Hi Chris, On 31-07-18 16:55, Chris Lamb wrote: >> Rather unconstructively, they refuse to fix it until lintian has the >> warning [2]. > > That seems.. strange. At the very least, Lintian is not Policy. Ack. I filed 6 bugs today against packages in their team (the ones currently trying to migrate). They already fixed the first bug. > Unrelated to the above, do you feel there any real fear that a /bin/ > true would simply be replaced with something else if a maintainer saw > this tag? There are, of course, plenty of no-op commands available in > the base system... :) Yes, let's make sure the message is not "don't use /bin/true (or only true, or exit 0 or echo)" but rather, please make sure the set of autopkgtests actually test the installed package somehow. Paul
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