Gustavo Franco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 2/20/06, Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> In the past six months, I've filed about 260 bug reports based on what >> piuparts has found. About 40% of those have been fixed so far. Below is >> a summary of the common problems, hopefully the list will help everyone >> to find and especially avoid problems in their own packages. >> (...) > Hi Lars, > I think some of these problems can be detected by lintian, adding some > more checks there. It could bring more visibility to so common errors. > Comments ? Most of those look semi-difficult to do in lintian because most of them require fairly deep parsing of maintainer scripts. lintian can get a long way by cheating with simple heuristics, but that approach can be somewhat unreliable and prone to false positives. Certainly it's possible, and I expect the lintian maintainers would welcome patches, but I don't think it's that straightforward. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
