Re: reporting/harness and stderr
On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 05:54:29PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> "Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk> writes:
>
> > In either case, I'm presuming a 1:1 mapping between unexpected lines and
> > tags, so that a package producing lots of noise would in turn produce
> > lots of tags. For example, the earliest entry in my error log is:
> >
> > tar: ./dev/rd/0: Cannot mknod: Operation not permitted
> > [... and a couple of dozen more ...]
> > tar: ./dev/ptmx: Cannot mknod: Operation not permitted
> > tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> > internal error.
> > internal error: could not unpack package to desired level: No such file or directory
> >
> > and would therefore produce approximately 30 extra tags.
>
> Yeah, that's what I meant. Basically, I'd like to prefix every line that
> was sent to stderr with a "W: <package>: package-chokes-lintian ".
>
> (We should probably figure out some way of special-casing the udeb that
> does the above, btw. It's the one udeb that contains devices and it's
> part of the base system setup and somewhat unavoidable. It's similar to
> excluding base-files from some of the stuff in the checks/files check,
Are you sure that this is an udeb? I thought that was
systemimager-boot-{i386,ia64}-standard
Gruesse,
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