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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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