Hi Niels, On 06/03/16 at 19:11 +0000, Niels Thykier wrote: > Hi, > > I took a stab at implementing classification tags (see attached patches > or [1]). These tags are intended solely as a means to classify (an > aspect of) a package and are by no means an issue people need to fix. > > * The proposed implementation is basically a hack which abuses the > "severity". > > * I am open to other suggestions (especially those with patches). > > * I have not given the colouring a lot of thought and welcome > suggestions here as well. > - Notably, part of the css is basically copy-waste of the "pedantic" > tag, so they currently share the same colour for the description. > > With the patch, I also implemented two classifications tags for the sake > of it: > > * classification-of-debian-build-system > - always emitted > * declared-source-format > - omitted when the format is "implicit" (i.e. d/source/format is > absent). > > These can be tested by using "-L +classification" (or "-L > =classification"). Output of running on lintian itself: > > """ > $ frontend/lintian -L =classification lintian_2.5.42_source.changes > C: lintian source: classification-of-debian-build-system dh > C: lintian source: declared-source-format 3.0 (native) > N: 5 tags overridden (1 error, 3 warnings, 1 info) > """
I didn't reply back then, but I think that this work is great. How can I help getting this into a lintian release? Lucas