[arch-dev-public] New namcap version

Aaron Griffin aaronmgriffin at gmail.com
Thu Jul 16 14:45:13 EDT 2009


On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Hugo Doria<hugodoria at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I just released a new namcap version (2.3). These are the changes:
>
> namcap (2.3)
>    - New tags:
>        elffile-not-in-allowed-dirs (FS#15299)
>        gnome-mime-file (checks for GNOME mime files)
>        mime-cache-not-updated (checks for update-mime-database calls)
>        hicolor-icon-cache-not-updated (FS#15028)
>        insecure-rpath (FS#14049)
>        non-fhs-info-page (FHS compliance of installed info pages)
>        pkgname-in-description (pkgname should not be in description)
>        potential-non-fhs-info-page
>
>    - Removed tags:
>        missing-cvs-id
>        maintainer-tags-for-tus-devs
>        cvs-id-for-tus-devs
>
>    - Added rule to look for .a files with wrong permissions
>    - Report dangling symlinks as an error (dangling-symlink)
>    - Added sf.net urls in sfurl module.
>    - Support machine-parseable tags (use -m to see them)
>    - Add covered packages to dependencies
>    - gnomemime uses /usr/share/ directory now
>    - Removed obsolete module gnomemenu
>    - Namcap now prints a warning if a package is empty
>    - Prevent crash when namcap fails to open a file (FS#14371)
>    - Script detection generalised, supports more scripts (FS#15160)
>    - Documentation updates (manual page, AUTHORS, README)
>    - Add an option to exclude some rules from the checks
>
> I would like to thanks Abhishek Dasgupta, who helped a lot and was
> very important to this release.

Yeah, thanks a lot Abhishek, I've seen all the work you've put in
here. You're my hero :)
Also, namcap-reports is awesome.


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