Package review backlog.

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Sunday, 12 October 2008 at 20:22, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> Thank you Thorsten!  This list is really really great!
> 
> Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> > Ideas for making things easier and better are there; they are afaics
> > well known among contributors and the different committees that are
> > responsible. Just nobody is working on them:
> > 
> >  * improve rpmlint and other tools to automate more of the checks to
> > less the burden on the reviewer
> > 
> We also need to note which Guildelines rpmlint completely checks for,
> partially checks for, and does not check for.
> 
> Licensing, for instance is a a case where rpmlint helps by verifying
> that the license tag matches the abbreviations we specify but does not
> verify that the source code only contains the listed license(s).

licensecheck.pl script from Debian's devscripts could help here. I've filed
an RFE for rpmdevtools: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=466353

Regards,
R.

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