Re: DRAFT: Bits from the Lintian maintainers
Thanks for all of the comments!
Raphael Geissert <atomo64+debian@gmail.com> writes:
> 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.
Added both of those.
> Other points:
> * lintian and ftp-master
I think I'm going to save this one to talk about when the discussed
automated checking is added, which I think is going to happen after the
lenny release.
> * checking of .deb and .changes
Added a section on the test suite.
> * summary of tag changes
> * the lack of a header/slogan in the latest releases :)
I'm not sure what to say about those. :) I could start making up a
slogan again for releases. I mostly stopped because I was feeling a bit
guilty about how long the Lintian changelog entries are already.
> * Yay! lintian goes 2.x
I think Frank already posted something about this, IIRC, as part of
announcing the tag classification change.
> * experimental check
Not sure there's much to say about this yet. I'd like to add more tag
views, including all experimental tags and all overridden tags, which
would be a good point to talk more about experimental tags.
> 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.
I put in something along those lines.
> 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.
Thanks, added.
>> http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Lintian
> Some of the "Debconf7 Discussion" points are not longer valid, the page
> needs to be updated.
Everyone here should feel free to just start editing. I'll try to put
some time into this soon, but haven't had a lot of chance to work on it.
>> 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.
Done.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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