Package: lintian
Severity: normal
On 2011-08-18 10:15, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
Hi,
no idea whether you knew it, but lintian warns with Error
severity if files in {control,data}.tar.gz have only the
numerical user and group ID filled in, i.e. are owned by
0/0 instead of root/root.
The
On 2011-08-18 13:50, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
Niels Thykier dixit:
Package: lintian
Hm, don’t find it, did you Cc submit@b.d.o?
(I usually file against Source for changes like this one…)
Hi,
I did (BCC it), the bug is #638278. I took the liberty of marking you
as the submitter.
Niels Thykier dixit:
I did (BCC it), the bug is #638278. I took the liberty of marking you
as the submitter.
OK, no problem.
Emails in my inbox has a way of disappearing even if I tag them TODO
etc, so when I can I file bugs if I cannot handle them immediately.
Yeah, still before doing all
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Topics:
- Vendor profiles
- Configuration file changes
- Changes to Lintian options
- Other improvements
- Known bugs and issues
- Help us help you
Vendor Profiles
===
Starting with version 2.5.2, Lintian can now be asked
On 2011-08-12 18:03, Russ Allbery wrote:
Niels Thykier ni...@thykier.net writes:
Other improvements
==
These days Lintian
^^^
(Fixed a typo, thanks to Jakub Wilk)
* processes related packages together
Since 2.5.0~rc3 Lintian has grouped related
Hi
See attached document; comments welcome :)
~Niels
Topics:
- Vendor profiles
- Configuration file changes
- Changes to Lintian options
- Other improvements
- Known bugs and issues
- Help us help you
Vendor Profiles
===
Starting with version 2.5.2, Lintian can now be
Niels Thykier ni...@thykier.net writes:
* processes related packages together
Since 2.5.0~rc3 Lintian has grouped related packages and processed
them together. With this Lintian can now do things like check if a
manpage is in a direct dependency.
...in a direct dependency
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
Jeremiah Foster jerem...@jeremiahfoster.com writes:
I've got a question regarding the various lintian modules. I'm a command
line person and often use tools like perldoc to read the documentation
that is in with code. Lintian does seem to use plain old documentation
very much which I think is
On Aug 12, 2011, at 21:36, Jeremiah Foster wrote:
I've got a question regarding the various lintian modules. I'm a command line
person and often use tools like perldoc to read the documentation that is in
with code. Lintian does seem to use
I meant doesn't of course. :}
plain old
2010/1/2 Russ Allbery r...@debian.org:
Martin Ågren martin.ag...@gmail.com writes:
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 instead of DebianDoc-SGML
[...]
I'm interested in helping out with this.
Hi,
On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 08:11:58PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
The best news about Lintian is that Raphael Geissert has joined the team
as an additional Lintian maintainer. Raphael [...] has done a ton of work
on as varying of areas as [...] spelling checks, [...]
Just wanna let you know
Hi,
(I am noty yet subscribed. Plese CC me)
On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 11:34:53AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
Wow, two volunteers within a day! That's excellent. I'm replying to this
message since it goes into detail on the conversion process and copying
Osamu Aoki on this message. I'm not
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
Jeremiah Foster jerem...@jeremiahfoster.com writes:
It would be really, really great if someone were to outline how to
add/remove tests from lintian's list of tests. If one could run 'pools'
of tests while using linitian's reporting infrastructure and in-depth
debian knowledge that would be a
2010/1/3 Osamu Aoki os...@debian.org:
On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 11:34:53AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
[...]
I think Martin Ågren understood the autoconversion script well and has done
hardwork part of manually touching up converted file. Thanks.
I've gone through the document, adding
Hi,
On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 08:11:58PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
We're also looking for someone who would like to tackle converting the
Lintian manual to Docbook instead of DebianDoc-SGML and working on
updates. There's quite a bit about Lintian that isn't currently
documented. If you're
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 instead of DebianDoc-SGML and working on
updates.
