On 2013-09-09 15:48, Peter Åstrand wrote: > > I've tried running Lintian on a non-Deb distribution: CentOS 6. Despite > installing a lot of dependency packages, I failed. I tried to do a > source code installation from lintian_2.5.17.tar.gz, but was surprised > to find out that there's no Makefile, configure script or even a (final) > README file in there. It seems like the only way you can build and > install lintian is by doing it through dpkg. Why? > > Rgds, --- > Peter Astrand ThinLinc Chief Developer > Cendio AB http://cendio.com > Teknikringen 8 http://twitter.com/ThinLinc > 583 30 Linkoping http://facebook.com/ThinLinc > Phone: +46-13-214600 http://plus.google.com/112509906846170010689 > >
Hi Peter, Thanks for your interest. Indeed, we do not have a proper build system for lintian. I believe we have talked about adding one a long time ago, but it hasn't been a high priority - partly because Lintian does not really need to be "built" per se[1]. But perhaps it is time for us to setup a proper distribution "independent" build system[2]. I will get in touch with some Debian Perl people and see what I can do. ~Niels [1] Being just a set of perl scripts and modules, Lintian can be run directly from extracted source. See https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Lintian/HackersGuide (or "perldoc doc/README.developers" in the unpacked source package). Both documents contain a recipe for running lintian directly from the extracted source (despite saying "git", it should also apply to the unpacked source tarball). The recipe should work equally well for lintian-info. [2] As indepedent as it gets when the test suite requires at least 3 Debian specific build tools. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
