On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 14:59 -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: > > > > How about the attached combination check - does my check and also does > > > > yours, with the changes that it checks a couple of other words, and > > > > checks for a url in the description too. > > > > > > > $description =~ m/(homepage|webpage|website)/is > > > Good, please also add "|URL|upstream" > > > > Added, along with some other phrases I found. > > What about just 'site' and/or official? (bandwidthd)
That's caught by the last-paragraph test. Added the phrase "official site" and a couple others to your test. I'm reluctant to add just "site" or "official" because I believe they could be fairly common. > > If it were an || then any package with a URL in the description would > > trigger the test, which is probably a bad idea, because not all URLs > > will be homepages. > > My intent was that such packages would use an override; I don't know > if the numbers are right for this to be feasible. Note that I went manually thru most of the packages with urls in their descriptions, and I didn't find many packages where || helped, mainly it produced what would be false positives if there was no url in the last paragraph. aptitude -F '%p' search '~d[a-z]+:\/\/[a-zA-Z0-9]' > ~/urls-packages for f in `cat urls-packages`; do apt-cache show $f >> urls ; done less urls Search for: [a-z]+:\/\/[a-zA-Z0-9] (hold down the down key) (that can't have been good for my eyes) A few problematic packages (that are probably easily fixable): autoproject beep-media-player-scrobbler bincimap-run bk2site bwbar c2hs c2hs-doc cbedic cheesetracker cl-ubf clamav-data coriander daemontools-installer dbtcp dhelp doc-linux-es filler gdesklets-data gstreamer0.8-ffmpeg gtk2-engines-wonderland gtkatlantic Once class of packages that are problematic are those that have the following at the end of the description (flexloader, galculator). I'm not sure if these should be dealt with by the homepage test. IMO, authorship info belongs in debian/copyright: Author: Foo Bar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Homepage: http://foo.bar.com Another one is packages with multiple homepages (gstreamer0.8-ffmpeg) False negatives picked up by using || centericq* daemontools-installer dealer efibootmgr freefem3d ghc* gnuvd* False positives when using || cl-s-xml cupsys-driver-gutenprint doc-linux-nonfree-html exim4 frotz gaim giftcurs gnat gnome-menus gnuift* greylistd gtk-imonc Ultimately, it is up to the lintian maintainers what they want to use in that test. I reviewed packages starting with g and below if you want to review the rest. I also think checks/description needs some tests for proper list formatting (blank lines before and after, proper indenting). > > Of course, all this would be simpler if there was a Homepage field. > Yes, kind of. Then we would have to encourage people to use it, > instead of the pseudo-field. So I guess this test can be used for > that, in the future. :) The weird thing is, a few packages appear to have a url field: dict-wn fastlink fastlink-doc libgtkdatabox-0.2.4.7-0 libgtkdatabox-dev. All of these appear to be maintained by Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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