Re: lintian and Debian derivatives
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 12:49 AM, Geoffrey Thomas wrote:
> We are the only one? I'm proud :-) We set that up about a year ago because
> why not, but in practice, we've more been using Lintian output from the
> package build process (debuild/sbuild) than the page, and making sure there
> are no regressions and no unexpected warnings on new packages.
Cool :)
> In terms of making Lintian useful for derivatives, I think the biggest
> feature we'd like is having a way to suppress Lintian checks during the
> build process for an entire origin of packages (defined somehow...).
Probably this will be useful to you:
http://wiki.debian.org/Lintian/Spec/VendorCustomization
The work on this is in progress, so I would suggest you check it out
as soon as possible.
If you have any suggestions on how it works, now is the time to make them.
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bye,
pabs
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