Bug#493903: lintian: please provide a way of limiting the checks run by lintian based on tags

2008-08-05 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Package: lintian Version: 1.24.1 Severity: wishlist Hi please provide a way to limit the checks that get run by providing an input file listing tags, one per line. Use: ftpmaster side to limit runtime by lintian, enabling use of lintian as an automated quality control tool run on every source

usage of lintian as an automated and forced qa check tool

2008-08-05 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Hi as just discussed with djpig here at DebConf, we (as in ftpmasters/team) want to use lintian as an automated forced qa tool, no longer a voluntary one. At least for a certain set of tags. What we basically want is - ftpmaster selects a set of tags on which we autoreject on, we write

Re: usage of lintian as an automated and forced qa check tool

2008-08-05 Thread Russ Allbery
Joerg Jaspert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: as just discussed with djpig here at DebConf, we (as in ftpmasters/team) want to use lintian as an automated forced qa tool, no longer a voluntary one. At least for a certain set of tags. What we basically want is - ftpmaster selects a set of tags

Bug#493920: lintian: debconf-error-requires-versioned-depends test apparently obsolete

2008-08-05 Thread Scott Kitterman
Package: lintian Version: 1.24.2 Severity: normal -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to the extended description in debconf-error-requires-versioned-depends, it is only relevant for oldstable (Sarge) backports. Since Sarge is no longer supported, it would seem this test