On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 03:43:53PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > lintian is a wonderfully relaxing thing to work on while on vacation in > the beautiful Pacific Northwest. :)
Didn't you get the memo? Vacation != work!! :) > There are now quite a few fixes accumulated in Subversion (20 bug fixes, > 85 lines of changelog) but probably no reason to upload before the last > upload makes it into testing. The only bug that makes me wonder if we > should reset the propagation into testing is the CDPATH bug with the man > page check, which caused a bit of consternation. If someone else thinks > we should upload before lintian propagates into testing, do say something. > > Regardless, changing too much between uploads isn't a good idea, so I'm > going to slow down on committing actual fixes and go work on some other > projects and on cleaning up the bug database a bit (retitling bugs, > clearing out meaningless tags, that sort of thing). Fine, but I don't think it's really *important* to artificially restrict the amount of fixes... more the better, I'd say :). > One thing that I have been noticing while working on a variety of checks > is that lintian could use a richer set of library functions. There are > now multiple check modules that load and test dependencies, for instance, > and they all repeat themselves to some extent. Similarly, there are > several checks that parse the index created by unpack-binpkg-l1 and they > all do similar things. Maybe a good lintian 1.24 project would be some > substantial refactoring and lifting common routines into the library. Yeah, lintian is quite evolved, and it's still halfway from moving from lots of seperate binaries (all of checks/ were separate perl scripts in 1.22) to using perl modules: collection still is separate binaries. And yes, there's a *lot* of code to refactor if one has the time for that, a lot of historic decisions make now a little bit less sense I'd say. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
