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

Lintian as a static analysis framework

2011-07-07 Thread Niels Thykier
Hi Yesterday in #debian-qa, I chatted with Paul Wise and the idea came up that Lintian should be a framework that others could use as a basis for their own analysis - particularly when these analysis would conflict with some of the Lintian design goals (namely we try to be independent of the

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,

[SCM] Debian package checker branch, master, updated. 2.5.1-39-ga19ac5b

2011-07-07 Thread Niels Thykier
The following commit has been merged in the master branch: commit 9045e68c8bffd1e71451412a78654271b2dbf5a8 Author: Niels Thykier ni...@thykier.net Date: Thu Jul 7 23:51:23 2011 +0200 Corrected a typo in the changelog diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index a74bb1b..7f31475

[SCM] Debian package checker branch, master, updated. 2.5.1-39-ga19ac5b

2011-07-07 Thread Niels Thykier
The following commit has been merged in the master branch: commit 5c29ca0c0e0a6811757128c9db7391b778390a75 Author: Niels Thykier ni...@thykier.net Date: Thu Jul 7 23:25:31 2011 +0200 Added B-D on cdbs for a test and fixed a legacy test diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index

[SCM] Debian package checker branch, master, updated. 2.5.1-39-ga19ac5b

2011-07-07 Thread Niels Thykier
The following commit has been merged in the master branch: commit a19ac5b7357423776120ab9339de1db4685db3cf Author: Niels Thykier ni...@thykier.net Date: Tue Jun 28 11:55:52 2011 +0200 Replaced unpack-srcpkg-l1 with an extended coll/index Moved the indexing code from

[SCM] Debian package checker branch, master, updated. 2.5.1-40-g4a7b371

2011-07-07 Thread Niels Thykier
The following commit has been merged in the master branch: commit 4a7b37126a128c3494106aefd6bef935f50a31d7 Author: Niels Thykier ni...@thykier.net Date: Fri Jul 8 01:19:19 2011 +0200 Updated the Lintian User Manual diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index 0089b71..99c3b1f

Bug#633057: lintian: a central place to list Python versions

2011-07-07 Thread Jakub Wilk
Source: lintian Version: 2.5.2 Severity: wishlist The are currently (at least?) 2 places where lintian lists Python versions: checks/rules ($PYTHON2X_DEPEND, $PYTHON3X_DEPEND) and checks/fields ($PYTHON_DEV). Theses lists can quickly get out of sync and out of date. It'd nice if lintian could

Bug#633044: [checks/fields] please add python3-dev to $PYTHON_DEV

2011-07-07 Thread Jakub Wilk
Package: lintian Version: 2.5.1 Severity: minor Tags: patch Please see the attached patch. -- Jakub Wilk diff --git a/checks/fields b/checks/fields --- a/checks/fields +++ b/checks/fields @@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ # Python development packages that are used almost always just for building #

Processed: reassign 633057 to lintian

2011-07-07 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: # Let's use a version that actually exists... reassign 633057 lintian 2.5.1 Bug #633057 [src:lintian] lintian: a central place to list Python versions Bug reassigned from package 'src:lintian' to 'lintian'. Bug No longer marked as found in