On Tue, 21 Jun 2022 19:35:42 +0200, Axel Beckert wrote: > chiming in as the new Lintian maintainer. :-)
Thanks, both for caring about lintian and about libconfig-model-dpkg-perl :) > private/latest-policy-version also seems to be the current way, how > libconfig-model-dpkg-perl interacts with this data in Lintian. Yup. > So I'll soon upload lintian 2.115.1 to fix this issue to finally get > the current Lintian version into testing. Great, thanks. > Hence I suggest that libconfig-model-dpkg-perl, cme, etc. are then > using this planned data packages in the future as well. Sounds like a plan. > I currently the following: > * Create a new binary package lintian-data, which is built from > src:lintian. It will more or less contain /usr/share/lintian/data/. > * Additionally I will create a file named > /usr/share/lintian/data/debian-policy/latest.txt (or similar) at > lintian build time based on the output of > private/latest-policy-version. (Can even do that already before > splitting off that data package.) Sounds good. With the only caveat, that this will still lag (at least by some hours :)) behind debian-policy releases. But as the cloned policy bug #968154 didn't see any activity lately … > That way you have the wanted data in an easily consumable form without > having to call any script or module from Lintian and without having to > parse a huge bunch of JSON. Since nice. > Would that work out for you? Yup. I'm cc'ing dod as the Config::Model::* tsar to make sure I'm not missing anything. > If so: What are your requirements for such a transition? Do we have to > just care about Unstable and Testing or are Stable-Backports a topic, > too? I believe we never backported libconfig-model-dpkg-perl. Dominique? So I guess we can just depend on a new enough lintian or lintian-data with /usr/share/lintian/data/debian-policy/latest.txt (or whatever) and use it, and from the lintian side you can then add a versioned Breaks on old libconfig-model-dpkg-perl versions still using private/latest-policy-version, when you remove it. Cheers, gregor -- .''`. https://info.comodo.priv.at -- Debian Developer https://www.debian.org : :' : OpenPGP fingerprint D1E1 316E 93A7 60A8 104D 85FA BB3A 6801 8649 AA06 `. `' Member VIBE!AT & SPI Inc. -- Supporter Free Software Foundation Europe `-
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