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lintian: Provide (dd-)list of packages affected by a specific tag

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: lintian.debian.org: provide (dd-)list of packages affected by a specific tag

Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 15:27:53 +0100

Package: lintian
Version: 2.4.3
Severity: wishlist

It would be nice if lintian.d.o could provide, for each tag-specific page
(e.g. http://lintian.debian.org/tags/description-contains-homepage.html), a
plain text list of all packages affected by the tag. An extra bonus would be
providing both a plain text list and an associated dd-list.

The intended use cases are ease other automatic processing of the information
provided by lintian, such as input for bapase, and MBF.

Thanks for considering (and for lintian!),
Cheers.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.37-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.utf8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii  binutils               2.21.0.20110216-2 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii  diffstat               1.54-1            produces graph of changes introduc
ii  dpkg-dev               1.15.8.10         Debian package development tools
ii  file                   5.04-6            Determines file type using "magic"
ii  gettext                0.18.1.1-3        GNU Internationalization utilities
ii  intltool-debian        0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii  libapt-pkg-perl        0.1.24+b1         Perl interface to libapt-pkg
ii  libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1            Perl module that automatically gen
ii  libipc-run-perl        0.89-1            Perl module for running processes
ii  libparse-debianchangel 1.1.1-2.1         parse Debian changelogs and output
ii  libtimedate-perl       1.2000-1          collection of modules to manipulat
ii  liburi-perl            1.58-1            module to manipulate and access UR
ii  locales                2.11.2-11         Embedded GNU C Library: National L
ii  man-db                 2.5.9-4           on-line manual pager
ii  perl [libdigest-sha-pe 5.10.1-17         Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

lintian recommends no packages.

Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn  binutils-multiarch            <none>     (no description available)
ii  libtext-template-perl         1.45-2     Text::Template perl module
ii  man-db                        2.5.9-4    on-line manual pager

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Message #10 received at 615073@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>

To: Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org>, 615073@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#615073: lintian.debian.org: provide (dd-)list of packages affected by a specific tag

Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2011 11:21:14 +0100

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On 2011-02-25 15:27, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> Package: lintian
> Version: 2.4.3
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> It would be nice if lintian.d.o could provide, for each tag-specific page
> (e.g. http://lintian.debian.org/tags/description-contains-homepage.html), a
> plain text list of all packages affected by the tag. An extra bonus would be
> providing both a plain text list and an associated dd-list.
> 
> The intended use cases are ease other automatic processing of the information
> provided by lintian, such as input for bapase, and MBF.
> 
> Thanks for considering (and for lintian!),
> Cheers.
> 
> [...]

Hey,

For now you can pull the raw log[1] and do:

  grep $tag lintian.log | cut -f 2 -d: | sort -u

To get the name of all packages that are affected by a tag - depending
on the tag it may list binary packages (e.g.
description-contains-homepage is one of these).

~Niels

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Message #15 received at 615073@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org>

To: 615073@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#615073: lintian.debian.org: provide (dd-)list of packages affected by a specific tag

Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 16:12:41 +0100

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On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 11:21:14AM +0100, Niels Thykier wrote:
> For now you can pull the raw log[1] and do:
> 
>   grep $tag lintian.log | cut -f 2 -d: | sort -u
> 
> To get the name of all packages that are affected by a tag - depending
> on the tag it may list binary packages (e.g.
> description-contains-homepage is one of these).

Thanks.

As I didn't want to download the whole lintian.log, I applied the
following screen-scraping recipe of mine:

  $ wget http://lintian.debian.org/tags/description-contains-homepage.html
  $ grep 'h2 class="tag"' description-contains-homepage.html | sed 's|.*>\([^<]\+\)</a.*|\1|'

it's clearly fragile, as all screen-scraping, but it avoids the need of
downloading the whole lintian.log, which might be handy if people wants
to process data related to a single tag.

Cheers.

-- 
Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7
zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/
Quando anche i santi ti voltano le spalle, |  .  |. I've fans everywhere
ti resta John Fante -- V. Capossela .......| ..: |.......... -- C. Adams

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Message #20 received at 615073@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org>

To: 615073@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: lintian.debian.org: provide (dd-)list of packages affected by a specific tag

Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 22:29:29 +0100

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On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 03:27:53PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> It would be nice if lintian.d.o could provide, for each tag-specific page
> (e.g. http://lintian.debian.org/tags/description-contains-homepage.html), a
> plain text list of all packages affected by the tag. An extra bonus would be
> providing both a plain text list and an associated dd-list.
> 
> The intended use cases are ease other automatic processing of the information
> provided by lintian, such as input for bapase, and MBF.

I've briefly discussed on IRC this issue with Raphael Geissert.  He is
not particularly keen of adding new functionalities to lintian.d.o web
interface, on the very reasonable basis that most of it can be provided
by some CGIs that query UDD (or some replica of it).

I don't care much where the report come from, as long as the feature
request of "parsing-friendly per-tag information" can be implemented.

The idea of simplifying lintian.d.o reporting is appealing, although
there might be performance concerns in switching from static HTML
reports to dynamic ones.

Cheers.

-- 
Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7
zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/
Quando anche i santi ti voltano le spalle, |  .  |. I've fans everywhere
ti resta John Fante -- V. Capossela .......| ..: |.......... -- C. Adams

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Message #29 received at 615073@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>

To: 615073@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: lintian.debian.org: provide (dd-)list of packages affected by a specific tag

Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:00:32 +0100

Hi,

I have been thinking a bit on this and it shouldn't be very difficult to
generate a dd-list list for each tag.  We can use dd-list's --dctrl
option, which allows us to control the maintainer and uploader for each
package (without needing --sources)[1].

This pretty much reduces the problem to creating a "tag -> (maintainer,
uploaders)" mapping and getting dd-list/devscripts on lintian.d.o.

~Niels

[1]
$ echo '
Package: lintian
Maintainer: Jabba The Hutt <jab@hutt.sw>
Uploaders: Han solo <han@solo.sw>
' | dd-list --dctrl
Han solo <han@solo.sw>
   lintian (U)

Jabba The Hutt <jab@hutt.sw>
   lintian

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