-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 2011-05-12 23:00, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 08:51:36AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Hurm. I have to admit that this doesn't make me particularly happy, since >> checking source packages seems like a fundamental action of Lintian. The >> use of dpkg-dev in Lintian seems to meet the Policy definition of at >> *least* Recommends fairly clearly, and Suggests feels much too weak when >> we lose that basic of functionality. >> >> On the other hand, I have no alternative solution to your particular >> problem; the Recommends list of dpkg-dev is indeed rather heavy, since it >> includes build-essential. >
Hi > Hmm. I kicked this around with some of my team. Here are a few > alternatives, all a bit grotty in one way or another: > > * Split lintian into two binary packages, one of which only supports > checking binary packages, and the other of which (still called > 'lintian') supports everything and depends on the first. > > * Reimplement the small number of checks we consider for this use case > in aptdaemon or somewhere else. > > * Split out dpkg-source from dpkg-dev. > An alternative to this is to use libdpkg-perl to do the unpacking; that would save some depends of dpkg-dev, assuming the libdpkg-perl API is stable here. > * Observe that we already document how to unpack source packages > without dpkg-dev for users of non-Debian systems (in > /usr/share/doc/debian/source-unpack.txt - it currently only documents > format 1.0, but I attached a patch to #579263 some time ago that > updates this to 3.0), and that therefore this is an interface that > it's not necessarily too dreadful to reimplement as long as it's > strictly as a fallback for the case where dpkg-source is not present. > > Perhaps oddly, I think the last of those actually strikes me as the > least bad solution, although only because the method is already > documented (modulo that bug report). > ~Niels -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJNzFTcAAoJEAVLu599gGRC03AP/2MF6WRnFd3ly81Ov09A8mPS upDy++pwXnl1kx4Nt7gi22VQnr42M3QrOiBoAF5aMbfrxfbGirTUUZyidx93WivF iTUcw7xvqxBNxWeSklde89RnpU70VnBq8kxe5luGftoSLbVCljhNlalL6Vp78RxI c6MKbHPmBUPDMjzcCzOxutJfMUfw8uGj+gSO3qVNK0a0yn0ixeTluV5Qt2TusMNM DGDRUq3I+vJ6e2AtVuN1hSPlNMvycIR9clfO1znXJ7vSPMbBJ+A1todXfP6wiDPn YwhlnkU5Torj78mNzNxwcYU6ZIJTIl0gehwH+h1Tbz6jYDpbkycr44MNAf4hhwUy oow2N1GucG7DpYEs1ZpUd+2TcXtJ7DpUT9Zua04XQnDK2voStd6YJNye2M6btEbp SkNYEurFZirvTFhFd3LhBlNrqQFBiKIwxcBoJlKpmyce3QBI81DsX+Bq+egnL0xN YDi8wDoBrg8Aj6HN7iuEj31a/gmbFnW/cBt9IpK8oWyRIkhgND1TsvR1+yc82EKa /DboxEJ/2yutXvvkaHZhfFEjKk3q5+NMSvm7bOvE3AX7tcT6eKhFUPOQoQmJ+Bis N8xPIZsD5smNIMg3FO8eDs1AfiSdaSt92ADdcP01K0b9USZjU6DSIsPtfCQIu+EX 8Tf3TzbhYJMXPhUsCNHJ =SYF0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
