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Re: how to get people to run lintian on their packages



Paul,

On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 10:47:24PM +0200, Paul Wise wrote:
> It is rare to see an RFS that says "The package appears to be lintian
> clean." and the package (especially binary ones) actually be lintian
> clean. If we were to change the RFS template, what could we change it
> to in order to encourage accuracy and for people to actually use
> lintian and fix any issues found.

I guess it'd help to make that line read:

lintian -F gave:
[...]
lintian --pedantic -I reports however:
[...]

Or something alike.

Apart from that I still hope the new mentors.d.n (for full list of good
ideas see [1]) will come alive and allow us to make automatic checks
possible.

Until that happens though I've put together a somewhat lenghty test-script
that I usually run on my resulting packages after they are built as a review
process. And if that fails, I'll report it back to the list like anyone
else. Would be greath though if we could improve that situation.

Does anyone know the current status of the new mentors.d.n?

[1]: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMentorsNet

-- 
Best regards,
Kilian

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