Bug#738442: lintian: Possibility to provide stats on .deb member compressors
On 2014-02-09 18:34, Guillem Jover wrote:
> Package: lintian
> Version: 2.5.21
> Severity: wishlist
>
> Hi!
>
> I'm not sure what's your policy on producing informative tags just for
> statistics tracking purposes. If you'd be fine with those I'd like to
> request a tag per different compressor of .deb members. That would
> allow to track those for things like:
>
> <https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2014/01/msg00542.html>
>
> OTOH, I'm not sure if there's a distinctive tag classification that
> might not prompt maintainers to override some of these tags for no
> apparent reason other than being lintian-clean.
>
> Thanks,
> Guillem
>
>
The idea of having tags for statistical purposes has already been
brought up in #612610. I believe it is just stuck on someone writing a
patch for that kind of tags.
Once that is made, it should be trivial to implement such a tag (or
series of tags). Personally, I would probably only make one tag and
make the type an "extra" information.
~Niels
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