Bug#841670: lintian: Check udev rules and AppStream metadata

Hi. Any change to get lintian to start checking udev and appstream data now that the Buster release cycle just started? -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen

Bug#841670: lintian: Check udev rules and AppStream metadata

Hi. Is there anything more I need to do to get this check into lintian, or do I just need to enjoy a bit more patience? -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen

Bug#841670: lintian: Check udev rules and AppStream metadata

Is this patch OK, or should I clean it up some more? I would love to have it included in lintian soon, to make more people aware of the problem with device access in Stretch before the complete freeze. -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen

Bug#841670: lintian: Check udev rules and AppStream metadata

Here are a new set of patches rebased on the current master branch. The tag description in the last patch is slightly modified based on feedback from the appstream maintainer. Is there any hope this change can land in unstable early enough for the package maintainers to react to the checks

Bug#841670: lintian: Check udev rules and AppStream metadata

Niels suggested to me on IRC to move the test deb from t/debs/ to t/tests/ and split it in two, one for the udev and one for the appstream check. In the process of doing this I discovered bugs in the udev check, so this proved very valuable. Here is a set of updated patches. -- Vennlig hilsen

Bug#841670: lintian: Check udev rules and AppStream metadata

Control: tags -1 + patch I forgot to add the patch tag. -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen

Bug#841670: lintian: Check udev rules and AppStream metadata

Attached is my proposal for a lintian check for AppStream metadata and the udev rules, including a test case. Compared to the github repo, I dropped a few tests that need more work. I will come back to those when I have learned more from the AppStream maintainer about how desktop files and

Bug#841670: lintian: Check udev rules and AppStream metadata

[Niels Thykier] > Hi Petter, > > Thanks for working on making Lintian better. :) > > I have skimmed though the branch and given a little bit of inline > feedback. :) Thank you. I've adjusted the code based on your feedback, and fixed broken checks and added some new ones. A new rebased branch

Bug#841670: lintian: Check udev rules and AppStream metadata

On Sat, 22 Oct 2016 01:04:16 +0200 Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > Package: lintian > Version: 2.5.48 > > Hi. Isenkram uses information from AppStream to locate packages > relevant for the hardware present on a given computer. I would like to > have some lintian checks

Bug#841670: lintian: Check udev rules and AppStream metadata

Package: lintian Version: 2.5.48 Hi. Isenkram uses information from AppStream to locate packages relevant for the hardware present on a given computer. I would like to have some lintian checks verifying the AppStream metadata and the udev rules to try to detect if a package providing access