Re: Uploads
Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> writes:
> (moving to lintian-maint)
> On Fri, 23 Jun 2006, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> writes:
>>> I tend to think that you're doing too much checks here. Having too
>>> much in Build-Depends is not *that* bad. You'd better check only for
>>> the contrary ie missing Build-Depends because they are used in the
>>> clean rule... well IMO of course.
>> This would be a good thing to send to lintian-maint rather than just to
>> me. I didn't add the check in the first place; I just tried to fix all
>> of the false positives in a check that was already in lintian before I
>> started working on it. I agree with you that it's not completely clear
>> it's worth it, although at this point there aren't many false positives
>> left.
> I have nothing to add, just wanted to share my initial comment with the
> other maintainers as suggested by Russ.
What would the other lintian maintainers think about downgrading the
build-depends-without-arch-dep tag to info from warning? We are getting a
*lot* of false positives with it, and while I'm quashing them as I see
them, this is a style thing more than it's really a policy requirement.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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