Hi Paul, On Sat, Sep 5, 2020 at 1:56 AM Paul Wise <p...@debian.org> wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 4, 2020 at 6:53 PM Sudip Mukherjee wrote: > > > If the test done in the autopkgtest does not provide significant test > > coverage then it should be marked with "Restrictions: superficial". > ... > > I am still trying to figure out a generalized method to find them but > > an initial script has found 83 packages. Attached is the dd-list. > > This sort of thing seems like something that will be an ongoing > problem so a more efficient way to solve it would be a lintian > warning, which should hopefully help prevent new occurrences. OTOH it > would be pretty hard to automatically check for these without a robust > shell parser. Perhaps morbig from Project CoLiS could be used for the > shell parsing and then a script could process the morbig output. > ShellCheck might be another option but it doesn't yet output parse > trees.
We were hoping that this check can be added in lintian, but looking at #932862 it seems you have already requested that. :) I will have a look at morbig and see if I can use that in my script. Thanks for the idea. -- Regards Sudip
