Package: lintian Version: 2.5.50.1 Severity: wishlist Hi,
today I was talking with a colleague about the result of some action which had a severe impact on some lintian tag. Since it was irrelevant which packages were affected and it was only relevant how the number shrunk over time, I only sent him the link the graph: https://lintian.debian.org/resources/beeef37b8e3ee13c9d12dc0374b1f60f3f16c2acec234986cdabc5d2ad429ef8.svg He was totally confused by the graph and asked "What does «Tags» mean? Is that good or bad?". Only when I saw the graphic on his screen without the surrounding context, I realized that the graph actually doesn't contain the tag name at all. (Or said the other way round: Try to guess for which Lintian tag the above mentioned graph is. I assume that a few Debianers will recognize it, but also that it won't be too many people. See the hint at the very end of this mail. :-) So I propose to add at least the tag name to the SVG somewhere, e.g. below the X axis, as a title or instead of "Tags". If we can afford using more vertical space, I'd suggest to changing the legend as follows: Tags ⇒ Tag <actual tag name> emitted Packages ⇒ Packages which emitted <actual tag name> Overridden ⇒ Tag <actual tag name> overridden (Maybe we need to use a smaller font, too.) Another thing which is very similar is the file name of that images. Are there reasons why the above mentioned graph file is named "beeef37b8e3ee13c9d12dc0374b1f60f3f16c2acec234986cdabc5d2ad429ef8.svg" and not "<actual tag name>.svg"? That would probably also provide permanent URLs for passing links to just the graph around. -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (600, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (110, 'experimental'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'buildd-experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.28-2 ii bzip2 1.0.6-8.1 ii diffstat 1.61-1+b1 ii file 1:5.29-3 ii gettext 0.19.8.1-2 ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.4 ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.30 ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.59-1 ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1 ii libclone-perl 0.38-2+b1 ii libdigest-sha-perl 5.96-1+b1 ii libdpkg-perl 1.18.23 ii libemail-valid-perl 1.202-1 ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.07-1 ii libipc-run-perl 0.94-1 ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.416-1+b1 ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-12 ii libperl5.24 [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.24.1-1 ii libtext-levenshtein-perl 0.13-1 ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-2 ii liburi-perl 1.71-1 ii libyaml-libyaml-perl 0.63-2 ii man-db 2.7.6.1-2 ii patchutils 0.3.4-2 ii perl 5.24.1-1 ii t1utils 1.39-2 ii xz-utils 5.2.2-1.2+b1 Versions of packages lintian recommends: ii dpkg 1.18.23 ii libautodie-perl 2.29-2 ii libperlio-gzip-perl 0.19-1+b2 ii perl 5.24.1-1 ii perl-modules-5.24 [libautodie-perl] 5.24.1-1 Versions of packages lintian suggests: ii binutils-multiarch 2.28-2 ii dpkg-dev 1.18.23 ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.72-3 ii libtext-template-perl 1.46-1 -- no debconf information -- Hint mentioned inside the bug report above It's the graph from https://lintian.debian.org/tags/hardening-no-pie.html :-)
