* 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
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
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
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
* 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.
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
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
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,
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