Bug#1012289: RFH: lintian -- Debian package checker
On Mon, Feb 05, 2024 at 12:28:02PM +0100, Axel Beckert wrote:
> Hi Bill,
>
> Bill Allombert wrote:
> > By the way, what happened to lintian.debian.org ?
>
> Seems as if someone (not me, just noticed it today when
> "private/refresh-data" failed…) pulled the plug on at least the DNS
> name. Probably because it hasn't been updated since Felix' try to
> rewrite it, which AFAIK was never finished, but the old thing also no
> more worked. (There's probably a lot of legacy code in
> "lib/Lintian/Output" related to one of these two website generations,
> maybe even both.)
I used to generate my own copy of it because the official one was
out of date.
> IMHO it's generally a good thing, except that it would have been
> better to redirect it to the according UDD pages instead.
Yes, because there are ton of places still linking to lintian.debian.org
(e.g. wikipedia). We should ask DSA to redirect to salsa or UDD.
Cheers,
--
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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