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Skip navigation . Linda - A Debian package checker written in Python Proposal details: Abstract: (I am the author of Linda, and therefore, the best person to speak about her.) Linda is, simply put a Debian package checker written in Python. It has a modular architecture, fully supports localisation using gettext, and is (in my eyes) fairly easy to extend. * The humble beginnings The reason I started writing Linda was the culimination of several events: 1) At the time, Lintian was unmaintained and, I felt, unmaintainable. 2) I wanted to learn Python. 3) I have an utterly unhealthy interest in Debian Policy * Development history of Linda. * In-depth features of Linda 0.3: Firstly, I'll start with the features that were introduced with Linda 0.3. A test suite I *know* a test suite is a good idea, and I have lost count of the number of stupid bugs this has stopped me putting into a released version of Linda. The other side of the coin is that if I can't think of a situation, I can't test for it, which has happened a few times. Actual localisation of the error messages. Tried running LANG=de_DE linda ? German is the most complete translation of warning and error messages that Linda has. Admitedly, there are a few issues with getting translators to work their magic on just over 500 strings. * What can you do to help? In order of how much I will praise you and your skills in the changelog: Translations! Nothing makes my day like recieving an e-mail that teaches Linda a new language, or corrects her language skills. Write patches! I have *never* recieved a patch for Linda that changes something non-trivial, and I would *love* to recieve such a patch via a bug report. Test, and test some more. Another thing that makes my day is getting a well thought out bug report that points out where in the code a bug is hiding, and what I can do to reproduce said bug, and most importantly, *what package you pointed her at*, and which version. Compliment me or thank me on IRC. You have no idea how much of an ego boost it is to hear about how people use Linda, a tool that I wasn't even sure that I was going to upload or tell people about gives me. * HOWTOs: How to write a test for Linda, in real-time. Mention the lack of documentation, and how people can help. * What is up and coming? At the moment, I have no hard and fast ideas for Linda 0.4.0. About the only idea I am mulling over at the moment is using a lexer for parsing RFC822-style files, but that remains a pipe dream. The other idea is profiling the hell out of Linda, and rewriting parts in C, since I would like to learn how to write Python modules in C. [ This abstract is nowhere near complete. I will attempt to expand this out to a 45 minute talk, but this will have to do for the moment.] Presentation type: Talk (45 min) Track: Technical Status: Accepted Authors: Steve Kowalik Files: linda-paper.tex (7.341796875 K) PDF LaTeX paper for Linda talk Debconf 5 Powered by COMAS , the Conference Management System by CONSOL