Wow, two volunteers within a day! That's excellent. I'm replying to this
message since it goes into detail on the conversion process and copying
Osamu Aoki on this message. I'm not sure how easily the work can be
divided up -- maybe both of you can work out between each other how to
split
New Team Member
===
The best news about Lintian is that Raphael Geissert has joined the team
as an additional Lintian maintainer. Raphael has been making suggestions
and contributing patches to Lintian since 2007 and has done a ton of work
on as varying of areas as pedantic tag
Russ Allbery wrote:
debhelper and didn't have this dependency will now get a warning. We're
currently deciding whether to teach Lintian that ${misc:Depends} isn't
needed in this specific case or to just uniformly recommend the
${misc:Depends} dependency for all packages using debhelper.
The
Joey Hess jo...@debian.org writes:
Russ Allbery wrote:
debhelper and didn't have this dependency will now get a warning.
We're currently deciding whether to teach Lintian that ${misc:Depends}
isn't needed in this specific case or to just uniformly recommend the
${misc:Depends} dependency for
[ Added a resolution for the ${misc:Depends} issue, rephrased the next
release date, added the helping out bit. Anyone see anything else? ]
New Team Member
===
The best news about Lintian is that Raphael Geissert has joined the team
as an additional Lintian maintainer. Raphael
[ Any mistakes, or anything else I should mention? ]
New Team Member
===
The best news about Lintian is that Raphael Geissert has joined the team
as an additional Lintian maintainer. Raphael has been making suggestions
and contributing patches to Lintian since 2007 and has done a
Russ Allbery wrote:
[ Any mistakes, or anything else I should mention? ]
What about including the usual we welcome more contributors? :)
New Team Member
===
The best news about Lintian is that Raphael Geissert has joined the team
as an additional Lintian maintainer.
Heh,
Current Status
==
Since the lenny freeze began, we've been working on incorporating major
changes in preparation for squeeze, including (as previously announced)
merging the Google Summer of Code work done by Jordà Polo for
finer-grained tag classification. Through the last couple of
On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 19:04 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
[ This is a draft of a post I'd like to send to debian-devel-announce.
Take a look and let me know if anything is wrong or missing. Thanks! ]
Thanks for that; I don't have think I have anything specific to add that
wasn't on Raphael's
Adam D. Barratt a...@adam-barratt.org.uk writes:
(fwiw, I've never really liked as good of a blah, but that could be an
en_US vs en_GB thing).
No, you're right, it's a sloppy construct. I reworded it.
We're also looking for someone who would like to tackle converting the
Lintian manual in
Current Status
==
Since the lenny freeze began, we've been working on incorporating major
changes in preparation for squeeze, including (as previously announced)
merging the Google Summer of Code work done by Jordà Polo for
finer-grained tag classification. Recently, we've been
Sorry, this missed my last update. Here's the correct paragraph.
Russ Allbery r...@debian.org writes:
Raphael Geissert has been working on improved infrastructure for source
package checks, generating more laboratory information to allow some
requested checks to be implemented. The start of
Russ Allbery wrote:
[ This is a draft of a post I'd like to send to debian-devel-announce.
Take a look and let me know if anything is wrong or missing. Thanks! ]
Current Status
==
[...]
Maybe it should be mentioned how many checks there were in etch's lintian,
how many in
[ This is a draft of a post I'd like to send to debian-devel-announce.
Take a look and let me know if anything is wrong or missing. Thanks! ]
Current Status
==
Since the lenny freeze began, we've been working on incorporating major
changes in preparation for squeeze, including (as
Jordà Polo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm thinking of working on it as suggested by Marc Brockschmidt's
proposal[1] for Google's Summer of Code.
I think that would be fantastic! I'm sorry about the delay in responding;
I've been really busy with my day job for the past couple of weeks.
The
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 11:54:23PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
* Provide a way to more clearly indicate Lintian's certainty, the severity
of the problem, and the source of the rule that Lintian is checking,
rather than always collapsing that information into a simple three-level
Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
FWIW, two years ago (?) Jeroen, djpig and I had a discussion about
this. The basic idea back then was the same as you describe now: Move
away from E, W and I and use two letters to indicate the two
different measurements are represented:
(i)
Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
* Provide a way to more clearly indicate Lintian's certainty, the severity
of the problem, and the source of the rule that Lintian is checking,
rather than always collapsing that information into a simple three-level
error/warning/info hierarchy.
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