Package: lintian Version: 2.5.66 Severity: normal -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512
One of my pet peeves with lintian is that the files in the data/ dir are permanently outdated, as they are not automatically recreated before a release. Usually I only notice that if data/fields/perl-provides strays from reality but today I decideded to take a closer look and ran all the private/refresh-* scripts, and the result is something like 18 files changed, 1108 insertions(+), 1062 deletions(-) which is still not reflecting reality, as those scripts sometimes need a directory argument and sometimes don't, and sometimes write to a file and sometimes to stdout, and sometimes accept a Contents-*.gz file (which doesn't exist anymore locally) and sometimes don't, and sometimes can be called directly, and sometimes are manually or automatically called from debian/rules … etc. My proposal is that all automatically created files in data/ are refreshed before each release, which probably needs some mechanism to do this more or less automatically; and I'm sorry for not providing a nice patch series right now but I'm kinda lost in this organically grown setup … Cheers, gregor -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQKTBAEBCgB9FiEE0eExbpOnYKgQTYX6uzpoAYZJqgYFAlpDGg5fFIAAAAAALgAo aXNzdWVyLWZwckBub3RhdGlvbnMub3BlbnBncC5maWZ0aGhvcnNlbWFuLm5ldEQx RTEzMTZFOTNBNzYwQTgxMDREODVGQUJCM0E2ODAxODY0OUFBMDYACgkQuzpoAYZJ qgYs5w//a4A6LutTXpqBJWm1rEscX8lSsUEBPcjBshLB9aHJ/xJL4SSWCLGpawUx zQPU7TBfsBG0FYwJrOYzVaa5OEk6fO0xOCa8ptQ1UG/icoz/kfEmo1/GIQdhmwob Hl0/jTG4NnqO2dD1oER3sXpMMHrvsByVDaiGy6vkaP4YiQ7+WY9nB/GnixbRB9wq tDiecnvTty31Lj4g2Xm6NguDTeuppbULkGfi6kXBwd6X4uIpiYVrxvkj6eGbSTPP 3TBstZsdCGH7rw+21WcdEGcSDBi0r0UCkaeCc3b3nDlqyLGURQG0JI76PartNCJh vjbyYOpqi6HMTRW9m5Y3oW0f3194UMwQujV/m15/HOFjPM5O0DT9GGsqlPxvFeD1 gBbqWt/m0ZG+CRIfa/gVcV+oPAFs3HfODhRlRDN7rcAGXOlYomtczHbMd+21hTi/ oDgvKcYaULt0AoBJgMFFopjl9GPuiIrmX9uFV1cJQBmRuSJd2eM7Pjcwm8Eq2HUl /K4nt4tBPPwyCv/+J4AHR8oeDlPhlHZVMTcU5XuJj1COljjLxrByYeL3DVbpMNfn H4pOOJKzZ5lL6Zyue0OGn+cKfCpMO1yeXVwmunklrz4W0rvEbP1VmknPwQI646bR xH6hZzZqK5L4G88OuV9y7UT7fE4sEP6F5ZawjvBqfYejkdZnH2A= =skQA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----