Re: Accepted lintian 2.5.0~rc2~bpo60+1 (source all)

[Gerfried Fuchs <rhonda@deb.at>]

        Hi!

* Jeroen Schot <schot@A-Eskwadraat.nl> [2011-04-11 11:23:14 CEST]:
> On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 11:04:05AM +0200, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote:
> > Am 11.04.2011 10:47, schrieb Niels Thykier:
> > > Distribution: squeeze-backports
> > [..]
> > > Changed-By: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
> > 
> > Do you know that so far I maintained the lintian backport?  I'm kind of
> > surprised to now see someone else uploading it without anyone notifying
> > me before, which is a best practice for this archive (see
> > http://backports.debian.org/Contribute).

 I definitely do not want to defend the missing communication (which is
something we really should get fixed in broader areas within Debian, too
- having to point out to play well with the other contributors shouldn't
be something regularly needed to get pointed out *sigh*), on the other
hand I do appreciate someone from the regular maintenance team to be
responsible for the backport because of the hopefully natural insight
into the packaging work.

> Also, lintian 2.5.0~rc2 isn't in testing yet? So it shouldn't even be
> a candidate for squeeze-backports. (See the 'Basic rules' section on
> the same page).

 lintian is one of those (very few) packages that have a special
exception because actually the lintian lab and ftpmasters have a need to
have them available more timely than to wait for the testing transition.
Given that they very rarely end up on end-user systems this is an
acceptable compromise.

 Enjoy,
Rhonda
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