Hi
as just discussed with djpig here at DebConf, we (as in ftpmasters/team)
want to use lintian as an automated forced qa tool, no longer a
voluntary one. At least for a certain set of tags.
What we basically want is
- ftpmaster selects a set of tags on which we autoreject on, we write
them in a file, one by line.
- process-unchecked, so the first step in the archive, uses lintian
- if the defined tags are found - package is rejected.
- there will be a seperate override-like set, so we (as in ftpteam)
can define exceptions, if a package really needs to violate such a
tag
- on build time lintian should fetch the file of ftpmaster tags, so it
can show a new F: tag to the user, basically meaning "Fuck off, dont
upload, will get rejected anyways", publically named
"Ftpmaster-reject" or similar :)
- lintian gets a new commandline option, like --tagfile, and only runs
checks that are needed to find the tags listed in that tagfile (i jut
submitted a wishlist bug for this).
This is a pre-requisite to another enhancement in the archive and as
such to be planned to "be implemented soon".
What are your comments on this?
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