Re: A note on lintian clean packages and mentors.d.n

2007-07-02 Thread Russ Allbery
Raphael [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just wondering, if I would like to have some more checks like: * making sure a php extension depends on a php-api * a php extension provides an .ini file etc... Yes, absolutely. Ideally if someone could prepare a patch, that would be great, but I'm happy to

Re: A note on lintian clean packages and mentors.d.n

2007-07-02 Thread Raphael
On 01/07/07, Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Minor correction: Missing checks should be filed as wishlist bugs, but false positives and wrong results, unless explicitly already noted in the long tag description, should be filed at normal or minor severity. I try to correct those as much

Re: A note on lintian clean packages and mentors.d.n

2007-07-02 Thread Raphael Geissert
On 02/07/07, Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Raphael [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just wondering, if I would like to have some more checks like: * making sure a php extension depends on a php-api * a php extension provides an .ini file etc... Yes, absolutely. Ideally if someone could

A note on lintian clean packages and mentors.d.n

2007-07-01 Thread Nico Golde
Hi, I saw many packages using the template from mentors.debian.net which then always says: The package is lintian clean. And I saw many packages which are not lintian clean but state otherwise which really sucks. Can you change this string to something like: Please check your package for the

Re: A note on lintian clean packages and mentors.d.n

2007-07-01 Thread Christoph Haas
On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 06:11:00PM +0200, Nico Golde wrote: I saw many packages using the template from mentors.debian.net which then always says: The package is lintian clean. And I saw many packages which are not lintian clean but state otherwise which really sucks. Can you change this

Re: A note on lintian clean packages and mentors.d.n

2007-07-01 Thread Nico Golde
Hi, * Christoph Haas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-07-01 19:13]: On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 06:11:00PM +0200, Nico Golde wrote: I saw many packages using the template from mentors.debian.net which then always says: The package is lintian clean. And I saw many packages which are not lintian

Re: A note on lintian clean packages and mentors.d.n

2007-07-01 Thread Christoph Haas
On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 07:21:51PM +0200, Nico Golde wrote: Hi, * Christoph Haas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-07-01 19:13]: On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 06:11:00PM +0200, Nico Golde wrote: I saw many packages using the template from mentors.debian.net which then always says: The package is

Re: A note on lintian clean packages and mentors.d.n

2007-07-01 Thread Raphael Geissert
On 01/07/07, Christoph Haas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 07:21:51PM +0200, Nico Golde wrote: Hi, * Christoph Haas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-07-01 19:13]: On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 06:11:00PM +0200, Nico Golde wrote: I saw many packages using the template from

Re: A note on lintian clean packages and mentors.d.n

2007-07-01 Thread Nico Golde
Hi, * Raphael Geissert [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-07-01 21:41]: On 01/07/07, Christoph Haas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 07:21:51PM +0200, Nico Golde wrote: [...] Lintian is now v1.23.31 instead of v1.23.28 (Etch). Hope that helps. Is lintian only checking the .deb file

Re: A note on lintian clean packages and mentors.d.n

2007-07-01 Thread Raphael Geissert
Hi, On 01/07/07, Nico Golde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, * Raphael Geissert [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-07-01 21:41]: On 01/07/07, Christoph Haas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 07:21:51PM +0200, Nico Golde wrote: [...] Lintian is now v1.23.31 instead of v1.23.28 (Etch). Hope

Re: A note on lintian clean packages and mentors.d.n

2007-07-01 Thread Nico Golde
Hi, * Raphael Geissert [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-07-01 21:51]: [...] By the way, what do you think about making linda check the package too? Linda itself is too buggy I think. Linda is not bad but when looking at the past I came to a point where I stopped using it because of its bugs. I

Re: A note on lintian clean packages and mentors.d.n

2007-07-01 Thread Raphael Geissert
Hi, On 01/07/07, Nico Golde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, * Raphael Geissert [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-07-01 21:51]: [...] By the way, what do you think about making linda check the package too? Linda itself is too buggy I think. Linda is not bad but when looking at the past I came to a

Re: A note on lintian clean packages and mentors.d.n

2007-07-01 Thread Christoph Haas
On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 02:39:10PM -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote: On 01/07/07, Christoph Haas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 07:21:51PM +0200, Nico Golde wrote: Hi, * Christoph Haas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-07-01 19:13]: On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 06:11:00PM +0200, Nico

Re: A note on lintian clean packages and mentors.d.n

2007-07-01 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 1 Jul 2007 15:05:54 -0500 Raphael Geissert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an alias in my .bashrc which helps me with this stuff: alias checkdeb='linda -i *.deb; linda -i *.dsc; lintian -i -I *.deb; lintian -i -I *.dsc' What's wrong with just passing the .changes? That

Re: A note on lintian clean packages and mentors.d.n

2007-07-01 Thread Russ Allbery
Neil Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Minor and wishlist bugs still count - particularly for things like linda and lintian, which leads to 16 outstanding. (The lintian maintainer correctly insists that lintian - and therefore linda - are only indicators of problems and cannot catch all such