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Re: lintian.debian.org off ?



On Fri, 2024-08-09 at 22:32 -0700, Otto Kekäläinen wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> On Fri, 9 Aug 2024 at 04:12, Nicolas Peugnet <nicolas@club1.fr> wrote:
> > > If there is interest in providing a page that only list the tag
> > > description (without the affected packages), it would be easier to add
> > > it to the existing UDD page (with an additional parameter for example)
> > > than to create a separate service.
> > 
> > As I said, The reason I made this is because it was very frustrating to
> > click on links to lintian.debian.org as a newbie. Each time, I expected
> > to see more information about the tag to help me understand what it
> > exactly meant and how to fix it.
> > Currently these links lead to nowhere. I think this should be fixed as
> > it adds a lot of friction for newcomers.
> 
> +1 to this and the rest of Nicolas' message.
> 
> Additionally I wanted to raise that a lot of newcomers use search
> engines to learn what the issues are. Also when discussing code
> quality with upstream developers, they might be interested to learn
> more, and when they enter in a search machine e.g.
> 'executable-in-usr-share-docbase' they will get zero relevant results.
> 
> When lintian.debian.org was running, it used to always be the top
> result and an easy place to refer upstreams and newcomers to read up
> on the issue.
> 
> Nicolas' implementation (https://lintian.club1.fr/) to list all tags
> on one page and link to UDD seems like a reasonable compromise in
> functionality and maintenance effort.
> 

Hi,

+1

As someone who helps on mentors.d.n, having such data easily available is
nothing but a benefit for contributors and mentors alike.

Regards

Phil

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