Comments regarding pkg-perl-tools_0.1_amd64.changes

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

hey Luca!

On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 03:00:12PM +0000, Luca Falavigna wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I wonder whether some of these tools could be fit into devscripts?

Yep indeed, this was arised in 

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=719291#13

> Also, I see some lintian tags, wouldn't it be better to include
> them in lintian itself?

I assume you mean

drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2013-08-26 19:56 ./usr/share/lintian/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2013-08-26 19:56 ./usr/share/lintian/profiles/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2013-08-26 19:56 ./usr/share/lintian/profiles/pkg-perl/
-rw-r--r-- root/root       123 2013-08-26 19:56 ./usr/share/lintian/profiles/pkg-perl/main.profile
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2013-08-26 19:56 ./usr/share/lintian/checks/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2013-08-26 19:56 ./usr/share/lintian/checks/pkg-perl/
-rw-r--r-- root/root      2062 2013-08-26 19:56 ./usr/share/lintian/checks/pkg-perl/vcs.pm
-rw-r--r-- root/root       413 2013-08-26 19:56 ./usr/share/lintian/checks/pkg-perl/vcs.desc
-rw-r--r-- root/root      1993 2013-08-26 19:56 ./usr/share/lintian/checks/pkg-perl/debhelper.pm
-rw-r--r-- root/root       545 2013-08-26 19:56 ./usr/share/lintian/checks/pkg-perl/debhelper.desc
-rw-r--r-- root/root      1928 2013-08-26 19:56 ./usr/share/lintian/checks/pkg-perl/cdbs.pm
-rw-r--r-- root/root       509 2013-08-26 19:56 ./usr/share/lintian/checks/pkg-perl/cdbs.desc

?

They are on purpose only Debian Perl Group specific tests, for using
with the new lintian vendor-profile functionality:

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2011/08/msg00002.html

and Niels at DebConf13:

http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2013/debconf13/high/1008_Lintian_as_a_analysis_framework.ogv

Regards,
Salvatore