Am Montag, den 21.01.2013, 22:40 +0100 schrieb Jakub Wilk: > * Benjamin Drung <bdr...@debian.org>, 2013-01-21, 21:16: > >>* Package name : adequate > >> Version : 0.3 > >> Upstream Author : Jakub Wilk <jw...@debian.org> > >>* URL : http://jwilk.net/software/adequate > >>* License : Expat > >> Programming Lang: Perl > >> Description : Debian package quality testing tool > >> > >>adequate checks quality of installed packages. > >> > >>The following checks are currently implemented: > > > >What's the advantage of adequate over lintian? > > They have different scopes: > - Lintian is a static analysis tool; > - adequate examines the system on which the tested package has been > already installed to see if everything is in order. > > That said, many of the Lintian checks could be re-implemented in > adequate. However, I specifically avoided implementing anything that > could be adequately (no pun intended) done by Lintian. > > Let me go through the list of the checks: > > >> * broken symlinks; > > Lintian's package-contains-broken-symlink implementation is prone to > tons of false positive; this is unfixable because Lintian lacks > information about foreign packages. > > >> * missing copyright file; > > no-copyright-file is emitted by Lintian only if the copyright file is > shipped in the binary package. But Lintian can't possibly know that > /usr/share/doc/$pkg/ will disappear on upgrade. > > >> * obsolete conffiles; > > Lintian can't possibly catch this. > > >> * Python modules not byte-compiled; > > lintian4python has a check for this, which works reasonably well, but > only under assumptions that 1) the packages use helpers for > byte-compilation and 2) the helpers actually do their job correctly. > > >> * /bin and /sbin binaries requiring /usr/lib libraries; > >> * underlinked binaries or libraries. > > Lintian lacks information about foreign packages to perform these > checks. > > > I hope this answers your question. :)
Yes. Thanks for the details. -- Benjamin Drung Debian & Ubuntu Developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1358807195.3447.5.camel@deep-thought