On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Russ Allbery wrote:
> I wonder if the easy way to do this would be to write something (this
> wouldn't be Lintian) that analyzes a build log for interesting issues.
debexpo will probably do this. IIRC the hppa (or was it ia64) porters
do this for gcc warnings that
On Sun, 03 May 2009 01:01:51 -0700
Russ Allbery wrote:
> >> > * seeing if a given package providing a library has the -dev package
> >> > containing the soname in the name of the package (e.g., libfoo0-dev).
>
> >> This is sometimes the right thing to do, sometimes not.
>
> > I know, I know.
Rogério Brito writes:
> I'd like to make it clear that I'm just brainstorming here and that at
> this stage, I'm not really concerned with the feasibility of the ideas.
> I'm just doing a "what if" thing.
Oh, sure, totally understood.
> On May 02 2009, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> Lintian should cat
Hi, Russ.
I'd like to make it clear that I'm just brainstorming here and that at
this stage, I'm not really concerned with the feasibility of the ideas.
I'm just doing a "what if" thing.
On May 02 2009, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Rogério Brito writes:
>
> > * for instance deprecated debhelper progra
2009/5/3 Rogério Brito :
> Maybe things that the devscripts package does could be integrated...
> Some facts that are not exactly errors, but that might be annoying
> include and could lead to a lot of false positives, but also finer
> points where the attention of sponsors should be checked:
For
Rogério Brito writes:
> * for instance deprecated debhelper programs should generate a big fat
> warning and, while they don't do that, detecting them.
Lintian should catch this already, although we may not have the most
recent ones. If you know which are missing, please file a wishlist
linti
> Well, more tests could be included (suggestions), but something along
> the lines of the package "elida" would be nice to have (disclaimer: I
> still don't have used this package).
I think most tests could be included in Lintian. Please file a wishlist
bug against Lintian.
Paul
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Hi.
I think that this discussion is a nice opportunity to view a bigger
picture on what the best practices mentors use in a way to automate
things.
On May 02 2009, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote:
> I think it's not running lintian at all, that text is just boilerplate
> which assumes mentees did run lint
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