Re: sponsor rules
Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> writes:
> On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 06:14:33PM -0700, Ian Eure wrote:
> > it's really not too hard to run 'lintian -i foo.deb' and 'dpkg -i
> > foo.deb'. perhaps katie could be modified to reject uploaded packages that
> > aren't lintian-clean.
>
> This has been proposed before, however, lintian is quite imperfect so it
> would probably give too many false matches.
Policy could be modified to require that the maintainer include
in the package a justification for any lintian errors (not warnings).
This could take the form of mew field in the source control file, or a
specified file included in the package. katie could be modified to
flag packages with lintian errors for manual installation by the
ftp-masters.
Bob
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