Bug#660733: [reporting/harness]: do "one-time" runs of trial checks on lintian.d.o?
On Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:13:02 +0100 Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> wrote:
> Package: lintian
> Severity: wishlist
>
> This suggestion is based on #367466 comment 22 and also on some thoughts
> I did when we added the perl4-libs warning.
>
> The basic idea would be to "inject" extra checks in the standard lintian
> run, but filter the tags into a separate log file[1]. Together with a
> fix for #660732 we could get "full run" sample of that check.
>
> We may want to restrict "droping of checks" to (checks reviewed by)
> Lintian maintainers[2]. It is also possible we want to fix #359059 first.
>
> ~Niels
>
> [1] How the "injection" would work in practise ... is an exercise left
> for the reader/implemented/etc.
>
> [2] Else a faulty unannounced check could DoS lintian.d.o for days (e.g.
> by entering endless loop).
>
>
With the recent harness refactoring, we can trivially reschedule a
complete recheck of all packages[1]. If we were to do "injected" tags
as "experimental" ones, there will probably not be a major issue if they
appeared on the resulting website.
* What really remains, is a good infrastructure to pull extra checks
on lindsay.d.o.
~Niels
[1]: rm -f harness-state/state-cache
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