On 2011-08-11 14:07, Jeremiah Foster wrote: > > On Aug 10, 2011, at 23:25, Niels Thykier wrote: > > [ snip good discussion ] >> >> Goals for 2.5.3 >> =============== >> I gather a list of things I would like to see in the coming Lintian >> release. Once again, feel free to suggest other things: >> >> - Check for obsolete perl modules #636994 >> - they need this "soon" if it is to be useful to them >> - Make ancient-standards-version check deterministic >> - (e.g. no use of time()) >> - Make a lintian-harness frontend > > This is a great idea, I currently think the frontend, or at least the last > time I looked at it, was a tiny bit confusing. >
Indeed; I think re-factoring and code cleaning is in order. Personally I also think this is the best (read: only) way to get rid of the two last scripts in unpack/ >> - I heard Ubuntu is interested in doing an lintian.u.com, so >> perhaps we can use this opportunity to make a proper tool >> out of reporting/* > > Very interesting. Would it make sense to have this use the new "vendor" > profile so that this type of usage could be repeated by others who wanted to > use linitian in a similar fashion? Maybe that is what you have in mind. > The vendor profiles are an important aspect in this, I do not expect that the "lintian-harness" frontend would need to concern itself a lot with profiles. To me, vendor profiles is about telling Lintian which tags you are interested in. >> - this implies making the html output easily "re-brandable" >> (not sure of the state here). > > Hmm. That sound hard, lots of warnings are going to have the word "debian" in > them no? > I was referring to the actual HTML pages, so that would be something like changing the Debian logo with a $vendor logo on the html pages. Personally I do not feel that the tag descriptions will be a concern to vendors. The packages will always be "Debian packages" and the references to various Debian sites will probably be useful to developers for the $vendor anyway. > >> - Write a "README.developers" to help potential contributors. > > +1 > [other email] > Another thing I think would help potential contributors is a link > to the git repo on the Lintian homepage: http://lintian.debian.org/ [/other email] That might be a good idea; though it might need to be "re-brandable", so vendors can refer to their own source repository. I am not sure here, but when the time comes we can always ask on [email protected]. :) > [...] ~Niels -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
