Re: About lintian

2021-05-09 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 16128 March 1977, Felix Lechner wrote: With the kind help of the good folks at DSA [1] Lintian's experimental web application—still labeled "beta"—is now the official web presence. [2] Please bear with us as we optimize the deployment and implement additional features for you. Thanks to you

Re: About lintian

2021-05-09 Thread Felix Lechner
Hi Norbert, On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 5:02 AM Norbert Preining wrote: > > As part of this rework and the ongoing development, you said you have plans > to set up a test version of the Lintian web application on non-Debian > infrastructure. How is that going, Felix? With the kind help of the good f

Re: About lintian

2021-04-04 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi Felix thanks for the message and the web site. I have immediately tried it out with a few packages of mine, as well as all of my packages. Indeed, that took quite some time ;-) Looks nice, but I am not sure how useful it will be for me, as I said, I usually run lintian before uploading, so the

Re: About lintian

2021-04-04 Thread Pierre-Elliott Bécue
Le vendredi 02 avril 2021 à 19:31:30-0700, Felix Lechner a écrit : > Dear Norbert, > > On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 5:02 AM Norbert Preining > wrote: > > > > you said you have plans to set up a test version of the Lintian web > > application on non-Debian infrastructure. How is that going, Felix? >

Re: About lintian

2021-04-02 Thread Felix Lechner
Dear Norbert, On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 5:02 AM Norbert Preining wrote: > > you said you have plans to set up a test version of the Lintian web > application on non-Debian infrastructure. How is that going, Felix? A beta version of Lintian's new service is now live at lintian.debian.*net*. [1] The

Re: cme now handles lintian-overrides (was: Re: About lintian)

2021-03-23 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Dominique, On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 05:19:10PM +0100, Dominique Dumont wrote: > > Once libconfig-model-dpkg-perl/experimental is installed on your system, > 'cme > check dpkg' checks the contents of all lintian-overrides files and warn about > unknown tags. > > The command 'cme fix dpkg' r

cme now handles lintian-overrides (was: Re: About lintian)

2021-03-22 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Wednesday, 27 January 2021 14:26:41 CET Andreas Tille wrote: > > I can add support to lintian-overrides in cme. I can also add a more or > > less automatic update of renamed tags. > > > > Is this something Debian people would like to see ? > > YES. (Since cme rocks - thanks again for working o

Re: About lintian

2021-01-27 Thread gregor herrmann
On Wed, 27 Jan 2021 14:20:06 +0100, Dominique Dumont wrote: > On Thursday, 21 January 2021 23:18:07 CET Felix Lechner wrote: > > While we often change tag names (or combine tags etc.), the majority > > of the renames people talk about seems to stem from two bug reports by > > third parties asking

Re: About lintian

2021-01-27 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 02:20:06PM +0100, Dominique Dumont wrote: > On Thursday, 21 January 2021 23:18:07 CET Felix Lechner wrote: > > While we often change tag names (or combine tags etc.), the majority > > of the renames people talk about seems to stem from two bug reports by > > third parties as

Re: About lintian

2021-01-27 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Thursday, 21 January 2021 23:18:07 CET Felix Lechner wrote: > While we often change tag names (or combine tags etc.), the majority > of the renames people talk about seems to stem from two bug reports by > third parties asking that we make tag names more consistent (bug > numbers are available,

Re: About lintian

2021-01-21 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi Felix, thanks for your email, and no worry about sending it late, we are all volunteers. > Due to the number of messages already posted in this thread, I will > respond—with the best of ability—to each message separately. Thanks, I will only go into answer those items that I find here. > Tha

Re: About lintian

2021-01-21 Thread Pierre-Elliott Bécue
Le 21 janvier 2021 23:51:55 GMT+01:00, Felix Lechner a écrit : >Hi Pierre-Elliott, > >On Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 5:00 AM Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: >> >> As I said on that time, I'd be glad to provide help and >> support should Felix feel the need for some. > >I do not recall our most recent excha

Re: About lintian

2021-01-21 Thread Felix Lechner
Hi Antonio, On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 4:43 AM Antonio Terceiro wrote: > > My hope is that this, and other use cases, could be enabled by > collaborating on existing infrastructure, instead of creating yet > another one. I totally agree with you. I would like to spend some time looking at your code

