Bug#566820: lintian: Warn about missing debian/source/format, advise switch to new 3.0 source formats
Package: lintian Version: 2.3.1 Severity: wishlist As part of the plan to have the new source formats as the default formats in Debian I would like lintian to give a warning when debian/source/format doesn't exist, it could be named missing-debian-source-format. I suggest this description: --- With the introduction of new source formats, it's now recommended to explicitly select the desired source format in debian/source/format. If you don't have a good reason to stick with the old format, you should switch to 3.0 (quilt) (for packages with a separate upstream tarball) or to 3.0 (native) (for Debian native packages). For more information about the new source formats, please see dpkg-source(1) and http://wiki.debian.org/Projects/DebSrc3.0 If you plan to keep using the old format, you should still create that file and put 1.0 in it. In that case, you are invited to get in touch with debian-d...@lists.debian.org to discuss the (technical) reasons why the new formats do not suit you. --- I would also suggest using Severity: normal Certainty: certain so that it appears as warning and all packages maintainers get to see it if they don't have created that file. We could also add a tag using-old-source-format that warns of specifying 1.0 in that file. Obviously this one should start among the pedantic tags but its importance might be increased over time once we decide to really deprecate the old format. It might also be a good idea to have unknown-source-format when debian/source/format contains something else than 1.0, 2.0, 3.0 (quilt), 3.0 (native), 3.0 (git), 3.0 (bzr). This one should result in an error. Thanks for your work on lintian! -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (150, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.20-5The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii diffstat 1.47-1produces graph of changes introduc ii dpkg-dev 1.15.6Debian package development tools ii file 5.03-5Determines file type using magic ii gettext0.17-8GNU Internationalization utilities ii intltool-debian0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf ii libapt-pkg-perl0.1.24Perl interface to libapt-pkg ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1Perl module that automatically gen ii libipc-run-perl0.84-1Perl module for running processes ii libparse-debianchangel 1.1.1-2 parse Debian changelogs and output ii libtimedate-perl 1.2000-1 collection of modules to manipulat ii liburi-perl1.52-1module to manipulate and access UR ii man-db 2.5.6-5 on-line manual pager ii perl [libdigest-sha-pe 5.10.1-9 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction lintian recommends no packages. Versions of packages lintian suggests: pn binutils-multiarchnone (no description available) ii libtext-template-perl 1.45-1 Text::Template perl module ii man-db2.5.6-5on-line manual pager -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-lint-maint-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#566820: lintian: Warn about missing debian/source/format, advise switch to new 3.0 source formats
Raphaël Hertzog hert...@debian.org writes: We could also add a tag using-old-source-format that warns of specifying 1.0 in that file. Obviously this one should start among the pedantic tags but its importance might be increased over time once we decide to really deprecate the old format. I think that if someone went through the trouble of specifically putting 1.0 in that file then there is a reason for it. Such a person will have been anoyed with the lintian warning about missing debian/source/format and will have considered and rejected changing to 3.0 (quilt). Anoying him yet again will not help. My 2c, Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-lint-maint-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#566820: lintian: Warn about missing debian/source/format, advise switch to new 3.0 source formats
On Mon, 25 Jan 2010, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Raphaël Hertzog hert...@debian.org writes: We could also add a tag using-old-source-format that warns of specifying 1.0 in that file. Obviously this one should start among the pedantic tags but its importance might be increased over time once we decide to really deprecate the old format. I think that if someone went through the trouble of specifically putting 1.0 in that file then there is a reason for it. It could be No time to investigate switching to the new source format and want to get rid of the warning. Such a person will have been anoyed with the lintian warning about missing debian/source/format and will have considered and rejected changing to 3.0 (quilt). Anoying him yet again will not help. That's why I suggested it as a pedantic tag only at this point. But it's not a big deal if it's not implemented at all. And the at this point the valid reason could be documented in the overrides file next to this tag. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-lint-maint-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#566948: lintian: [reporting] List packages with a given tag by a given maintainer
Package: lintian Version: 2.3.1 Severity: wishlist Hi Currently lintian.d.o allows me to see either all the packages maintained by my team or all packages affected by a given tag. Would it be possible to get all packages maintained by $X and with tag $Y as well? ~Niels -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_DK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.20-5The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii diffstat 1.47-1produces graph of changes introduc ii dpkg-dev 1.15.5.6 Debian package development tools ii file 5.03-5Determines file type using magic ii gettext0.17-8GNU Internationalization utilities ii intltool-debian0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf ii libapt-pkg-perl0.1.24Perl interface to libapt-pkg ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1Perl module that automatically gen ii libipc-run-perl0.84-1Perl module for running processes ii libparse-debianchangel 1.1.1-2 parse Debian changelogs and output ii libtimedate-perl 1.1900-1 Time and date functions for Perl ii liburi-perl1.50-1module to manipulate and access UR ii man-db 2.5.6-5 on-line manual pager ii perl [libdigest-sha-pe 5.10.1-8 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction lintian recommends no packages. Versions of packages lintian suggests: pn binutils-multiarchnone (no description available) pn libtext-template-perl none (no description available) ii man-db2.5.6-5on-line manual pager -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-lint-maint-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
