Re: lintian: reporting/config is wrong?
On ma, 2007-11-19 at 12:18 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Lars Wirzenius <liw@iki.fi> writes:
>
> > Am I crazy or is the reporting/config file in the lintian source tree
> > using an entirely wrong syntax? I have not yet had time to learn Perl,
> > but it seems to me that the code in frontend/lintian that reads the
> > configuration file (starting around line 350) does not want the Perl
> > syntax in the example file and instead wants a more traditional
> > configuration file syntax.
>
> reporting/config is read by harness, not by lintian. I'm not sure the
> code in lintian to read a configuration file is actually used at the
> moment. Right now, the lintian.d.o code always runs lintian pointing at
> lintian-dummy.cfg, which is empty.
Oh.
Oops.
Sorry.
I'm stupid.
I knew about harness. I used (or tried to) use harness earlier, even,
but now I completely forgot about it, and started re-writing one from
scratch. Now I can save myself the bother.
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