On 17-Oct-2000 Stephen Zander wrote: >>>>>> "Sean" == Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sean> Problem is, there is no way to determine what package a perl > Sean> module came from. Further, lintian may be checking a package > Sean> on a machine where neither the package or any of its > Sean> dependencies are installed. > > The two relevant statements in perl are > > use Some::Module; > > and > > require Some::Module; >
this is already done > > or the perl equivalent. To perform this check where the relevant > package *is not* installed requires access to Contents-$(arch).gz. > You may have to generate your own, cut-down version and include it > with the lintian package. > currently there is such a list in lintian. Problem is that it is ALWAYS out of date. I would like a solution that does not involved a file distributed with lintian. Problem with the contents file is that it a) requires net access or b) requires lintian be run on a mirror. I could add a --on-mirror switch, but I was hoping we could come up with a better answer.
