For the record, my request originated from the recurrence of lintian- brush in update-excuses, as was noted in this comment:
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2021-December/041754.html Regarding the rdeps: To be noted, both silver-platter and routine-update have no further rdeps: ❯ reverse-depends src:silver-platter ❯ reverse-depends -a source src:silver-platter No reverse dependencies found ❯ reverse-depends src:routine-update No reverse dependencies found ❯ reverse-depends -a source routine-update No reverse dependencies found routine-update appears functional on a typical Salsa repository, but chokes with repositories managed by git-ubuntu. silverplatter uses lintian-brush in its debian-svp variant, which presumably has the same shortcomings than routine-update. I didn't test it out, though. Both tools are thus probably not that useful in typical Ubuntu work, being more suited for direct Debian contributions, and should be removed alongside lintian-brush as the latter gives us the bulk of the interesting features. HOWEVER I looked a bit closer into lintian-brush code as well as its history in various +1 maintenance reports, and it seems most of its issues are related to src:breezy or the Python transition. The code is in good shape, and isn't as tied to lintian internals as I feared. For reference, here are the rdeps of src:breezy: ❯ reverse-depends src:breezy Reverse-Recommends * ikiwiki (for brz) * silver-platter (for brz) * ubuntu-dev-tools (for brz) Reverse-Depends * brz-debian (for brz) * brz-debian (for python3-breezy) * bzr (for brz) * bzr-doc (for brz-doc) * bzr-email (for brz) * bzr-fastimport (for brz) * bzr-git (for brz) * bzr-stats (for brz) * bzr-upload (for brz) * bzrtools (for brz) * etckeeper (for brz) * lintian-brush (for python3-breezy) * loggerhead (for python3-breezy) * lptools (for python3-breezy) * qbrz (for python3-breezy) * silver-platter (for python3-breezy) After investigating, I'm less inclined to remove the package from the archive, as it's more of a symptom of an issue with src:breezy. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1959002 Title: Blacklist and remove lintian-brush from the archive To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lintian-brush/+bug/1959002/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
