On 13/11/20 at 02:57 -0800, Felix Lechner wrote: > Hi Lucas, > > On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 11:51 PM Lucas Nussbaum <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Could you please reintroduce a classification tag that makes it possible > > to say whether a package has a test suite? > > We provide it already. It's in a classification tag called > 'trimmed-field'. [1] Just look for tag contexts that start with > 'Testsuite'. (Please be case-insensitive like Deb822; the field name > is quoted verbatim.) You can't see it on our website, but it's in UDD. > Do you see it there?
I see it indeed. However, I wonder if lintian should provide a specific classification tag for that (as it did in the past), rather than force me to analyze the content of the Testsuite control field in the trimmed-field tag. (In that specific case, I agree that it's probably easy enough, and I can live with that... But I wonder a bit about the general policy here, and where you draw the line between what you should go into specific tags, and what should be done via parsing trimmed-field -- one could argue that the 'vcs' and 'vcs-uri' could be removed in favor of trimmed-field as well.) Lucas
