Re: URL convention to point to per-package lintian checks

2007-12-04 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 12:42:31PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: If you like the email based approach I've mentioned in my former post and point please let me know, I would happy to contribute a patch for that. I do, although I'd like to reorganize more than that too. For example, right now

Re: URL convention to point to per-package lintian checks

2007-12-04 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 06:18:28PM -0600, Raphael Geissert wrote: What my patches actually do is switch to an email address-based naming (in everywhere: lintian reports generator, developer.php and PTS). As for what I understood that's what you want to do, am I mistaken? No, you're not. It's

Re: URL convention to point to per-package lintian checks

2007-12-04 Thread Russ Allbery
Stefano Zacchiroli [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 12:42:31PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: I do, although I'd like to reorganize more than that too. For example, right now everything is written to one giant directory, which isn't a good idea. It would also be nice to have

Re: URL convention to point to per-package lintian checks

2007-12-04 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 01:17:39AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Let's do this. Let's standardize on: Ok, cool. Many thanks! I'll implement the convention PTS side, let me know when the new scheme is read on the lintian side. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science

Re: URL convention to point to per-package lintian checks

2007-12-04 Thread Russ Allbery
Stefano Zacchiroli [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 01:17:39AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Let's do this. Let's standardize on: Ok, cool. Many thanks! I'll implement the convention PTS side, let me know when the new scheme is read on the lintian side. I'll sneak this into

Re: URL convention to point to per-package lintian checks

2007-12-03 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Mon, December 3, 2007 08:48, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: My main problem with the current naming scheme is that it is also open to clashes. If two maintainer names are different only for an accented letter they would clash into the very same page. Clashes are already there, even without

Re: URL convention to point to per-package lintian checks

2007-12-03 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Stefano Zacchiroli [Mon, 03 Dec 2007 08:48:31 +0100]: My main problem with the current naming scheme is that it is also open to clashes. If two maintainer names are different only for an accented letter they would clash into the very same page. (Plus we already have at least two maintainers

Re: URL convention to point to per-package lintian checks

2007-12-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Stefano Zacchiroli [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Are you aware of having several external links pointing into lintian.debian.org beside the PTS? I guess beside the PTS and maybe personal DD's homepage there won't be many, but I might be utterly wrong of course. I would have thought so, but maybe

Re: URL convention to point to per-package lintian checks

2007-12-03 Thread Raphael Geissert
Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: On Sun, Dec 02, 2007 at 01:27:41PM -0600, Raphael Geissert wrote: I surely can, but before doing so I would prefer to fix the URL naming scheme in the right place, see my reply to Russ. What my patches actually do is switch to an email address-based naming (in

URL convention to point to per-package lintian checks

2007-12-02 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
Hi, I'm working a bit on the PTS these days, and I've just noticed that the current way used to point to per-package lintian checks from the PTS is not reliable. For example, if you look at the PTS page of amule [1] you can notice that the lintian URL is dangling. The current algorithm

Re: URL convention to point to per-package lintian checks

2007-12-02 Thread Raphael Geissert
Hello Stefano, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: This does not correspond to what lintian.debian.org is doing, partly for the PTS bug, partly for (I guess, though I'm not sure) a lintian bug which does not replace with __ for the last character of maintainer name. For example, at [2], if you look

Re: URL convention to point to per-package lintian checks

2007-12-02 Thread Russ Allbery
Raphael Geissert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've already tried once to fix this problem and even submitted a patch, but I recommend you to read the whole bug report[1]. It would be great if you could finish my work on that. I'm also happy to change the lintian escaping algorithm to make it

Re: URL convention to point to per-package lintian checks

2007-12-02 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sun, Dec 02, 2007 at 02:01:04PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: I'm also happy to change the lintian escaping algorithm to make it easier for corner cases, but I'd rather not change the algorithm in a way that would invalidate other external links unless we declare a major flag day Are you aware

Re: URL convention to point to per-package lintian checks

2007-12-02 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sun, Dec 02, 2007 at 01:27:41PM -0600, Raphael Geissert wrote: So, question, what is the actual algorithm used by lintian.d.o to patch maintainer names? The script used to generate the html pages is available at: http://svn.wolffelaar.nl/lintian/trunk/reporting/html_reports There you