[Secure-testing-commits] r6407 - doc

[nion at alioth.debian.org]

Author: nion
Date: 2007-08-26 12:01:01 +0000 (Sun, 26 Aug 2007)
New Revision: 6407

Modified:
   doc/narrative_introduction
Log:
Added make check-syntax to introduction to check for syntax errors in data/*/list files


Modified: doc/narrative_introduction
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--- doc/narrative_introduction	2007-08-26 09:14:07 UTC (rev 6406)
+++ doc/narrative_introduction	2007-08-26 12:01:01 UTC (rev 6407)
@@ -357,6 +357,12 @@
 DSA entry once the official DSA is published on the web.  You should
 not blindly trust the script output and double-check it, though.
 
+Checking your changes
+---------------------
+After editing the lists in the data directory make sure to run
+make check-syntax from the root of the svn directory to see if
+the tracker is able to parse this file _before_ you commit it.
+
 Following up on security issues
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 By simply loading this page and doing a little gardening of the