Re: Lintian based autorejects
On tiisdei 27 Oktober 2009, Joerg Jaspert wrote:
> we are turning on lintian based autorejects within the next few days.
> This means that packages failing a defined set of lintian tags will no
> longer be accepted into the archive, but get rejected immediately.
> This should help to get rid of the worst policy violations before
> wasting time and resources of other people.
This will be a useful development, but I question the choice of which tags to
reject. Indeed "worst policy violations" or prevention of time wasted seem
like sound goals. But why then reject on the following tag:
- copyright-lists-upstream-authors-with-dh_make-boilerplate?
Basically this tag is triggered if you write "Author(s):" instead
of "Authors:" in debian/copyright. If I would encounter that somewhere I
doubt I would file even a minor bug against the package, let alone consider
it one of the "worst policy violations". Or whose time is wasted with someone
writing "Author(s)"? Rejecting uploads for that, basically a graver action
than calling something RC, seems disproportional to me.
Thijs
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