Re: [RFC/PATCH] New Lintian::Output module
Jordà Polo wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 12:51:44PM -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote:
>> Btw, why would it be any useful to print them until the whole package is
>> processed? I would find printing them after every check script is run
>> better.
>
> The current lintian output is thought to be human-readable _and_
> machine-parseable. I think it would be interesting to have some sort of
> output more focused on the former. It could be used when a packager only
> wants to check only a small number of packages, and it would be similar
> to the website in terms of how the information is structured.
Hmm, right. Maybe output "formaters" should be able to indicate at what
point of the process they want to act/be called.
>
> There is more than one way to display it, though. For example, one
> option would be to "sort" by tag:
>
> error: debian-changelog-file-missing [serious, certain]
> * package1: extra info
> * package2: ...
>
> But note that this is just another crazy idea (or not?). I don't know if
> such an output will be acceptable to be included in lintian.
Why wouldn't it be? acceptable doesn't mean default ;)
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