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[SCM] Debian package checker branch, master, updated. 2.5.3-16-g3eb2404



The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit 3eb2404f1e62b753a74c95a9540747aa199ad07e
Author: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
Date:   Sat Sep 17 12:02:14 2011 +0200

    Document private/graph in doc/README.developers

diff --git a/doc/README.developers b/doc/README.developers
index a769ba0..7df6038 100644
--- a/doc/README.developers
+++ b/doc/README.developers
@@ -262,5 +262,21 @@ to select specific tests to run.
 
 =back
 
+=head2 collections and checks
+
+Collections (as the names suggests) are used to extract or/and
+structure data from a package.  This data is then used by the checks
+(usually via Lintian::Collect API) to examine the package.
+
+The check may be doing the extraction (or structuring) of data itself,
+but it should generally be avoided for "heavy" tasks.  Unlike checks,
+collections can (and generally is) run in parallel to improve the
+effective runtime.
+
+
+An overview of how the collections and checks relate can be obtained
+by I<private/graph>, which generates a "Graphviz Dot" graph of the
+relations.
+
 =cut
 

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