Bug#398658: lintian: Please detect unconditional use of some nonessential pkgs during purge
block 398658 by 629247
thanks
On 2011-06-04 20:49, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> writes:
>
>> Perhaps we should mark this as wontfix and leave this to piuparts? I
>> admit that Lintian is probably more used than piuparts by developers
>> (and it would catch this issue pre-upload). Nevertheless we have not
>> done anything about this for 4+ years and alternatives exists.
>
> I think we could do a better job of this than puiparts, since we can check
> all the various branches and alternatives, not just the default case.
> This is one of those open wishlist bugs that I was considering sort of
> "soft-blocked" on the long-term, major project of integrating a real shell
> parser into Lintian.
>
I feared that might be the reason; indeed static analysis would yield
better code coverage in this case, but it does not help me with cleaning
up the tracker! :P
Anyhow, opened a bug for the shell parser that I will use as blocker for
bugs depending on said shell parser. Hopefully, someone will get tried
of that bug and fix it and this one along with it. :D
~Niels
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