Re: Bug#664019: ITP: lintian4python -- Debian package checker (for Python packages)
* Luca Falavigna <dktrkranz@debian.org>, 2012-03-15, 10:41:
This package provides an experimental flavor of lintian designed to
check packages implemented in Python.
How likely this package will be eventually merged in lintian itself in
the future?
The good news is: some parts of lintian4python has been already merged
to lintian! :) More specifically, these tags were initially implemented
in lintian4python:
- missing-dependency-on-numpy-abi
- python-depends-but-no-python-helper
- python3-depends-but-no-python3-helper
There are some tags that could be ported to lintian right now, but I
need help with writing tag descriptions and tests (hint, hint, none of
these things require Perl knowledge!). Also, in some cases I am not
confident that the implementation reflects consensus about how things
are best done, rather than only my point of view. The tags in this
category are:
- SOURCES.txt-in-binary-package
- egg-info-version-mismatch
- extension-uses-old-pyrex-import-type
- pth-file-modifies-sys.path
We have a few team-specific tags:
- missing-vcs-field
- incorrect-team-name
- incorrect-vcs-field
I'm not sure if lintian maintainers would want them. Even in case they
do, the code would need to be rethought and rewritten in a more
generalized they (so that other teams could benefit from it). I'm afraid
I have no incentive to do that myself. :)
The rest of the tags do things that are too crazy to be ported to
lintian proper, sorry. :P
--
Jakub Wilk
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