Soren Stoutner <so...@debian.org> wrote on 04/09/2024 at 08:30:39+0200:
> On Tuesday, September 3, 2024 11:21:04 PM MST Lucas Nussbaum wrote: >> After lintian.debian.org went unmaintained (beginning of 2022) and it >> was clear noone was going to adopt it, I worked on a UDD-backed >> replacement (in July 2022, see >> https://lists.debian.org/debian-qa/2022/07/msg00001.html and >> https://lists.debian.org/debian-qa/2022/07/msg00006.html ). Then I >> raised the question of the future of lintian.debian.org. >> >> After providing stale data for a long time, which confused many people, >> lintian.debian.org was shutdown in September 2023. >> >> Pointing it to UDD was discussed (I think I proposed serving the >> lintian.d.o vhost on ullmann.debian.org so that the old URLs would work >> but be backed by UDD). Another option that was mentioned was pointing it >> to a wiki page that explains where to find the data (I wrote >> https://wiki.debian.org/UltimateDebianDatabase/ReplacingLintianDebianOrg >> at some point). But those discussions never reached a conclusion. > > Thanks for all the work you have put into this. > >> Also, I don't want to sound like I'm telling someone how to contribute >> to Debian, but it looks to me like there are more urgent issues to solve >> around lintian... > > I don’t really have a strong opinion as to which software serves these pages, > but I do think solving this issue is one of the more important things we can > do for lintian (especially because it is so easy to resolve compared to some > of the other things that need to be done). > > I personally spent a lot of time as an early packager trying to figure out > what > some of the lintian tags meant because internet searches turned up dead > links. > I ended up resorting to grepping through the lintian source code to find the > answers (efficient once you know how to do it, but it shouldn’t be that hard > to > approach as a new maintainer). The binary package lintian provides lintian-explain-tags which is a great resource to get such information. > In my work mentoring new maintainers, I find that they also run into a > lot of confusion that would be easily resolved if the links on > mentors.debian.net just pointed them in the right direction. Then it's probably what needs to be addressed. -- PEB
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