Re: Status on Vendor Profile
Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> writes:
> The problem is that according to the specification, we said there would
> be a "default" profile that would be loaded in the absence of a specific
> profile being passed.
> The problem is how to we ensure that the Debian profile is available
> and up to date in the git repository so we keep the "git-clone-run"
> property.
Could we do something where the default Debian profile is every test
that's found *except* for ones that specifically declare a profile other
than the Debian profile? That would let us add Ubuntu tests that are
disabled by default, while having the default be to run everything that
isn't marked to not run.
But your idea works too, particularly with the check for whether it's out
of date. That's not too much of a burden, I think.
> I am talking load order here (like include paths in gcc). Lintian
> checks the following directories (in order) for profiles:
> $HOME/.lintian/profiles
> /etc/lintian/profiles
> $LINTIAN_ROOT/profiles
> To clear any misunderstanding, the expectation is that
> /etc/lintian/profiles/vendor/foo.profile would override
> $LINTIAN_ROOT/profiles/vendor/foo.profile. Whether we use vendorX or
> vendorY depends on --profile, $LINTIAN_PROFILE or $DEB_VENDOR.
> So my question was, if we install the profiles by default into
> $LINTIAN_ROOT then users having an outdated $LINTIAN_ROOT (e.g. there
> own in ~/.lintian) will get "weird errors about profile X not being
> present".
> On the other hand, if we install the profiles in
> /etc/lintian/profiles, they can change the $LINTIAN_ROOT as much as they
> want and the profiles are still there. However this kills the
> "git-clone-run" property, because the development version would load the
> profiles in /etc/lintian/profiles and not the ones you are messing with.
I think git-clone-run is really important, so I'd lean towards using
$LINTIAN_ROOT. I find it really, really useful to know that Lintian is
self-contained, and having an outdated Lintian root in .lintian feels like
an edge case to me.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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