Bug#885438: lintian: data/ permanently outdated
Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.66
Severity: normal
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One of my pet peeves with lintian is that the files in the data/ dir
are permanently outdated, as they are not automatically recreated
before a release.
Usually I only notice that if data/fields/perl-provides strays from
reality but today I decideded to take a closer look and ran all the
private/refresh-* scripts, and the result is something like
18 files changed, 1108 insertions(+), 1062 deletions(-)
which is still not reflecting reality, as those scripts sometimes
need a directory argument and sometimes don't, and sometimes write to
a file and sometimes to stdout, and sometimes accept a Contents-*.gz
file (which doesn't exist anymore locally) and sometimes don't, and
sometimes can be called directly, and sometimes are manually or
automatically called from debian/rules … etc.
My proposal is that all automatically created files in data/ are
refreshed before each release, which probably needs some mechanism to
do this more or less automatically; and I'm sorry for not providing a
nice patch series right now but I'm kinda lost in this organically
grown setup …
Cheers,
gregor
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