Re: Intend to change lintian.d.o/qa-list.txt

2012-12-30 Thread Bart Martens
On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 07:11:10AM +, Bart Martens wrote: > On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 09:09:19PM +0100, Niels Thykier wrote: > > As far as I know, Lintian exports a file called "qa-list.txt" > > and I propose we extend it to: > > > >source source-version E W I P X O > > > > In the extended

Re: Intend to change lintian.d.o/qa-list.txt

2012-12-30 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 11:40:09AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > I do wonder how the PTS should cope with this change though, any > thoughts? Looks like the two formats are easily mechanically distinguishable: the new one has one extra field. So a viable migration plan with no down time is: (1) patch

Re: Intend to change lintian.d.o/qa-list.txt

2012-12-30 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 5:16 PM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > Looks like the two formats are easily mechanically distinguishable: the That part is easy but I was not thinking about it, but about how the PTS should present the lintian data. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To U

Re: Intend to change lintian.d.o/qa-list.txt

2012-12-30 Thread Bart Martens
On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 10:16:06AM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 11:40:09AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > > I do wonder how the PTS should cope with this change though, any > > thoughts? > > Looks like the two formats are easily mechanically distinguishable: the > new one

Re: Intend to change lintian.d.o/qa-list.txt

2012-12-30 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 05:41:17PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > That part is easy but I was not thinking about it, but about how the > PTS should present the lintian data. Well, in general the PTS presents the information about the most recent version of a package, the idea being that the PTS is a ma

Re: Intend to change lintian.d.o/qa-list.txt

2012-12-30 Thread Bart Martens
On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 10:57:57AM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 05:41:17PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > > That part is easy but I was not thinking about it, but about how the > > PTS should present the lintian data. > > Well, in general the PTS presents the information a

Re: Intend to change lintian.d.o/qa-list.txt

2012-12-30 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2012-12-30 09:45, Bart Martens wrote: > On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 07:11:10AM +, Bart Martens wrote: >> [...] >> >> I suggest that we update PTS and DDPO to be ready to process the extended >> format without functional change first, and then extend qa-list.txt. I'm >> volunteering to update DD

Re: Intend to change lintian.d.o/qa-list.txt

2012-12-30 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2012-12-30 10:16, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > [...] > > Given that not all future format changes would have the luck of being > mechanically distinguishable, it might be a good idea to take this > chance to add a declared format version, e.g. a first line in > qa-list.txt starting with "#", dec