Re: DRAFT: Bits from the Lintian maintainers
Russ Allbery wrote:
> [ This is a draft of a post I'd like to send to debian-devel-announce.
> Take a look and let me know if anything is wrong or missing. Thanks! ]
>
> Current Status
> ==============
>
[...]
Maybe it should be mentioned how many checks there were in etch's lintian,
how many in lenny's, and how many in 2.2.x (the latest version in sid
available as of the time the mail is sent).
Something else that could also be mentioned is the new
private/refresh-*-data momentum, in the attempt to remain as up to date as
possible.
Other points:
* lintian and ftp-master
* checking of .deb and .changes
* summary of tag changes
* the lack of a header/slogan in the latest releases :)
* Yay! lintian goes 2.x
* experimental check
>
> Pedantic Support
> ================
>
[...]
My opinion is that everyone with a package which is more or less lintian
clean (say less than 10 tags) should try --pedantic at least once every now
and then to see what it reports and think about those issues. "You decide,
but take a look anyway" would be the right slogan.
[...]
>
> Upcoming Work
> =============
>
[...]
> Raphael Geissert has been working on improved infrastructure for source
> package checks, generating more laboratory information to allow some
> requested checks to be implemented. The start of that work will hopefully
> be merged in the next release.
Some optimisations and binary-related checks (including spell checking) are
on their way as well.
I also started to collect some missing checks from linda and rpmlint that
should be included as well.
>
> Helping Out
> ===========
>
> More hands are always welcome! Lintian is a nice project to work on when
> one only has an hour or two, since a lot of the requested checks don't
> require very much code. Work on the test suite is also much appreciated
> and doesn't require a large time investment. If you want to help out,
> take a look at the wiki page at:
>
> http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Lintian
Some of the "Debconf7 Discussion" points are not longer valid, the page
needs to be updated.
>
> We're also looking for someone who would like to tackle converting the
> Lintian manual in Docbook instead of DebianDoc-SGML and working on
> updates. There's quite a bit about Lintian that isn't currently
> documented. If you're in terested, let us know.
>
As an end note it could be mentioned that any idea for a new check should be
reported, discussion will later happen, but idea should be kept shout.
Cheers,
--
Raphael Geissert - Debian Maintainer
www.debian.org - get.debian.net
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