Bug#54968: Lintian, archive maintenance and and policy
Richard Braakman writes:
> On Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 12:05:22PM +0000, Matthew Vernon wrote:
>
> > FWIW, a package that I uploaded was rejected, with a comment "using
> > lintian would have pointed this out"; when I replied that in fact the
> > "error" that was being objected to was in fact an intentional
> > decision, I didn't even get a reply, and the package languishes
> > still in /REJECTED
>
> This is not a direct consequence of Lintian; when I reject a package
> I reject it on its own merits.
>
> I assume you're talking about adns here. I maintain that the rejection
> was valid, because it's a shared-library package that doesn't follow
> the shared-library policy at all. (I invite anyone who would join
> this discussion to inspect these packages first. They are currently
> in /debian/project/Incoming/REJECT/adns*).
But this (as I pointed out) is intentional - and there is a thread on
policy at the moment about why I think this is the right thing to
do. As Ian suggests, such packages should be accepted - if policy
decides the decision was wrong, then the maintainer can then change
the offending packages.
Matthew
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