Re: Debian vs. Ubuntu source control file
On Tue, 05 Jan 2010, Xavier Roche wrote:
> Raphael Hertzog a écrit :
> >>What do you, folks, think of this case ?
> >I would merge the change even if the package doesn't exist.
>
> What about lintian crying in the rain ?
What tag does it generate?
AFAIK lintian has no knowledge of what package exist or not. And even if
it does, you can override the tag justifying that it exists in ubuntu.
It would be legitimate for me given that it has no negative impact for
Debian.
> More seriously, can we
> assume that we'll never have package name collisions (ie. "foo", if
> exist on two distributions, are guaranteed to be the same package) ?
There's nothing to guarantee this but you can generally assume it
nevertheless IMO.
Cheers,
--
Raphaël Hertzog
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