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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.

-- 
bye,
pabs

http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise


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