Re: lintian.debian.org scripts and stuff available?

[Lars Wirzenius]

pe, 2007-10-05 kello 11:12 -0700, Russ Allbery kirjoitti:
> I don't know what the other lintian maintainers feel about this, but I
> personally am comfortable enough with Python that I would have no
> objections if you'd like to rewrite the reporting harness and HTML
> generation in Python instead, provided that would make it easier for you
> to improve them.  It's not in Perl for any particularly important reason,
> and I don't have time to work on it, so if you're willing to make
> significant improvements, I don't mind absorbing Python code in order to
> get them.

Canonical may well want me to use Launchpad for the results, instead of
just web pages, but we'll see. If we do use the web page approach, I am
not sure I care enough to do much about the layout. But we'll see. I'll
keep you posted about any changes I make that are not Canonical/Ubuntu
specific.

> A rewrite into Python that does the same thing isn't as attractive, of
> course.

Yep.

> Please do note that the lintian reporting harness in general needs to be
> able to run on oldstable systems, since lintian.d.o is generally slow to
> be upgraded, so please don't use fancy new language features.

Sure.

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Re: lintian.debian.org scripts and stuff available?

[Russ Allbery]

Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> to, 2007-10-04 kello 16:09 -0700, Russ Allbery kirjoitti:

>> Any improvements would be much appreciated.  I know that one of the
>> problems with the current web pages is that they're not particularly
>> pretty.

> They're in perl (I should've expected that), so I'll have to learn that
> first before I can do something really useful with it, but we'll see.

I don't know what the other lintian maintainers feel about this, but I
personally am comfortable enough with Python that I would have no
objections if you'd like to rewrite the reporting harness and HTML
generation in Python instead, provided that would make it easier for you
to improve them.  It's not in Perl for any particularly important reason,
and I don't have time to work on it, so if you're willing to make
significant improvements, I don't mind absorbing Python code in order to
get them.

A rewrite into Python that does the same thing isn't as attractive, of
course.

Please do note that the lintian reporting harness in general needs to be
able to run on oldstable systems, since lintian.d.o is generally slow to
be upgraded, so please don't use fancy new language features.

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Re: lintian.debian.org scripts and stuff available?

[Lars Wirzenius]

to, 2007-10-04 kello 16:09 -0700, Russ Allbery kirjoitti:
> Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > Are the scripts that operate http://lintian.debian.org/ (run lintian,
> > build web pages) available?
> 
> Yes, they're part of the lintian source package.  See the reporting
> subdirectory.

Oh, cool. Thanks.

> > I'm going to look at doing the same for Ubuntu packages, and would be
> > glad to share scripts (and co-operate in maintaining them, if
> > necessary).
> 
> Any improvements would be much appreciated.  I know that one of the
> problems with the current web pages is that they're not particularly
> pretty.

They're in perl (I should've expected that), so I'll have to learn that
first before I can do something really useful with it, but we'll see.

Thanks.

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Re: lintian.debian.org scripts and stuff available?

[Russ Allbery]

Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Are the scripts that operate http://lintian.debian.org/ (run lintian,
> build web pages) available?

Yes, they're part of the lintian source package.  See the reporting
subdirectory.

> I'm going to look at doing the same for Ubuntu packages, and would be
> glad to share scripts (and co-operate in maintaining them, if
> necessary).

Any improvements would be much appreciated.  I know that one of the
problems with the current web pages is that they're not particularly
pretty.

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