[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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