Re: load custom checks from ~/.lintian/checks?
On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 11:53:53AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Michael Ablassmeier <abi@grinser.de> writes:
>
> > i just wondered how am i supposed to add my own checks to lintian. It
> > seems the only way to do this (without beeing root) is to copy the stuff
> > from /usr/share/lintian to $HOME and use the --root switch to change
> > $LINTIAN_ROOT.
>
> > I think it would be very nice if lintian could check ~/.lintian/checks
> > for checks and load them, just like linda does. Attached is a (i guess
> > pretty hackish patch) against trunk which does this.
>
> This seems like at least an idea worth considering. Could you submitt his
> and your patch as a wishlist bug report? I don't know about the other
> lintian developers,
Well, I agree such request are best filed as bugs immediately, for the
same reasons you (Russ) cite, but I can already say that personally, I'm
not really terribly fond of this idea. Lintian should IMHO really be a
tool that has a reliable output, and that can be used as a base for
structural QA work etc. An important requisite for this is that lintian
output should be constant regardless of your environment.
There is --root for development on lintian, testing out/using locally
certain patches (including simply added checks). ~/.lintian/checks might
be neat, but only addresses a small subset, because it can only add
checks, and then only checks that don't need any sort of collector
changes. --root actually allows any kind of adoption, and is very easy
too (just a cp -a or even cp -sa and adding/modifying whatever pleases
you).
--Jeroen
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