On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 09:54:32AM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Malcolm Parsons <malcolm@ivywell.screaming.net> [20020129 19:48]: > > Anyone object to me filing serious bugs against the 200 or so packages > > on this page? > > http://lintian.debian.org/reports/Tfile-in-etc-not-marked-as-conffile.html > I object. Rather than a knee jerk objection, how about a patch to fix the problems you're concerned about? > First of all, these lintians reports are not up to date so > packages might have been fixed in the meantime. Secondaly, iirc the > lintian reports were made against testing so packages might be fixed > already in sid. For example, the lintian reports include the version number of the package. It's a straightforward matter to check whether this matches the current version of the package, or not. For example: ssh master cd /org/lintian.debian.org/laboratory/source for a in *; do (cd $a && echo ${a}_*.tar.gz) | head -1; done | sed 's/\.\(orig\.\)\?tar\.gz$//' | tr '_' ' ' >~/lintianvers.txt Putting blocks in the way of improving Debian is the exact *opposite* of what we're all here for. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <aj@humbug.org.au> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. The daffodils are coming. Are you? linux.conf.au, February 2002, Brisbane, Australia --- http://linux.conf.au/
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