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- To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
- Subject: lintian: Add support for --pedantic informational messages
- From: Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>
- Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 16:26:18 +0300
- Message-id: <20060615132618.30476.38721.reportbug@cante>
Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.21
Severity: wishlist
Currently lintian produces output of:
W:
E:
Consider adding a more fine grained level to control program reports
e.g. to add future check that are not neither warnings or errors. These
additional messages:
N: (note)
I: (info)
Could be used for anything that is not absolutely necessary, but
which would improve quality and maintenance. The NOTE category
would be above INFO category, suggesting that those practises should
be highly encouraged. These messages could be enable using additional
options in lintian:
--pedantic (enable everything)
--enable info (enable specific level)
--enable note ..
As lintian is written in Perl and uses I assume linti, the additional
options would be easily added.
EXAMPLES:
- "known best practices" gathered from known tips:
* e.g. of there is one huge patch, the message could be
note-should-use-patch-control
And lintian-info would suggest person to invest arranring
his patches to use dpatch(1) or quilt(1) etc. other standard
tools.
- "missing watch file"
note-missing-upstream-watch-file
And lintian-info would suggest person to use debian/watch
to track the upstream sources
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US)
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.16.1cvs20060413-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii diffstat 1.41-1 produces graph of changes introduc
ii dpkg-dev 1.13.21 package building tools for Debian
ii file 4.17-1 Determines file type using "magic"
ii gettext 0.14.5-4 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii intltool-debian 0.34.2+20060512 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii libparse-debianchang 1.0-1 parse Debian changelogs and output
ii man-db 2.4.3-3 The on-line manual pager
ii perl [libdigest-md5- 5.8.8-6 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
lintian recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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Source: lintian
Source-Version: 2.2.0
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
lintian, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
lintian_2.2.0.dsc
to pool/main/l/lintian/lintian_2.2.0.dsc
lintian_2.2.0.tar.gz
to pool/main/l/lintian/lintian_2.2.0.tar.gz
lintian_2.2.0_all.deb
to pool/main/l/lintian/lintian_2.2.0_all.deb
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to 373767@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (supplier of updated lintian package)
(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
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Format: 1.8
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 16:43:32 -0800
Source: lintian
Binary: lintian
Architecture: source all
Version: 2.2.0
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian Lintian Maintainers <lintian-maint@debian.org>
Changed-By: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Description:
lintian - Debian package checker
Closes: 373767 470912 511496 512196 512363 512478 512560 512563 512678 512738
Changes:
lintian (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
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* Summary of tag changes:
+ Added
- direct-changes-in-diff-but-no-patch-system (pedantic)
- no-homepage-field (pedantic)
- no-upstream-changelog (pedantic)
- package-depends-on-hardcoded-libc
- weak-dependency-on-misc-depends
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* checks/*.desc:
+ [RA] Replace `' "balanced" quotes with straight double-quotes. The
old style looks strange with modern fonts. Based on work by Raphael
Geissert.
* checks/binaries:
+ [FL] Fix check for directories in the package in RPATH check.
* checks/changelog-file{,.desc}:
+ [RA] Use Lintian::Collect to read the changelog.
+ [RA] Enable no-upstream-changelog as a pedantic check, since it's
often incorrect for multiple binary packages generated from the same
source. Patch from Raphael Geissert. (Closes: #470912)
* checks/control-file{,.desc}:
+ [ADB] Fix a typo ("arne't"). Thanks, Raphael Geissert.
+ [RA] Check for hard-coded package dependencies on libc. Patch from
Evgeni Golov. (Closes: #512196)
+ [RA] Check package-depends-on-itself for Suggests as well.
* checks/debhelper{,.desc}:
+ [ADB] Remove no longer required "Type" fields from a couple of
entries. Thanks, Raphael Geissert.
+ [ADB] Fix a couple of typoes. Thanks, Raphael Geissert.
+ [RA] Allow ${misc:Depends} in Pre-Depends and warn of
${misc:Depends} in Recommends or Suggests. Patch from Raphael
Geissert. (Closes: #512478)
* checks/fields{,.desc}:
+ [RA] Add pedantic check for no Homepage control field. Patch from
Raphael Geissert.
* checks/files:
+ [RA] Add swfobject.js to embedded-javascript-library. Thanks, Paul
Wise. (Closes: #512363)
* checks/nmu{,.desc}:
+ [RA] Use Lintian::Collect to read the changelog.
+ [RA] Only treat the mention of NMU as a maintainer acknowldegement
if the "ack" string appears before the mention of NMU. Avoids
changelog-should-mention-nmu false positives for "NMU with ACK from
maintainer." Thanks, Evgeni Golov. (Closes: #512738)
* checks/patch-systems{,.desc}:
+ [RA] Add pedantic check for changes to the upstream source in the
diff without using a patch system. Thanks, Raphael Geissert.
* checks/standards-version{,.desc}:
+ [ADB] Add source-control-file to the list of information needed by
the script. Thanks, Raphael Geissert. (Closes: #512563)
+ [RA] Use Lintian::Data to get the standards versions and release
dates. Dates are now in seconds since epoch, so remove the date
conversion code.
* checks/version-substvars.desc:
+ [RA] Mention when the binary:Version and source:Version substvars
were introduced. Thanks, Steffen Moeller.
.
* collection/*.desc:
+ [RA] Replace `' "balanced" quotes with straight double-quotes. The
old style looks strange with modern fonts. Based on work by Raphael
Geissert.
.
* data/standards-version/release-dates:
+ [RA] Known standards versions and their release dates in seconds
since epoch, taken from checks/standards-version.
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* frontend/lintian:
+ [RA] Add --pedantic option to display pedantic tags. Patch from
Raphael Geissert. (Closes: #373767)
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* lib/Checker.pm:
+ [ADB] Remove some unused code.
* lib/Lintian/Collect/Binary.pm:
+ [RA] Add a changelog() method to return the parsed changelog.
* lib/Lintian/Collect/Source.pm:
+ [ADB] Add a missing "use Util" as the module uses the fail() function
from that module. Thanks, Raphael Geissert. (Closes: #512560)
* lib/Text_utils.pm:
+ [ADB] Add a missing "use Util" as the module uses the fail() function
from that module. Thanks, Raphael Geissert.
* lib/Tags.pm:
+ [RA] Add support for pedantic tags. Patch from Raphael Geissert.
.
* man/lintian.1:
+ [RA] Document the new --pedantic option.
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* reporting/html_reports:
+ [RA] Add support for a new tag index sorted by severity and
certainty. (Closes: #511496)
* reporting/templates/index.tmpl:
+ [RA] Link to the new tag index.
* reporting/templates/tags-severity.tmpl:
+ [RA] Template for a tag index sorted by severity and certainty.
.
* t/runtests:
+ [RA] Add support for specifying the Lintian options to use when
checking a test package. Patch from Raphael Geissert.
(Closes: #512678)
+ [RA] Expect the desc files for tests to be in the test directory
rather than at the top level and move the sequence number to an
attribute in the test description rather than in the desc file
name.
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