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Re: lintian lives!



On 05-Oct-2000 Steve Greenland wrote:
> On 29-Sep-00, 15:34 (CDT), Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <shaleh@valinux.com> wrote: 
>> debconf files are marked as unknown control files.  debconf is not in policy
>> yet and neither are the files it uses.  Once they are in policy, this
>> message
>> will go away as well.
> 
> Why should artifacts of a particular configuration system necessarily be
> in policy? There's no reason that lintian can't recognize "recommended
> practice" as well as strict policy. (In other words, kill this warning
> now, there's no need to wait.)
> 

because debconf will be policy too.



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