[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#844267: Bug#844267: sbuild: Support for blhc

[Sean Whitton]

Hello,

On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 06:40:25AM +0100, Johannes Schauer wrote:
> sbuild supports running lintian, autopkgtest and piuparts because they are (or
> should) be applicable to *all* Debian packages.
> 
> blhc on the other hand is only applicable for packages that run gcc at some
> point during the build and will never be useful for all the other packages. So
> instead of adding a checker for gcc-based packages today, one for OCaml
> packages tomorrow and then 20 more for all the other programming languages we
> have in Debian, I'd rather implement support for a wrapper to these tools which
> is then doing the right thing.

Good point.  I didn't think of that.

On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 03:12:03PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-11-14 at 08:01 +0100, Johannes Schauer wrote:
> 
> > Yes. That's why the existing lintian, autopkgtest and piuparts checkers are
> > disabled by default.
> 
> I don't think they should be part of it at all but anyway...

I find it extremely useful to be able to type 'dgit sbuild' right
before an upload and have all these sanity checks be run.

-- 
Sean Whitton