Bug#493920: lintian: debconf-error-requires-versioned-depends test apparently obsolete

2008-08-05 Thread Scott Kitterman
Package: lintian Version: 1.24.2 Severity: normal -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to the extended description in debconf-error-requires-versioned-depends, it is only relevant for oldstable (Sarge) backports. Since Sarge is no longer supported, it would seem this test can

Bug#493921: lintian: file-in-unusual-dir redundant in /opt due to dir-or-file-in-opt

2008-08-05 Thread Scott Kitterman
Package: lintian Version: 1.24.2 Severity: normal -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Since any file in /opt will already trigger the Error dir-or-file-in-opt, also firing off the Warning file-in-unusual-dir seems redundant and distracting. - -- System Information: Debian Release: lenn

Re: usage of lintian as an automated and forced qa check tool

2008-08-05 Thread Russ Allbery
Joerg Jaspert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > as just discussed with djpig here at DebConf, we (as in ftpmasters/team) > want to use lintian as an automated forced qa tool, no longer a > voluntary one. At least for a certain set of tags. > > What we basically want is > > - ftpmaster selects a set o

usage of lintian as an automated and forced qa check tool

2008-08-05 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Hi as just discussed with djpig here at DebConf, we (as in ftpmasters/team) want to use lintian as an automated forced qa tool, no longer a voluntary one. At least for a certain set of tags. What we basically want is - ftpmaster selects a set of tags on which we autoreject on, we write them

Bug#493903: lintian: please provide a way of limiting the checks run by lintian based on tags

2008-08-05 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Package: lintian Version: 1.24.1 Severity: wishlist Hi please provide a way to limit the checks that get run by providing an input file listing tags, one per line. Use: ftpmaster side to limit runtime by lintian, enabling use of lintian as an automated quality control tool run on every source up

Re: [SCM] Debian package checker branch, master, updated.1.24.2-63-gde12b8f

2008-08-05 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 19:31 +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 20:10 +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 09:59:28PM +, Adam D. Barratt wrote: The following commit has been merged in the master branch: commit de12b8f7e4477f56347a9fa6b3141b7dfa62af4a Autho