Simon Kainz <si...@familiekainz.at> writes: > Hi, > > After thinking about some time how to find/fix broken links in package > descriptions, i came up with the following idea: > > I think it would be better to extend lintian to check for broken urls > (Homepage, VCS-Browser, Vcs-*). > > Is it okay if lintian needs network/internet access ( a patch is already > available checking for the Homepage field, using LWP) ? > > What are your thoughts about this?
I often run lintian as part of an automatic build & check system, that does not have network access at all. So such a check would invariably fail there. It would also present a lot of false positives during any kind of network problems, and would never be reliable (what if your ISP filters a particular domain? Or if your company's proxy is misconfigured and serves you a 10 year old cached copy?) So while this check IS a good idea, and would certainly help, I don't think it should run without explicitly asking lintian to do so. -- |8] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qa-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87pqa1llg8.fsf@algernon.balabit
