Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Now I'm quite familiar with Perl (all the emdebian build tools are in > Perl), I could come up with compatible Perl modules along the lines of > Lintian::binaries::Emdebian or Lintian::Cross but I want to be able to > fold these checks into the standard lintian checks so that I don't just > create a fork that will lag behind lintian and eventually be too > incompatible to maintain. (We did that with dpkg-dev and dpkg-cross and > it took nearly 10 years to get our changes back into dpkg-dev.) > > So I'm looking for ideas. I want to be able to selectively disable > checks *within* lintian packages - e.g. the RPATH issue - whilst > retaining the other checks in that package, modifying the importance of > some and adding new ones. Simply disabling the entire set of checks is > not worthwhile - I'd have to maintain 90% of the original check file as > a fork.
My recommendation is to try to tackle this on two fronts: * For the new checks specific to emdebian, add new check files. You can do this in a completely separate package and just depend on lintian. Lintian when run will pick up any files in /usr/share/lintian/checks, so you can just drop more checks and *.desc files in there. You can have those checks do nothing if they detect they're not running in the emdebian mode somehow. * For the Lintian checks that are wrong for emdebian, I would just add a global override file for emdebian. If you need additional Lintian support for override files that are more overridey than normal (suppressing tags even with --show-overrides, for example) or are selectively loaded, we can try to work out generic changes to the driver scripts for this. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
