Bug#760021: lintian: check for not wrap-and-sort formatted files

2017-09-06 Thread Eric Dorland
* Mattia Rizzolo (mat...@debian.org) wrote: > On Tue, Sep 05, 2017 at 09:04:45AM +0100, Chris Lamb wrote: > > Mattia convinced me, alas. Yes, not even at the "P:" level. Perhaps I'm > > stuck on thinking about the implementation... > > Lintian recently already "regressed" in its "policy" of not

Bug#760021: lintian: check for not wrap-and-sort formatted files

2017-09-05 Thread Chris Lamb
Hi Mattia, > Lintian recently already "regressed" in its "policy" of not being too > nagging. Already there are tags that I've been ignoring because too > annoying and way too often too hard or impossible to accomplish > (upstream gpg sig and autopkgtest come to my mind). Please file a bug for

Bug#760021: lintian: check for not wrap-and-sort formatted files

2017-09-05 Thread Mattia Rizzolo
On Tue, Sep 05, 2017 at 09:04:45AM +0100, Chris Lamb wrote: > Mattia convinced me, alas. Yes, not even at the "P:" level. Perhaps I'm > stuck on thinking about the implementation... Lintian recently already "regressed" in its "policy" of not being too nagging. Already there are tags that I've

Bug#760021: lintian: check for not wrap-and-sort formatted files

2017-09-05 Thread Chris Lamb
Hi Eric & Mattia, > you could check a number of variations >From a practical point of view; how, exactly? Shelling out to wrap-and-sort doesn't seem kosher :) > > Summing up: I don't think it's a practise ready to be nudged by lintian > > yet. > > Not even at the pedantic level? Mattia

Bug#760021: lintian: check for not wrap-and-sort formatted files

2017-09-04 Thread Eric Dorland
* Mattia Rizzolo (mat...@debian.org) wrote: > On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 10:06:52AM +0100, Chris Lamb wrote: > > > lintian: check for not wrap-and-sort formatted files > > > > Good idea. > > I don't think it is. > wrap-and-sort (or the equivalent from cme) is not widely enough adopted > as of yet.

Bug#760021: lintian: check for not wrap-and-sort formatted files

2017-08-31 Thread Russ Allbery
Mattia Rizzolo writes: > Also, wouldn't you need to pick only one of the -t, -s, -a combinations? > I see people disliking -t (trailing commas) also because it's not in > policy, Please file a bug against Policy if you think there's a wording change we could make to make

Bug#760021: lintian: check for not wrap-and-sort formatted files

2017-08-31 Thread Mattia Rizzolo
On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 10:06:52AM +0100, Chris Lamb wrote: > > lintian: check for not wrap-and-sort formatted files > > Good idea. I don't think it is. wrap-and-sort (or the equivalent from cme) is not widely enough adopted as of yet. I personally try to have all my sponsee use it, and I

Bug#760021: lintian: check for not wrap-and-sort formatted files

2017-08-31 Thread Chris Lamb
Hi Eric, > lintian: check for not wrap-and-sort formatted files Good idea. Alas, I fear that this would either require calling out to wrap-and-sort (!) and diffing the result, or essentially reimplementing it within Lintian itself? Regards, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `.