Your message dated Sat, 10 Jan 2009 20:43:29 -0800
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and subject line Re: Bug#449477: lintian: When network is detected, test the
watch file using uscan
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regarding [external] check watch files with uscan
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Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.36
Severity: wishlist
It would be nice if lintian would run the watch file through "uscan" to make
sure the
URL and href are spelled right.
I'm sure there are a few packages with broken watch files (I have a few myself)
and
this would help bring that number down.
Francois
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Russ Allbery <[email protected]> writes:
> Francois Marier <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> It would be nice if lintian would run the watch file through "uscan" to
>> make sure the URL and href are spelled right.
>
>> I'm sure there are a few packages with broken watch files (I have a few
>> myself) and this would help bring that number down.
>
> lintian by design doesn't refer to any external sources of information.
> This is a requirement for stability of results: the same version of
> lintian (with the same version of dependencies) run on the same package
> always returns the same result. There is certainly a place for other QA
> tools that don't have this restriction, but for lintian we've made a
> conscious choice to restrict it to standalone package checking.
>
> I've saved all the bugs filed against lintian in this category tagged
> wontfix so that others can work on other tools, or so that later
> maintainers can change their mind. I'll do the same with this one.
I reviewed this bug again as part of a Lintian bug cleanup, and in this
case I think the program already exists: uscan itself. I think the best
way to fix this would be to run uscan before uploading (possibly by
scripting it as part of your local build process).
I'm going to go ahead and close this bug on Lintian, since Lintian by
design doesn't do this sort of check.
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Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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