Bug#322657: yaclc does it
Baruch Even <baruch@debian.org> writes:
> yaclc is a specialized tool to do it, maybe you can consider it an
> optional check somehow (configurable?) to do this. I do agree that by
> default lintian should not need the network to work its magic.
There are enough pending tasks for lintian and it's far enough outside
lintian's philosophy that I'm not currently interested in handling any
sort of external checks that require network information outside the
package being checked and lintian itself. My feeling is that lintian's
already bitten off enough of a problem, and there are other frameworks
that are already set up to do archive-wide checks.
This particular task (checking bug numbers) is a bit more ambiguous than
others since it really is a pre-upload check, but I think it makes sense
to support the existing yaclc tool and integrate it into people's upload
procedures rather than adding the functionality directly to lintian.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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