On 2011-07-14 20:55, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > On Thu, 2011-07-14 at 11:11 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> I just updated the version of Lintian on lintian.debian.org to 2.5.1 and >> am doing a new full run, since there were a bunch of false positives with >> the older version that we should clear out. This will take a couple of >> days. > > Thanks! >
What Adam said! :D On a related note, if takes a couple of days, maybe we should looking at performance. :P """ performance: Lintian should make it possible to check single packages within seconds or check the full archive within a few hours. """ Quote from: http://lintian.debian.org/manual/ch1.html#s1.3 (that or we should update the manual - I assume the archive grew a bit since 1998[1]) [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/1998/01/msg01503.html >> We should get more people in the lintian group, particularly while my day >> job is sucking up so much of my time, so that other people can do this >> update as well. Volunteers? > > *raises hand* > > I know I've not been the most active on the team recently, but I've also > grumbled in the past about not being able to fix stuck groff processes > and similar issues, and having to wait until someone with the magic gid > (which recently has mostly meant you) can poke things, so I can't really > turn down the possibility. :-) > I am ready to volunteer myself if needed. :) >> And what sort of documentation do folks need >> on how to go about it? The README file in /org/lintian.debian.org should >> be relatively complete. > > It looks reasonably comprehensive, certainly. > > Regards, > > Adam > > I found it covering as well. ~Niels -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
