Thanks for all of the comments! Raphael Geissert <[email protected]> writes:
> Maybe it should be mentioned how many checks there were in etch's > lintian, how many in lenny's, and how many in 2.2.x (the latest version > in sid available as of the time the mail is sent). > > Something else that could also be mentioned is the new > private/refresh-*-data momentum, in the attempt to remain as up to date > as possible. Added both of those. > Other points: > * lintian and ftp-master I think I'm going to save this one to talk about when the discussed automated checking is added, which I think is going to happen after the lenny release. > * checking of .deb and .changes Added a section on the test suite. > * summary of tag changes > * the lack of a header/slogan in the latest releases :) I'm not sure what to say about those. :) I could start making up a slogan again for releases. I mostly stopped because I was feeling a bit guilty about how long the Lintian changelog entries are already. > * Yay! lintian goes 2.x I think Frank already posted something about this, IIRC, as part of announcing the tag classification change. > * experimental check Not sure there's much to say about this yet. I'd like to add more tag views, including all experimental tags and all overridden tags, which would be a good point to talk more about experimental tags. > My opinion is that everyone with a package which is more or less lintian > clean (say less than 10 tags) should try --pedantic at least once every > now and then to see what it reports and think about those issues. "You > decide, but take a look anyway" would be the right slogan. I put in something along those lines. > Some optimisations and binary-related checks (including spell checking) are > on their way as well. > > I also started to collect some missing checks from linda and rpmlint that > should be included as well. Thanks, added. >> http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Lintian > Some of the "Debconf7 Discussion" points are not longer valid, the page > needs to be updated. Everyone here should feel free to just start editing. I'll try to put some time into this soon, but haven't had a lot of chance to work on it. >> We're also looking for someone who would like to tackle converting the >> Lintian manual in Docbook instead of DebianDoc-SGML and working on >> updates. There's quite a bit about Lintian that isn't currently >> documented. If you're in terested, let us know. > As an end note it could be mentioned that any idea for a new check > should be reported, discussion will later happen, but idea should be > kept shout. Done. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
