Re: Lintian changes for LTS development?
On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 04:58:02PM -0000, Chris Lamb wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Whilst I think of it, are there any changes to Lintian that folks
> here might consider particularly useful when doing LTS development?
To which lintian?
Running stretch lintian tends to give more useful information for
packages in stretch than running unstable lintian.
> I've already implemented some changes to not emit some specific
> warnings when doing security updates, particularly to do with version
> numbering.
The same problems exist with (old)stable-pu updates,
and lintian knowing about differing versioning rules
when uploading to anything other than unstable or
experimental would be useful.
> This is on the basis that if I automatically ignore some of
> them, I might be inadvertently 'training' myself to ignore other,
> more serious, ones.
>
> However, I'm sure there is more low-hanging fruit that might prevent
> potential regressions. Thoughts welcome.
A suppressions list in debian-lts git to be used
with --suppress-tags-from-file would be useful.
> Regards,
cu
Adrian
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