Re: Sharing Lintian hints, tips and patches (on a wiki)

2010-04-26 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Sat, 2010-04-24 at 13:05 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Frank Lin PIAT writes: > > > Some Lintian warnings (tags) may not be trivial to fix, or there may be > > some issues, side effects... The "lintian-info --tags" usually provide > > enough hints, but s

Sharing Lintian hints, tips and patches (on a wiki)

2010-04-24 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hello, Some Lintian warnings (tags) may not be trivial to fix, or there may be some issues, side effects... The "lintian-info --tags" usually provide enough hints, but some users might want to share more specific hints. I have setup some pages on the wiki to help sharing them. Basically, each li

Bug#574855: source: native-package-with-dash-version can bu due to format "3.0 (native)"

2010-03-21 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Package: lintian Version: 2.3.4 Severity: normal Hello, I got hit by native-package-with-dash-version, but the reason was a bit different... > W: libhugetlbfs source: native-package-with-dash-version > N: > N:Native packaging should only be used if a piece of software was written > N:sp

Bug#573088: Allow and recommend sha256sums control file

2010-03-19 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hello Raphael, On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 09:04 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Mon, 08 Mar 2010, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > > Please find a patch attached that allow (and recommends) to provide > > sha256sums. (During a "transition period", we encourage people to > &g

Bug#573088: Allow and recommend shasums control file

2010-03-10 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
retitle 573088 Allow and recommend shasums control file thanks On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 21:10 +0100, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > > Please find a patch attached that allow (and recommends) to provide > sha256sums. (During a "transition period", we encourage people to > provid

Bug#573088: Allow and recommend sha256sums control file

2010-03-08 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
sg00038.html [2] http://wiki.debian.org/Sha256sumsInPackages >From b6566aebe1bc44eaf6339e779ebed09da8a2b835 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Frank Lin PIAT Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 19:02:22 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Allow and recommend sha256sums --- checks/control-files|1 +

Bug#573081: lintian: [testset/etcfiles] weird md5 checksum tests

2010-03-08 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Package: lintian Version: 2.3.3 Severity: normal Hello, The "etcfiles" test seems broken: 1. The file ./testset/etcfiles/debian/rules contains some test entries for md5which gets overritten immediately: >echo '68b329da9893e34099c7d8ad5cb9c940 > ./etc/cron.daily/cronfile-normal' \ >