Before I tell you what Linda is, I'll start with what Lintian is. Lintian is a Debian Package checker. How it does this is to run a number of regexps and other tests over the control information, and files contained in the package. Lintian, although written in Perl, is unwieldly and slow. None of this is Perl's fault mind you, Lintian has a habit of reparsing the same information and doing other bad tricks.
Linda is also a package checker. With a difference. Linda is "the crazy speed-demon Python version of lintian" (kudos to Thom May.).
CVS now open! CVS pserver is now running on cvs.wedontsleep.org.
cvs -d ':pserver:anon@cvs.wedontsleep.org:/var/lib/cvs' login (Just press enter at the prompt.) cvs -d ':pserver:anon@cvs.wedontsleep.org:/var/lib/cvs' co linda