Re: Intend to change lintian.d.o/qa-list.txt

[Bart Martens <bartm@debian.org>]

On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 10:16:06AM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 11:40:09AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> > I do wonder how the PTS should cope with this change though, any
> > thoughts?
> 
> Looks like the two formats are easily mechanically distinguishable: the
> new one has one extra field. So a viable migration plan with no down
> time is: (1) patch the PTS code to act differently depending on the
> number of fields and deploy the change;

Yes that's the approach I used for DDPO.

> (2) deploy the change on the
> lintian infrastructure and rebuild qa-list.txt.
> 
> Given that not all future format changes would have the luck of being
> mechanically distinguishable, it might be a good idea to take this
> chance to add a declared format version, e.g. a first line in
> qa-list.txt starting with "#", declaring the format name and version.
> That would make it easy future migrations, if the need arises.

Or we could do that later when the need arises.

> 
> I don't think the PTS code currently ignore #-commented lines, so that
> should be added too.

Same for DDPO.  I have now added ignoring #comments for DDPO.

Regards,

Bart Martens