Re: zfsutils_9.1-2_kfreebsd-amd64.changes ACCEPTED into unstable
Hey!
On Mon, 2013-07-22 at 22:21:20 +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> 2013/7/22 Steven Chamberlain <steven@pyro.eu.org>:
> > On 22/07/13 20:18, Debian FTP Masters wrote:
> >> zfsutils (9.1-2) unstable; urgency=low
> >> .
> >> * Reupload.
> >
> > Just FYI there is a Lintian check that expects slightly more specific
> > wording for this:
>
> Argh. This must be the first time I see a computer talking a human
> into being redundant. It is completely backwards!
While it surely sounds redundant, it's a question of context. When you
upgrade from one version to the other, and have something like
apt-listchanges installed, you only get to see the changelog entries
after the last installed versions, and seeing just a “Reupload” entry
seems rather confusing to the reader (I for example had to go check
the whole changelog to see what was going on), because at first sight
it appears as a reupload for reupload's sake.
In this case lintian is following what has been considered “best”
practice by humans. ;)
Thanks,
Guillem
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