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

On Wed, 06 Aug 2008 12:40:26 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Frank Lichtenheld [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 07:05:41AM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: The main difference afaics is that one version quietens the emitting of tags unless one explicitly asked for them, whereas the

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

Joerg Jaspert wrote, Wednesday, August 06, 2008 2:33 PM For the ftpmaster usage we will just run lintian, possibly as lintian --show-overrides --fail-on-warnings --tagfile /path/to/file [with --tagfile to be implemented] and then parse the output for the tags we get back. fwiw, depending on

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

I'm fairly sure Joerg is looking for limiting the issued tags to only the ones specified in the tag file, regardless of which check scripts are run. Thats the simplest possible way, yes. Yeah, I was assuming the process would largely be: if ! lintian --show-overrides --tags-from-file

Bug#491685: debian-copyright-line-too-long is inconvenient

Hey, I would like to weigh in on this issue. Reformatting third party licences to fit nicely into 80 characters per line is troublesome and error-prone, not to mention the slippery slope of reformatting in general - i.e. where does one stop, re-indenting bullet point lists or re-aligning section

Bug#491685: debian-copyright-line-too-long is inconvenient

Hi, Noah Slater wrote, Thursday, August 07, 2008 2:52 PM I would like to weigh in on this issue. [...] I do not think lintian should be raising any notices about debian/copyright if only because the majority of it's content is beyond our control. /Please/ read the bug logs before weighing

machine parseable version of lintian output

retitle 243729 [pts] todo should list lintian warning/error summary thanks Dear Lintian maintainers, I would like to fix #243729 by adding in the TODO section of the PTS web interface a summary of lintian blames for a given source package. To do that I would need a machine parseable version of

Re: machine parseable version of lintian output

Stefano Zacchiroli [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: retitle 243729 [pts] todo should list lintian warning/error summary thanks Dear Lintian maintainers, I would like to fix #243729 by adding in the TODO section of the PTS web interface a summary of lintian blames for a given source package. To