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

2007-10-08 Thread 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?

2007-10-05 Thread 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?

2007-10-05 Thread 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?

2007-10-04 Thread 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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