Re: Checks for urls in packages - extend lintian

[Bart Martens <bartm@debian.org>]

On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 02:15:48PM +0200, Simon Kainz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> After thinking about some time how to find/fix broken links in package
> descriptions, i came up with the following idea:
> 
> I think it would be better to extend lintian to check for broken urls
> (Homepage, VCS-Browser, Vcs-*).
> 
> Is it okay if lintian needs network/internet access ( a patch is already
> available checking for the Homepage field, using LWP) ?
> 
> What are your thoughts about this?

I strongly prefer that lintian does not use network/internet access by default.
Any checks that require network/internet access should, in my opinion, be
silently skipped.  Such checks should only be done when the user explicitly
asks these checks.

Regards,

Bart Martens