Re: Lintian and Dpkg's :any multiarch qualifier
Hi, Quoting Felix Lechner (2021-11-03 23:34:17) > For a brief time between October 1 and October 15, Lintian gave potentially > confusing advice on some build prerequisites. [1] > > The :any multiarch acceptor—a rarely used feature some other tools call the > "muliarch qualifier"— it seems the only tool that calls :any an "acceptor" is lintian while the rest of the world calls it a qualifier. I filed a MR to fix this: https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/merge_requests/378 > was originally not implemented at all [2] and then implemented incorrectly. > [3] Many people do not even know about the feature. To my knowledge it works > now. > > Here are two questions: > > 1. Did anyone find the latest Lintian versions (2.109.0 and up) > confusing as to whether the :any should be included? The material you > would have encountered includes both the context offered by Lintian > (the extra information after the tag) and any relevant tag > descriptions. > > 2. Should Lintian issue any advice when it sees the :any multiarch > acceptor? If so, for which packages? It might allow maintainers to > undo erroneous advice they may have been given, although many folks use the > feature legitimately, as well. which wording do you need advice on? I grepped the Lintian git for tags containing the string :any and still wasn't sure what you are exactly asking about. Thanks! cheers, josch signature.asc Description: signature
Re: Lintian and Dpkg's :any multiarch qualifier
Hi Johannes, On Thu, Nov 4, 2021 at 2:35 AM Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote: > it seems the only tool that calls :any an "acceptor" is lintian I think the multiarch spec is confusing because of its terminology. It's been a hurdle for many people. > still wasn't sure what you are exactly asking No worries! You were not affected. Thanks for writing! Kind regards Felix Lechner
Re: Lintian and Dpkg's :any multiarch qualifier
Hi Felix, Quoting Felix Lechner (2021-11-04 20:25:28) > On Thu, Nov 4, 2021 at 2:35 AM Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues > wrote: > > it seems the only tool that calls :any an "acceptor" is lintian > > I think the multiarch spec is confusing because of its terminology. > It's been a hurdle for many people. I think inventing new terminology that is not used anywhere else just adds confusion. I agree that terminology can be confusing but this can be fixed by either * adding better documentation for the existing terminology, for example to wiki pages, Debian policy or the upcoming Multiarch Specification shipped by dpkg [1] or by * changing the terminology such that all the involved tools use the same terminology I don't think just Lintian starting to use new terminology that is not used by dpkg, apt or the wiki pages is helpful at all. Quite the opposite. I think this just makes the status quo worse. Thanks! cheers, josch [1] https://git.hadrons.org/cgit/debian/dpkg/dpkg.git/tree/doc/multiarch.txt?h=pu/doc-multiarch-spec signature.asc Description: signature
