Re: RANT: uploads to auric
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 06:29:35PM +1300, Michael Beattie wrote:
> <rant>
> I am getting severely pissed off at uploads to Incoming that have small,
> easy to fix lintian errors.
>
> I continually debate whether or not I will reject them..
> so from now on, I WILL.
>
> prime example:
> ---- lintian libpt1_1.1pl19-1_i386.deb ----
> W: libpt1: readme-debian-is-debmake-template
> E: libpt1: spelling-error-in-description xwindows X
>
> I will not be nice from now on, when it is blatantly obvious that uploads
> have not been checked with lintain by the maintainer.
I recommend the use of debuild in the devscripts package. It is a
wrapper around dpkg-buildpackage which, among other things, runs
lintian before giving you a chance to sign the package.
Julian
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