Re: Intend to change lintian.d.o/qa-list.txt
Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> writes:
> As far as I know, Lintian exports a file called "qa-list.txt" for
> consumption by the QA infrastructure. Particularly I suspect that the
> PTS and the DDPO consumes this file to display the relevant TODO
> item/column.
The PTS and DDPO is the only user that I'm aware of, but someone else may
have found it. Communicating the information to the PTS and DDPO was the
original reason for the file.
> I propose to extend this file (or alternatively publish a second file
> with the extensions) to include the version number of the package in
> question. Currently the format is:
> source E W I P X O
> and I propose we extend it to:
> source source-version E W I P X O
Yeah, good idea.
Probably up to the QA folks if they want a separate file under a different
name, but last time I changed the format (to add the additional tag
types), it was apparently fairly easy to change the consumers.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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