[Mageia-dev] Rpmlint configuration, false positives

Wed Jan 4 21:17:55 CET 2012

Am 27.08.2011 22:19, schrieb Michael Scherer:
+> Le samedi 27 août 2011 à 22:06 +0200, Florian Hubold a écrit :
+>> Am 04.03.2011 22:30, schrieb Michael Scherer:
+>>>
+>>> But we can filter and configure it to be a little more perfect.
+>>>
+>>> In a rather autocratic fashion, as the maintainer of rpmlint ( both packages
+>>> and uptream ), as a packager representative, and as a apprentice dictator
+>>> ( since there is lots of open position in this sector since a few weeks ),
+>>> I propose that this become the canonical source for rpmlint configuration.
+>>>
+>>> In practice, that mean that false positives will have to be added there,
+>>> that stuff that are noted as errors need to be set in that package, and
+>>> any policy changes must be made there.
+>>>
+>>> So the question is "how do we deal with evolution ( ie, how do we decide
+>>> something is now a error, or no longer one".
+>>>
+>>> Traditionally, packagers didn't care at all, and so the configuration bitrotted
+>>> since a long time, and people didn't used it, and I just added false positives
+>>> when packagers notified it ( ie, almost never, except when I noticed some of 
+>>> them ).
+>>> I suspect that my lack of communication around that didn't help ( and so
+>>> people didn't knew they could ask for adding a false positive to the list
+>>> of error to ignore ).
+>>>
+>>> Yet, I think we can do better, so feel free to suggest any mad idea for this.
+>> What about the following, AFAIK those are deprecated and rpmlint shouldn't 
+>> complain about:
+>
+Stumbled upon two more false positives, when using %setup_compile_flags
+during %build, presumably because it also starts with %setup:
+
+W: setup-not-quiet
+
+W: setup-not-in-prep
+
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