+++ Niels Thykier [2013-05-18 18:11 +0200]: > Dear maintainer(s), > > As far as I can tell, the xdeb check is more outdated than that > suggested by the reporter.
[snip helpful comments on xdeb's lintian-using code] > The %archdetecttable is appears to be (mostly) a copy of a data file > Lintian carries atm[2]. From what I gather Lintian stole it from > c/emdebian (which might have stolen it from xdeb). I believe emdebian created those tests and xdeb and lintian have both adopted them. > So it may (or may > not) be easier for you to simply outsource the maintenance of that list > to Lintian. It clearly makes sense to put all the tests in lintian and for other code to just use them that way. So far as I know everyone involved agrees with that basic principle. I must admit to being very vague about the details of how all this fits together but the only issue with this I can see is tests which are appropriate for cross-building but not for normal builds. I presume there is a way to control such 'optional' tests? xdeb is pretty-much in maintenance-mode now as most of what it did has been supsumed direclty into apt, dpkg and multiarch metadata. However it's 'simple cross-wrapper' functionality is probably still useful and might get a revamp for multiarch at some point. Hopefully someone can find some time to understand and apply what you've described above. I certianly shan't mind at all if someone just fixes it :-) Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboard, ARM http://wookware.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
