Re: over 30000 bugs in our archive (!)

[Christian Schwarz <schwarz@monet.m.isar.de>]

On Mon, 9 Feb 1998, Richard Braakman wrote:

[snip]
> > > E: zcode-support: file-missing-in-md5sums etc/menu/zcode-support
> > > E: zcode-support: file-missing-in-md5sums etc/zcode-support/interpreters
> > > E: zcode-support: file-missing-in-md5sums etc/zcode-support/interpreters
> > > E: strn: file-missing-in-md5sums etc/news/strn/default_topic
> > > E: strn: file-missing-in-md5sums etc/news/strn/hier_groups
> > > E: strn: file-missing-in-md5sums etc/news/strn/hier_groups
> > 
> > These are deliberately left out of the md5sums file because they are
> > conffiles.  dpkg already records md5sums for conffiles in the status
> > file.  OTOH, if you can give me a reason why I should include them, I
> > will.
> 
> I'll let Christian reply to this :)

Since current policy does not even mention the md5sums control file, we
haven't an exact definition of how these files should look like. 

We started a discussion about this on debian-policy. We'll see...


BTW, I started to collect `overrides', that is, errors reported by lintian
which aren't errors because they are some exception to policy or because
lintian made a mistake. If you find any such errors, please tell me so I
can add them to the overrides file.


Thanks,

Chris

--          _,,     Christian Schwarz
           / o \__   schwarz@monet.m.isar.de, schwarz@schwarz-online.com,
           !   ___;   schwarz@debian.org, schwarz@mathematik.tu-muenchen.de
           \  /        
  \\\______/  !        PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D CF 23 CA D7  34 05 14 5C C8 DC 22 BA
   \          /         http://fatman.mathematik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/
-.-.,---,-,-..---,-,-.,----.-.-
  "DIE ENTE BLEIBT DRAUSSEN!"


--
TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to
debian-devel-request@lists.debian.org . 
Trouble?  e-mail to templin@bucknell.edu .