Niels Thykier <ni...@thykier.net> writes:
> For this I was wondering if
> my $job = { err => 'index-errors', ... }
> appends the output to 'index-errors' or truncates the file before
> writing.
It truncates currently. Lintian::Command could be modified to make it
append, though, which may not be a bad idea. I think all one would have
to do is change 2> to 2>>.
> Alternatively, would we rather want cruft to handle multiple index-error
> files (one for each tarball)?
I'm not sure it's worth the effort. Errors there happen rarely.
> Secondly, if I understand the situation correctly, I believe the version
> of collection/index.desc should be updated with this change (to ensure
> the index are re-generated). But since file-info generates its output
> from the index file, file-info should be re-run as well.
> Unfortunately, if I understand frontend/lintian correctly this will
> not happen automatically. Since file-info succeeded in the past, there
> should already be a ".file-info-1" file in the lab and the update of
> index will not make frontend/lintian remove that (or have I missed
> something?).
I think that's correct. Collection scripts should probably check the
version placeholders of all their dependencies as well, but I don't think
they currently do that.
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