Re: lintian and Debian derivatives

2011-11-08 Thread Evan Broder
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 12:10 AM, Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 12:49 AM, Geoffrey Thomas wrote: We are the only one? I'm proud :-) We set that up about a year ago because why not, but in practice, we've more been using Lintian output from the package build process

Re: lintian and Debian derivatives

2011-11-08 Thread Evan Broder
On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 8:02 PM, Evan Broder e...@ebroder.net wrote: On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 12:10 AM, Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 12:49 AM, Geoffrey Thomas wrote: We are the only one? I'm proud :-) We set that up about a year ago because why not, but in practice,

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: lintian and Debian derivatives

2011-07-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 12:49 AM, Geoffrey Thomas wrote: We are the only one? I'm proud :-) We set that up about a year ago because why not, but in practice, we've more been using Lintian output from the package build process (debuild/sbuild) than the page, and making sure there are no

Re: lintian and Debian derivatives

2011-07-07 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2011-07-07 09:10, Paul Wise wrote: On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 12:49 AM, Geoffrey Thomas wrote: [...] Hi, In terms of making Lintian useful for derivatives, I think the biggest feature we'd like is having a way to suppress Lintian checks during the build process for an entire origin of

Re: lintian and Debian derivatives

2011-07-07 Thread Neil Williams
On Thu, 07 Jul 2011 00:25:59 +0200 Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: 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 lintian folks on the state of lintian

Re: lintian and Debian derivatives

2011-07-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 11:18 AM, Neil Williams wrote: Lintian requires a lot of resources if it's to be run automatically against an entire distribution. Yeah. Also there is quite a bit of scope for expanding the range of tests lintian performs, by running external checkers like cppcheck,

Re: lintian and Debian derivatives

2011-07-06 Thread Russ Allbery
Paul Wise p...@debian.org writes: In addition, there is one derivative that I know of that has current and public lintian web pages, but I guess that one is well known by lintian maintainers since I guess it is run by Russ. It is a shame that lintian pages aren't more widespread within our

Re: lintian and Debian derivatives

2011-07-06 Thread Geoffrey Thomas
On Thu, 7 Jul 2011, Paul Wise wrote: In addition, there is one derivative that I know of that has current and public lintian web pages, but I guess that one is well known by lintian maintainers since I guess it is run by Russ. It is a shame that lintian pages aren't more widespread within our