Bug#682941: lintian: Unhelpful croak message 'Missing Severity field for HASH(0x...)'
On 2012-07-29 22:26, Christoph Biedl wrote:
> Niels Thykier wrote...
>
>> Thanks for spotting this, it has been fixed in a75087f (in case you want
>> to backport it).
>
> Thanks for the prompt fix.
>
You are welcome. :)
>> Is the source for this third-party plugin available online? I am
>> curious about how installs itself, what it uses and such.
>
> No, it's purpose was to enforce some site-specific policies. Since the
> lintian API documentation is better hidden than my capabilities to
> find it, these check constantly break after an lintian upgrade.
>
> Christoph
>
>
Yes, unfortunately, we do not really maintain a stable API at this time,
though I am hoping we will some day. If it is any help, the following
may be useful:
https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Lintian/HackersGuide
The source package also have doc/README.developers and in 2.5.11 (or
later) it also have the "api-doc" target in debian/rules to generate
HTML docs of the some of the modules.
If you have any suggestions or questions to/about the API or the
documentation, do not hestitate to file a bug or contact me.
~Niels
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