Re: Your help with QA is needed
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 07:01:25PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
> > > > What exactly is broken about the lintian runs right now? How can I help
> > > > getting them working again?
> >
> > > 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.
> >
> > I finally have had time to take a look at this. I've hacked lintian to
> > parse the Packages and Sources files instead of doing a find (diff to
> > cvs version is attached). I've introduced a new option
> > "LINTAIN_SECTION", which can be used to tell intian which section of the
> > archive (e.g. sid/contrib) to check.
>
> Nice work. I'll "embrace and extend" ;) your patch and make it work against
> the latest version (not the one in CVS which is old, blame shaleh :)
I've hacked it a bit (in the original meaning of the word "hack" :)
and it's filling up the lintian.log file now. It's working on lully, so we
should have some results by tomorrow morning :)
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