On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 03:07:35PM +0200, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: > > The biggest issue is that the function that gets the names of the > > source/binary packages does 'find <mirrordir>/dists/foo -type f -name > > *.dsc' to locate those files, which of course fails with the pool. We need > > to parse the Sources file, I think. > > Well, I just might be able to help with this. Some time ago, I hacked a > little perl script that does exactly this (well, not exactly, but it > comes close): it parses the Packages files to determine which packages > to process and then, one by one, downloads the packages and runs lintian > over them. (the source is at http://www.a-eskwadraat.nl/~bas/LBR). > > I don't know how much work it would be to integrate this in Lintian, but > a lot of code should be recycleble. Unfortunately, I won't have time to > look into this until after Easter.
Yeah, well, I have a stanza-file parser program in Perl which can be integrated, too, but someone still has to do the work :) -- Digital Electronic Being Intended for Assassination and Nullification
