On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 09:45:04 +0200, Emanuele Rocca uttered
> Everybody agrees here, but (AFAIK) this is not the situation we are
> discussing. No 'Better Ideas' in linda.
>
Speak for yourself. Here are three (off the top of my head) that
spring to mind that lintian can't do, and I feel better serve
users.
1) Proper English descriptions, rather than tags.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~% linda /var/cache/apt/archives/abiword_2.2.7-1_i386.deb
E: abiword; No manual page for binary AbiWord-2.2.
2) Proper l10n strings for most errors (in German, anyway)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~% LANG=de_DE linda
/var/cache/apt/archives/abiword_2.2.7-1_i386.deb
E: abiword; Keine Handbuchseite für Binary AbiWord-2.2.
3) Different output formats.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~% linda -f long
/var/cache/apt/archives/abiword_2.2.7-1_i386.deb
Package: abiword
Type: Error
Description: No manual page for binary AbiWord-2.2.
One very pissed off developer,
--
Steve
"Why does everyone say 'Relax' when they're about to do something terrible?"
- Ensign Harry Kim, USS Voyager
