Hi, I intent to move some lintian tests currently used by the Debian Perl Team an packaged in the pkg-perl lintian profile shipped with pkg-perl-tools into lintian.
Reason is that some of the lintian checks in pkg-perl-tools are useful for either also non-perl packages or perl-packages not packaged by the Debian Perl Team. All checks contained in pkg-perl-tools can be seen at https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-perl/packages/pkg-perl-tools.git/tree/lintian/checks/pkg-perl My main movation is to get the check application-not-library with the following tags into lintian: * libapp-perl-package-name * library-package-name-for-application * application-in-library-section This check actually already supports also python and ruby libraries. Looking through the other checks, I'd consider the following tests also useful for others: Check: cdbs (perl-specific) Tag: arch-any-package-needs-newer-cdbs (*) Tag: module-build-tiny-needs-newer-cdbs Check: debhelper (perl-specific) Tag: arch-any-package-needs-newer-debhelper (*) Tag: module-build-tiny-needs-newer-debhelper Check: module-name Tag: no-module-name-in-description (*) Check: modulebuild Tag: libmodule-build-perl-needs-to-be-in-build-depends Tag: libmodule-build-tiny-perl-needs-to-be-in-build-depends Check: no-perl-modules Tag: depends-on-perl-modules Check: usr-lib-perl5 Tag: usr-lib-perl5-mentioned Check: xs-abi Tag: legacy-vendorarch-directory (*) (This would only leave two team-specific checks, vcs and testsuite.) Those tags marked with "(*)" likely need to be renamed by adding the string "perl" somewhere. I'd be happy to get at least some comments from Gregor and Damyan if they agree to have the pkg-perl lintian check written by them to be moved into lintian. I'd also would like to hear some comments by Niels and other Lintian contributors if they consider those tests also suitable for lintian proper. My plan for moving the tests is: * Coordinating the uploads of the first uploads of pkg-perl-tools and lintian after the move. Probably by first doing uploads to experimental first. * lintian will need according Breaks and Replaces header. * I currently don't expect that pkg-perl-tools needs any such relations added. * pkg-perl-tools currently doesn't have any tests for these tags. I'd like to write test cases for these tags before I integrated them into lintian. Hence the question: Is there a possibility to run Lintian's test suite on a specific lintian profile? * The pkg-perl-tools tags are currently scattered over many tests. I'll try to integrated those tags into the current set of checks (mostly "fields" and "files" probably) where suitable as I think it wouldn't be good performance-wise to add 8 new checks to lintian for about a dozen new tags. * I'll probably work on feature branches in the pkg-perl-tools and lintian git repositories until I think everything's working fine. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <[email protected]>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 `- | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
