[Mageia-dev] [Fwd: [Mageia-sysadm] rpmlint check on upload, attempt 2]

Mon Jul 25 19:53:46 CEST 2011

Le mercredi 20 juillet 2011 à 15:19 +0200, Michael Scherer a écrit :
+> Hi,
+> 
+> (resent from mageia-sysadm, it was mean for -dev )
+> 
+> This morning, I deployed a youri hook to unpack rpmlint configuration on
+> valstar when rpmlint-mageia-policy is uploaded, thus allowing to sync
+> the list of exceptions from the package ( which is the canonical one )
+> with the build system. So while this may seems uninteresting for the
+> vast majority of packagers and cauldron testers ( and it is ), this has
+> some practical effects.
+> 
+> The last attempt ( for unexpanded-macro ) showed some false positives,
+> and we were not able to properly keep a exception list. Now, with this,
+> we can.
+> 
+> So that mean we can reenable the check 'unexpanded-macro' and others.
+> 
+> While I am quite sure enabling it now will trigger a much faster
+> response rate ( because people will not have the choice ), I will enable
+> them in a few days, to let the time to packagers to send exceptions to
+> be added to the packages. 
+
+A few days have pasted, and so, the check was reenabled as per revision
+1903. 
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
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