Possibly excessive lintian warnings (was: NEW processing)

2008-12-04 Thread Russ Allbery
Sune Vuorela [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Latest, the warning about quilt patches without any description. Sure it is nice to have a description, but I don't need lintian to tell it. This is severity: minor, certainty: certain, which currently *barely* makes the W threshold. I think a very good

Re: Possibly excessive lintian warnings (was: NEW processing)

2008-12-04 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:00:17 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Sune Vuorela [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Latest, the warning about quilt patches without any description. Sure it is nice to have a description, but I don't need lintian to tell it. This is severity: minor, certainty: certain, which

Re: Possibly excessive lintian warnings (was: NEW processing)

2008-12-04 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2008-12-04, Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sune Vuorela [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Latest, the warning about quilt patches without any description. Sure it is nice to have a description, but I don't need lintian to tell it. I do think the warning is correct for a lint program, and

Re: Possibly excessive lintian warnings

2008-12-04 Thread Joerg Jaspert
The only thing that's been seriously discussed with an eye to implementation, so far as I know, is to automatically reject on the basis of a hand-selected and very limited subset of Lintian tags, which would probably not affect anything that you're doing and which would certainly not

Re: Possibly excessive lintian warnings (was: NEW processing)

2008-12-04 Thread Raphael Geissert
Sune Vuorela wrote: [...] And other warnings that could be changed: dbg-package-missing-depends - if there 1 dbg package and multiple arch depending packages beside that. Will try to work on a dh-like command (or maybe a patch against dh_strip, depends on what Joey prefers) that will

Re: Possibly excessive lintian warnings

2008-12-04 Thread Russ Allbery
Adam D. Barratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As I mentioned to Sune on IRC last night, the quilt tag's severity was copied from the equivalent dpatch tag (which was originally implemented as a warning and then moved to minor/certain during the transition). I've no problem with downgrading the

Re: Possibly excessive lintian warnings (was: NEW processing)

2008-12-04 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2008-12-04, Raphael Geissert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Will try to work on a dh-like command (or maybe a patch against dh_strip, depends on what Joey prefers) that will basically scan debian/*/foo-dbg/usr/lib/debug/(*) and try to find a file under debian/*/ matching the subgrouped

Re: Possibly excessive lintian warnings

2008-12-04 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 12:51 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Adam D. Barratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As I mentioned to Sune on IRC last night, the quilt tag's severity was copied from the equivalent dpatch tag (which was originally implemented as a warning and then moved to minor/certain

Re: Possibly excessive lintian warnings

2008-12-04 Thread Russ Allbery
Adam D. Barratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ... and did that an hour ago. Apologies for not waiting a little longer for objections / consensus. Oh, no, it's no problem. I was being too conservative. Thank you! -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/

Re: Possibly excessive lintian warnings

2008-12-04 Thread Russ Allbery
Sune Vuorela [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No. it actually wouldn't work. In kde, for example kdepim, contains applications like - korganizer - kaddressbook - kmail - kpilot With a -dbg package depending on all apps, the user will have to install all apps just for getting a backtrace

Re: Possibly excessive lintian warnings (was: NEW processing)

2008-12-04 Thread Raphael Geissert
Sune Vuorela wrote: On 2008-12-04, Raphael Geissert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Will try to work on a dh-like command (or maybe a patch against dh_strip, depends on what Joey prefers) that will basically scan debian/*/foo-dbg/usr/lib/debug/(*) and try to find a file under debian/*/ matching the

Re: Possibly excessive lintian warnings (was: NEW processing)

2008-12-04 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2008-12-04, Raphael Geissert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Using ORed depends, I forgot to say. How would OR'ed depends work? let us look at a example: package: kdepim-dbg depends: korganizer (= ${binary:Version})|kaddressbook (=${binary:version}) version: 4.1.3-1 now, I install korganizer

Re: Possibly excessive lintian warnings

2008-12-04 Thread Russ Allbery
Sune Vuorela [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How would OR'ed depends work? let us look at a example: package: kdepim-dbg depends: korganizer (= ${binary:Version})|kaddressbook (=${binary:version}) version: 4.1.3-1 now, I install korganizer 4.1.3-1 and kdepim-dbg. later, 4.1.3-2 gets uploadde

Re: Possibly excessive lintian warnings (was: NEW processing)

2008-12-04 Thread Paul Wise
The best solution would just be to drop most -dbg packages, drop maintainer-uploaded binary packages (using the buildd built packages instead), install the dh_strip from debug.d.n on all the buildds and get people to use -dbgsym packages from debug.d.n. -- bye, pabs

Re: Possibly excessive lintian warnings (was: NEW processing)

2008-12-04 Thread Raphael Geissert
Paul Wise wrote: The best solution would just be to drop most -dbg packages, drop maintainer-uploaded binary packages (using the buildd built packages instead), install the dh_strip from debug.d.n on all the buildds and get people to use -dbgsym packages from debug.d.n. a) That doesn't