Hi! Thanks for filing this.
On Tue, 2016-04-19 at 10:15:37 +0200, Johannes Schauer wrote: > Package: qa.debian.org > Severity: wishlist > User: qa.debian....@packages.debian.org > Usertags: dose > the https://qa.debian.org/debcheck.php seem to be not much maintained > and are missing a number of features with respect to dependency > resolution (like build profiles, architecture qualifiers, multiarch, > build-depends-indep/arch) all of which dose3 implements properly. Thus > it might make sense to move some of the checks currently done by > debcheck.php to dose/debcheck.html like: > > - priority checks > - section checks > - depends on non-main > - oldlib checks And as mentioned on IRC, the rest should be already covered by dose or lintian, so at that point we could just get rid of debcheck.php. > The checks could be done with dose3 by creating fitting package sets > using grep-dctrl and feeding those to distcheck for installability > checks. > > I'd assume that feeding distcheck a few more filtered Packages files to > check for these issues is very much easier than fixing the dependency > resolver of debcheck.php. I'd assume so. Thanks, Guillem
