Re: Lintian as a static analysis framework

2011-07-08 Thread Russ Allbery
Paul Wise writes: > On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Niels Thykier wrote: >> We could do it like that, though the vendor profiles specification >> actually deliberately did not answer the question of how to add >> third-party checks.  I know some people already do this, so we have made >> Lintian

O: archfs -- rdiff-backup virtual filesystem (hijacked)

2011-07-08 Thread Jon Dowland
Package: wnpp Severity: normal archfs has been renamed to rdiff-backup-fs by upstream. Another Debian developer has uploaded an rdiff-backup-fs package independent from this one. I will therefore take the opportunity to shed my responsibility for the package. I'll hold off uploading a new versio

Re: Lintian as a static analysis framework

2011-07-08 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Niels Thykier wrote: > We could do it like that, though the vendor profiles specification > actually deliberately did not answer the question of how to add > third-party checks.  I know some people already do this, so we have made > Lintian behave sanely to it. >  

Re: Lintian as a static analysis framework

2011-07-08 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2011-07-08 10:39, Paul Wise wrote: > On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 9:25 AM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > >> [...] > >> I guess that would clash with the dear old tension among minimizing >> lintian dependencies and being able to do very specific checks. We >> really don't want to have lintian depend o

Re: I18n data from browsable source archive (Was: Lintian as a static analysis framework)

2011-07-08 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Andreas Tille wrote: > Would you consider such i18n analysis as one such thing? I guess adding i18n collectors to lintian could help achieve what you want. Especially if lintian were to start running gettext-lint (and similar) over the collected i18n data. -- b

Re: Lintian as a static analysis framework

2011-07-08 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 9:25 AM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > I haven't yet chosen the technology for code indexing, but if anyone has > experience with *multi-language* code indexers, I'd be happy to hear > from you. I've looked around a bit, but I've found good technologies > only for specific lan

Re: Lintian as a static analysis framework

2011-07-08 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2011-07-07 18:24, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 12:00:38PM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: >> [...] > > To achieve the above two goals, I need to keep in sync a Debian (source) > mirror with a place where I've all sources unpacked in versioned > directories. Additions/removals

I18n data from browsable source archive (Was: Lintian as a static analysis framework)

2011-07-08 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 06:24:57PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > I don't know the current (internal) APIs you mention, but I feel like > sharing a use case that might benefit from the framework refactoring you > propose. It's a use case I've encountered while setting up two things at > on

Re: Lintian as a static analysis framework

2011-07-08 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 07:26:58PM +0200, Paul Wise wrote: > > - the reborn of a sources.debian.org service (sort of browsable / > >  highlighted/ searchable Debian sources at your fingertips on the web) > > Is there any info about this? Not yet, as I wanted (and still want) to have a prototype t