Re: [Draft] Bits from the lintian maintainers

2011-08-12 Thread Jeremiah Foster
On Aug 12, 2011, at 18:03, Russ Allbery wrote: Niels Thykier ni...@thykier.net writes: This otherwise looks great to me. And on a personal note, thank you *so* much for all the work that you've been doing on Lintian. I've often had the experience with other open source projects of

Re: The Lintian 2.5.2 release and starting on 2.5.3

2011-08-11 Thread Jeremiah Foster
On Aug 10, 2011, at 23:25, Niels Thykier wrote: [ snip good discussion ] Goals for 2.5.3 === I gather a list of things I would like to see in the coming Lintian release. Once again, feel free to suggest other things: - Check for obsolete perl modules #636994 - they need

Re: The Lintian 2.5.2 release and starting on 2.5.3

2011-08-11 Thread Jeremiah Foster
On Aug 11, 2011, at 14:07, Jeremiah Foster wrote: On Aug 10, 2011, at 23:25, Niels Thykier wrote: [snip] - Write a README.developers to help potential contributors. Another thing I think would help potential contributors is a link to the git repo on the Lintian homepage: http

Potential patch to lintian docs

2011-08-11 Thread Jeremiah Foster
Hi, I am including a potential patch to the Lintian documentation. Here is a simple diff; $ git diff ^HEAD diff --git a/README.developers b/README.developers new file mode 100644 index 000..d6ec1de --- /dev/null +++ b/README.developers @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +README.Developers for the Lintian

Re: Potential patch to lintian docs

2011-08-11 Thread Jeremiah Foster
On Aug 11, 2011, at 14:52, Niels Thykier wrote: On 2011-08-11 14:33, Jeremiah Foster wrote: Is this the correct process to commit patches? Do I just do a regular 'git diff' in the git repo and then mail to the list? Or is there another format? Personally I prefer git format-patch patches

Re: Claimed related Launchpad stuff

2011-08-09 Thread Jeremiah Foster
On Aug 8, 2011, at 23:40, Niels Thykier wrote: Hey Hey Niels! As the subject (and a recent email to this list) suggests, I have claimed the ~lintian-maint team[0] and the Lintian project[1]. I do not have a lot of plans for usage at the moment, but I am open to suggestions if anyone has

Re: lintian and Debian derivatives

2011-07-08 Thread Jeremiah Foster
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Jul 7, 2011, at 00:25, Paul Wise wrote: Hi all, Hi Paul, As a member of the Debian derivatives front desk (CCed) and initiator of the derivatives census, which aims to make derivatives more visible to Debian, I figured I should update

Re: Status on Vendor Profile

2011-06-01 Thread Jeremiah Foster
On Jun 1, 2011, at 00:31, Niels Thykier wrote: Hey, I finally pulled myself together and spent a little more time on the vendor-profile branch. On top of the basic profile support I added last time (back in April) we now have non-overridable tags. However, there are a number of things I

Re: Bits and pieces related to Lintian

2011-04-29 Thread Jeremiah Foster
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Apr 28, 2011, at 19:25, Niels Thykier wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi Hello everyone, I figured a few somewhat unrelated things I would like to ask or bring up, so here is a little misc mail. I appreciate this

Re: Sharing Lintian hints, tips and patches (on a wiki)

2010-04-24 Thread Jeremiah Foster
On Apr 24, 2010, at 21:29, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: Hello, Some Lintian warnings (tags) may not be trivial to fix, or there may be some issues, side effects... The lintian-info --tags usually provide enough hints, but some users might want to share more specific hints. I have setup some

Re: Bits from the Lintian maintainers

2010-01-03 Thread Jeremiah Foster
On Jan 2, 2010, at 18:59, Martin Ågren wrote: Hi lintian maintainers! [I decided not to respect the Reply-To: d-d and instead contact you directly.] 2010/1/2 Russ Allbery r...@debian.org: We're also looking for someone who would like to tackle converting the Lintian manual to Docbook

Using a subset of all lintian tags

2009-07-20 Thread Jeremiah Foster
Hello, I read on debian-devel that lintian can use a subset of tags when it checks packages. This might be a useful feature for downstream projects, like maemo, which might be able to use only a limited amount of lintian tags and would like to use their own. Is there

Re: Using a subset of all lintian tags

2009-07-20 Thread Jeremiah Foster
On Jul 20, 2009, at 11:55, Stéphane Glondu wrote: Jeremiah Foster a écrit : I read on debian-devel that lintian can use a subset of tags when it checks packages. This might be a useful feature for downstream projects, like maemo, which might be able to use only a limited amount

Error in Lintian Output (Output.pm)

2009-05-27 Thread Jeremiah Foster
Hello! I wrote to this list a while back mentioning the use of lintian as a tool to improve the quality of maemo packages since they are based on debian packages. The goal is to have a policy checker like lintian but adjusted to the maemo platform. This tool, which hopefully will remain

Helping out with lintian

2009-02-21 Thread Jeremiah Foster
Hello! My name is Jeremiah Foster and I work with the debian-perl team helping out with documentation and packaging CPAN for debian. I also work on the maemo project, a tablet operating system based on debian for machines produced by Nokia. One of the things that maemo is thinking about

Re: Nice html formatting for the lintian reports

2007-09-30 Thread Jeremiah Foster
On Sep 30, 2007, at 6:50 PM, Philippe Le Brouster wrote: Hi, I'm involved in a small distribution

broken link on web page

2007-09-09 Thread Jeremiah Foster
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