most potential-for-mistakes) applies to non-free
and contrib too, any objections to trying to enable that?
> > It looks like some perl script, rather than DB backed (so one can query,
> > generate nice stats on tests matched, etc).
>
> You might try looking at reporting/harness in the Lintian tree. :P
Should have looked better than :), thanks for the pointer. Lintian's
sources etc are very well build up seperated and modular... makes it
very easy to step in and help.
When the raw output of harness is downloadable, that makes it possible
to do data mining on it, without needing to run lintian on the whole
archive. Do you think you can easily adopt the cronjob to also copy the
harness output file somewhere to lintian.debian.org?
--Jeroen
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