[Bug 1959002] Re: Blacklist and remove lintian-brush from the archive
Simon Chopin
1959002 at bugs.launchpad.net
Wed Jan 26 10:28:46 UTC 2022
For the record, my request originated from the recurrence of lintian-
brush in update-excuses, as was noted in this comment:
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2021-December/041754.html
Regarding the rdeps:
To be noted, both silver-platter and routine-update have no further rdeps:
❯ reverse-depends src:silver-platter
❯ reverse-depends -a source src:silver-platter
No reverse dependencies found
❯ reverse-depends src:routine-update
No reverse dependencies found
❯ reverse-depends -a source routine-update
No reverse dependencies found
routine-update appears functional on a typical Salsa repository, but chokes with repositories managed by git-ubuntu.
silverplatter uses lintian-brush in its debian-svp variant, which presumably has the same shortcomings than routine-update. I didn't test it out, though.
Both tools are thus probably not that useful in typical Ubuntu work, being more suited for direct Debian contributions, and should be removed alongside lintian-brush as the latter gives us the bulk of the interesting features.
HOWEVER
I looked a bit closer into lintian-brush code as well as its history in
various +1 maintenance reports, and it seems most of its issues are
related to src:breezy or the Python transition. The code is in good
shape, and isn't as tied to lintian internals as I feared.
For reference, here are the rdeps of src:breezy:
❯ reverse-depends src:breezy
Reverse-Recommends
* ikiwiki (for brz)
* silver-platter (for brz)
* ubuntu-dev-tools (for brz)
Reverse-Depends
* brz-debian (for brz)
* brz-debian (for python3-breezy)
* bzr (for brz)
* bzr-doc (for brz-doc)
* bzr-email (for brz)
* bzr-fastimport (for brz)
* bzr-git (for brz)
* bzr-stats (for brz)
* bzr-upload (for brz)
* bzrtools (for brz)
* etckeeper (for brz)
* lintian-brush (for python3-breezy)
* loggerhead (for python3-breezy)
* lptools (for python3-breezy)
* qbrz (for python3-breezy)
* silver-platter (for python3-breezy)
After investigating, I'm less inclined to remove the package from the
archive, as it's more of a symptom of an issue with src:breezy.
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