Re: two more tags

2008-09-05 Thread Russ Allbery
Raphael Geissert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've been thinking for a while that the values in the checks/*.desc > files should be overridable (or whatever the right word is, as the spell > checker complains), i.e. in this case if the Windows devel file is not > under usr/share/docs emit a W tag

yet another check

2008-09-05 Thread Raphael Geissert
Hi, Tag: ORed-enhances Type: warning Severity: minor Certainty: certain Info: ORed relations in the Enhances field are incorrect as the package does not enhance one package or the other, it enhances both. The enhanced packages should be instead separated by commas. Credits: edos-debcheck Cheer

Re: two more tags

2008-09-05 Thread Raphael Geissert
Russ Allbery wrote: > Raphael Geissert writes: > >> Why false positives? I mean, I see no reason to ship files that only >> make sense when developing under a Windows system even under >> usr/share/doc; some files are even generated by Visual Studio which have >> a big fat "DO NOT EDIT" warning w

Re: two more tags

2008-09-05 Thread Russ Allbery
Raphael Geissert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Why false positives? I mean, I see no reason to ship files that only > make sense when developing under a Windows system even under > usr/share/doc; some files are even generated by Visual Studio which have > a big fat "DO NOT EDIT" warning which I'm

Re: two more tags

2008-09-05 Thread Raphael Geissert
Frank Lichtenheld wrote: > On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 02:26:32PM -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote: >> Tag: windows-devel-file-in-package >> Type: warning >> Severity: normal >> Certainty: certain >> Info: This package appears to contain development files only meaningful >> to >> Windows environments.

Re: two more tags

2008-09-05 Thread Raphael Geissert
Frank Lichtenheld wrote: > On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 05:13:43PM -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote: >> Attached is an updated mbox (btw, I didn't like how the link to walters' >> guide looked like when displayed via Refs:). > > Hmm, someone should probably contact him and ask him for permission > to pub

Bug#497887: lintian: check for unnecessary versioned dependencies on Perl core modules

2008-09-05 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 11:15 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Niko Tyni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The implementation could use corelist(1) and/or Module::Corelist to > > check if the version in the dependency is already in the core. I think > > just transforming libfoo-bar-perl to Foo::Bar woul

Bug#497864: lintian: please warn if a manpage contains a "POD ERRORS" section

2008-09-05 Thread Russ Allbery
Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 06:30:20AM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: >> On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 17:02 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >>> Enrico Zini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I noticed that Pod::Man likes to invent a new "POD ERRORS" manpage sectio

Bug#497864: lintian: please warn if a manpage contains a "POD ERRORS" section

2008-09-05 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 06:30:20AM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 17:02 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > Enrico Zini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > I noticed that Pod::Man likes to invent a new "POD ERRORS" manpage > > > section instead of using stderr. > > > > This ne

Bug#497864: lintian: please warn if a manpage contains a "POD ERRORS" section

2008-09-05 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 20:06 +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: > On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 06:30:20AM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 17:02 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > > Enrico Zini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > I noticed that Pod::Man likes to invent a new "POD E

Bug#497887: lintian: check for unnecessary versioned dependencies on Perl core modules

2008-09-05 Thread Russ Allbery
Niko Tyni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The implementation could use corelist(1) and/or Module::Corelist to > check if the version in the dependency is already in the core. I think > just transforming libfoo-bar-perl to Foo::Bar would catch most issues, > and the rest (like podlators-perl -> Pod::

Re: two more tags

2008-09-05 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 02:26:32PM -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote: > Tag: windows-devel-file-in-package > Type: warning > Severity: normal > Certainty: certain > Info: This package appears to contain development files only meaningful to > Windows environments. Such files are generally useless in D

Re: two more tags

2008-09-05 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 05:13:43PM -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote: > Attached is an updated mbox (btw, I didn't like how the link to walters' > guide looked like when displayed via Refs:). Hmm, someone should probably contact him and ask him for permission to publish that document on wiki.debian.or

Bug#497887: lintian: check for unnecessary versioned dependencies on Perl core modules

2008-09-05 Thread Niko Tyni
Package: lintian Version: 1.24.4 Severity: wishlist It would be useful if lintian could warn about unnecessary versioned dependencies on packages provided by the perl core packages. It's quite easy to make mistakes like #497170, and often perfectly valid dependencies turn stale with updates to the