Re: [Draft] Bits from the lintian maintainers
On 2011-08-12 18:03, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> writes:
>
"""
Other improvements
==================
These days Lintian
^^^^^^^
"""
(Fixed a typo, thanks to Jakub Wilk)
>> * processes related packages together
>
>> Since 2.5.0~rc3 Lintian has grouped related packages and processed
>> them together. With this Lintian can now do things like check if a
>> manpage is in a direct dependency.
>
> ...in a direct dependency built from the same source package. Unless
> that feature is much neater than I think it is. :)
>
Thanks, corrected (quoted the resulting paragraph in full):
"""
* processes related packages together
Since 2.5.0~rc3 Lintian has grouped related packages and processed
them together. With this Lintian can now do things like check if
a manpage is in a direct dependency built from the same source
package.
"""
>> * supports architecture specific overrides
>
> architecture-specific
>
>> In some cases tags may only appear on certain architectures and
>> since files must be "byte-for-byte"-identical in "Multi-Arch:
>> same" packages, Lintian now has architecture specific overrides.
>
>> For now it only supports "simple" architectures in the overrides.
>
> ...in the overrides, not wildcards like "linux-any". (Some people
> probably won't know what you mean here, since architecture wildcards are
> still fairly new.)
>
Thanks, corrected (quoted the resulting paragraph in full):
"""
* supports architecture-specific overrides
In some cases tags may only appear on certain architectures and
since files must be "byte-for-byte"-identical in "Multi-Arch:
same" packages, Lintian now has architecture specific overrides.
For now it only supports "simple" architectures in the overrides,
not wildcards like "linux-any".
"""
Finally Jakub Wilk noted another typo of mine (s/derivate/derivative/)
in the """ Help us write "lintian-harness" """ part.
> This otherwise looks great to me.
>
Great, I will give it another day or two, just in case someone else
wants to do a review.
> And on a personal note, thank you *so* much for all the work that you've
> been doing on Lintian. I've often had the experience with other open
> source projects of personally running out of time and seeing the project
> stagnate, which usually makes me feel even worse about not having enough
> time and is very depressing. It's been a delight to see things moving
> along with such wonderful progress! It's made it much less depressing to
> be temporarily trapped in a deluge of work, and is keeping me feeling
> enthusiastic about the chance to get back to work on Lintian again.
>
Thanks, I hope we can "soon" do another """ The "back under 100 open
bugs" release. """. :)
(Ref: version 1.23.31)
> (My current major work project is supposed to go into beta release on
> September 1st, after which I have a bunch of documentation to write and
> then am on vacation for chunks of September and most of October, and then
> I have great hopes to be back and able to do more Debian work. At:
>
> http://git.eyrie.org/?p=kerberos/webauth.git
>
> is what I've been working on, for anyone who's idly curious.)
>
That sounds great; especially schools starts for me again soon, so my
contribution-rate largely depend on just how boring my courses are. XD
~Niels
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