Re: bogus lintian warning
On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 03:07:51AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Sat, 01 Oct 2005, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
> > But lintian is not there to warn about unfixable problems with
>
> You cannot reliably determine wether the maintainer is doing something
> stupid, or upstream is.
Sure you can. Lintian could (relatively) easily check whether the
problem is in the .orig.tar.gz before application of the Debian diff,
and suppress the message in that case.
Cheers,
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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