Re: RFH lintian too hush

[stappers@stappers.nl (Geert Stappers)]

On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 07:26:35PM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 05:10:21PM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote:
 <snip what="warnings found by others, but by me"/> 
> > According the manual page of lintian is there a check for "huge /usr/share".
> > Conglomerate 0.7.14-1[1] is about 1.4 Mb with a 1.2Mb /usr/share,
> > but lintian didn't complain about that huge /usr/share.
> > IMNSHO it makes sense to at least warn about a u.s. of more one megabyte.
> > 
> > Did I use lintian incorrect
Oops, indeed I didn't tell that I didn't provide any optional flags.

> > or is it triggered at a larger /usr/share ?
> > (then please tell me at which size )
> 
> Please tell use HOW you use lintian if you want to know IF you used it
> incorrect, I cannot magically see how you use lintian.

( wget http://www.stappers.nl/gst/pool/main/c/conglomerate/conglomerate_0.7.14-1_powerpc.deb )

  lintian conglomerate_0.7.14-1_powerpc.deb

So no extra flags. That is based on lintian manual page.

       -c, --check
              Run all checks over the specified packages.  This is the default
              action.

The idea is the use the default action to get _all_ checks.

But I was looking for the hugh /usr/share so I tried

  lintian -C hus conglomerate_0.7.14-1_powerpc.deb

Two snippets from the lintian manual page

       -C chk1,chk2,..., --check-part chk1,chk2,...
              Run  only the specified checks.  You can either specify the name
              of the check script or the abbreviation.  For details,  see  the
              CHECKS section below.

       huge-usr-share (hus)
              Checks  whether  an  architecture-dependent  package does have a
              significantly big /usr/share. Big amounts of architecture  inde-
              pendent  data  in architecture dependent packages waste space on
              the mirrors.

But still no sign of the hugh /usr/share


> Regarding this check, see /usr/share/lintian/checks/huge-usr-share, and
> note that due to its new, experimental nature, it is only displayed when
> you enable informative checks, by means of lintian -I.

Hey a -I flag, lets try it:

$ lintian -I conglomerate_0.7.14-1_powerpc.deb
I: conglomerate: arch-dep-package-has-big-usr-share 4448kB 86%


Okay, I found what I was looking for ....
What is a constructive way to solve our different expections
of _all_ checks and "forceing hus check" versus the -I flag?

(next is dutch, native language for me and probably also for Jeroen
 Wat is een opbouwende manier om ons verschil in verwachtingen
 bij _alle_ test en de "geforceerde hus test" tegenover
 de -I optie op te lossen?)

> --Jeroen

Cheers
Geert Stappers