Re: over 30000 bugs in our archive (!)
Hi,
Thanks for doing this. I am already building and uploading
packages with fixes. I suspect others may do so, with no prodding
(ow! that hurts ;-), so bug reports may not yet be required.
Give it a couple of days, than send out the mail messages, and
if things don't get fixed in a couple of weeks, _then_ file bug
reports. (Though possibly no reports for the warnings?)
Another reason to not file bugs quite yet, since there may
well be bugs in Lintian. I may have found an over eager script, the
one that tries to determine if the package description contains the
copyright; example below.
manoj
miscfiles (1.1-3):
W: miscfiles: description-may-not-contain-package-copyright
______________________________________________________________________
Package: miscfiles
Architecture: all
Description: Dictionaries and other interesting files.
These files are not crucial to system administration or operation,
but which have come to be common on various systems over the years.
They originated from various sources and are freely redistributable
(see the copyright file for more information).
.
These files include those of general interest (English `connectives',
Webster's Second International English wordlist, traditional stone
and flower for each month, Precedence table for operators in the C
language, description of the ISO Latin-1 character set, two-letter
codes for languages, from ISO 639, International country and city
telephone codes, geographic coordinates of many major cities, Some
common abbreviations used in electronic communication, GNU tasks and
mailing lists, rfc-index, etc).
.
There also is information specific to the United States (List of
three letter codes for some major airports, North American (+1)
telephone area codes, US 5 digit zipcodes, postal codes for US and
Mexican states and Canadian provinces, the Constitution of the United
States of America, the Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen
Colonies)
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Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> <http://www.datasync.com/%7Esrivasta/>
Key C7261095 fingerprint = CB D9 F4 12 68 07 E4 05 CC 2D 27 12 1D F5 E8 6E
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