Re: reporting/harness and stderr
On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 01:50 +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 03:53:44PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > "Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk> writes:
> >
> > > As far as I can see, the following trivial patch to
> > > reporting/{harness,html_reports} would achieve this. The only thing it
> > > loses us is the ability to generate pages for tags which don't have any
> > > information in the description file; I'm tempted to say that should be
> > > folded in to read_tag_info() instead anyway, as such a tag is fairly
> > > fundamentally broken.
> >
> > What would be really cool is to take random stderr output and turn it into
> > tags. Otherwise, everything that reads the output file (which may be
> > things outside of Lintian) has to cope with random non-tag output and do
> > something with it.
>
> Ignoring is simple and should work fine in most cases. After all, that's
> what we currently do.
Indeed. The only potential issue for non-Lintian tools on that score is
detecting spurious output that happens to start with "[EWINOX]: " (i.e.
the html_reports portion of my patch).
Adam
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