Lintian checking ARB packages

[Bhavani Shankar R]

On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 12:28 AM, Niels Thykier <niels at thykier.net> wrote:
> On 2012-11-20 15:14, Bhavani Shankar R wrote:
>> Hi Daniel,
>>
>> whilst applying first patch works since its only a profile inclusion.
>> Applying 2nd patch causes FTBFS of run tests.
>
> Hi,
>
> As stated in my original mail to Daniel:
>
> """
> The second patch needs the latest commit in the Lintian VCS repository,
> so it cannot be deployed at moment.  Though it /should/ work with
> 2.5.10.2 if you rename the check to avoid the "/".  [...]
>   The checks are only enabled with "--profile ubuntu/arb-app".
> """
>
> So either you pull the current head of the Lintian git repository[0] or
> (as a work around until Lintian 2.5.11 is released) you rename the check
> from ubuntu/arb/arb-check-bin to "arb-check-bin".
>
>
> Also, the arb checks doesn't come with a test suite.  I hope to
> eventually get around to finishing DPU[1] and use that for third-party
> Lintian checks.
>
> ~Niels
>
> PS: Despite my initial claim, I noticed that I only implemented one of
> the 3 binary tests that arb-lint provided.  Anyhow...
>
> [0] At least commit 5330ec719ca79a7d7610e64de0d0dedabfdf9996 is needed.
>
> [1] https://github.com/paultag/dpu-test-framework
>

Thanks Neils for the headsup.

Regards,

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Bhavani Shankar
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