Package: dput Version: 0.9.6.4 Control: block 827879 by -1 tl/dr: Please provide 1. Command line option --no-lintian to override run_lintian in config 2. Convenient way to discover whether run_lintian is set in dput config
Explanation: dgit uses dput to do actual uploads. (This is useful because it means dgit does not need to replicate dput's configuration about upload queues, and also because it can sometimes mean that a partially-failed push/upload can be finished off.) dput can be configured to run lintian on every upload. lintian sometimes exits nonzero due to problems with the package. In the context of dgit this is not very helpful, because dput is run after the relevant git tags have been signed and pushed to the dgit git server. So the upload might fail halfway through: see #827879. dgit would like to disable this part of dput's functionality. However, dput does not honour a --no-lintian option to override the config file. Furthermore, if this option is specified, then I think it would be best if dgit actually honoured it, but at the right stage of the push. dgit could run dput --check-only, or could run lintian itself. But this should be done only if dput is configured with run_lintian, because the rest of dput's checks just duplicate things dgit does anyway. So dgit would like to know whether dput is configured to run lintian. Failing the above, how horrible would it be for dgit to put a stunt no-op lintian on PATH, when running dput ? Thanks, Ian. -- Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> These opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.
