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Re: another patch/tag



Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org> writes:
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 08:46:45PM -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote:

>> Although I completely agree, I think it is time to think about some
>> kind of script that generates the lists of commands, packages, etc,
>> that are hard-coded. The more data is hard-coded, the harder it will be
>> to keep everything up to date.

> Sure, patches to move that stuff to data/ welcome.

Also, scripts to update the files in data/ are welcome.  We wouldn't want
to run them during the build, but Lintian maintainers can run them by hand
and make sure that data is up to date, for things that we can pull from
external sources.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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