Bug#359059: [frontend] load custom checks from ~/.lintian/checks?

2006-11-11 Thread Russ Allbery
tags 359059 = wontfix thanks As previously discussed on the mailing list, this isn't a feature we currently want to support in lintian. One of the goals of lintian is to produce consistent output regardless of how it's run. We'd rather that people donate their own checks, and for special

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Re: load custom checks from ~/.lintian/checks?

2006-03-25 Thread Russ Allbery
Michael Ablassmeier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i just wondered how am i supposed to add my own checks to lintian. It seems the only way to do this (without beeing root) is to copy the stuff from /usr/share/lintian to $HOME and use the --root switch to change $LINTIAN_ROOT. I think it

Re: load custom checks from ~/.lintian/checks?

2006-03-25 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 11:53:53AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Michael Ablassmeier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i just wondered how am i supposed to add my own checks to lintian. It seems the only way to do this (without beeing root) is to copy the stuff from /usr/share/lintian to $HOME and

Re: load custom checks from ~/.lintian/checks?

2006-03-25 Thread Russ Allbery
Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, I agree such request are best filed as bugs immediately, for the same reasons you (Russ) cite, but I can already say that personally, I'm not really terribly fond of this idea. Lintian should IMHO really be a tool that has a reliable

load custom checks from ~/.lintian/checks?

2006-03-21 Thread Michael Ablassmeier
hi, i just wondered how am i supposed to add my own checks to lintian. It seems the only way to do this (without beeing root) is to copy the stuff from /usr/share/lintian to $HOME and use the --root switch to change $LINTIAN_ROOT. I think it would be very nice if lintian could check