Bug#793503: lintian: Please warn on obsolete URLs
Hi Riku,
Jakub Wilk wrote:
> * Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@iki.fi>, 2015-08-24, 11:00:
> >These obsolete urls are already checked with duck[1][2]. I think
> >what would make sense would be to make lintian recommend duck.
> >Then lintian can run duck if it has been installed.
>
> Leaving aside privacy issues, that would make Lintian output
> dependent on external world, which would be against its design
> constraints:
> https://lintian.debian.org/manual/section-1.3.html
>
> So I'm afraid we can't run duck, at least not by default.
I think a nice place to have duck being run automatically via some
per-user configuration is the debuild script from devscripts. It runs
lintian by default after each build and has a hook for running further
such scripts.
Unfortunately this hook is not run inside the source directory but in
its parent. So it needs a bit of shell code around it. And debuild
exits if the final error code is not zero. So it also needs "true" as
last command.
I currently use this:
DEBUILD_LINTIAN_HOOK="if [ -d %p-%u ]; then cd %p-%u; duck; elif [ -d %p ]; then cd %p; duck; else exit 1; fi; true"
(Simon: Maybe this is suitable as hint for the duck man page?)
Another way is to use wrapper tools like these:
https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-perl/packages/pkg-perl-tools.git/tree/examples/check-build
https://packages.debian.org/source/experimental/check-all-the-things
Regards, Axel
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