On 2012-04-05 12:40, Benjamin Drung wrote: > Package: lintian > Version: 2.5.6 > Severity: minor > > Dear Maintainer, > > Please use `debian-distro-info --date=<iso 8601 date> --supported' > to get a list of valid Debian distributions and > `ubuntu-distro-info --date=<iso 8601 date> --supported' for a list of valid > Ubuntu distributions. You can use libdistro-info-perl if you want to avoid > a program execution. > > The output of the distro-info scripts can replace the static list in > vendors/debian/ftp-master-auto-reject/data/changes-file and > vendors/ubuntu/main/data/changes-file. > > FYI, distro-info will be backported to squeeze and I will keep the > distro-info-data package up-to-date. > > >
Hi, I find the idea interesting, but I have two major concerns here. First, distro-info (and its perl API) appears to assume that there are only "two" vendors (namely Debian and Ubuntu). For me, this seems like a regression now that we have allowed vendors to deploy their own data files. My other concern is that in order to use distro-info, it seems that I need to know the "vendor" the package is targeted for. Unless we expose Vendor information to checks, they will not be able to do this. While we could do that, I (still) think it would be a bad idea (as explained in [1]). ~Niels [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-derivatives/2011/12/msg00008.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
