Hi, On 18.05.2012 14:15, Simon Kainz wrote: > Is it okay if lintian needs network/internet access ( a patch is already > available checking for the Homepage field, using LWP) ?
while I am no Lintian maintainer and thus not Person who eventually would accept or reject such a patch, it shall be noted that Lintian is a static analysis tool. That means, it is completely self-sufficient and is able to work without any external data source. For the very same reason the data Lintian uses, such as (build-)essential packages are held in a pre-generated list within the Lintian distribution tarball itself. -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC GnuPG Key-ID: 0x9D80F36D
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