Re: Lintian based autorejects

[Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>]

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 02:57:35PM +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:
> <snip>
> Some examples of tags I consider reasonable to auto-reject, because they
> should be easy to fix (but many of them should be bug reports anyway):
>     - binary-file-compressed-with-upx
>     - copyright-lists-upstream-authors-with-dh_make-boilerplate
>     - missing-dependency-on-perlapi
>     - section-is-dh_make-template
> 
> Some examples of tags where I do not consider this reasonable until bugs have
> been filed:
>     - statically-linked-binary
>     - mknod-in-maintainer-script
>     - debian-rules-not-a-makefile
>     - dir-or-file-in-var-www

I tend to agree with you here, though I would suggest keeping all tags
as strong rejects for NEW packages, and by NEW, here, I mean *totally* new
packages, not those existing source packages that add a new binary
package.

Mike