Jeroen van Wolffelaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, I agree such request are best filed as bugs immediately, for the > same reasons you (Russ) cite, but I can already say that personally, I'm > not really terribly fond of this idea. Lintian should IMHO really be a > tool that has a reliable output, and that can be used as a base for > structural QA work etc. An important requisite for this is that lintian > output should be constant regardless of your environment.
> There is --root for development on lintian, testing out/using locally > certain patches (including simply added checks). ~/.lintian/checks might > be neat, but only addresses a small subset, because it can only add > checks, and then only checks that don't need any sort of collector > changes. --root actually allows any kind of adoption, and is very easy > too (just a cp -a or even cp -sa and adding/modifying whatever pleases > you). Hm, yes, those are both really good points. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
