Re: Lintian check for d/upstream files (Was: another source of URLs for DUCK: debian/upstream)

[Simon Kainz <simon@familiekainz.at>]

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Am 2013-11-21 16:15, schrieb Andreas Tille:
> Hi Simon,
Hello!
> 
> On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 02:56:08PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
>> Hi Simon,
>> 
>> On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 05:09:37PM +0200, Simon Kainz wrote:
>>> Am 2013-08-23 13:39, schrieb Andreas Tille:
>>>>> Otherwise I'd gladly help working on a lintian module.
>>>> I have never written any lintian check so some kind of
>>>> kickstart would be great.
>>>> 
>>> Hi!
>>> 
>>> I wrote a _very basic_ lintian check, available here:
>>> 
>>> http://familiekainz.at/deb/lintian/metadata.tgz
>> 
>> That's very cool!  Thanks for your effort!
> 
> I have found some issue which is not found by the lintian check. 
> Please have a look at
> 
> git://git.debian.org/git/debian-med/r-cran-ggplot2.git

Sorry, i didn't find d/upstream in the repo specified. Are your sure
this is the correct repo?
I simple git clone'd the url above.

Bye,



> 
> which contains an d/upstream file with the line
> 
> 
> Cite-as:<a
> href="http://home.imf.au.dk/jensen/software/gfan/gfan.html";>Gfan, a
> software system for Gröbner fans and tropical varieties</a>
> 
> 
> This is wrong YAML syntax since the separator between key and value
> is
> 
> ": "
> 
> and the space is lacking in the line above.  I might add that in
> the beginning the yaml files were parsed using Perl and later I did
> the parsing with Python and when doing so I detected several
> instances of this syntax issue.  So I assume that the Perl YAML
> implementation is not as strict as it should be here - which leads
> to the consequence that lintian will not detect it.
> 
> I would be very happy if you could inject this check into the
> lintian test.
> 
> Kind regards
> 
> Andreas.
> 

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