Bug#612610: lintian: should suggest switching to 3.0 (quilt)
Package: lintian
Version: 2.4.3
Severity: normal
(this request sounds obvious, but I couldn't find a bug about it)
Hi,
According to http://upsilon.cc/~zack/stuff/dpkg-v3/, there is now
basically one third of the packages using the 3.0 (quilt) format.
It would be great if lintian could suggest about switching to that
forwat when applicable. I'm thinking about:
-> packages with no patch system, but direct changes to files outside
debian/ in the diff.gz
-> version 1.0 packages with a patch system
This should probably be an info tag, with severity: wishlist, for now.
Once it's implemented, I could track the number of packages with those
"problems" in UDD.
- Lucas
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (700, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.20.1-15 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii diffstat 1.53-1 produces graph of changes introduc
ii dpkg-dev 1.15.8.8 Debian package development tools
ii file 5.04-5 Determines file type using "magic"
ii gettext 0.18.1.1-3 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.24+b1 Perl interface to libapt-pkg
ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1 Perl module that automatically gen
ii libipc-run-perl 0.89-1 Perl module for running processes
ii libparse-debianchangel 1.1.1-2.1 parse Debian changelogs and output
ii libtimedate-perl 1.2000-1 collection of modules to manipulat
ii liburi-perl 1.54-2 module to manipulate and access UR
ii locales 2.11.2-7 Embedded GNU C Library: National L
ii man-db 2.5.7-8 on-line manual pager
ii perl [libdigest-sha-pe 5.10.1-17 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
lintian recommends no packages.
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn binutils-multiarch <none> (no description available)
ii libtext-template-perl 1.45-1 Text::Template perl module
ii man-db 2.5.7-8 on-line manual pager
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