Re: RFC: [PATCH] Make "lintian --info --color=auto" work again
On Sat, 2008-11-29 at 22:47 +0000, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-11-29 at 17:00 +0100, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:
> > While I don't doubt that your patch accomplishes it goal, I wonder
> > whether it would be better to fix this "correctly" now. By this
> > I mean:
> >
> > 1) The extended description should be available in the $tag_info
[...]
> Descriptions are now stored along with the rest of the tag data read by
> the frontend. I considered doing it directly in Tags.pm but it seemed
> cleaner not to have add_tag() modify the tag data directly. The
> formatting work itself is all abstracted in Read_taginfo.pm so it can be
> reused elsewhere.
Ideally, the description formatting should probably be in the output
modules themselves. The main reason I didn't do that is that having
tried several times I was unable to call
Read_taginfo::format_tag_description from Output/LetterQualifier.pm.
I'm probably missing something obvious but after use()ing or
require()ing Read_taginfo from the output module, attempting to call it
always results in an "undefined subroutine
&Read_taginfo::format_tag_description" error.
Adam
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