Re: Hard coded package names in lintian
Kumar Appaiah <akumar@ee.iitm.ac.in> writes:
> While observing the lintian sources, I observed that Dep.pm has hard
> coded package names for all the obsolete, essential packages etc. I was
> wondering, why are these lists not generated at runtime? One reason
> could be that I can't trust that the source of the data on the system is
> reliable, as it may be absent/stale/unreliable. Is there any other
> reason?
Answered as part of my reply to Bug#456432.
> In particular, if some package enters or leaves a black/whitelist,
> wouldn't a new lintian version be warranted in the current scheme of
> things?
Yes. If there are significant packages that become obsolete and warrant a
lintian warning to aid in a transition, please file a wishlist bug against
lintian and we'll include that check in the next release.
debcheck is available for the normal case.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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