On 2014-11-12 11:56, Rolf Leggewie wrote:
> I think this needs further discussion, then.
>
Hi Rolf,
Thanks for your interest in this matter.
Please note that my remarks here are from the perspective of Lintian
upstream and /not/ Ubuntu.
> Quite obviously, the current setup goes against the expectations of many
> users.
Unfortunately, it is not clear to me that this is as obvious and
clear-cut as you suggest it to be. The current way Lintian finds the
default profile is:
1) On $DISTRO, Lintian defaults to the $DISTRO profile.
- if said profile is present, stop here!
2) Try from 1) again with DISTRO=$(parentof $DISTRO) if there is a
parent distribution of $DISTRO
3) Abort.
Since both Debian and Ubuntu has a profile, we get (simplified):
* On Ubuntu, Lintian defaults to the Ubuntu profile.
* On Debian, Lintian defaults to the Debian profile.
If I was an Ubuntu developer and only made packages for Ubuntu, I would
want my lintian to use the Ubuntu rule set. Like:
* Warn if I (or a tool) had chosen "unstable" as target for my upload.
* Do /not/ warn about various Debian-only NMU policies.
* Etc.
> I routinely run lintian from within pbuilder and that switch
> isn't set (and I wonder if it should).
It is certainly a valid solution to have pbuilder pass --profile,
although I am not sure pbuilder can compute the desired profile value
automatically for each chroot. A different alternative is to run
lintian /inside/ the chroot.
* Inside a Debian chroot lintian will accurately determine that it
should default to Debian policies.
* Alternatively, you can set LINTIAN_PROFILE in the ENV or in your
~/.lintianrc (or in your XDG_CONFIG_HOME/lintian/.lintianrc) to
the desired profile.
> Looks a lot like an Ubuntuism to me.
If anything, it is an "upstreamism".
* You are very welcome to propose an alternative solution to the
current profile setup. I would certainly be interested in hearing
it.
- Though in that case, we should probably move the discussion
upstream to the Debian BTS.
The current implementation comes from the following sources - though
note that we have diverged from specs proposed back then in a few ways:
* https://lists.debian.org/debian-lint-maint/2011/04/msg00277.html
* https://wiki.debian.org/Lintian/Spec/VendorCustomization
Somewhere down the line we also hooked a few more items on the profiles.
Notably vendor specific data files and third-party checks.
> I don't understand why lintian on Ubuntu complains and should
> continue to complain about the unstable release pocket. Please explain
> if there are valid reasons this must be so.
>
I hope the above already explained this. If not, by all means please
ask clarifying questions.
Thanks,
~Niels
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