Re: Possible mass filing of bugs, take #2.1

2002-08-25 Thread Steve Kowalik
At 7:01 pm, Wednesday, August 21 2002, Anthony Towns mumbled: > linda doesn't run cleanly over the entire archive -- it misbehaves on > some packages (leaving /tmp/linda-* directories about), and just seems > to hang on others. I haven't tracked down what's causing this. I don't > believe it inclu

Re: Possible mass filing of bugs, take #2.1

2002-08-24 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 02:14:16AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > We've _finally_ got lintian running over the archive again, and it looks like > we'll have some chance of keeping it working. The URL is > > http://people.debian.org/~joy/ > > until lintian.debian.org gets updated to point at

Re: Possible mass filing of bugs, take #2.1

2002-08-20 Thread Joey Hess
Anthony Towns wrote: > Things like libdb1 compliance, usage of nice(2), statistics for debhelper > versus debstd usage, are all better collected by lintian.debian.org than > by separate scripts. I quite agree, and I would love to stop churning auric each morning grepping the whole archive for the

Bug#157449: lintian: check for missing reference to he perl license terms (Was: Re: Possible mass filing of bugs, take #2.1)

2002-08-20 Thread Gergely Nagy
Package: lintian Version: 1.20.17 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch > Rather than mass filing bugs, can you write a lintian check for it > instead? As promised, here is the check: diff -u -urNad old/copyright-file new/copyright-file --- old/copyright-file 2002-08-20 23:04:54.0 +0200 +++ ne

Re: Possible mass filing of bugs, take #2.1

2002-08-20 Thread Gergely Nagy
> >> Rather than mass filing bugs, can you write a lintian check for it > >> instead? > > > > He filed a bug about Upstream Author(s), I fixed it, and then shaleh and > > others reverted it >:) > > > > I think we have better things to be nitpicky about. Besides, lintian tries to > only enforce

Re: Possible mass filing of bugs, take #2.1

2002-08-20 Thread Gergely Nagy
> On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 05:56:58PM +0200, Gergely Nagy wrote: > > Some time ago, I assembled a list of packages which were arch: all, > > yet used binary-arch to build the package, and another list of > > packages whose debian/copyright did not have a pointer to the full > > license. > > Rather

Re: Possible mass filing of bugs, take #2.1

2002-08-20 Thread Florian Weimer
Anthony Towns writes: > Things like libdb1 compliance, usage of nice(2), statistics for debhelper > versus debstd usage, are all better collected by lintian.debian.org than > by separate scripts. Input for a database of historical MD5 hashes of individual files would be nice, too. -- Florian

Re: Possible mass filing of bugs, take #2.1

2002-08-20 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 09:33:39PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > If all goes well I have the month of September for lintian hacking. > So how does lintian compare to linda these days? Will both be > actively maintained and do the exact same thing? linda

Re: Possible mass filing of bugs, take #2.1

2002-08-20 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > If all goes well I have the month of September for lintian hacking. So how does lintian compare to linda these days? Will both be actively maintained and do the exact same thing? Wichert. -- __

Re: Possible mass filing of bugs, take #2.1

2002-08-20 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 10:23:29AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > On 20-Aug-2002 Josip Rodin wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 02:14:16AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > >> Rather than mass filing bugs, can you write a lintian check for it > >> instead? > > He filed a bug about Upstream Author(

Re: Possible mass filing of bugs, take #2.1

2002-08-20 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 20-Aug-2002 Josip Rodin wrote: > On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 10:23:29AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: >> >> Rather than mass filing bugs, can you write a lintian check for it >> >> instead? >> > >> > He filed a bug about Upstream Author(s), I fixed it, and then shaleh and >> > others reverted

Re: Possible mass filing of bugs, take #2.1

2002-08-20 Thread Josip Rodin
On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 10:23:29AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > >> Rather than mass filing bugs, can you write a lintian check for it > >> instead? > > > > He filed a bug about Upstream Author(s), I fixed it, and then shaleh and > > others reverted it >:) > > I think we have better things

Re: Possible mass filing of bugs, take #2.1

2002-08-20 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 20-Aug-2002 Josip Rodin wrote: > On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 02:14:16AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: >> Rather than mass filing bugs, can you write a lintian check for it >> instead? > > He filed a bug about Upstream Author(s), I fixed it, and then shaleh and > others reverted it >:) > I think we

Re: Possible mass filing of bugs, take #2.1

2002-08-20 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 02:14:16AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > Rather than mass filing bugs, can you write a lintian check for it > instead? He filed a bug about Upstream Author(s), I fixed it, and then shaleh and others reverted it >:) > We've _finally_ got lintian running over the archive aga

Re: Possible mass filing of bugs, take #2.1

2002-08-20 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 05:56:58PM +0200, Gergely Nagy wrote: > Some time ago, I assembled a list of packages which were arch: all, > yet used binary-arch to build the package, and another list of > packages whose debian/copyright did not have a pointer to the full > license. Rather than mass fili

Possible mass filing of bugs, take #2.1

2002-08-20 Thread Gergely Nagy
Hi! Some time ago, I assembled a list of packages which were arch: all, yet used binary-arch to build the package, and another list of packages whose debian/copyright did not have a pointer to the full license. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to file the bugs at that time, so I redid the test now. S