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<H1>[Mageia-dev] Rpmlint configuration, false positives</H1>
<B>Remy CLOUARD</B>
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<I>Sat Mar 5 10:49:28 CET 2011</I>
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<PRE>On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 10:30:36PM +0100, Michael Scherer wrote:
><i> Hi,
</I>><i>
</I>><i> so as done before on another time and land, I have pushed a rpmlint
</I>><i> specific
</I>><i> policy for Mageia, aptly named 'rpmlint-mageia-policy" ( maybe
</I>><i> rpmlint-policy-mageia would be better, not sure ).
</I>><i>
</I>><i> For those that do not know, rpmlint is a tool to check a rpm against
</I>><i> a list
</I>><i> of rules written in python, that is used on Fedora, Mandriva, opensuse
</I>><i> and likely others too. The tool is used on upload to refuse some
</I>><i> rpms based
</I>><i> on this rules, and should be used by people to check rpms, to make
</I>><i> sure that
</I>><i> no obvious errors is still there. However, this is not a perfect tool,
</I>><i> and it can still give false positives, so people should not use without
</I>><i> understanding errors.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> But we can filter and configure it to be a little more perfect.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> In a rather autocratic fashion, as the maintainer of rpmlint ( both
</I>><i> packages
</I>><i> and uptream ), as a packager representative, and as a apprentice
</I>><i> dictator
</I>><i> ( since there is lots of open position in this sector since a few
</I>><i> weeks ),
</I>><i> I propose that this become the canonical source for rpmlint
</I>><i> configuration.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> In practice, that mean that false positives will have to be added
</I>><i> there,
</I>><i> that stuff that are noted as errors need to be set in that package, and
</I>><i> any policy changes must be made there.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> So the question is "how do we deal with evolution ( ie, how do we
</I>><i> decide
</I>><i> something is now a error, or no longer one".
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Traditionally, packagers didn't care at all, and so the
</I>><i> configuration bitrotted
</I>><i> since a long time, and people didn't used it, and I just added false
</I>><i> positives
</I>><i> when packagers notified it ( ie, almost never, except when I noticed
</I>><i> some of them ).
</I>><i> I suspect that my lack of communication around that didn't help (
</I>><i> and so
</I>><i> people didn't knew they could ask for adding a false positive to the
</I>><i> list
</I>><i> of error to ignore ).
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Yet, I think we can do better, so feel free to suggest any mad idea
</I>><i> for this.
</I>><i> --
</I>><i> Michael Scherer
</I>Regarding license names, I haven’t checked the code, will provide a
patch for this, it would be nice if rpmlint could load valid license
names from a yaml config file which will contain valid licenses as
mentionned here:
<A HREF="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing#Good_Licenses_3">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing#Good_Licenses_3</A>
And then I will make a script to detect wrong licenses in already
imported packages so that we can make a fix license sprint to fix them
Are you ok with that ?
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