On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 12:10 AM, Paul Wise <p...@debian.org> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 12:49 AM, Geoffrey Thomas wrote: > >> We are the only one? I'm proud :-) We set that up about a year ago because >> why not, but in practice, we've more been using Lintian output from the >> package build process (debuild/sbuild) than the page, and making sure there >> are no regressions and no unexpected warnings on new packages. > > Cool :) > >> In terms of making Lintian useful for derivatives, I think the biggest >> feature we'd like is having a way to suppress Lintian checks during the >> build process for an entire origin of packages (defined somehow...). > > Probably this will be useful to you: > > http://wiki.debian.org/Lintian/Spec/VendorCustomization > > The work on this is in progress, so I would suggest you check it out > as soon as possible. > > If you have any suggestions on how it works, now is the time to make them.
I realize I'm a bit late getting in on this, but I do have a small amount of feedback on vendor profiles having just finished (finally) setting up an Ubuntu lintian harness (http://lintian.ubuntuwire.org) We're triggering a handful of specific tags that don't apply in an Ubuntu context, but only with certain...arguments? (I'm a little shaky on the terminology) One example of this is unknown-field-in-control. Because we use a tool on our buildds to modify all binary packages (http://bit.ly/vjllQi), our binary packages all include both a Maintainer and Original-Maintainer field. Lintian already handles Original-Maintainer for packages with an Ubuntu modification, but we're currently generating unknown-field-in-control tags on the vast majority of packages in our archive (http://lintian.ubuntuwire.org/tags/unknown-field-in-control.html). If I could filter "unknown-field-in-debian-control original-maintainer", that page would be almost empty. Similarly, we've diverged from Debian in the list of Essential packages - python-minimal is essential for us, so we're generating new-essential-package. I have a couple of small other nits and patches, but most of the modifications I had to make were around templating - Evan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-lint-maint-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAFvUpeLnZSqBc01OCQdiQqknHGNpLvtuJ+yT=KCdCJ5WKixf=g...@mail.gmail.com