[csw-maintainers] Assessing catalog quality

[Ben Walton]

Excerpts from Trygve Laugstøl's message of Sun Jun 26 06:04:38 -0400 2011:

> Number of overrides is one thing that comes to mind.

While I agree that this is something to keep an eye on, there would
need to be some sort of weighting factor used as judicious use of
overrides can improve quality.

Things to consider (possibly fictional error tags):

CHECKPKG_OVERRIDE_CSWfoo += bad-path|/var/mypkg
vs
CHECKPKG_OVERRIDE_CSWfoo += bad-path

The first overrides a single bad path but the second overrides every
bad path...same number of overrides, but (possibly) very different
package quality.

Also, overriding /usr/local references in share/doc/foo/ isn't as bad
as putting sparc binaries in an i386 package, etc...

Weighting the tags would help, but that's a big job in and of
itself...is it worthwhile for this?

Thanks
-Ben
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