Bug#504257: lintian: check for exit() or _exit() calls in shared libraries

2008-11-02 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, 2008-11-02 at 21:21 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > I have some packages that would trigger this because the library uses > generic error handling routines that include functions that can call > exit() or _exit() but which are never called in practice. Ideally, that > dead code would be stri

Bug#504264: lintian: warn on empty files passed to dh_installdocs or in .deb

2008-11-02 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, 2008-11-02 at 21:22 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > lintian already warns about empty files in the package in general, which > would seem to cover this. Do you have a specific example that we can look > at where this didn't work? Ah. I was reviewing an RFS, but only ran lintian on the sourc

Bug#504257: lintian: check for exit() or _exit() calls in shared libraries

2008-11-02 Thread Russ Allbery
Paul Wise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Package: lintian > Version: 2.0.0 > Severity: wishlist > > rpmlint added checks for exit() or _exit() calls in shared libraries: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450011 > http://rpmlint.zarb.org/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/changeset/1448 > > I think this

Bug#504264: lintian: warn on empty files passed to dh_installdocs or in .deb

2008-11-02 Thread Russ Allbery
Paul Wise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Package: lintian > Version: 2.0.0 > Severity: wishlist > > Please warn about empty or whitespace-only files being listed in > debian/*docs when dh_installdocs is being used, or on the command-line > to the dh_installdocs command in debian/rules. Shipping use

Processed: setting package to lintian, tagging 503695

2008-11-02 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > #lintian (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low > # > # * checks/patch-systems: > #+ [ADB] Don't include dpatch comment lines containing no content > # when determining whether the patch includes a description. > # (Closes: #503695) > # > package

Bug#504302: lintian: Rename --show-overrides to a --display-* option

2008-11-02 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Sun, 2008-11-02 at 18:43 +0200, jaalto wrote: > For canonical option names like these: > >--display-info >--display-experimental >... > > it would be expected to find similarly named: > >--display-overrides Renaming an option that's existed for nearly eight ye

Bug#504302: lintian: Rename --show-overrides to a --display-* option

2008-11-02 Thread jaalto
Package: lintian Version: 2.0.0 Severity: wishlist For canonical option names like these: --display-info --display-experimental ... it would be expected to find similarly named: --display-overrides -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers test

Bug#504264: lintian: warn on empty files passed to dh_installdocs or in .deb

2008-11-02 Thread Paul Wise
Package: lintian Version: 2.0.0 Severity: wishlist Please warn about empty or whitespace-only files being listed in debian/*docs when dh_installdocs is being used, or on the command-line to the dh_installdocs command in debian/rules. Shipping useless files in .debs should be discouraged. Please al

Bug#504257: lintian: check for exit() or _exit() calls in shared libraries

2008-11-02 Thread Paul Wise
Package: lintian Version: 2.0.0 Severity: wishlist rpmlint added checks for exit() or _exit() calls in shared libraries: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450011 http://rpmlint.zarb.org/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/changeset/1448 I think this would be a useful addition to lintian. -- bye, pabs