On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 02:15:48PM +0200, Simon Kainz wrote: > 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 strongly prefer that lintian does not use network/internet access by default. Any checks that require network/internet access should, in my opinion, be silently skipped. Such checks should only be done when the user explicitly asks these checks. Regards, Bart Martens -- 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/20120518132852.ga21...@master.debian.org
