Re: Your help with QA is needed
On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 03:07:35PM +0200, Bas Zoetekouw wrote:
> > The biggest issue is that the function that gets the names of the
> > source/binary packages does 'find <mirrordir>/dists/foo -type f -name
> > *.dsc' to locate those files, which of course fails with the pool. We need
> > to parse the Sources file, I think.
>
> Well, I just might be able to help with this. Some time ago, I hacked a
> little perl script that does exactly this (well, not exactly, but it
> comes close): it parses the Packages files to determine which packages
> to process and then, one by one, downloads the packages and runs lintian
> over them. (the source is at http://www.a-eskwadraat.nl/~bas/LBR).
>
> I don't know how much work it would be to integrate this in Lintian, but
> a lot of code should be recycleble. Unfortunately, I won't have time to
> look into this until after Easter.
Yeah, well, I have a stanza-file parser program in Perl which can be
integrated, too, but someone still has to do the work :)
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