Niels Thykier <ni...@thykier.net> writes: > I have had a look at this nearly 2 year old bug and I think it would be > great if we could find a solution for cross-package checks. To make it > even better I am interested in working on this. That being said I have > not work on Lintian for very long so ...
> Is it correctly asserted that we always check source packages first > because this is the only way we currently have to guarantee that the > information from the source package unpacked when checking a binary > (assuming the source is present at all)? Or is there also another reason > for this ordering (e.g. some undocumented assumption on this)? It looks like we currently check source packages first in the normal mode of running lintian on a *.changes file as an artifact of the fact that dpkg-genchanges always lists the source package first. The code (in Lintian::Schedule) doesn't do anything particularly intelligent. It is definitely the case that we need to check the source package before the binary packages, or at least unpack the source package before checking the binary packages, if we want to use metadata about the source package in the binary package checks. I think all the cross-package checks we've run into so far have wanted things in that order: binary checks wanting things from the source package, but not the source checks wanting things from binary packages. If we start explicitly taking advantage of this by doing more cross-package testing, we should modify Lintian::Schedule to ensure that all source packages are checked before all binary packages even if people are doing things like lintian *.deb *.dsc. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
