[SCM] Debian package checker branch, master, updated. 2.5.2-19-g79fac72

2011-08-15 Thread Niels Thykier
The following commit has been merged in the master branch: commit 79fac72e11e4d6fc8bab48de46f10a69e3565951 Author: Niels Thykier ni...@thykier.net Date: Mon Aug 15 11:37:27 2011 +0200 Extended README.developers with how do common things Covered how to run lintian from a

[SCM] Debian package checker branch, master, updated. 2.5.2-20-g78b23a7

2011-08-15 Thread Niels Thykier
The following commit has been merged in the master branch: commit 78b23a781dbf2b9190ae4aed147751fe978c4c20 Author: Niels Thykier ni...@thykier.net Date: Mon Aug 15 11:48:00 2011 +0200 Fixed a typo and re-ordered some text in README.developers diff --git a/doc/README.developers

Bits from the Lintian maintainers

2011-08-15 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Topics: - Vendor profiles - Configuration file changes - Changes to Lintian options - Other improvements - Known bugs and issues - Help us help you Vendor Profiles === Starting with version 2.5.2, Lintian can now be asked

[SCM] Debian package checker branch, squeeze, created. 2.4.3-1-g3519253

2011-08-15 Thread Niels Thykier
The branch, squeeze has been created at 35192539487321d7146a15edaf4fa3cc7377e0d5 (commit) - Shortlog commit 35192539487321d7146a15edaf4fa3cc7377e0d5 Author: Niels Thykier ni...@thykier.net Date: Wed Aug 10 20:51:29 2011 +0200

Processing of lintian_2.4.3+squeeze1_i386.changes

2011-08-15 Thread Debian FTP Masters
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Bug#637881: false positive: translated-default-field

2011-08-15 Thread Ron
Package: lintian Version: 2.5.2 Severity: normal This test trips if the field is not [commented in brackets], but po-debconf now supports # Real comments, and my understanding is that this is what the translators now prefer us to use. I'm not sure if all the packages it currently fires on are

Bug#582792: marked as done (lintian: interpreter handling for systemtap)

2011-08-15 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Processed: Re: Bug#637793: lintian: [PATCH] Improve description of versioned-dependency-satisfied-by-perl

2011-08-15 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: clone 637793 -1 Bug#637793: lintian: [PATCH] Improve description of versioned-dependency-satisfied-by-perl Bug 637793 cloned as bug 637934. retitle -1 lintian: ensure perl-provides does not incl. perl from exp Bug #637934 [lintian] lintian:

Bug#142750: marked as done ([external] check if referenced .la files are in this package or dependencies)

2011-08-15 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#80448: marked as done ([new check] headers that require ANSI fixing)

2011-08-15 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Processed: Re: [new check] Check if package contains .la file

2011-08-15 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: tags 586313 wontfix Bug #586313 [lintian] [new check] Check if package contains .la file Added tag(s) wontfix. thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. -- 586313:

Bug#586313: [new check] Check if package contains .la file

2011-08-15 Thread Niels Thykier
tags 586313 wontfix thanks Hi I am tagging this as wontfix for now. If anyone can provide a reliable way to check if a .la file is redundant, they are free to follow up and we will untag the bug (assuming the solution can be used in lintian). ~Niels -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#637793: lintian: [PATCH] Improve description of versioned-dependency-satisfied-by-perl

2011-08-15 Thread Niels Thykier
clone 637793 -1 retitle -1 lintian: ensure perl-provides does not incl. perl from exp tag 637793 pending thanks On 2011-08-14 16:46, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: Package: lintian Version: 2.5.2 Severity: minor Tags: patch On Mon, Aug 08, 2011 at 10:40:31AM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: On

Bug#536434: marked as done ([checks/changelog-file] don't check debian-changelog-file-is-a-symlink for Ubuntu packages)

2011-08-15 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#553621: marked as done ([checks/scripts] add javascript to usual interpreters)

2011-08-15 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#553621: closed by Niels Thykier ni...@thykier.net (Re: Bug#553621: lintian: add javascript to the usual interpreters)

2011-08-15 Thread Jérémy Lal
Jeremy Lal kapo...@melix.org wrote: I know javascript is, for now, not a usual interpreter, but with spidermonkey and libv8's node.js server, it's certainly growing to be more common. I guess /usr/bin/javascript is a reasonnable name for the interpreter, though for now no package provides

Processed: tagging 637934

2011-08-15 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: tags 637934 - patch Bug #637934 [lintian] lintian: ensure perl-provides does not incl. perl from exp Removed tag(s) patch. thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. -- 637934:

Re: [SCM] Debian package checker branch, master, updated. 2.5.2-11-g39af0d7

2011-08-15 Thread Russ Allbery
Niels Thykier ni...@thykier.net writes: I usually buy the All caps as global variables, but I still like to differ between exported/public variables and internal global variables. [...] My second reason is that I like to know that if I want to change (the format of) a variable, I know I