Jordà Polo wrote: > On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 12:51:44PM -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote: >> Btw, why would it be any useful to print them until the whole package is >> processed? I would find printing them after every check script is run >> better. > > The current lintian output is thought to be human-readable _and_ > machine-parseable. I think it would be interesting to have some sort of > output more focused on the former. It could be used when a packager only > wants to check only a small number of packages, and it would be similar > to the website in terms of how the information is structured.
Hmm, right. Maybe output "formaters" should be able to indicate at what point of the process they want to act/be called. > > There is more than one way to display it, though. For example, one > option would be to "sort" by tag: > > error: debian-changelog-file-missing [serious, certain] > * package1: extra info > * package2: ... > > But note that this is just another crazy idea (or not?). I don't know if > such an output will be acceptable to be included in lintian. Why wouldn't it be? acceptable doesn't mean default ;) Cheers, -- Atomo64 - Raphael Please avoid sending me Word, PowerPoint or Excel attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
