Re: Lintian checks and debian/copyright boilerplate
On 11933 March 1977, Russ Allbery wrote: The next upload of Lintian will remove the check for Author(s), since it's very prone to false positives and isn't checking what it's supposed to be checking. Thank you very much to Manoj for his work on verifying this tag. Is that the 2.2.18 we now have, or will it be 2.2.19? The replacement is the existing helper-templates-in-copyright tag, which I think more accurately captures what is being checked here. This tag will be output if any of the following strings are present in debian/copyright: fill in (?:http/)?ftp site Must follow here Put the license of the package here put author[\'\(]s\)? name and email here Copyright \(C\) Name OfAuthor I believe it's reasonable to reject packages that contain debian/copyright files with such strings, as I think they fairly clearly indicate that the maintainer at least didn't clean up the copyright file, and probably didn't finish filling it out. ACK on that, will use that tag then, i think. -- bye, Joerg Contrary to common belief, Arch:i386 is *not* the same as Arch: any. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-lint-maint-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#556456: please ignore upper case words in spelling check
Package: lintian Version: 2.2.18 Severity: minor -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi now that the severity of spelling errors has been raised, it bugs me a bit more that I get speeling error that als should be also. I think spell checking should ignore uppercase words as those are usually acronyms and it simply can not know them all. - -- Michal Čihař | http://cihar.com | http://blog.cihar.com - -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.27.37-0.1-default (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=cs_CZ.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=cs_CZ.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.20-4The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii diffstat 1.47-1produces graph of changes introduc ii dpkg-dev 1.15.4.1 Debian package development tools ii file 5.03-3Determines file type using magic ii gettext0.17-8GNU Internationalization utilities ii intltool-debian0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf ii libapt-pkg-perl0.1.24Perl interface to libapt-pkg ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1Perl module that automatically gen ii libipc-run-perl0.84-1Perl module for running processes ii libparse-debianchangel 1.1.1-2 parse Debian changelogs and output ii libtimedate-perl 1.1900-1 Time and date functions for Perl ii liburi-perl1.37+dfsg-1 Manipulates and accesses URI strin ii man-db 2.5.6-4 on-line manual pager ii perl [libdigest-sha-pe 5.10.1-7 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction lintian recommends no packages. Versions of packages lintian suggests: ii binutils-multiarch2.20-4 Binary utilities that support mult ii libtext-template-perl 1.45-1 Text::Template perl module ii man-db2.5.6-4on-line manual pager - -- no debconf information -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAksBIzcACgkQ3DVS6DbnVgSPRgCgtzS6YBGX9xC5+o2xh0+5IRTz ZxgAoM1RjwIWlzeoQqxKEnfV2wnzc9cv =ax/+ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-lint-maint-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Lintian checks and debian/copyright boilerplate
Joerg Jaspert jo...@debian.org writes: On 11933 March 1977, Russ Allbery wrote: The next upload of Lintian will remove the check for Author(s), since it's very prone to false positives and isn't checking what it's supposed to be checking. Thank you very much to Manoj for his work on verifying this tag. Is that the 2.2.18 we now have, or will it be 2.2.19? This is the 2.2.18 that you have now. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-lint-maint-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
