Baruch Even <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > yaclc is a specialized tool to do it, maybe you can consider it an > optional check somehow (configurable?) to do this. I do agree that by > default lintian should not need the network to work its magic.
There are enough pending tasks for lintian and it's far enough outside lintian's philosophy that I'm not currently interested in handling any sort of external checks that require network information outside the package being checked and lintian itself. My feeling is that lintian's already bitten off enough of a problem, and there are other frameworks that are already set up to do archive-wide checks. This particular task (checking bug numbers) is a bit more ambiguous than others since it really is a pre-upload check, but I think it makes sense to support the existing yaclc tool and integrate it into people's upload procedures rather than adding the functionality directly to lintian. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
