Re: lintian -- detecting hundrets of bugs within seconds...
Jens Ritter wrote:
>
> > This is quite confused. When lintian is run by dinstall, and
> > it fails, dinstall shall presumably move the package into REJECT/ and
> > send you mail ($$$). It shall, then, disappear from /Incoming, and
> > not be installed. and you shall have to reupload ($$$$$).
>
> Yes, but the $$$ is your problem then, isn't it?
> You could have run lintian at home.
>
Some tests, such as package overlaps, have to be run against the entire
distribution. Also, some people may not run the test at home (we can't
control the environment - we aren't Big Brother) so running it on
master is still important.
- Jay
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