Package: lintian Version: 2.5.6 Tags: patch
Hi, Thanks for the code. :) I have forwarded it to the BTS so it doesn't get lost (hench the full quote). ~Niels On 2012-04-29 18:53, Jordà Polo wrote: > The idea of keeping track of the history and statistics of archive-wide > Lintian runs has been around for a while (almost 3 years since the > initial idea[1], and 2 years since the initial implementation[2]!). > $HISTORY was finally enabled last year[3], and after a couple of > reminders from Niels I finally got around to update the scripts and > visualize the data we have so far. > > You can take a look at the generated graphs for global statistics[4] and > also for each tag[5]. > > I wrote the initial version as a simple Makefile (with some awk in > there) partly because html_reports seems too big and does a lot of stuff > already. But I vaguely remember discussing about this a long time ago, > and the conclusion was that it would preferable to use Perl to ease its > integration with Lintian. I recently rewrote it in Perl, and even though > it's still a standalone script, it should be straightforward to move the > code to html_reports. I'm attaching both the old and the new version; > feel free to review the Perl code, I haven't been coding in Perl for a > while. > > There are a few things I'm still not sure about, such as what's the most > appropriate time frame for the graphs. At first I thought 1 month would > be enough, but after generating them I think 6 months to 1 year will be > a lot more useful. Any thoughts? Your input on the readability of the > graphs is welcome too, specially for tags: I have been thinking of > removing the number of packages and keeping tags/overrides only, seems > easier to understand. > > 1. http://lists.debian.org/debian-lint-maint/2009/06/msg00278.html > 2. http://lists.debian.org/debian-lint-maint/2010/01/msg00086.html > 3. http://lists.debian.org/debian-lint-maint/2011/09/msg00010.html > > 4. http://ettin.org/tmp/lintian/history/graph/statistics.svg > 5. http://ettin.org/tmp/lintian/history/graph/tags/ > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
