On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 21:59 +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 08:07:46PM +0000, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > > On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 19:25 +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > > > Lintian includes a test "description-contains-homepage", however this > > > check is not triggered by packages that include in their description: > > > > > > Homepage: <http://www.example.org/> > > > instead of > > > Homepage: http://www.example.org/ > > > > > > Maybe lintian should also catch this alternate syntax. > > > > We actually do catch the syntax, but via the info-level tag > > description-possibly-contains-homepage (added in Lintian 2.2.3, and > > therefore not currently included in the lintian.d.o output). > > I used 2.2.5 and I did not get a warning at all (the package involved > being gap).
Thanks for the pointer. It is being flagged but as I mentioned only via an info tag, rather than a warning. Russ added that tag and its test case which uses "<http://foo>", but I'm not 100% sure whether not having the warning tag catch that format was intentional or an oversight. For completeness: $ lintian -I -T description-contains-homepage,description-possibly-contains-homepage ../gap_4r4p10-2_amd64.changes I: gap-doc: description-possibly-contains-homepage http://www.gap-system.org/ I: gap-dev: description-possibly-contains-homepage http://www.gap-system.org/ I: gap-core: description-possibly-contains-homepage http://www.gap-system.org/ I: gap: description-possibly-contains-homepage http://www.gap-system.org/ I: gap-online-help: description-possibly-contains-homepage http://www.gap-system.org/ I: gap-libs: description-possibly-contains-homepage http://www.gap-system.org/ Regards, Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
