Hi all, I believe everybody knows that there was a RG for lenny that was about making sure pre-/depends/recommends relationships in packages in main were available in main (i.e. not in contrib, non-free, 3rd party repository).
Today I had an idea on how could lintian help accomplish such kind of RG that require external information that is absolutely not going to be hardcoded. The idea for this specific RG is to add a piece of code implementing that check in checks/fields relying on information that is automagically updated by some external script (but the file distributed by lintian would be empty, skipping that check). This way it would be possible for ftpmasters (which IMHO is the best place for this) to auto REJECT packages uploaded to main unstable or experimental declaring relationships with packages either not available in main, or available in contrib and non-free (the former would catch 3rd party repos, while the latter wouldn't). And since ftp-master knows what packages are available as soon as they are installed a post process hook could update a data/fields/ file thus enabling the check. Now, the main point of this message is: would such kind of feature be accepted in mainstream lintian? As I already said: if the file is empty (that being the "status" of the file shipped by lintian) the check would be disabled. I know I must ask ftp-masters if they are interested or not, but wanted to get an OK here first. Cheers, -- Atomo64 - Raphael Please avoid sending me Word, PowerPoint or Excel attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
