Re: we need a Package Checker

1998-01-08 Thread Christian Schwarz
On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, James A.Treacy wrote: [snip] > Someone want to volunteer to do this? Once one person develops a good > base, others will create more checks over time. Funny, that you bring up this topic now, since I have discussed this in great detail with Richard Braakman in the last days.

we need a Package Checker

1998-01-08 Thread James A . Treacy
Suggestion: package checker It is currently possible to have packages installed which do not comply with Debian policy. A lot of these could be avoided if we simply did some kind of check on every package before we allowed it into the distribution. Here is the framework for a simple, flexible wa