Re: About lintian

2021-01-21 Thread Felix Lechner
Hi Raphaël, On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 3:27 AM Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > From my (relatively remote) point of view, ci.debian.net seems really > very basic in terms of features related to scheduling of jobs. Inspired by an early peek into your own ideas of a codenamed piece of vaporware I wrote wh

Re: About lintian

2021-01-21 Thread Felix Lechner
Hi Pierre-Elliott, On Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 5:00 AM Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: > > As I said on that time, I'd be glad to provide help and > support should Felix feel the need for some. I do not recall our most recent exchanges as quite so positive, but I would be happy to read you into some of

Re: About lintian

2021-01-21 Thread Felix Lechner
Hi Lucas, On Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 2:31 AM Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > I agree that a service that provides an overview of the status regarding > lintian for the whole archive would be useful (for example, to identify > packages that need some area of work inside a team). This functionality is not

Re: About lintian

2021-01-21 Thread Felix Lechner
Hi Norbert, First of all, please accept my apologies for responding late. I subscribe to d-d but filter lists for later perusal. Thanks to Lucas Nussbaum for pointing me here! Due to the number of messages already posted in this thread, I will respond—with the best of ability—to each message sepa

Re: About lintian

2021-01-19 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Tue, 19 Jan 2021, Antonio Terceiro wrote: > > Can you expand on the kind of features that ci.debian.net offers and what > > kind of mistakes we would likely avoid by reusing it? > > To name a few: > > - distributed processing > - data retention policies > - web interface Thanks for your

Re: About lintian

2021-01-19 Thread Antonio Terceiro
On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 12:27:31PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 18 Jan 2021, Antonio Terceiro wrote: > > FWIW, The ci.debian.net infrastructure is mostly independent from > > autopkgtest, so we could have different types of jobs there. This could > > be used for lintian, but als

Re: About lintian

2021-01-19 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Mon, 18 Jan 2021, Antonio Terceiro wrote: > FWIW, The ci.debian.net infrastructure is mostly independent from > autopkgtest, so we could have different types of jobs there. This could > be used for lintian, but also for on-demand rebuilds, and other types of > checks that needs to be done t

Re: About lintian

2021-01-18 Thread Antonio Terceiro
interest/motivation to redesign lintian.d.o as a > > standalone service, maybe a simpler architecture to explore would be to > > build it on top of UDD (with lintian runners feeding a table in UDD > > directly). That would make it possible to simplify most of the web stuff > &g

Re: About lintian

2021-01-18 Thread Pierre-Elliott Bécue
able in UDD > directly). That would make it possible to simplify most of the web stuff > (and of course would still allow exporting to other services that need > the data). I would be quite motivated to work on that. Hey all, Last time me and Felix discussed about lintian, his motivation

Re: About lintian

2021-01-18 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi, On 17/01/21 at 22:00 +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: > On the infrastructure side, you mentioned on #debian-qa that in your > opinion, lintian is best run in a CI pipeline instead of on the > lintian.d.o service. While this is certainly true, do you plan to keep > the functionality on your rewo

About lintian

2021-01-17 Thread Norbert Preining
Dear Felix, Chris, (please Cc, I am not subscribed to d-d) Here are a few questions regarding Lintian past and upcoming changes, both as tool as well as infrastructure. In the past year, many changes in lintian tag names occurred, along with some tag removals. While it seems quite normal for lin

Re: question about lintian warnings

2011-01-10 Thread Simon McVittie
On Mon, 10 Jan 2011 at 21:30:57 +0200, Evgeniy Dolgih wrote: > lintian shows me 2 warnings: > changelog-should-mention-nmu and > source-nmu-has-incorrect-version-number. Have a look at the output of "lintian-info --tags changelog-should-mention-nmu" and "lintian-info --tags source-nmu-has-incorrec

Re: question about lintian warnings

2011-01-10 Thread Neil Williams
On Mon, 10 Jan 2011 21:30:57 +0200 Evgeniy Dolgih wrote: > Hello. > I going to adopt of orphaned package. I'm doing like described in this > instruction: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/index.en.html. I'm > almost done with packaging but lintian shows me 2 warnings: > changelog-should-mention-n

question about lintian warnings

2011-01-10 Thread Evgeniy Dolgih
Hello. I going to adopt of orphaned package. I'm doing like described in this instruction: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/index.en.html. I'm almost done with packaging but lintian shows me 2 warnings: changelog-should-mention-nmu and source-nmu-has-incorrect-version-number. I'm double check debi