Lintian bug-reports
(moved to debian-devel)
> You may be right that a missing symlink /usr/doc/<pkg> -> <other-pkg> does
> not affect the functionality of our distribution though. However, I doubt
> that we'll have to move a package to orphan because of this bug--remember
> that non-maintainer uploads are possible all the time. But since this bug
> is so easy to fix, we can surely consider the package as "orphaned" if
> noone wants to fix this bug.
According to Brian's message on debian-devel, it already is moved. And so are
many other packages because of bugs detected by lintian. For example I wonder
why a package like ee is considered harmful as released. Lintian seems to
think that a non-existent file in md5sums is good enough reason...
I don't think that easines of bugfix is a good enough reason to mark it
severity important. IMO it was reserved for bugs that make it better to release
Debian without it.
I find it good that a new searching tool is done, but i don't like the fact
that it marked so many bugs important that not a single user had detected
before! A quick sample from Brians list:
adjtimex lintian
adpkg overlap
amanda-common overlap
aout-xpm wrong place
apache-ssl lintian
arpd lintian
ascii lintian
asp lintian
ax25utils lintian
bitchx-lib lintian
blt2 lintian
cfengine lintian
cflow lintian
cgiemail wrong link
chinese-big5 copyright prob.
chord copyright prob.
So most packages are nuked because of bugs that were only found by a script!!
Riku Voipio
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