Re: About lintian

2021-05-09 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 16128 March 1977, Felix Lechner wrote: With the kind help of the good folks at DSA [1] Lintian's experimental web application—still labeled "beta"—is now the official web presence. [2] Please bear with us as we optimize the deployment and implement additional features for you. Thanks to you

Re: About lintian

2021-05-09 Thread Felix Lechner
Hi Norbert, On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 5:02 AM Norbert Preining wrote: > > As part of this rework and the ongoing development, you said you have plans > to set up a test version of the Lintian web application on non-Debian > infrastructure. How is that going, Felix? With the kind help of the good f

Re: About lintian

2021-04-04 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi Felix thanks for the message and the web site. I have immediately tried it out with a few packages of mine, as well as all of my packages. Indeed, that took quite some time ;-) Looks nice, but I am not sure how useful it will be for me, as I said, I usually run lintian before uploading, so the

Re: About lintian

2021-04-04 Thread Pierre-Elliott Bécue
Le vendredi 02 avril 2021 à 19:31:30-0700, Felix Lechner a écrit : > Dear Norbert, > > On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 5:02 AM Norbert Preining > wrote: > > > > you said you have plans to set up a test version of the Lintian web > > application on non-Debian infrastructure. How is that going, Felix? >

Re: About lintian

2021-04-02 Thread Felix Lechner
Dear Norbert, On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 5:02 AM Norbert Preining wrote: > > you said you have plans to set up a test version of the Lintian web > application on non-Debian infrastructure. How is that going, Felix? A beta version of Lintian's new service is now live at lintian.debian.*net*. [1] The

Re: cme now handles lintian-overrides (was: Re: About lintian)

2021-03-23 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Dominique, On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 05:19:10PM +0100, Dominique Dumont wrote: > > Once libconfig-model-dpkg-perl/experimental is installed on your system, > 'cme > check dpkg' checks the contents of all lintian-overrides files and warn about > unknown tags. > > The command 'cme fix dpkg' r

cme now handles lintian-overrides (was: Re: About lintian)

2021-03-22 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Wednesday, 27 January 2021 14:26:41 CET Andreas Tille wrote: > > I can add support to lintian-overrides in cme. I can also add a more or > > less automatic update of renamed tags. > > > > Is this something Debian people would like to see ? > > YES. (Since cme rocks - thanks again for working o

Re: About lintian

2021-01-27 Thread gregor herrmann
On Wed, 27 Jan 2021 14:20:06 +0100, Dominique Dumont wrote: > On Thursday, 21 January 2021 23:18:07 CET Felix Lechner wrote: > > While we often change tag names (or combine tags etc.), the majority > > of the renames people talk about seems to stem from two bug reports by > > third parties asking

Re: About lintian

2021-01-27 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 02:20:06PM +0100, Dominique Dumont wrote: > On Thursday, 21 January 2021 23:18:07 CET Felix Lechner wrote: > > While we often change tag names (or combine tags etc.), the majority > > of the renames people talk about seems to stem from two bug reports by > > third parties as

Re: About lintian

2021-01-27 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Thursday, 21 January 2021 23:18:07 CET Felix Lechner wrote: > While we often change tag names (or combine tags etc.), the majority > of the renames people talk about seems to stem from two bug reports by > third parties asking that we make tag names more consistent (bug > numbers are available,

Re: About lintian

2021-01-21 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi Felix, thanks for your email, and no worry about sending it late, we are all volunteers. > Due to the number of messages already posted in this thread, I will > respond—with the best of ability—to each message separately. Thanks, I will only go into answer those items that I find here. > Tha

Re: About lintian

2021-01-21 Thread Pierre-Elliott Bécue
Le 21 janvier 2021 23:51:55 GMT+01:00, Felix Lechner a écrit : >Hi Pierre-Elliott, > >On Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 5:00 AM Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: >> >> As I said on that time, I'd be glad to provide help and >> support should Felix feel the need for some. > >I do not recall our most recent excha

Re: About lintian

2021-01-21 Thread Felix Lechner
Hi Antonio, On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 4:43 AM Antonio Terceiro wrote: > > My hope is that this, and other use cases, could be enabled by > collaborating on existing infrastructure, instead of creating yet > another one. I totally agree with you. I would like to spend some time looking at your code

Re: About lintian

2021-01-21 Thread Felix Lechner
Hi Raphaël, On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 3:27 AM Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > From my (relatively remote) point of view, ci.debian.net seems really > very basic in terms of features related to scheduling of jobs. Inspired by an early peek into your own ideas of a codenamed piece of vaporware I wrote wh

Re: About lintian

2021-01-21 Thread Felix Lechner
Hi Pierre-Elliott, On Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 5:00 AM Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: > > As I said on that time, I'd be glad to provide help and > support should Felix feel the need for some. I do not recall our most recent exchanges as quite so positive, but I would be happy to read you into some of

Re: About lintian

2021-01-21 Thread Felix Lechner
Hi Lucas, On Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 2:31 AM Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > I agree that a service that provides an overview of the status regarding > lintian for the whole archive would be useful (for example, to identify > packages that need some area of work inside a team). This functionality is not

Re: About lintian

2021-01-21 Thread Felix Lechner
Hi Norbert, First of all, please accept my apologies for responding late. I subscribe to d-d but filter lists for later perusal. Thanks to Lucas Nussbaum for pointing me here! Due to the number of messages already posted in this thread, I will respond—with the best of ability—to each message sepa

Re: About lintian

2021-01-19 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Tue, 19 Jan 2021, Antonio Terceiro wrote: > > Can you expand on the kind of features that ci.debian.net offers and what > > kind of mistakes we would likely avoid by reusing it? > > To name a few: > > - distributed processing > - data retention policies > - web interface Thanks for your

Re: About lintian

2021-01-19 Thread Antonio Terceiro
On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 12:27:31PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 18 Jan 2021, Antonio Terceiro wrote: > > FWIW, The ci.debian.net infrastructure is mostly independent from > > autopkgtest, so we could have different types of jobs there. This could > > be used for lintian, but als

Re: About lintian

2021-01-19 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Mon, 18 Jan 2021, Antonio Terceiro wrote: > FWIW, The ci.debian.net infrastructure is mostly independent from > autopkgtest, so we could have different types of jobs there. This could > be used for lintian, but also for on-demand rebuilds, and other types of > checks that needs to be done t

Re: About lintian

2021-01-18 Thread Antonio Terceiro
On Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 02:00:22PM +0100, Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: > Le lundi 18 janvier 2021 à 11:31:35+0100, Lucas Nussbaum a écrit : > > Hi, > > > > On 17/01/21 at 22:00 +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: > > > On the infrastructure side, you mentioned on #debian-qa that in your > > > opinion, l

Re: About lintian

2021-01-18 Thread Pierre-Elliott Bécue
Le lundi 18 janvier 2021 à 11:31:35+0100, Lucas Nussbaum a écrit : > Hi, > > On 17/01/21 at 22:00 +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: > > On the infrastructure side, you mentioned on #debian-qa that in your > > opinion, lintian is best run in a CI pipeline instead of on the > > lintian.d.o service. Whi

Re: About lintian

2021-01-18 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi, On 17/01/21 at 22:00 +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: > On the infrastructure side, you mentioned on #debian-qa that in your > opinion, lintian is best run in a CI pipeline instead of on the > lintian.d.o service. While this is certainly true, do you plan to keep > the functionality on your rewo