Re: Checks for urls in packages - extend lintian

2012-05-18 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, May 18, 2012 at 02:15:48PM +0200, Simon Kainz a écrit : > > I think it would be better to extend lintian to check for broken urls > (Homepage, VCS-Browser, Vcs-*). > > Is it okay if lintian needs network/internet access ( a patch is already > available checking for the Homepage field, usi

Re: Checks for urls in packages - extend lintian

2012-05-18 Thread Russ Allbery
Simon Kainz writes: > After thinking about some time how to find/fix broken links in package > descriptions, i came up with the following idea: > I think it would be better to extend lintian to check for broken urls > (Homepage, VCS-Browser, Vcs-*). > Is it okay if lintian needs network/interne

Re: Checks for urls in packages - extend lintian

2012-05-18 Thread Arno Töll
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 not

Re: Checks for urls in packages - extend lintian

2012-05-18 Thread Bart Martens
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 02:15:48PM +0200, Simon Kainz wrote: > Hi, > > After thinking about some time how to find/fix broken links in package > descriptions, i came up with the following idea: > > I think it would be better to extend lintian to check for broken urls > (Homepage, VCS-Browser, Vcs-

Re: Checks for urls in packages - extend lintian

2012-05-18 Thread Gergely Nagy
Simon Kainz writes: > Hi, > > After thinking about some time how to find/fix broken links in package > descriptions, i came up with the following idea: > > I think it would be better to extend lintian to check for broken urls > (Homepage, VCS-Browser, Vcs-*). > > Is it okay if lintian needs netwo

Checks for urls in packages - extend lintian

2012-05-18 Thread Simon Kainz
Hi, After thinking about some time how to find/fix broken links in package descriptions, i came up with the following idea: I think it would be better to extend lintian to check for broken urls (Homepage, VCS-Browser, Vcs-*). Is it okay if lintian needs network/internet access ( a patch is alrea

Processed: tagging 668320

2012-05-18 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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