"Adam D. Barratt" <[email protected]> writes: > 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). > > Our test case for that tag uses "<http://lintian.debian.org/>", so I'm > assuming the fact that description-contains-homepage doesn't flag that > syntax is intentional - Russ? If the line starts with "Homepage: ", we should probably catch it with the stronger tag. The weaker tag catches random URLs found in the description that may or may not be a reference to the package homepage, but the "Homepage: " prefix is a giveaway. I think this was just an oversight. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
